AP House’ bears witness to the rebirth of an ancient rural hamlet situated on the top of one of the highest hills in Urbino, highly esteemed for its landscape and environment. The new system of buildings stands on ancient remains dating back to Medieval Communes. The core of the houses, which forms a single housing unit, restablishes a central role to this site in the landscape, restoring a direct and empathic dialogue between new buildings and historical stratification. 

The fair-face reinforced concrete structure of the internal perimeter, creates space for natural light to flood in and releases the volume from any other load-bearing element. The full functional program is arranged on three levels. In order to avoid the parking of cars and the sight of any means of transport at the garden level,the main entrance is located in the large garage in the basement. On the lower level, besides the technical and plant areas, there are all the main facilities: a cinema room, an exhibition gallery in the connecting space between the main building and its annex and a gym with an adjoining SPA. 

From the basement, the staircase leads directly to the heart of the main building where the view opens up over the stunning hilly landscape and the swimming pool area. The ground floor, completely projected towards the outdoors, has no continuity solution with the garden: This is the living room, dining room, kitchen and private studio space.

On the first floor, arranged around a large balustraded landing, is the master apartment and two double bedrooms with thier suite restrooms.A third building is located in the garden upon a little artificial hill. In its basement there is a storage room for the gardening equipment and a barbecue on the ground floor.