Buda House, Cesena Renovated Residence, Italian Residential Property, Architecture Project, Images
Buda House in Cesena
Residential Development in Italy – design by tissellistudioarchitetti
20 Jun 2017
Buda House
Architects: tissellistudioarchitetti
Location: Cesena, Italy
Buda House

The client inherited a villa from a beloved aunt and wanted to keep alive the associated memories and affections in the renovation designed to inject it with new life and adapt it to the needs of their family.

This forms the basis for the project, risking an obvious reconstruction of childhood memories and aims at expressing the full potential of this aged, faded beauty from the 1950s.

The three-floor villa is surrounded by a large garden and stands in the Cesena foothills, just outside the city walls. This advantageous position gives it great views over the old town that is only a few metres away and because it stands on a small rise at a crossroad, it is visible to anyone coming out of the historical centre.
This visibility is one of the many issues addressed in the project, which pursues a harmonious balance between preserving the past that is important to the client and giving the house a radical style and function makeover. This search for balance is also reflected in the choice of colour – a rich, warm grey that stands out from the other buildings around it and contrasts with the white bays of the arch inners and the window ledges, which drop smoothly down the wall, st...