ALBA — A house above Carrara, built from one block of the mountain
A housecut fromthe mountain.
Bianco Carrara · Statuario · Completion 2027
It begins as a mountain. Then one wall lets go.
One block leaves the mountain. Nothing is added to it.
The wall
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Marble has been cut from these mountains for two thousand years. This is the first house built from the block it was quarried from.
Apuan AlpsCava di FantiscrittiBianco Carrara · StatuarioCompletion 2027
Two hundred metres above the house
One bench of white. The saw worked into it for eleven days.
Bench IVCut in March 2025No joints
02 — The block
It comes up under the hand.
Rough from the saw, every surface in the house is finished by hand. Keep scrolling and the stone comes up.
0 % polished
Eight hours of hand polishing for every square metre. The stone shows every one of them.
03 — The house
One block. Twelve hundred tonnes.
The walls are not clad. They are stacked: solid blocks of Bianco Carrara, sixty centimetres deep, all cut from one bench of the quarry. What the saw took out of the mountain in March 2025 is the house.
Living
612 m²
Bedrooms
4
Terrace & pool
380 m²
Stone
1 200 t
Plot
4.1 ha
Price
On application
Sixty centimetres of marble do what no insulation does. The walls take the sun all day and give it back after dark; in August the rooms stay below twenty-four degrees without a machine running.
The loggia · four pillars, one bench of stone
The loggia faces the sea. Its four pillars come from the same bench as the walls, so the veins run through the whole house in one direction, like grain through a single plank.
04 — The rooms
Every room is the same stone.
I
The living room
Floor, walls and ceiling are book-matched from one slab, so the vein on the floor climbs the wall and crosses the ceiling. There is one sofa. The view does the rest.
96 m²Sea sideMorning light
II
The bath
Carved from one block. The tub, the wall behind it and the floor were never separate pieces; the veins run through all three without a joint.
28 m²Mountain sideOne strip of light
III
The bedroom
The headboard is the wall. The window is a metre deep, and in the late afternoon the mountain comes into the room with the light.
42 m²WestLate light
IV
The stair
Each step is a solid block, cantilevered from the shaft wall. Nothing holds them but the weight of the stone above.
22 steps3.4 tTop light
05 — The evening
The stone keeps the day.
Marble stores the sun and gives it back after dark. At midnight in October the terrace is still warm underfoot.
