Designed by Buratti Architetti, The topic of Villa Carber is about the typology and the image of a single villa with garden. This means to work at the same time on the isolated domestic building type and on the articulation of volumes and interiors that allows the project to have two independent and autonomous houses for two brothers, placed in the green with a good level of privacy.
Photography: Marcello Mariana
The plot is in a very good position on the first hills of Val Seriana, and the house took place into this strong sloping terrain, touching the mountain on one side and opening to the valley on the other side.

The service areas, the garage, and the technical rooms are placed on the north side, stuck into the ground, whereas the house?s main spaces, the living area, and the bedrooms, are placed on the south side, with some cantilever parts into the trees and with a very good light during all the day long. Photography: Marcello Mariana
From a tectonic point of view the house has two faces: the north side, on the mountain, is heavy with thick stone walls and small windows; the south side, open to the valley, has large windows open on wide terraces. The main two overlapping terraces seem to fly over the trees thanks to the strong cantilever that characterized the architecture of the building: this element is in contrast with the all the other near existing buildings but well integrated with the natural landscaped.

The roof is the other main element of the villa, the ...