Colle Allegro
Daniele Domenicali - Schüco Italia
Product Spec Sheet

ElementBrandProduct Name
Lighting and home automationDavide Groppi srl
Furnishings and accessoriesMolteni&C
Furnishings and accessoriesB&B Italia
Furnishings and accessoriesTom Dixon
Furnishings and accessoriesBaxter Srl
Bathroom furnishingAntonio Lupi

Product Spec Sheet
Lighting and home automation
Furnishings and accessories
Furnishings and accessories
Furnishings and accessories
Furnishings and accessories
Bathroom furnishing

COLLE ALLEGRO

Studio Svetti Architecture (Emanuele Svetti) as Architects

Project: Studio Svetti Architecture | Emanuele Svetti Architetto
Project Manager:  Arch. Francesco Setaro – Studio Svetti Architecture
Interior project Assistants:  Arch. Luca Pasqualotti – Studio Svetti Architecture   
 Arch. Veronica Maccarini – Studio Svetti Architecture 

Category: Holding Head Quarter e Gallery, Residenze, Spa & Resort
Surface: 4500 mq
Start of work: 2015 - 2023

Colle Allegro "New Tuscan Luxury Life Style" is the pay-off of the project, inspired by the style that the Gori Family wanted to give to this place. The project aims at giving back this style to an area characterized by the shabby rural genesis and unfortunately decayed.

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The project is born as a work of the avant-gardes, a scratch by Fontana, which doesn’t want to be limited to the simple recovery of the area and its architecture, but it was imagined to paint on a canvas with fast signs, to scratch the place by creating on it constructions that show the viewer how a modern three-dimensionality exists and is ready to dialogue with the past.

The Villa is the focus of the project, representative spaces of the Holding, with the Gallery dedicated to the history of products and lobby areas for guests and clients, 5 completely independent luxury apartments with the same floor area, with views on both sides of the property, "loft" atmosphere and 3 common areas on the main floors that represent hospitality, entertainment and the owners. 

photo_credit Daniele Domenicali - Schüco Italia
Daniele Domenicali - Schüco Italia

The intervention involves the recovery of an underground passage that historically was used as an escape route most likely because of the war, rather than to hide "habits from Decameron" of the Lords of the past. From the passage there is access to one of the residences, which thus has a privileged entrance to the elegant garden in front of the Villa, spread on 4 levels, which take advantage of the slope of the hill, and characterized by exceptional secular trees including a redwood, two enormous cedarwoods and four palms, which recall colonial era. 

The most important thing of the renovation works is to preserve the Family Chapel which is set inside the geometries of one of the apartments at the ground floor, recovering the late nineteenth-century original frescoes and also all the relics that were kept there. Nowadays we can find many references to the Families who lived the Residence and see shades of blue which gently rest on all the wall hangings. 

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The new spa is 500 square meters of size and it is created as the celebration of the meeting between the majesty of stone and the fluidity of water. The spa will be a space entirely based on the care and well-being of the person with 10 stations: chromo-therapy shower and steam baths, relax area, Turkish bath, hot tub, sauna, swimming pool with counter-current swimming, Kneipp path, salt room and massage room. The hydromassage area will be the center of the project and it is part of a loop of the ground that contained tanks for collecting rainwater, which has been transformed in in an iconic place by Emanuele. It is characterized by a pool of water with an elliptical cut in the center, which sculpts an air ring always maintaining the dialogue between nature and architecture.

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FROM THE LANDSCAPE POINT OF VIEW
In terms of landscape, the main purpose was to maintain all the existing plant species, by adding Mediterranean plant species. For this reason, it has been decided to collaborate with Pool and in a particular way with Elisa Frappi to select and harmonize plant species inside the property.

The property, loving nature and green areas, but also fan of exotic botanical plants, asked the architect to create a winter garden inside the new structure: the garden is distributed on two different levels and have a microclimate that allows life to exotic plant species. This space includes also an area dedicated to meditation and to a “dialog with nature”.
Regarding the nightlife of the park, a lighting concept with direct, indirect, refractive and emotional light sources has been designed, in collaboration with Cristian Farnetani of G-Smart. 

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photo_credit Daniele Domenicali - Schüco Italia
Daniele Domenicali - Schüco Italia
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