PF single family house

PF single family house: contemporary tradition

This house is the first one designed by our studio and therefore it’s the first dream of a single family house to become reality. Keyword: living in the mountains, revising tradition in a contemporary way. This energy-saving house is inspired by the Trentino rural building, dialogues with the landscape and does not use new soil. A curiosity about this building, the most published and awarded: a foreign journalist called it “the lighthouse of the Alps”. I wonder if he knew that Elisa was born in Rimini …

PF single family house: a dream to realize

The PF single family house, the remodeling and rebuilding of an already existing edifice, lies half way along the ridge below the medieval castle of Pergine Valsugana and it is located in an ideal position, both as to the beautiful view on the valley it enjoys and the sun exposure, excellent all year around.
The main characteristics of the design and planning are the structure, the energy efficiency and the spatial continuity between inside and outside. The client also expressed the need to built an overhang all around the building in order to obtain a path protected from the weather.

PF single family house: our project between architecture, interior design, outdoor spaces design and construction

The steel supporting structure of the enlargement is completely independent from the already existing edifice: through a Vierendel beam, the first floor is connected to the ceiling, thus allowing a totally pillar-free ground floor.
The edifice core is characterized by high energy performance elements: the outside walls are made up of prefabricated-preassembled wood with wooden fiber panel insulation, the larch window frames are low emission of heat. The whole-house systems use high efficiency ventilation. Radiant walls and floors are used for heating and cooling. Solar powered system provides hot water and domotic technology characterizes the electric system.
The widespread use of wood fosters a deep bound with the rural architecture of this region; the building is composed of two constructive levels: the inferior “heavy” one, and the superior “light” one, almost completely cladded with listels. Here, the large glass cantilevered loggias, with the larch wood penetrating all the way into the building, onto the floor and the walls, create a strong interrelation between the indoor and the outdoor, between private space and the rural surrounding.