- Comune: TrinitĂ d'Agultu e Vignola
- LocalitĂ : Costa Paradiso
- Denominazione: CASA SCALESCIANI
- Indirizzo:
- Data: - 1977
- Tipologia: Abitazioni unifamiliari
- Autori principali: Alberto Ponis
Descrizione
CASA SCALESCIANI
Il terreno è scosceso, tutto aperto e proteso verso il mare. Nella parte costruibile non c’è l’appiglio di rocce o alberi, ma solo strati sabbiosi e cespugli pettinati dal vento. La casa si distende lungo le curve di livello, come mi ero sdraiato io alla prima visita. La pianta allungata e serpeggiante espone alla vista tutte le stanze. Il volume è incassato per meglio legarsi al terreno e offrire ombra e frescura al retro della casa; dal mare e da terra se ne scorge solo il tetto. (Ponis 2006)
… Jonathan Sergison emphasizes the genuine astonishment which Casa Scalesciani inevitably triggers in its visitors. It is the same sense of vertigo that assaults anyone visiting Fallingwater in Bear run, Pennsylvania (by F.L.Wright 1939) or the Villa Malaparte on Capri (By A.Libera 1943). Alle three of these houses are built on rock and have entered into a dialogue with the water below. What is more, they betray almost nothing of their own logic in that they reveal nothing that might allow us to understand how, or indeed why, anyone would build them in precisely that spot, in places so fiendishly beautiful and complicated. Casa Scalesciani is “virtually impossible”, as the visitors begins to realize even from the pathway leading to it. It’s a narrow, twisting, stone-paved route, little more than a footpath, which appears to have arrived out of nowhere-except that it has to stop just before the precipice of a forty-meter-high cliff. ….. The house, as sinuous as a snake, clings tightly to the rock; all of its rooms are set out in a line and have practically nothing in the way of terraces, balconies, or anything associated with outdoor living, except for a pocket-handkerchief-sized patch of flat ground that has been tiled over and links the house to a tiny swimming pool. …. The house, it might be argued, was created for people who seeks strong emotions and who are not particularly interested in creature comforts for their own sake; and this is precisely how Ponis remembers the original clients. … The house is also as rational and sober as any rural stazzo, the tipical Gallurese building type that Ponis had by this time studied, developed, assimilated, and replicated. Just like a stazzo, it has a pantile-covered roof and very few openings, and it resembles a corridor – the corridor being the inhabited catharsis of a pathway. (Brandolini 2014)
