Vaulted ceilings and earth-toned furnishings function on this home in Puglia, which structure apply Studio Andrew Trotter has transformed from a Nineteenth-century college.
The house, named Casolare Scarani, transforms a ladies’ college relationship again to 1883 that was deserted within the Nineteen Sixties. Via its renovation, Studio Andrew Trotter goals to deliver life again to the construction whereas retaining its unique character.
“Previous to the renovation, the college was completely deserted, with vegetation rising inside, no doorways, and falling plaster,” studio supervisor Marcelo Martinez informed Dezeen.
“The home was lovely, previous, with a lot character, and never too huge,” he continued. “We needed to deliver it again to life with out destroying its essence.”
Having found the constructing a number of years earlier than recommending it to its consumer, the studio was drawn to the deserted college as a result of its distinctive qualities that resemble options of two conventional Puglian buildings – lamias and masserias.
“Within the countryside you often discover small lamias, that are stone sheds for the native landowners to retailer tools; or very giant masserias, the place the prosperous landowners would have as soon as lived,” stated the studio.
“It was fairly uncommon to return throughout a constructing that had the model of a masseria, however the measurement of a small villa.”
Studio Andrew Trotter aimed to maintain as most of the constructing’s unique options as attainable, together with its stone portico that has a vaulted ceiling and appears out onto the backyard.
“We tried as arduous as attainable to depart the outside patina the place we may,” stated the studio. “Along with the purchasers, we spent days scraping off years of flaky paint, to disclose the gorgeous stone of the portico.”
Inside, the previous college’s vaulted ceilings have been saved intact and lined, together with the partitions, in a lime plaster created by an area artisan.
The rooms are completed with earth-toned finishes and furnishings, resembling conventional stone flooring made out of crushed rocks and mortar, which nods to the unique design.
An arched doorway to the facet of the portico results in the lounge, which sits beneath a star-vaulted ceiling. To 1 facet of the room, an present recess that was as soon as used for cooking has been saved intact and reworked right into a seating space with built-in benches and a fire.
“The recess in the lounge is among the constructing’s unique options,” stated Martinez. “We consider it was used for cooking and staying heat.”
The storage and steady of the unique college have been changed with a kitchen and eating room, whereas an previous donkey home now incorporates a laundry room. The kitchen contains a wall of unglazed orange zellige tiles.
Different rooms in Casolare Scarani embrace a primary bed room suite, which is positioned on the primary ground, together with two downstairs bedrooms.
To increase the present construction, Studio Andrew Trotter added two blocks to the again of the home to comprise ensuite bogs related to the bedrooms on the bottom ground.
Based mostly in Barcelona, Studio Andrew Trotter has labored on numerous different initiatives in Puglia, together with a villa made out of regionally sourced sandstone and a vacation residence amidst olive groves in Carovigno.
The pictures is by Salva López.
