Castagneto Carducci
The Mediterranean Summer allows the delicious possibility of living in old stone houses almost regardless of their state, whether entirely or partially in ruins, and even regardless of the usual comforts and the formality of indoor-outdoor as though stones could assume a variable geometry according to necessity. This was the way this family had used the remains of a medieval tower for two generations during summertime holidays. During the process of developing a new house for them on the adjacent hill, they asked us to consider renovating the old tower.
What resulted is a juxtaposition of external wooden volumes where there already existed low stone walls for courts, and placing a wooden staircase and gallery on the upper level, adjacent to and wrapping the tower's stone volume, so as to keep the stone tower form unchanged.
