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Fratte Rosa, Pesaro-Urbino
House
EUR 130,000
There is a house that from the sky seems to sleep in the woods. Exposed stone, a new roof protecting it, a ditch running alongside it for who knows how many winters. No road disturbs it, no neighbor looks at it: only plowed fields around it and a mysterious sign left by the tractor, like the countryside's signature on the earth. But it is what it holds inside that makes it unique. We are in the presence of one of the rarest testimonies of rammed earth architecture, an ancient refuge where the wall is not just a boundary, but a living organism that preserves the warmth and memory of the landscape. This house was built in two phases: the oldest nucleus was constructed with rammed earth mixed with straw, according to the lubaco technique, the same earth that made Fratte Rosa a known center for clay and terracotta processing — and which here, in rare cases like this one, was also used to build houses, making the Marches one of the reference regions in Italy for the study of rammed earth architecture. The subsequent expansion, the one that today dominates the façade, was built in exposed sandstone. Two eras, two materials, one unique story written in the walls. Behind the house, in the…





