In the village of Sirili next to the river, we were asked to renovate an existing building built in 1984, which has always been used as a holiday home. The purpose of the intervention was to renew the design of the building, adding amenities such as bathrooms in every room. It consisted of an open plan room with day use and WC, and three bedrooms with a shared bathroom. There was also a later smaller building on the study site that served as an ancillary space for the dwelling.

The building was a carefully designed building by a well-known architect, with a high quality of design and construction. This made our task challenging, as we wanted to keep these qualities and not significantly interfere with the architecture of the building. The other nodal constraint was the way the building was constructed, as it did not have any structural plate but two wooden gable roofs, so it was impossible to expand in height.


The solution to the extra square footage that we needed was provided by the outbuilding of the house, which was modified into a guest house with a bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and outdoor living area. The exterior space was configured to function as a self-contained residence as well.


In the main building, the night spaces were transformed into two large bedrooms with private bathrooms and in the day spaces, modifications were made to the openings to unify the inside with the outside.Externally, an outdoor kitchen and dining room were remodeled, a pool was added and the planting was reconfigured to separate the spaces.


The main intervention was the replacement of the roof with a new roof with exposed trusses.Where the roof begins, the filling of the walls between the trusses is done with glass, thus the roof is visible both inside the house and outside. The lighting design enhanced the idea of the "floating-naked" roof, illuminating it both internally and externally, diffusing ambient lighting throughout the dwelling.