Project team
Studio Associato di Architettura e Restauro Cristinelli & Cristinelli: Prof. Arch. Giuseppe Cristinelli, lead designer; Arch. Emma Calebich, Safety Coordinator during Design Phase; Arch. Giordano-Bruno Cristinelli, co-designer; Arch. Dario Giuseppe Maso, Safety Coordinator during Construction Phase. Collaborator and technical assistant: Valentina d’Alberto.
Services provided
Feasibility study, preliminary design, final design, landscape authorization, procedures for obtaining authorization for the sewer system upgrade project.
Project description
Based on the volumetric capacity calculations for the total available extension volume, the design proposal was calibrated with reference to the client’s requests. The general approach of the project fundamentally stems from the intention to complete the current volumetric configuration of the building, and consequently its main façade facing the sea. The idea was to utilize the total volume of 476 cubic meters arranged in a single mass over three floors, each floor having the same elevation as the existing structure. This results in a volume attached to the right side of the existing building, exactly symmetrical on the façade to the left side, thereby contributing to a more balanced overall composition and that of the main façade itself. The intent is to replicate the existing design scheme, creating a compositional unity that is potentially already present in the building, perhaps reflecting the original intentions of the architect, still unknown to both the author and the client. To avoid any risk of falsification, despite the modest architectural value of the building, it is considered appropriate for the added volume to differ in the color of the plaster, its surface treatment, as well as in the construction details of window and shutter frames. Any inscription placed suitably will testify to the date of execution of the added part. Furthermore, the installation of an elevator shaft is planned on the western façade, to be positioned precisely near the landing of the existing stairwell. The elevator shaft is designed in reinforced concrete, visually detached from the building’s external wall by two vertical bands, intended to be glazed and 0.90 m wide. Given the strictly technological nature of the elevator shaft, its volume is purposely detached from the context of Villa Jolanda, highlighting, discreetly yet unmistakably, the technological features of the installation.
Project documentation
Plans, elevations, and sections of the existing condition and proposed design at scales 1:100 and 1:50.
Design phase durations
Preliminary design: 30 days. Final design: 30 days.
Construction start and end dates
2013–2015