Invisible House (AB house)

Tadao Ando & Associates – Ponzano Veneto, Treviso, 2004

The philosophy that inspired the single-family villa, partially underground, designed by Tadao Ando, ​​is the search for dialogue between internal space and environmental context. Two of the three floors of the house are hidden by green embankments; the third, thanks to the large windows overlooking two amphitheatres located below the ground level, lightens and illuminates the interior of this house.

The building designed by CEV is marked by a grid of axes that defines the internal and external spaces, the only exception being the volume of the entrance tunnel, reserved for guests, which deviates from the design scheme: five metres high, it is as evocative as the portico of a modernist cathedral.

The building, made of concrete and glass, occupies just under 2000 square meters, and seems to immerse itself among the hills specially created in the countryside and the thick row of trees, planted in such a way as to form a protective curtain: for this reason Ando has called it the invisible house.