Our research starts from the comparison between two different and yet similar buildings: the Salem House by Pasquale Culotta and Giuseppe Leone and the Kitchen House1 by Marcello Panzarella. The first was built in Cefalù in contrada Ogliastrillo between 1972 and 1973 for a precise client, the second was imagined by Panzarella in 2011 on the 38° parallel, probably along the northern coast of Sicily, on a slope overlooking the sea between Termini Imerese and Cefalù. Its volumes respond to living needs of the same architect who is indeed the only demanding client. The Salem house is a five-level prism on a square base (7,20 m side), which rises a few meters from the sea on nine pilotis. A mono-material and monochromatic building, of an anthracite green from the ground up to the pitched roof, which appears as a fifth façade for those who come from above. The Kitchen House, which is also mono-material and monochromatic, has an articulated plant where the northern front overlooking the sea rises as a tower over other volumes: entrance, oven, bedroom and living room with swimming pool. The living area is a kind of large tail with a triangular section that closes the edifice to the south becoming a façade/roof in succession with the ground and generating a continuity between nature and artifice.

La riflessione si muove dal confronto fra due architetture diverse, eppure simili: la Casa Salem di Pasquale Culotta e Giuseppe Leone e la Kitchen House di Marcello Panzarella. La prima realizzata, tra il 1972 e il 1973, a Cefalù, in contrada Ogliastrillo; la seconda immaginata da Panzarella nel 2011, sul 38° parallelo, forse lungo la costa settentrionale della Sicilia, adagiata su un pendio rivolto verso il mare. Le due descrizioni sono i poli attraverso cui si dipana un ragionamento che trova una parziale e contraddittoria spiegazione nel titolo. Perché, pur nelle differenze, le architetture prese in considerazione costituiscono due modi per tenere insieme una appartenenza mediterranea e d’Oltreoceano, come si scoprirà, dichiaratamente americana. La riflessione si sofferma sulle ragioni di questa particolare duplice relazione. La doppia confluenza è, più che un’inspiegabile antinomia, una peculiarità della ricerca architettonica intrapresa in Sicilia da Pasquale Culotta e Giuseppe (Bibi) Leone. L’intervallo fra le due architetture potrebbe generare dei malintesi. Invece si dimostrerà, in conclusione, come il progetto di Panzarella possa essere pensato come l’anello di congiunzione tra le architetture americane, prese a riferimento, e la stessa Casa Salem.

Sciascia, A. (2016). Oceano Mediterraneo : cardboard and plaster architectures. In A. Picone (a cura di), Culture mediterranee dell’abitare : Mediterranean housing cultures (pp. 210-222). Napoli : Clean.

Oceano Mediterraneo : cardboard and plaster architectures

SCIASCIA, Andrea
2016-01-01

Abstract

Our research starts from the comparison between two different and yet similar buildings: the Salem House by Pasquale Culotta and Giuseppe Leone and the Kitchen House1 by Marcello Panzarella. The first was built in Cefalù in contrada Ogliastrillo between 1972 and 1973 for a precise client, the second was imagined by Panzarella in 2011 on the 38° parallel, probably along the northern coast of Sicily, on a slope overlooking the sea between Termini Imerese and Cefalù. Its volumes respond to living needs of the same architect who is indeed the only demanding client. The Salem house is a five-level prism on a square base (7,20 m side), which rises a few meters from the sea on nine pilotis. A mono-material and monochromatic building, of an anthracite green from the ground up to the pitched roof, which appears as a fifth façade for those who come from above. The Kitchen House, which is also mono-material and monochromatic, has an articulated plant where the northern front overlooking the sea rises as a tower over other volumes: entrance, oven, bedroom and living room with swimming pool. The living area is a kind of large tail with a triangular section that closes the edifice to the south becoming a façade/roof in succession with the ground and generating a continuity between nature and artifice.
2016
Sciascia, A. (2016). Oceano Mediterraneo : cardboard and plaster architectures. In A. Picone (a cura di), Culture mediterranee dell’abitare : Mediterranean housing cultures (pp. 210-222). Napoli : Clean.
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