place: Pordenone
client: Private
assignment: direct
architects: arch. Ado Furlan, arch. Vittorio Pierini
collaborators: arch. Margherita Bortolus
services supplied: project, construction management and interior design
project: 1997
construction: 2002/2005
note: mq 270
photography: Massimo Poldelmengo, furlan&pierini architetti
The house is placed on the north-south axis of the site and is built as a 2-story block with a covered space acting as porch and car shelter. The service areas are at the ground floor within a volume distinct from the main residence whose design recalls the shape of the local examples of industrial archeology. The concept of the house is simple and rational: living areas (living-room, dining-room, kitchen and bathroom) at the ground floor and sleeping areas at the first floor. A double-height space in the living area, with a balcony leading to the master bedroom and dividing it from the children’s bedrooms, accommodates the staircase. The large glass windows of the dining-living room provide views to the surrounding landscape: a “telescopic” window to the north frames the nearby mountains, while an opening to the west connects the living room with the garden, and to the east a wide glass window floods with light the double-height area of the dining-room offering a remarkable view towards the sky.
