SAMIA
An architectural archipelago
Function
Hospitality
Residential
Landscape
Type
Conservative restoration
with new addition
Status
Completed
Location
Maruggio (TA)
Spanning around 100 hectares overlooking the Ionian coast, the project transforms an 18th-century Masseria and a cluster of abandoned Maruggesi trulli into a complex dedicated to hospitality, wine tasting, research and landscape for the San Marzano Vini winery.
Spanning around 100 hectares overlooking the Ionian coast, the project transforms an 18th-century Masseria and a cluster of abandoned Maruggesi trulli into a complex dedicated to hospitality, wine tasting, research and landscape for the San Marzano Vini winery.
year
2025
Site area
approx. 100 hectares
The site reveals itself as a palimpsest of fragments from a long-forgotten agricultural heritage. Masseria Samia, a mid-18th-century building featuring a votive chapel from 1727, dialogues with the original system of courtyards, the ancient sheepfold and a separate building once reserved as the steward’s residence. All around, like silent sculptures, eight dry-stone Maruggesi trulli are distributed throughout the landscape.
Project team
Landscape, architecture, interiors: Martina D’Alessandro Architettura
Structural engineering: Studio Tecnico PRO.GEN S.r.l.
Services: Idrotermica Coop Soc. Coop.
Photo
Claudio Tajoli Diego Marella
Partnerships
Davide GroppiOttostumm | MogsFrancesco Fasano
Publications
Martina D’Alessandro (2024). Landscape as a programme, pp. 51–64. In: Patrizia Tassinari (ed.), UNESCO. Landscapes, cultural and natural heritage. Bologna: Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. ISBN: 9788854971462.
Martina D’Alessandro (2022). Dwelling the landscape, Tradition and innovation, pp. 132–139. In: Mauro Marzo, Viviana Ferrario, Viola Bertini (eds.), Between Sense of Time and Sense of Place, Syracuse: LetteraVentidue. ISBN: 978-88-6242-673-2.
San Marzano Vini’s acquisition of the complex has launched a new chapter for these buildings, transforming them into an innovative showcase for wine culture, where the winery’s story becomes a sensory experience and a laboratory of ideas.
Exhibitions
Exhibition “25X25 Architecture. A Contemporary Atlas”, organised by the Department of Architecture at the University of Bologna and the Single-Cycle Master’s Degree Programme in Architecture, Cesena campus, as part of the 25th Anniversary of Architecture Cesena (1999–2024), under the patronage of Cesena City Council and the Forlì-Cesena Institute of Architects, held in Cesenatico at the Colonia Agip from 13 September 2024 to 14 September 2024.
Within this context, the project involves three complementary actions: landscape design; the definition of a system of hospitality that connects the masseria with the buildings scattered throughout the landscape; and the transformation of the main floor of the masseria into an exclusive residence.
Hospitality spread across the Mediterranean landscape
The eighteenth-century masseria becomes the heart of the hospitality experience: the reception, lounge, restaurant, wine-tasting and event spaces are arranged around its historic courtyards and gardens, bringing architecture, wine and landscape into dialogue.
Living in a winery landscape
On the first floor of an 18th-century farmhouse surrounded by the vineyards of Apulia’s Ionian coast, the project redefines the concept of private residence as a continuous experience blending architecture, nature and memory.
A constellation of rooms
A form of hospitality that is widespread, intimate and peaceful: it takes shape in the dry-stone trulli, designed as a constellation of shelters in the landscape of Masseria Samia. The thickness of the walls, the overhead light and the openings to the outside provide an authentic, slow and immersive experience.
A new rural geography
The landscape is redesigned by integrating the geometry of the vineyard with the fluidity of the Mediterranean garden. The result defines a renewed rural geography in which architecture, agriculture and open spaces once again become part of a single, cohesive landscape system.
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