Luigi Bicocchi: Villa Poggioli in Roccamare

Abstract

In the case of Villa Poggioli, the vegetation itself takes on a main role through its integration into the everyday activities in which architecture becomes a projective transposition. Every aspect of functional design is juxtaposed with the technological definition of all of the elements in the management of the entire project and, among these, the presence of vegetation is an essential component of the built environment. This integration with Nature is an ontological fact as a direct consequence of its combination with architecture, or rather of human intervention within the context. It is not an immutable imposition from above, as an addition to the project, but an exponential increase of possibilities, a succession and reiteration of built elements that adapt to natural pre-existences, integrating and becoming an indissoluble unicum. Therefore, we are not dealing with two dichotomous entities, since the respective reflection is common for both. They are two absolute realities, held together by comparative terms so that one has roots in the other: as if both had mutual origins and one could not exist without the other.