Effevu House | ellevuelle architetti

Modigliana / Italy / 2025

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The project is inserted within a stratified rural system composed of a stone house and a former barn, both carrying a precise scale and a clearly legible constructive memory. Rather than seeking a mimetic synthesis, the intervention works through critical continuity: a new volume is inserted between the two existing buildings, acting as an inhabited threshold capable of connecting without merging.


The extension stretches along the slope as a linear base, clad in stone, echoing the materiality and scale of the existing fabric while introducing a more abstract and controlled architectural language. A system of masonry piers and porticoes defines a rhythmic sequence of solids and voids, where light and landscape become active elements of the project. Large openings frame the valley, transforming the façade into a continuous visual device that mediates the relationship between interior and exterior.


Inside, spaces unfold as a fluid progression without rigid hierarchies. Exposed timber floors and the precision of the construction details clearly express the contemporary nature of the intervention, while maintaining a constant dialogue with the historic structures. The project can be read as an operation of long-term stitching: an architecture that holds together memory and transformation, assertion and restraint, without forcing reconciliation.



Project type: Residential renovation and extension
Client: Private
Architecture: ellevuelle architetti
Photography: Simone Bossi and Alvise Raimondi


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L’intervento si inserisce in un sistema rurale stratificato, composto da una casa in sasso e da un fienile, entrambi portatori di una misura precisa e di una memoria costruttiva riconoscibile. Il progetto non tenta una sintesi mimetica, ma lavora per continuità critica: un nuovo corpo si innesta tra le due preesistenze assumendo il ruolo di soglia abitata, capace di collegare senza confondere.


Il nuovo volume si allunga lungo il pendio come un basamento lineare, rivestito in pietra, che riprende materia e scala dell’esistente ma introduce una grammatica diversa, più astratta e controllata. Il sistema di setti e portici in muratura definisce una sequenza ritmica di pieni e vuoti, dove la luce e il paesaggio diventano elementi attivi del progetto. Le grandi aperture incorniciano la valle e trasformano il fronte in un dispositivo di relazione visiva continua tra interno ed esterno.


All’interno, gli spazi si organizzano come una progressione fluida, senza gerarchie rigide. I solai lignei a vista e la precisione del dettaglio costruttivo rendono sempre leggibile la natura contemporanea dell’intervento, pur mantenendo un dialogo costante con le strutture storiche. L’architettura si configura come un’operazione di ricucitura sul tempo lungo: un progetto che tiene insieme memoria e trasformazione, affermazione e misura, senza forzature.

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    The project is inserted within a stratified rural system composed of a stone house and a former barn, both carrying a precise scale and a clearly legible constructive memory. Rather than seeking a mimetic synthesis, the intervention works through critical continuity: a new volume is inserted between the two existing buildings, acting as an inhabited threshold capable of connecting without merging. The extension stretches along the slope as a linear base, clad in stone, echoing the materiality...

    Project details
    • Year 2025
    • Work finished in 2025
    • Status Completed works
    • Type Single-family residence / Country houses/cottages / Residential renovation
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