Villa Ottolenghi was designed by Carlo Scarpa in 1978. Master builder Lloyd Wright said: "You can't park on the ground, you have to park on the ground." The words echoed so deeply in Scarpa's mind that he inspired Villa Ottolenghi. Located in Bardolino on the eastern bank of Lake Garda, the 1974 building looks like an ancient ruin, "a piece of land from the ground itself, with its roof terrace stretching out over the lake".

The morphological structure of the area is defined by a steep slope in the west and surrounded by a levee in the north and east, which has actually suggested to the man to bury most of the house underground and play with interesting design ideas. The most striking of these is the roof, which is inspired by the farmhouse of Veneto Farm and becomes a livable place, with irregular patterns on the surface of the brick walls, from which one can enjoy the magnificent landscape without boundaries, as if the real roof were heaven, pure poetry. Villa Ottolenghi is a unique building and is a perfect example of how Scarpa conveys the relationship between nature, man made and human life in his work.