Villa Beusi is set along the hillside ridge of Sanremo, within a terraced agricultural landscape overlooking the sea, where the built environment has historically been defined by isolated episodes, essential structures, and a fragile balance between human activity and natural morphology. The intervention occupies the footprint of the family’s former agricultural estate, taking as its founding principle not the mere replacement of existing buildings, but the reconstruction of a measured relationship between architecture, memory, and territory.

The project began with the demolition of the existing structures and the comprehensive remediation of the site, operations that made it possible to restore continuity to the landscape and reduce the built impact, freeing up significant portions of land. The building is developed entirely on a single level, following the natural slope of the terrain and seeking continuity with the agricultural structure of the Ligurian terraces.

The house avoids any iconic or self-referential gesture: its volume is compact, low, and horizontal, composed through a limited number of clear and carefully calibrated elements. The composition takes up certain features of local rural architecture, reinterpreting them in a contemporary key. The pitched roof, simple volumes, absence of decorative elements, and rigorous control of proportions define a sober architectural language, in which every decision is entrusted to the quality of construction, light, and material.

The project works by subtraction, eliminating every superfluous component and focusing attention on construction precision and spatial continuity. In this regard, the relationship between interior and exterior is decisive. The large glazed openings frame the landscape without transforming it into a spectacular image: the sea, the olive trees, the slope, and the sky enter the house as ordinary elements of everyday life. The interior spaces are organized through fluid sequences and visual connections that maintain a constant perception of the natural context. The house does not impose itself on the site; rather, it appears to position itself in attentive dialogue with the landscape.

Particular attention has been devoted to the material articulation of the building. The internal timber-slat suspended ceiling ideally continues into the external exposed reinforced-concrete roof plane, board-formed with timber formwork, establishing a physical and perceptual continuity between the interior spaces and the covered outdoor areas. This detail synthesizes the entire design approach: a search for essentiality that is nonetheless capable of producing spatial intensity through construction accuracy.

The exposed reinforced concrete, light-coloured plaster, timber, and stone walls engage with the mineral character of the site and with the local building tradition, without resorting to mimetic or vernacular forms. The open spaces also participate in this logic. The terraces, retaining walls, and external landscaping do not constitute an autonomous landscape apparatus, but rather extend the architectural design and recompose the relationship with the hillside.

The interiors share the same attitude as the house: no concession to a conventional image of the “rural”, no decorative indulgence, but a reduction of language to the essential. Natural light, atmospheric variations, and the constant presence of the landscape define the character of the spaces. Each room is conceived as a place of silent relationship with the exterior, where architecture and nature establish a discreet equilibrium

Villa Beusi thus interprets the theme of contemporary living within a landscape context not through the pursuit of exceptionality, but through a rigorous measure between construction and place, memory and transformation, permanence and subtraction.