Villa 4L_

Lead Architects: NICOLA PROBST
Project location: LUGANO (SWITZERLAND)
Completion Year: 2019
Gross Built Area (square meters): 1100 square meters

Photo credits: ALEXANDRE ZVEIGER

Other participants
Collaborators : Arch. Fabiano Fausto , Mirko Pipitone, Claudio Carniato

The project features a three-apartment urban villa and manages its steep, hilly terrain through retaining walls.
These walls are central to the project, as they define both the internal and external spaces. An entire spatial system of volumes and voids stems from such a perspective. The internal envi-ronment is thus extended externally while maintaining definition.
In this way the steep hilly cross section becomes the generator of the project, a contextual de-sign opportunity in order to seek its own code, its own language.

At the core of the project is the main apartment's large living room, which is a void bordered by a swimming pool, a terrace, a mineral garden, and a service area. The main apartment has three levels, and it dynamically embraces two smaller apartments.

The stoneware-lined façade is characterized by retaining walls and large, inclined pillars to ad-dress the statics along the main side.
A heat pump, together with photovoltaic and thermal solar panels, guarantees energy sustaina-bility.