Casa Agrumeto, a 2023 home in Noto, Siracusa, Sicilia, Italia, Italy, is designed by Ingec Architettura & Ingegneria as a quiet extension of its cultivated panorama. Broad glazing, pale stone, heat timber, and a protracted swimming pool set up a detailed alternate between the low horizontal constructing, its sheltered interiors, and the encircling backyard.
About Casa Agrumeto
Set among the many citrus groves of the Val di Noto, Casa Agrumeto extends throughout the panorama as a low, horizontal composition. A broad flat roof, pale exterior surfaces, and dry-stacked stone partitions give the home a measured presence, whereas the swimming pool stretches throughout its backyard elevation as each foreground and reflecting aircraft.
Ingec Architettura & Ingegneria works with a concise palette of stone, timber, glass, and heat impartial finishes. The simplicity of those supplies permits altering gentle, planted edges, and views into the backyard to stay central to the expertise of the home.
A Home Drawn towards the Backyard
Full-height sliding glass panels open the dwelling and eating areas to a deep terrace going through the pool. The glazing reduces the visible weight of the facade, inserting indoor seating, coated outside areas, broad steps, and water inside a steady subject. Curtains mood the expansive openings with out closing off the panorama.
A glazed wall additionally runs beside the dwelling space, bringing a planted strip immediately into view. From the ochre-toned couch, the home reads by overlapping layers of clear glass, pale flooring, foliage, and the distant horizon. The structure doesn’t depend on a single framed vista; as an alternative, repeated openings keep a gradual reference to the grounds.
Stone, Timber, and Heat Impartial Surfaces
Inside, floor-to-ceiling timber cabinetry provides the kitchen a darker, finely grained backdrop. An extended pale island supplies a considerable counterpoint, its broad floor extending into a casual eating space. Black cooktop panels and slender pendant lights introduce exact accents with out interrupting the room’s calm materials vary.
The toilet makes a stronger tonal distinction. Beige wall and ground surfaces enclose a pared-back bathe, whereas a red-brown basin and counter carry concentrated colour to the in any other case restrained area. Recessed shelving and minimal fittings preserve the small room visually clear.
Paths, Shade, and Water
Outdoors, slim walks move by dense planting earlier than arriving on the pool and timber deck. Elsewhere, extensive stone steps be part of the terrace to the water’s edge, creating casual locations to take a seat between the home and backyard. Deep roof overhangs shelter outside furnishings and soften the transition from direct solar to the interiors.
The pool shifts character with the sunshine. Beneath a transparent sky, its darkish floor intensifies the blue and inexperienced tones of the backyard; later within the day, it catches the stone wall, broad-leaved crops, and heat glow from inside the home. Structure and panorama meet right here by direct, legible relationships amongst rooms, terraces, planting, and water.
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