yakisugi
house

© Andrea Ceriani The garden and the mountain scenery guide both form and function, restoring to architecture its role as a living component of the landscape and treating greenery not as a backdrop, but as an essential space of life.

© Andrea Ceriani The project finds its expressive language in the Japanese technique of shou sugi ban — a radical yet poetic gesture in which fire, used to protect the wood, reveals its inner essence. The larch becomes a dark, vibrant skin, resistant to weather and time, its charred surface evoking the texture of tree bark and allowing the building to blend seamlessly into the wooded surroundings.

© Andrea Ceriani A fair-faced concrete base, conceived as a backdrop for climbing vegetation, anchors the house to the ground and houses the service areas, while above, a compact and lightweight timber volume opens to the light. The construction system — dry assembly with prefabricated wooden modules — is not only a technical choice but a cultural one: reducing the impact of the building process, ensuring sustainability, and bringing the house closer to the natural cycle of the landscape it inhabits.

© Andrea Ceriani Inside, pale birch wood envelops walls, ceilings, and furnishings, diffusing a soft, warm light that contrasts with the dark exterior shell. If outside the house resembles a charred trunk, inside it reveals a luminous, welcoming heart, protected by its own bark.

© Andrea Ceriani Permeable paths, gravel, and timber inserts trace the daily movements without interrupting the continuity of the greenery, while a garden of low-maintenance species and scattered trees creates natural screens and carefully designed visual corridors.