Modica, Ragusa, Sicily, Italy

The owners architects renovated the property like to call it CASA ASCENSIONALE, due to its conformation. The visitor seems to take a spiritual path, from the womb of the earth to the sky. Indeed, from the intimate environment of the caves, passing through a room with the vaults in stone, you climb up to discover an intense light that comes from a large room with an eighteenth-century alcove. At this point a stairway in pitch reveals a further path to the level above,
where a panoramic terrace opens onto the historic centre of Modica. The idea was to maintain the original structure, implementing a renovation as conservative as possible and
equipping the house with missing services, such as bathrooms and the kitchen. Thus the specific characteristics of the house were enhanced by making new interventions readable .The entrance area was originally a public road, whose pavement was completely dismantled. In the frowned,
reclaimed and cleaned up kitchen-dining area have been created in one and in the other a characteristic bathroom. On the upper floor in the large living room there is an eighteenthcentury
alcove with a window from which you can enjoy a really special glimpse of the city. Another bathroom completes this floor. On the upper level, a splendid panoramic terrace completes the property. Among the new interventions, the particular design of the new iron staircase connecting the original ramp with the terrace and finally the entrance door , made of iron with a glass door, which during the day can be left open, making sure that the entrance becomes almost an exterior, full of plants.The internal surface is 140 square metres while the terrace measures 16 square metres. .