HOUSE 023 is a quiet rural dwelling set within the agricultural landscape of Piemonte, where the architecture is shaped by stone, timber, shadow, and the long horizon of the surrounding fields. The project draws from the restraint of local farm buildings and hillside structures, using simple volumes and tactile materials to create a house that feels settled within its site rather than placed upon it.

The design is organized around a sequence of warm interior rooms and exterior thresholds. Thick masonry walls, timber ceilings, deep openings, and shaded terraces create a sense of shelter while framing views toward the landscape beyond. Light enters the house slowly, catching on textured plaster, stone floors, timber surfaces, and everyday domestic objects. The atmosphere is modest, grounded, and deliberately unpolished.

Rather than treating the countryside as scenery, the house uses it as a spatial and material reference. Gravel edges, planted slopes, exterior steps, and weathered surfaces connect the building to the rhythms of the site — seasons, work, heat, rain, and use. HOUSE 023 is conceived as a contemporary rural home with an old sensibility: precise, durable, quiet, and deeply connected to place.