The PROJECT FOR THE RENOVATION WITH ENLARGEMENT of a 1960s prefabricated wooden house was developed from the themes of LANDSCAPE INSERTION and relations with the context, the lake and the forest. A balanced and environmentally friendly architecture that, through an empathic interpretation of the sense of place, contributes to defining the place where nature can be fully experienced and not where it appears.
Environmental stimuli have guided the landscaping, the architecture relates to the landscape with an expressive materiality derived from the use of materials: sheet metal, stone and wood. Some elements of the local building tradition such as the pitched roof, wooden façades and stone walls have been revisited in a contemporary key.
Arriving from the north, the house looks like a "hut in the woods", with a compact and closed front characterized by sheet metal with a brown color in chromatic continuity with the color of the trunks of the trees surrounding the house.
On the south front, the exposed stone wall that was built with materials from the excavation of the construction site rock and the demolition of old farmhouses connects visually and materially to the terracing walls existing in the area.
The house leans out towards the lake with the terrace clad on both sides with wood slats. The undulating surface of the lake is reflected on the wooden façade where local larch planks generate vibrations and facets of light and shadow.
Based on BIOCLIMATIC, in the summer months and solar gain is guaranteed, in the colder months the passage of the sun's rays is blocked
The building was constructed using BIO-EDILITABLE MATERIALS, a calcium silicate thermal coat, aluminum sheet metal, locally sourced larch wood. The house is in ENERGY CLASS A4 with production of RENEWABLE ENERGY through photovoltaic panels installed on the pergola for a total of 6 kW and storage batteries.

The desire to maintain a process of remembrance with the pre-existing prefabricated wooden house is one of the themes within which the renovation project moved.
A holiday home, built in the 60s, where the client, Paolo Marini, grew up and raised his children.
Since he was a child he was able to establish a deep relationship with the nature surrounding the house: the land, the woods, the brightness, the summer vegetation and the lake.
The aim of the project from the beginning was to respond to the clients’ desire to fully experience the relationship with nature and to give identity to a place also through the contemporary reinterpretation of traditional elements.
The house is structured as a device to look at the lake, the dimension of silence.
In the living area, a large window, made with a thin profile frame, brings a great deal of light inside and above all "the lake", also allowing you the daily experience of nature inside.
Living indoors as if you were outdoors and the terrace, with a completely transparent edge, amplifies the interior space.
In the living room, the wall paneling, a soft oak strip finish, is not just an aesthetic choice but also offers a domesticity linked to childhood memories experienced by the client in the pre-existing wooden house where the internal and external walls were made of wood.
Atmospheres, shapes and materials thus reopen the possibility of approaching memory.
Natural materials and light are the elements through which to rediscover the atmospheres, the character of the spaces.
Natural light enters all the rooms, even the stairwell through a floor-level window