FER transforms a compact Nineteen Sixties seaside dwelling in Lido di Jesolo, Italy, right into a extra open home by ANK architects. Set among the many coastal pine bushes, the 2025 venture replaces a mobile inside with a legible north-south plan, a through-living room, and punctiliously carved thresholds. Brick screens, porches, and triangular bed room cloisters mood the transition between non-public rooms, gardens, and the encircling panorama.
About FER
FER begins with the transformation of a small Nineteen Sixties seaside dwelling whose mobile rooms and easy association preserve the outside at a distance. ANK architects recasts the constructing as a compact, elemental quantity set among the many bushes of Jesolo’s pine grove. Its emphatically synthetic kind stays distinct from the panorama whereas establishing a better relationship with it.
The intervention replaces enclosure with permeability. Openings, recesses, and screened out of doors areas enable the home to register the gardens with out surrendering the readability of its strong kind.
A Plan Drawn Alongside One Axis
Inside, the north-south axis provides the home a direct and legible order. The dwelling zone occupies the jap facet close to the pedestrian and automobile entrances, whereas the bedrooms lie reverse. A compact service band stands between them, consolidating circulation and constructing methods whereas making the division between shared and personal areas simple to learn.
The through-living room gives the plan’s principal connection to the panorama. Absolutely glazed throughout each brief ends, it establishes visible continuity between the doorway backyard and a extra non-public out of doors paved space. The latter extends the kitchen outdoor, making the outside a part of the each day use of the home relatively than a backdrop past its partitions.
Subtraction Creates Sheltered Thresholds
The envelope positive factors depth via exactly positioned cuts relatively than additions. Recesses carved into the facades and roof kind the doorway porch, a second porch beside the lounge, and two cloisters serving the bedrooms. These sheltered areas mediate between inside and backyard whereas preserving the compactness of the general quantity.
This technique additionally modifications how gentle enters the home. As an alternative of relying solely on openings in a flat perimeter, the design attracts daylight via areas embedded inside the constructing’s mass. Inside and exterior overlap at these factors with out erasing the boundary between them.
Brick Screens Round Non-public Rooms
Every cloister brings pure gentle and non-public inexperienced house to the adjoining bed room. Its triangular geometry reinforces the angular character of the structure: glazing defines one facet, whereas brick screens enclose the opposite two. Their alternating solids and voids filter air, daylight, and views.
Right here, the perimeter turns into greater than a dividing line. The screened enclosures give the rooms privateness whereas sustaining a measured connection to the pine grove, turning the sting of the home into an energetic, inhabitable thickness.
Images by Luca Casonato
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