Description
The villa designs have been mixed together to create a varied and dynamic street presence. We have avoided grouping villas of the same type together,
so that the street does not appear too repetitive or monolithic. There are 5 Villa E plots spread across the masterplan – noted on the plan
adjacent in red. These villas are interspersed with Villa C typologies, to give an alternating street frontage.
Facade Treatment
The semi-detached villas are distinct from the rest of the villas, in that they naturally have a more vertical proportion. The narrower plots, and the side-by-side nature of them, means that we can
play with the visual expression of the facades.
Our articulation of these villas is summarised as follows:
- A screen of fins wraps the entire villa, providing a privacy shroud
- Facades behind the screen may be glazed, solid, or open balconies, but the fins unite the surfaces and provide a coherent language
- The storeys step back and in on all 3 exposed facades, amplifying the tall, slender forms, and exaggerating the effect of perspective as you look up at the villas
- The ground floor walls are simple and uncluttered – floor to ceiling glazing, or blank walls
- The basket-like nature of the screen is the visual focus, drawing one’s eye up, above theground plane
External Materiality
For this villa typology we have a simple material palette: Ceppo di Gre to the ground floor walls, and the volumes above are clad in an array of champagne aluminium fins, with dark grey panels to solid wall behind the fins.
The metal fins will catch the sunlight in the day, and will glow at night as it reflects out a gentle glow of the interior lighting within. he regular rhythm of fins helps to articulate the facades, as well as blurr the boundary between the two semi-detached plots.
The Villa C design is intended to stand out from the other villa types, whilst still utilising the same material palette themes.
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