THE HOUSE AS AN ARTEFACT Artefact: an object made or modified by a human being, typically one of cultural or historical interest. The villa stands as a human-made object, carrying the marks of its time, its story. Like any artefact, it embodies cultural value: the traces that never were. Yet an artefact without presence is silent. It becomes complete only when it is reactivated, when it encounters life again. Echo: a sound caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the subject. The design intention is not one of replacement, but of resonance. The villa is treated as
