Case a Crocefieschi | Gosplan architects
Three little fireplaces Genoa / Italy / 2025
Three houses, three hearths, three raw materials. The project recasts the austere geology of the Crocefieschi highlands as an interior condition, using matter itself as its primary medium. Concrete, iron and wood are not applied finishes but agents of spatial definition, their juxtaposition constructing both atmosphere and structure. The palette is deliberately archaic. Concrete is read as the contemporary analogue of the local puddinga—a sedimentary conglomerate of rounded pebbles and sand bound by natural cement—reframing a vernacular geology through a modern tectonic language. As with the nearby Castello della Pietra in the Rocche del Reopasso, the architecture appears less imposed than lodged: volumes grip, settle into, and are shaped by a constructed topography of concrete. The interior becomes a kind of artificial landscape, where space is understood as a process rather than a given—an accumulation of layers that register time, erosion and persistence within change.
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Tre case, tre caminetti, tre materiali grezzi. Il progetto ambisce a trasferire in un interno architettonico l’aspra geologica bellezza del paesaggio delle alture di Crocefieschi, affidandosi all’espressività di tre materiali principali: cemento, ferro e legno. Una triade di materiali antichi, dove il cemento rappresenta la naturale evoluzione della tipica pietra locale, la “puddinga”, una roccia sedimentaria formata da ciottoli arrotondati e sabbia legati tra loro da un cemento naturale. Come accade per il Castello della Pietra nelle vicine Rocche del Reopasso, le strutture architettoniche si aggrappano e si adattano alle formazioni geologiche del cemento per realizzare un paesaggio interno che racconti una storia, un processo evolutivo, la permanenza nella trasformazione.
Three houses, three hearths, three raw materials. The project recasts the austere geology of the Crocefieschi highlands as an interior condition, using matter itself as its primary medium. Concrete, iron and wood are not applied finishes but agents of spatial definition, their juxtaposition constructing both atmosphere and structure. The palette is deliberately archaic. Concrete is read as the contemporary analogue of the local puddinga—a sedimentary conglomerate of rounded pebbles and...
- Year 2025
- Work started in 2024
- Work finished in 2025
- Main structure Reinforced concrete
- Client privato
- Contractor Fratelli Palumbo s.r.l.
- Status Completed works
- Type Apartments / Single-family residence / Country houses/cottages / Interior design / Recovery/Restoration of Historic Buildings / Residential renovation / Building Recovery and Renewal / Chalets, Mountains houses


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