A Dialogue Between Heritage and Nature

This project reimagines a historical villa estate within a richly layered natural landscape. The original 19th-century building, with its expressive façade and classical proportions, remains the architectural focal point — a symbol of time and memory. Adjacent to it, a new volume is introduced: contemporary yet humble, responsive to both the heritage context and the surrounding woodland. Designed with bio-based materials and organic massing, the new structure gently blends into the landscape, allowing greenery to move across and through the building.

Rather than competing, the two volumes form a family — one rooted in history, the other grown from the future. This relationship is shaped through a respectful contrast: the villa retains its presence, while the new building offers subtle reinforcement. Layered volumes and green terraces soften the threshold between built form and forest edge, creating a natural transition. Tactile materials such as yakisugi wood and muted tones reflect and reinterpret the textures of the existing architecture.

Infrastructure remains intentionally invisible — parking and access are discreetly integrated to preserve the sense of openness and stillness. Here, landscape becomes architecture: sightlines, clearings, and canopy rhythms shape the experience more than walls do. The result is a place where past and future, architecture and environment, exist in quiet dialogue.