Casa 9 Border Home / LCA Architetti / luca compri architetti
Textual content description supplied by the architects. This home represents our profitable try at constructing a “non-traditional” house sustainably. A house constructed on the border between Italy and Switzerland, but additionally on the philosophical border dividing those that consider nothing ought to change and people prepared to experiment with options to face the present local weather disaster.
The house owners made a acutely aware and courageous selection, meant to show that it’s attainable to construct with supplies that aren’t essentially concrete and bricks. This allowed us to make use of our craft to think about a extra sustainable world.
The home has an oblong flooring plan and is constructed on a backyard plot surrounded by indifferent homes. The bottom flooring options an entrance, a kitchen with a central island and breakfast space, a residing space with a eating desk, a toilet, and two separate bedrooms for the couple’s youngsters. The primary flooring overlooks the lounge, and the main bedroom and en-suite lavatory fully take it up; the en-suite bathe is lit solely by way of zenith lighting.
The home options open areas and encourages conviviality; relations can work together from completely different rooms on the two completely different ranges, by way of parts and areas which can be partly shared.
The principle options of the home are the two-level residing space and the large staircase linking the 2 tales; that is virtually a sculpture, constructed with pleated wooden and painted anthracite gray. The function set towards the residing space wall (which was initially conceived as a staircase/bookcase) fills the peak of the house, making a dialogue between the contrasting ceramic volumes of the backsplash and the large porthole opening as much as the mountains.
The home’s utility consumption is low, because it encompasses a heating system paired with a managed mechanical air flow system. Total consumption is additional decreased by way of a photo voltaic panel system. The character surrounding all areas impressed the house owners’ intention to create a really sustainable constructing: a home manufactured from wooden, metallic, and cork.
The constructing’s basis is bolstered and compacted concrete, which rises above the bottom by about 50 cm. Above it lays the picket body construction of the home. Within the inside, the dividing paneling is manufactured from fiber plaster, whereas the finishings function oak parquet and tiles in various sizes.
On the surface, the complete floor flooring is clad in cork – the fabric was left uncovered and pantographed. This ornament is easy and chic, and it provides class to the exterior quantity, which might in any other case be too austere. On the primary flooring, the vertical partitions and pitched roof are each coated in anthracite standing seam metallic.
The supplies and colour palette of the home create a dialogue with the mountains surrounding the valley; colours mix in with the timber and rocks within the surrounding panorama.
It appears virtually paradoxical that such a singular home, so starkly completely different from its neighboring ones, virtually disappears by camouflaging amidst the encompassing panorama.
