Architect Daniele Brunoni: a dream called “7villas”

“In my life, I have never done anything else, and I don’t think I ever could. The project has always been part of my daily life, wherever I am… To dream and to try to make people dream…”

These are the first words we find in the biography of Daniele Brunoni, a prestigious architect who curated the design of 7Villas – the golf lodge, our new real estate initiative starting on the hills of Virle, a hamlet of Costermano, on the Veronese side of Lake Garda. Brunoni is an experienced designer, so recognized that his name is often associated with that of a dean of architecture, such as the famous Giorgio Grassi.

He owes his fame in particular to the numerous private villa projects he has signed in the Verona and Mantua area, almost all characterized by a very particular style, where the exteriors seem like a natural continuation of the interiors. Another stylistic feature of Brunoni is the care he puts into materials: never ordinary, innovative, functional, and capable of giving life to a unique design.

“I love the design phase of my work,” he confides, “the possibility of letting the pencil flow on the sheet, giving shape to an idea in which creativity, functionality, as well as respect for the constraints and inputs received, merge.” Every new assignment is a challenge for the Mantuan architect: “to convey a strong idea, a dream that must inform the entire project.”

Every new initiative, therefore, revolves around a central idea. “In the case of 7Villas, it was to close a missing portion of the village in the locality of Virle, giving the existing inhabited area a more complete and less fragmented shape. I imagined a set of single-family homes capable of dialoguing with each other and with the context in a modern reinterpretation of the existing settlement, on the one hand, enhancing the context itself and, on the other, every design element which, in its uniqueness, is nevertheless part of an inseparable whole.”

The 7Villas project adapts to the architectural and naturalistic context in which it stands and therefore constitutes an inseparable part of it, reinterpreting its features in a modern key and taking up its materiality. The use of resources and materials compatible with and similar to the environment, in fact, reflects the meticulous study carried out by Brunoni. The architect chose wood, both as a construction element and as a covering: already “sun-scorched,” it will not have the typical chromatic variations due to exposure to the elements; raw earth is instead used in the form of traditional solid bricks, which, expertly arranged, will recreate the “lattice” motifs typical of barns.

And then the 7villas – the golf lodge project is characterized by the colors of the earth, which warm up the entire project, reflecting a search for materiality based on naturalness. The result is a universal and always current project: “timeless,” as its creator defines it. Brunoni’s inspiring muse, therefore, is the surrounding nature, with its green and dense meadows and its living earth. A nature that is loved and respected, so much so that, “in order not to interrupt the continuity, the driveway leading to the new settlement will be placed close to the northern border, so as to allow the complete opening of the homes towards the surrounding naturalistic context.”

Brunoni’s wish—accustomed to seeing his projects cited in the most prestigious magazines—is to give those who choose these homes a house where they can feel GOOD and fully experience sociality and relationships: “It is a more subtle satisfaction that sometimes has to be read between the lines,” he concludes, “but which certainly feels good in the heart, sometimes more than a glossy cover.”