Villa No. 3 Straw + Wooden House / Jimmi Pianezzola Architetto

The town Dueville, though owing its toponym to different reasons, curiously hosts two ancient villas separated by a straight road; Porto a Vivaro (1554) by Andrea Palladio and the Palladian Da Porto Casarotto (1776) by Ottone Calderari. Villa no.3 was born out of a play on words; to try to build, albeit in our small and fragmented context of contemporary -Veneto-, a dwelling that could be, at least for the patrons who will live in it, the third villa in the country. The project, continuing facetiously, takes as an ideal model a villa 'other' than the Vicenza tradition; specifically a pre-Palladian Renaissance building, Villa Vescovi in the Paduan hills by architect Giovanni Maria Falconetto.