Prior to its reconstruction, this house from the 1920-ties was a romantic ruin surrounded by authentic and new-built fragments of ancient Augusta. The intervention continues the game of time offsets and brings the design to a contemporary interpretation of the avant-garde, at the time the house was built. A new volume of white concrete complements the structure and the program of the old house. The space of the new stair and its design bring light into the center of the entire composition. The new glossy white concrete slabs integrate and conceal all the contemporary technology of the house.

We have always tried to make the most of the environment in which our projects exist as a whole and create a seemingly clear and explicit composition in which all the complexity and contradictions of what we found are present. From this perspective, the time, places and people we encounter provide us with infinite possibilities for architectural interventions; and very often some tempting solutions in front of us are just waiting for someone to wish for them. Looking back, we realize that this constant game of challenges led us to certain unexpected results; and widening our notion of an architectural environment, digging deeper and deeper into it, we can easily go beyond it.