Casa VCS is a modern house located in Modica, Italy, designed in 2021 by Giuseppe Gurrieri.

Description
Casa VCS is a project for the new construction of a single-family house in Modica, in the province of Ragusa, in a site whose high landscape value is due to a constant relationship with the rock on which not only the house but the entire city is founded. Modica is in fact characterized by jagged horizons and pale rocky walls, so much so that the ancients to give it its name referred to the term “Murìka”, which indicates the bare rock and little cultivable.
The house, realized thanks to the technical collaboration with the engineering firm SIC, is located in the countryside of Modica in an area characterized by a slight slope that suddenly changes into a steep rocky escarpment. A place where the view seems to literally “jump” into the void of the valley to stop on the opposite side. The project focuses on the analysis of the site and the system of anthropization of the territory in the last century and refers to the typical rural architecture of the ’30s, made with raw materials and precarious structures, born to expand the buildings related to local agricultural activities.
In the countryside of the Hyblean plateau, it is easy to find this type of construction characterized by thin metal profiles that support large trusses and sheet metal roofs, structures that both for their lightness and their transparency, understood...