Casa PR is a minimalist single-story house located in Verese, Italy, designed in 2022 by Studio Ecoarch.

Description
The property, lying on a hillside facing west toward the shores of Lake Maggiore and beyond to the Alpine range, is characterized by a steep terraced slope. We find, upstream, the edge of a wooded area, while downstream stretches an environs consisting of a diffuse residential fabric.
The building presents itself in plan as a regular, rectangular-shaped footprint, and is composed of two parts: a stereometric basement, partially embedded in the ground, characterized only by the cuts of openings and windows, intended for the sleeping area, and a lighter volume, corresponding to the living area, leaning on the former in a backward position, characterized by large glazed mirrors and covered overhangs. Architecture is always the result of many forces: the Client’s wishes, regulatory possibilities, and our commitment to return a quality building to the landscape. The program was detailed and demanding: large living room, belvedere, 5 rooms, swimming pool. The choice of how to place the house was rather forced because, although the land was quite large, the building strip was actually a relatively small portion.
The steep slope of the land led us to slide the volume of the living area upward, generating, with this simple movement, the space needed to form the belvedere and the swimming pool; the latter in turn takes advant...