House 46 in Ragusa
New Building Prize
SM-ARCH | Vania Santangelo Serafino Sgarlata Maria Flaccavento Salvatore Ingrao
Despite its small scale, the intervention aims to engage the landscape, drawing a sign among the pre-existing ones: the enclosure, the fence that delimits the properties, the stone of the Plateau and the light that takes the stone’s color. Just where the ground bends toward the valley, the volume-bridge rests upstream on the rock outcrop and downstream on the strut that supports the overhang, projecting its compact and distended horizontal shape toward the sea. Inside, the volume is articulated by subtraction of voids, which alternate with the solids of living spaces.
