The House of P
This house stands in the center of a vacation village ( nowadays Torre del Mare Architectural Park) created in 1954 at the desire of the owner of the promontory in front of the Island of Bergeggi, Signor Pierino Tizzoni, a Milanese businessman who was a friend of Michelangelo Antonioni and a great lover of Islands.
The architect who designed the development from the urban planning stage up to the architectural level on the completely natural terrain was the very young Mario Galvagni, who thus had his first extraordinary professional opportunity.
The vacation village envisioned by Tizzoni had a very fast operational development between 1954 and 1961/62, and about 40 buildings were constructed in total. In the meantime, the plantings initially proposed by Galvagni continued, favoring a naturalization to Mediterranean vegetation that today configures an important overall landscape value, representing a green connector that adequately mediates the numerous and various interventions settled from the 1950s to the present.
Our intervention concerns the arrangement of a volume of completion built in the late 1960s. The design intention was developed on the basis of the preservation of the original building body and the enhancement of all exterior surfaces given the exceptional panoramic position and the beauty of the natural elements in the immediately surrounding appurtenant land. We worked on the expansion and enhancement of the external horizontal surfaces (covered and uncovered) and activated a direct dialogue with nature using a system of frames, pillars and frames that could frame the most valuable views. A series of frames almost “screens” designed to create suggestions between vegetation and the sea. The north side practically was used mainly to fulfill distributive, plant and service tasks. the pool, conceived in a central position, seems to be suspended in the void, totally projected toward the horizon, so that you can (virtually) touch the Island and the Cape Noli simply by reaching out a little.
