Moreno Pivetti
Farmhouse recomposition in Emilian countryside, Ferrara (Italy)
MORENO PIVETTI ARCHITECTURE
Farmhouse recomposition in Emilian
countryside, Ferrara (Italy). Work in Nature
“Naturam semper recurret”
For Man, there is nothing easier than to dress with progress, and there is nothing more difficult than to strip off Nature.
In those Emilian lands once “damaged and corrupted” by precarious hydraulic balances, small settlements lying on the banks of the rivers launched their conquering aspirations in the hinterland, in an attempt to bring out the arable land
from a landscape governed by water. Among these, the farmhouse object of the intervention, disorganized in its building growth and its relationship with the open landscape. It was therefore a question of regenerating scattered and dissonant volumes, harmonizing them with the context.
The existing building becomes a fragment that regulates the recomposition of the settlement.
The new volumes tend to renovate the entire settlement: internal paths, cuts and visual telescopes contribute not only to the logistical reorganization of the spaces, but also to the sensory well-being of those who work there.
Drawings
The intervention recomposes the plot of the primitive layout planimetrically, while volumetrically rejects the compactness of the block, proposing instead the seriality of industrial production technologies.
The new building face each other in a silent list of assembled elements, simple but at the same time complex of references to the clear geometries of the Po Valley.
The elementary settlement is engraved on the meridian axis by a pergola open to the sky towards
the rural horizon, a metal exoskeleton that from a building becomes a structure that connects volumes, paths, gardens and rest areas.
Rigorous in the constructive sequence, compositional elementarism finds abstract backgrounds in the facades of buildings in which openings and thin cuts are balanced. Not to yield to historical enactments, rather a score that regulates distances, intervals, balances between the existing and the new buildings, waiting for Nature to find a home on surfaces and pergolas.
Moreno Pivetti, Architetto
