Serra

ITA_SRR
_025G

Private Client
Green house
89 sqm

Under construction

Maremma, Tuscany.
A former agricultural greenhouse is transformed into a hybrid environment where hospitality unfolds within a cultivated climate.
Located in the rural landscape of the Maremma, near the Natural Park of Uccellina, the project converts a 1990s greenhouse into a series of hospitality units for a luxury agriturismo. Rather than replacing the existing structure, the intervention works within its environmental logic, reinterpreting the greenhouse as an inhabitable climatic system in which architecture, vegetation, and atmosphere operate together.

The spatial organization follows a longitudinal thermal gradient that divides the building into three parallel bands. At the center lies the Climatically Controlled Zone, a sequence of thermally insulated rooms designed for year-round use. These compact units are fully openable and can be reconfigured through sliding panels, allowing different spatial arrangements and adapting the size of the rooms and their services.

Along the two long sides of the greenhouse, the project introduces the Bioclimatic Passive Filter Zones. These areas remain inside the greenhouse envelope but without additional thermal insulation, functioning as intermediate environments that can be inhabited during milder seasons. Here beds, bathrooms, and small kitchen units are arranged as islands of privacy defined by vegetation rather than walls.

A raised steel grating floor establishes an artificial soil that allows plants to grow through it. The mesh gradually widens toward the exterior, creating a gradient that supports different types of vegetation—from ground species to shrubs and small trees—forming a living spatial filter between inhabitation spaces and the surrounding landscape.

Each accommodation unit is connected to a series of elongated ponds. Made of stainless steel and inserted into irregular excavations, these elements reinterpret the wetland ecologies characteristic of the Maremma territory. The ponds combine a clean bathing basin with a vegetated buffer zone that supports aquatic plants and establishes a soft transition between architecture and soil.

Above the central rooms, the roof becomes a vegetated and accessible surface, extending the inhabitable landscape vertically and reinforcing the environmental continuity between interior space, greenhouse climate, and the surrounding territory.

Through this strategy, the existing greenhouse is transformed from an agricultural structure into a hybrid environmental infrastructure where hospitality, vegetation, and climate coexist within a continuous landscape of inhabitation.