Casa Al is a beautiful traditional farmhouse located in Castelmuzio, Italy, redesigned in 2019 by VPS Architetti.

Description
The farmhouse is located near the historic centre of Castelmuzio, a small village in Val d’Orcia along the road leading to Pienza. It is nestled halfway up a hillside and looks towards the parish church of S. Anna in Camprena, a former 15th-century Benedictine Monastery whose refectory has a splendid cycle of frescoes (1503) by Antonio Bazzi, known as Il Sodoma, and where Anthony Minghella filmed some scenes of ‘The English Patient’.
The original farm building, whose typological characteristics and construction methods seem to date to the second half of the 19th century, was subject to subsequent additions and alterations until the 1950s. The project for the main building and separate guesthouse adapted the buildings to the client’s requirements by spatially redistributing and reinterpreting the interiors and introducing new mechanical systems without increasing or altering the existing volumes and without changing the original architectural features of the façades, regulated by landscape protection codes.
The orientation, view and relationships between the interiors and the surrounding spaces guided the main design choices.
On the ground floor, the south side was chosen as the best orientation for activities like dining and kitchen – well-lit during the winter and in direct contact, through French d...