House with Olive Tree is a minimalist house located in Mestre, Italy, designed in 2021 by Studio Rossettini Architettura.

Description
The property is located on a plot of 1500 square meters within an agricultural fund located in Chirignago in the municipality of Venice. It is a portion of a large cornfield immersed in the rural landscape typical of the territories surrounding the Venice lagoon.
The client, a collector of oriental carpets, immediately expressed a desire to live in a quiet place far from the rhythms of the city.
The project has as its founding objectives the enhancement of the rural landscape and integration with the existing building context, respecting the agricultural typology. It integrates with the proportions of the landscape by developing on a single floor to maintain visual contact with nature. The choice was made to arrange the house with a west-east longitudinal orientation, like the other rural buildings historically established in the surrounding territorial context. The volume is almost entirely on one floor above ground, except for a storage room on the northwest side and a small basement room used as a cellar. The volume of the building has a double ‘gabled’ pitch as per agricultural typology, with a punctual extrusion of the pitch at the upper floor room.
The volume is ‘hollowed out’ at a porch on the west side, a porch on the south side, the canopy protecting the entrance to the house on the northwe...