The article discusses a project titled 'Not a Rural House,' which reveals an architectural paradox stemming from regulatory constraints that force the new structure to mimic the old barn. This results in a contemporary home dressed up as a historical building. Inside, the true nature of the design is disclosed through the use of modern materials like reinforced concrete and timber framing while echoing Palladian architectural ratios. The spaces are arranged to create dynamic interactions and to frame views of the surrounding rural landscape, blending traditional aesthetics with contemporary architectural form.
Inside, the paradox is revealed, exhibiting the reinforced concrete and timber frame, manifesting the contemporary nature of the intervention. History is then echoed, not through appearance, but rather in recovering the typical Palladian ratios and spatiality of Venetian Villas.
If regulations impose a fake rural house, a non-rural house indeed, dressed up in the costume of tradition, architecture has the task of declaring its true nature, unmasking the 'make-up' of forgery.
The domestic environment is thus rhythmed by the structure's seriality and the dynamic interaction between volumes and voids, visual diagonals, and spatial sequences.
Mimicking the contrast between tradition and contemporary, between appearance and truth, matter exists in the antithesis between the 'finished' and the 'unfinished,' matching the rough structure with timeless herringbone parquet flooring.
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