The property is located on a 1500 m2 lot within an agricultural estate located in Chirignago in the municipality of Venice. It is a portion of a large cornfield immersed in the typical rural landscape of the areas surrounding the Venice lagoon. The client, a collector of oriental carpets, immediately expressed the desire to live in a quiet place away from the rhythms of the city.

The project has as its founding objectives the enhancement of the rural landscape and the integration with the existing building context, in compliance with the agricultural typology. It integrates with the proportions of the landscape developing on a single floor to maintain visual contact with nature. It was decided to arrange the house with a longitudinal west-east orientation, like the other historically consolidated rural buildings in the surrounding territorial context.

The volume develops almost entirely on one floor above ground, with the exception of a storage room on the north-west side and a small underground room used as a cellar. The volume of the building has a double 'hut' pitch as per the agricultural typology, with a punctual extrusion of the pitch in correspondence with the room on the upper floor. The volume is 'emptied' at a portico on the west side, a portico on the south side, the shelter for the protection of the entrance to the house on the north-west side, and a patio on the north side. The porch on the west side is open on the long side and overlooks the vehicular and pedestrian accesses, and is functional for use in the warm months as it enjoys a large area of shade. The south porch, also open on the long side, overlooks the suggestive view of the cornfield which changes according to the season.

The interiors are sober and clean to frame the furnishings that embellish and configure the identity of the spaces. The floors of the living area are made of travertine slabs with grouted joints and continue outside on the porch and patio. The bedrooms are in oak staves, like the mezzanine, but with French herringbone cutlery. In the cellar, a slate floor was chosen in warm tones that goes well with the exposed concrete partition of the staircase.

The distribution inside the house is linear: the service rooms are arranged on the north side and the habitable rooms on the south side. It follows that the north side is characterized by a discreet elevation with minimal openings and a very limited height, in accordance with the exposure towards the cold winds.

The entrance to the house takes place along the covered driveway up to the entrance door. Upon entering you find yourself in a modest-sized atrium that opens onto the large living room which is the heart of the house both from a distribution point of view, as it divides the living area to the west from the sleeping area to the east, and from a spatial point of view the tallest room.

The living room is the heart of the house. It overlooks both the south porch and the north patio through sliding French windows, generating two types of green outdoor spaces: one to the south open to nature without barriers, the other more intimate and domestic, characterized by a patio with its olive tree in the center. The living area has two exposed reinforced concrete walls characterized by the texture of osb panels used for casting formwork. The fireplace leans against one of these walls, embellished with an ancient cast iron hearth from the early 1800s. The other houses the TV area with a grained wooden shelf with a rear LED that illuminates the concrete wall from below. In the center of the living room is a large table, made up of a single wooden top resting on two crystal slabs.

The corridor to the west distributes a room used as a study and a laundry room to the south; to the north a bathroom and a closet. A service staircase connects the cellar to the basement and an attic room on the upper floor which partly overlooks the living room. This space, conceived as the client's "refuge", enjoys generous lighting provided by the three large skylights placed flush with the perimeter walls. The corridor on the ground floor ends with a French door that opens onto a second porch used as a shelter for cars from which it is possible to access the boiler room. In the eastern part of the house there are the rooms of the sleeping area. On the south side there are two bedrooms that overlook the porch. At the head of the house to the east is another room with a window overlooking the courtyard to the east; on the north side there are two bathrooms.