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Casa Tozza

December 2022

Team: Paolo Bianco
Client: Private
Status: on-going
Typology: Private house renovation
Site: Cairo Montenotte, Italy Casa Tozza is a small and poor building, originally serving as the oratory of the nearby parish church. Although no traces remain of its former use and the surrounding area has gradually urbanized over time, the building has retained its rural identity, which has guided much of the design choices. Elements such as the exposed stone facades, painted details, and generous natural light in the rooms suggested a project based on minimal interventions. Outside, to reinforce the walls and provide independent access to the upper floor, colored reinforced concrete portals were devised as both structural elements and shading devices for the large arches on the ground floor, as well as a means to reorganize and characterize the fronts. Inside, the thick walls were left unaltered (with the aim of reducing costs for the young couple of owners), and the space was reorganized starting from small functional rooms that created threshold spaces, such as on the first floor, between the living areas and the more private areas like bedrooms and bathrooms. The project favored simple and reclaimed materials, some sourced from the construction site itself, such as certain furnishings or tiles and brick floors reused to create decorative motifs that identified the spaces.

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