House in Forte dei Marmi, Lucca Architecture, Italian Building Design, Images
House in Forte dei Marmi
Contemporary Home and Swimming Pool, Italy – design by FABBRICANOVE Architects
24 Feb 2017
House in Forte dei Marmi
Architects: FABBRICANOVE
Location: Lucca, Italy
House in Forte dei Marmi

The House in Forte dei Marmi, realized by FABBRICANOVE Architetti (Enzo Fontana, Giovanni Bartolozzi, Lorenzo Matteoli), an architectural studio founded in Florence in 2009, is the result of precise attention to the relation between the natural landscape and the built environment.
And yet, attention to the clearness, the simplicity, the liveness of the domestic spaces, the constant, direct and equal interaction with the artisans, in particular with carpenters, the definition of the details that contribute to the uniform and homogeneous perception of the intervention. Actually, exactly this last point is what builds the real soul of the dwelling, thought as a sartorial work, searching for a formula that allows the identification of the whole project as one unique piece.

The context: the natural landscape and the built environment. The project begins from a very complex starting point in a chaotic urban and landscape context, in some parts even degraded. The zone of the intervention is a place, established at the end of 1800, to host a factory that stores explosive materials for civil uses (thought to be used in the marble caves nearby), then started the production of military mu...