- Comune: Trinità d'Agultu e Vignola
- Località : Costa Paradiso
- Denominazione: CASA GOSTNER
- Indirizzo:
- Data: - 1998
- Tipologia: Abitazioni unifamiliari
- Autori principali: Alberto Ponis
Descrizione
CASA GOSTNER
Come avveniva per i castelli medievali arroccati per difesa sui picchi rocciosi più impervi, anche qui la posizione e la forma della casa mi sembrano conseguenze naturali del sito. L’unico spiazzo pianeggiante è stretto fra tre punte rocciose che lo proteggono su altrettanti lati. Un grande corbezzolo nel mezzo diventa il centro di due esagoni concentrici che definiscono la pianta del progetto: il patio e la casa che lo avvolge su cinque lati. Il sesto lato resta chiuso dalla grande roccia che sovrasta la costruzione. (Ponis 2006)
The inward-facing house on a hexagonal plan offers various different counterpoints and presents us with a virtuoso game of opposites: the terraces and the enclosed courtyard, the distant panorama and the close contact, the stone and the plasterwork. It is a more evolved domestic structure, less Spartane than the houses from previous years. It also refers more strongly to military forts than to rural stazzi. The virtually enclosed courtyard - which we might compare to a tiny piazza, a light-filled well, or even a religious cloister – is a condensed place that also functions as an entranceway. … The courtyard conveys an empathy born of the direct, almost erotic, contact made between the concave, segmented (plaster-finished) form of the house and the convex, curving form of an enormous rock (granite, of course) that lies right there and that we have to take notice of, feeling its presence, even touching it. There is something Japanese about the atmosphere. This boulder possesses a powerful magic: it is sacred, primitive, and incomprehensible. In the stone-paved courtyard there is also a single strawberry tree (arbutus) that was here before the house, and It, too, has great presence. Ponis often describes the rooms of his house as courtyards over which a roof has been raised; but here we have tangible proof of the exact opposite: it’s rather as if a room had had its roof removed and had become a courtyard again. … the house is actually laid out on a single level, with a small extrusion at a lower level where two bedrooms can be found. On the main floor, there is a large double-aspect living room, a kitchen, and a sleeping area, with multiple paved areas set around them. (Brandolini 2014)
