In this way the house is creating a new spot, another wich it was before. The hole living floor is considered as one space without limitations between in and out.

Bricks were used as the main material for the hole building. The walls are entirely built in bricks like the tradition in this region. This is one more connection we tried to create to the beautyful historical village.

The windows are carefuly placed in each façade without cutting up the massiv cube. Only a large continual surface of brickwall can always appear in a new light and develop his beauty.

From the outside the apertures seams small and occasionaly, but they follow in a srtict way the inner conception of the rooms and sometimes they are even very large (from the floor to the ceiling) to let the light get in.

Behind the steel entrancedoor there is a narrow and high hall with only one small window. From there starts a long straight stairs along the natural slope direct up to the last floor. To reach the sleeping rooms there is a passage in the middle of the stairs. From the bottom of the stairs you can look all up to the roof, it’s a narrow and high space like the streets in the traditional village. The house becomes a village.

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– Not having to intervene on the walls with stonecutter plasters (to waterproof the walls), which would change the current beautiful appearance;

– It allows you to benefit from the stone walls even from the inside (through the glass), since with a classic solution, these walls would have to be insulated the heated part is simple, compact and mainly in wood, thus allowing to heat in a short time the apartment; which is ideal for an occasionally used holiday home.

The empty (cold) spaces, open on two floors and with a view of the pious roofs, allow more light to be brought to the ground floor, particularly from the north-east through the large openings on the upper floor. The beautiful existing entrance is enhanced by the installation of a door, by the completion of the wall upstream and by the connection, on the same level, with the kitchen top (thus cooking on the rock). It is an architecture that respects and enhances the mural substance of the old cottages, but which inside contains a special and unexpected world.

The same principle of the house in the house is also used for the apartment obtained in the south-east area. in this case, however, the whole program is developed on a single level. the apartment is in any case structured in such a way as to allow 4 people to stay overnight (2 in the bedroom and 2 on the benches in the living room).

The basement is enhanced with an access space, connected to the outdoor terrace, reminiscent of the entrances of traditional houses. in the basement there is also space for the cellar with laundry and technical room, common to the two apartments.

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