Conceived as a prototypical structure rather than a permanent edifice, this intervention situated in Italy reinterprets the defensive terrace of a historic maritime bastion as a site for experimental inhabitation, where the introduction frames the project as a research artefact testing the spatial, structural and climatic capacities of timber within a saline Mediterranean context, and the development unfolds through a rigorous examination of its curved shingled roof, whose continuous surface operates simultaneously as protective canopy and formal manifesto, articulating a dialogue between vernacular memory and parametric abstraction, while the exposed dark frame, composed of triangulated beams and calibrated joints, asserts constructive legibility and underscores the didactic intention of the prototype, namely to demonstrate how minimal material deployment can achieve maximum environmental modulation through shade, ventilation and orientation; elevated delicately upon a stone plinth and accessed via a linear stair that transforms ascent into perceptual preparation, the artefact does not enclose but rather frames the seascape, converting the horizon into programme and redefining refuge as a condition of measured exposure instead of defensive withdrawal; as a case study in coastal experimentation, the Italian setting intensifies questions of corrosion, wind load and solar incidence, thereby positioning the structure as a laboratory for maritime resilience and reversible occupation.
