Villa 2B
Architectural regeneration of a property with no identity in the peri-urban area of the city of Morbegno that relates in proximity to modest interventions and secondary infrastructure and in the distance to an incredibly beautiful and rugged mountain landscape.
The single-family building was renovated with different types of intervention: with a conservative criterion, thanks to reinforced concrete consolidations on the ground floor, and with a contemporary approach on the first floor, where the construction technology was refined with the aid of lightweight wooden frame façades which were subsequently covered.
The roof pitches were entirely reconstructed with the aim of bringing the living comfort of the main floor to excellence; the new insulation stratigraphies but especially the new sheet metal layer, in addition to covering the two sloping pitches, were repurposed vertically on the elevations of the reconstructed second floor, as if to delineate a "second skin" and create a suspended protective element.
The roofing slabs were made of "Prefalz" aluminum with double standing seam in regular bands, while the facade cladding was made of a PREFA "a Zeta" extruded aluminum alloy profile with a painted surface in the same color 01 P.10 used in the roof pitches.
The minimalist form is designed by the extension of the outline of a large gable with an off-centre ridge due to the only overhang on the south front; it is from the extension of this that the generous covered terrace was created, which can be enjoyed for at least six months of the year as a true 'domestic prosthesis' of the living and kitchen areas.
As a result of the comparison on landscape compatibility, the grid of grey-blue painted wooden beams was introduced, whose - purely aesthetic - function might even seem load-bearing to most; their inclined course expressly sought a compositional break with the innovative and linear design of the 'Zeta' profile.
Once the volumes were reproportioned, the rest of the envelope finishes were adopted by marrying their nature with the characterizing colors of the metal partitions; which is why the stone thresholds were chosen from quartzites tending to blue-gray, the exterior and interior fir wood matchings and all metal inserts such as aluminum windows, fences, sectional doors and parapets, were painted tone-on-tone.
The façade shades visible mainly on the ground floor, were purposely proposed neutral to give greater prominence to the detailing finishes; finishes that were thought out by design and became protagonists in practical and aesthetic terms with the recognizable peculiarity of emphasizing the solids and voids designed to balance the discontinuous and anonymous composition of the original building.
