The project is located on the edge of the Lecco mountains in the Curone Natural Park, and it is based on a client request to rethink the basement space of the house to be adapted to the family’s new needs: more flexible use, a new entrance and more generous interaction with the outdoors spaces. The design concept consists into one essential gesture: digging a hole to define an habitable void shaped by the subtraction of material. A new outdoor space thought as an open-air room, where tree foliages and landscape metaphorically become its roof. The interior hall is surrounded by wooden partitions that define flexible configurations. Two materials are used: concrete and wood. Grey and green evokes the tones of the surrounding landscape.

FOR Private Client TEAM LAST Stefano Larotonda, Chiara Tregnago WITH arch. Andrea Tregnago DRAWINGS Nicole Gaia IMAGES Marco Cappelletti

AWARD
Bigmat'23 International Architecture Award - Special Mention Young Architect

PUBLICATION
Underground Patio. Renovation of an ordinary house, in M. Esposito, M. Bacchini, A. Pagano (curated by), Viaggio in Italia 2, Letteraventidue edizioni s.r.l., Siracusa, 2025, p. 132-137, isbn 9791256440986

Selected project in Yearbook 6, by Consiglio Nazionale OAPPC, n.6, Editrice Salentina, Galatina, 2022, p. 53, isbn 9788831964890

Underground Patio. Renovation of an ordinary house, in Bigmat International Architecture Award 2023, by J. Aparicio, J. Donaire, BigMat International s.a., Bilbao, 2023, p. 178-185, issn 25358847

La consistenza del vuoto, in M. Mazzola, Arkmagazine - intimità, n.41, s.e.s.a.a.b. spa, Bergamo, marzo 2022, p. 36-42.

EXHIBITION
Underground Patio, on display in The New Together: flexibility, reduction, the value of the existing, organized by Platform Architecture and Design, curated by L. Molinari, S. Finessi, Scuola Grande di Misericordia, Venezia - IT, 23–26.06.2023

LINK
→ THE FACADE ABOVE THE UNDERGROUND PATIO
→ DUE STANZE
→ VIAGGIO IN ITALIA 2