{"id":8684,"date":"2025-12-11T13:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sassogna.sviluppo.host\/portfolio\/villa-outside-the-city-perugia\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T18:41:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:41:53","slug":"villa-outside-the-city-perugia","status":"publish","type":"astra-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/sassogna.sviluppo.host\/en\/portfolio\/villa-outside-the-city-perugia\/","title":{"rendered":"Villa outside the city, Perugia"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Villa outside the city, Perugia<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Perugia: panoramic terraces and living slopes in the heart of Umbria.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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In the heart of the Umbrian hills, we faced a slope sliding steeply down to the valley, almost inaccessible. To make it welcoming, we had to reshape the earth decisively, yet always with deep respect for the place.<\/p>

Our desire was to create three large terraces, spaces of quiet carved into the slope, transforming a dizzying descent into a harmonic sequence of gardens to be lived in.<\/p>

It was a work of great care, necessary to restore habitability and sweetness to what was previously just a rugged passage.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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We did not want to wound the landscape with concrete walls. We chose a gentler path. The new planes\u2014the house, the pool, the service area\u2014dialogue with each other through large green slopes.<\/p>

On the flat parts, we laid Zoysia ‘Innovation’, a soft and sustainable carpet that asks for little water and invites walking barefoot.<\/p>

But the project’s real strength lies not in the built environment: it is in the earth itself, modeled and sustained by roots, in a subtle balance where technique hides to leave space for nature.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The slopes are the garden’s pulsating soul. In the first one, we entrusted the task to time: colorful perennials offer immediate emotion, protecting the slow growth of shrubs that, year after year, will grant structure and volume.<\/p>

It is a landscape that knows how to wait. The second slope, further down, dresses in the simplicity of ornamental grasses: golden waves consolidating the hillside.<\/p>

All around, mixed hedges embrace the garden echoing the same species, a green frame gathering the gaze and granting a sense of intimate protection.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The result is a place where gravity becomes light. The pool does not seem suspended in the void but welcomed by the earth, protected by vegetation wrapping every level change.<\/p>

We wanted to demonstrate that plants can replace concrete, guaranteeing safety and gifting, instead of grey, a living and mutable landscape.<\/p>

Green architecture, where functional necessity delicately fades into the poetry of the wind caressing flowers and leaves.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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