Italia

Dimension: 192.00 sqm. Including the walls High energy efficiency house that reaches energy consumption levels close to zero. To achieve this goal the house has been very well insulated in all its components, it has an extremely efficient summer-winter air-conditioning system, both during generation and distribution of the heating or cooling fluid, integrated by mechanical ventilation. The villa was designed by separating the load-bearing structure from the perimeter buffer structure. Walls has been built by dry construction system. The sleeping area and the garage, have a flat roof and a green roof was built above the insulation and waterproofing layers, with water accumulation, the vegetative layer and natural greening. The house was n... More

Valtournenche, at 1500 meters above sea level, is famous for its skiing facilities that connect to Cervinia. The typical local house is very low, extremely small in size, completely covered in wood and with warm and feeble lightings. Externally it is possible to find the typical combination of gray stone and wood, of which the local vernacular architecture "rascard" is an exemplary case. The project, instead of enclosing itself in a wooden cocoon, brings into the interior this strong relationship of splitted stone and honey wood. Light colors on the walls, new windows with reduced frames and the open-space kitchen, favor the entry of the snowy landscapes and their lights.  The grey color, applied to some walls and fabric elements, is... More

Built among the hills of Oltrepò Pavese on a land with a marked inclination from which you can enjoy the splendid view of the first hills and the Po Valley up to the Alps, built on three successive horizontal floors that lean on the slope and develop the house horizontally rather than vertically.The villa, conceived with the Knauf dry construction system with double metal framework, thanks to its position orientation and correct air conditioning system design, enjoys a high level of environmental comfort. More

Residenza Margherita is a new project of twenty-four apartments in the heart of the Brianza area. More

Built at the beginning of the XX century, Casa San Polo is an antique rural house located at the heart of the beautiful countryside of San Polo di Piave, close to Treviso. The original structure was made up of three floors. The lowest two floors were habitable, whereas the attic was used as a granary. This way of using the space is a typical feature of rural dwellings of that time, characterized by a steep central staircase and a symmetric development of the rooms. The house, abandoned for several years, totally lacked the roofing: all the wooden parts of the floors were completely damaged and also the masonry walls were compromised. The design respects the original character of the structure, and the space is symmetrically developed aro... More

Built by a Venetian noble family (e.g. Crotta) Casa Crotta, (former Dalle Crode, Tibolet) is likely an ancient hunting lodge of the XVII century. The house is part of the Regional Institute of Venetian Villas list and is situated in Arfanta’s hamlet, between the Tarzo’s hills, and is the first of series of rural buildings right in front of the municipal road. From a typological perspective, two distinctive floors compose the house but the habitative one is at the top. This is a characteristic that well explain the type of use for which the building was originally built (hunting lodge), because the house used to be exploited occasionally for few hours a day. The conservation status of the house required a major intervention before compr... More

In 2007, Microsoft Italia chose to establish its headquarters in a rural landscape characterized by the seasonally shifting patterns of agricultural production. This would be setting for a new way of working. We focused on this condition of agricultural fringe, recognizing it as an opportunity to create a transition. Our interest in designing the project was to create a meeting point between two technologies: that associated with working the fields, and that relating to working with computers. They are two realms of technology that develop in parallel and in a compatible manner, with neither prevailing over the other. The project is located on the flat terrain of the Padana plain south of Milan. The area is characterized by a broad horiz... More