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Terra Madre –Valentina Passalacqua Mansion

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"What I have in front of me is what I have always wished for”: work and living coexist in Valentina’s ideal home, and she wanted the landscape to be the dominant element in the design of her villa. Her aim was to combine wine production, life, work and home together. The philosophy of bio dynamics (used for producing wine), linked to the concepts of care and respect of the land, and at the same time, to those of environmental sustainability and of the recovery and promotion of the territory have been considered in the project of her breath taking villa. All reconciled to the key concept that regulates her company's philosophy in creating "a local wine, between earth and sky."

Designed in the middle of vast vineyards, and adjacent to the operational heart of the company and the cellar, Terra Madre (Italian for "Mother Earth") the villa of Valentina Passalacqua, is an experimental project, and a unique one in the field of outdoor design. The house is built of wood, with a low environmental impact, respectful of nature, and at the same time working as a telescope on the vast landscape, which is comparable to a precious mosaic, the villa is a guardian of the native character of this piece of the Puglia region in Italy.

Opening the door of this house becomes an immersion and a trip with a continuous alternation between inside and outside. From the windows you can see the green hills of the Gargano, the fields of the Tavoliere, the family stone quarries of Apricena from which they extracted the marble used for all the floors; and on the horizon the eye captures the Vulture with the Dauni mountains.

Inside, every room preserves and reconstructs the pieces of the mosaic-like landscape, defining areas of the house that are like little worlds and "clicks" on the landscape. House-residence-home space ... In the Mother Earth project, "the living" becomes a story and narration of a territory.

Imagining that the interior of the house has been designed to resemble the territory of the region of Puglia, a series of modular elements that are flexible, are abstractly meant to be as a flying track of a railway line, that metaphorically crosses the house as if it were the Gargano territory and brings to the various rooms. Decorations that resemble the Umbrian forest, the Gargano pearls and lakes have been used for the area dedicated to Julia and Agnes (Valentina’s childern); those for the room and the bathroom of Valentina and Gianni are olive trees and vines; karst caves, the Junno and Castelpagano neighborhood have been used for the tavern; and then the cosmos Appulo and the Sun have been used to decorate the living. At last, the moon decorates the studio of Valentina, which is connected with the outdoor design of the garden that the designer called "Starry Night", where the outdoor lamps Ex Moon by In-es.artdesign in different dimensions have been used (diameters 35, 50, 70 and 120 cm).

It is in the connection space between inside and outside, home and garden, filtered from the porch and the large windows of the living, that the night lights up the lamps that look like real moons, one suspended over a marble top table, (the pendant Luna by In-es.artdesign) interacts with the three ex.moons (outdoor floor lamps) that light up the stone wall in the pool area.

It is the philosophy of bio dynamics adopted in the making Valentina’s wine that inspires the project. This is why the story of the territory is accompanied by the views of the cosmos, with the Moon, which is the director of agricultural rhythms and nature, and is the dominant element in the pool area.

Saying it with the inspiring words of the company’s owner: it is a villa, designed between earth and sky.

Customer: Valentina Passalacqua

Architecture project (home): Rubner Haus

Interiors and Garden project: DDuMstudio -Giulio Mandrillo, Chiara Pirro e Laura Pirro-

Location: Posta Nuova, Apricena (FG)

Product: Luna, Ex.moon

Terra Madre –Valentina Passalacqua Mansion

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  • Piazza della Suburra, 6, 00184 Roma, Italy
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