Villa Sirena is a contemporary single family residence located in Syracuse, Italy, designed in 2021 by Studio Rizza Architetti.

Description
Villa Sirena in the promontory of Plemmirio in Syracuse has been the object of a deep architectural reinterpretation by the studio of the architect Mario Rizza and the professionalism of the firm Teamnetwork of Syracuse.
The aim of the intervention was to attract the beauty of the position by enhancing the charm of the surrounding landscape of the marine protected reserve of Plemmirio in relation to the housing forms, trying to give more prominence to the lights and the atmospheres of the different seasonal phases.
A land with steep slopes and rocky terrain are the starting point to plan the project of a house built in the seventies. The building emerges from the ground with two volumes that merge together, adapting well to the topography of the place.
The pitches of the two pieces are born with the edges of each of the volumes allieneandosi and interlocking with each other and generating a system of sails that allows to resolve all the windows of the project.
This system produces shadows that give depth to the facade, making perceive from the outside a series of compact elements, which come out of a rock, and from the inside the geometry of the holes and terraces of each of them.
On the access floor are housed the main spaces of the house: living room, dining room, kitchen, toilet, two double bedrooms and bathro...