Architect: Progettospore. The design of this architectural dwelling plan was so different from the surrounding buildings that it was submitted to an aesthetic examination by a Municipal Commission. Fortunately, they gave the plan a thumb up.

TH2 is an architectural plan to build a single family dwelling in the Lucca hills, in Collodi. The plot of land is very small (about 350 square meters) so the distances imposed by the boundaries have influenced the design. Progettospore observed other Administrative constraints although the area don't got any landscape restraints.

The buyer had made a request to have a contemporary dwelling set in the surrounding hill landscape. Progettospore prepared the plan in order to express a relation between two volumes which are created and developed together. The structure of one building is formed on that of the other one.

Progettospore’s object was to transform the two volumes – one white and one black – into two main characters which used the hilly landscape as a stage and established a formal relation between them in order to reach a final balance, thought it was one balance that would be loaded with tension.

"To achieve this aim we considered two areas placed in two specific points in space and from these we developed the two respective volumes, which mature - or grow- by a rendering program. At the end of the animation the resultant composition was used as a volumetric basis in order to build the dwelling. Considering the body’s need of physical stimuli and considering that the buyers do not do any physical activity, we tried to build an “uncomfortable” house. The building has 5 levels although it has only two floors. Leave from the basement, we pass the first floor and reach the bathroom to then go on to the mezzanine bathroom. Finally you go up to the main bedroom and higher up to the daughter’s bedroom."

This house is set vertically - all the rooms are at different heights – and this determines a large number of stairs to go up and down during the day. The use of the house could appear a bit uncomfortable but surely is healthy for the physical body.

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