restoration of
borgo banditaccia

© andrea ceriani The new configuration shapes a discreet skyline of pitched roofs and terraces that converse with the horizon, while light—never showcased—sculpts surfaces designed to shift throughout the day and across the seasons. Three materials define the project’s essential grammar: local stone, reclaimed brick, and exposed concrete tinted in the mass. Together, they reinterpret the rural building tradition in a contemporary key without falling into imitation.

© andrea ceriani Calibrated openings, recessed frames, and filtered outdoor spaces create a continuous relationship between interior and exterior. A vegetated pergola positioned between the two main buildings becomes a threshold, a garden, and a place of pause. Even the indoor pool—inserted within the former stable and shaped by a double-curved concrete shell—works with zenithal light and natural ventilation to function passively.

© andrea ceriani Sustainability is pursued through local materials, dry construction techniques, timber prefabrication, and rainwater harvesting. The result is a small contemporary Mediterranean hamlet: a caretaker’s house, six mini-lodgings, shared spaces, and places of encounter that restore the hillside’s original form and offer a more measured rhythm of living.

© andrea ceriani An architecture that does not impose itself but repairs; that does not add, but orders; that returns identity to the landscape and meaning to inhabiting it.

© andrea ceriani

© andrea ceriani