projects at high altitudes | Borgata
Borgata, SestriereIn Borgata Sestriere, a hamlet in Italy’s highest municipality on the slope overlooking Alta Val Chisone, the project involved building 38 residential units next to the historic centre of Borgata: the complex was structured in the form of an amphitheatre facing south around a green area, towards which some pedestrian paths from the old hamlet converge.
The staggering of the façades and roofs has avoided the monotony that a single long building would assume and favours recognisability of the individual units. A few elements, composed in different ways, recall the characteristics of the neighbouring huts: light grey plaster walls to base the buildings, wooden cladding to lighten the upper part, wooden access stairs, wide continuous balconies resting on wooden pillars towards the inside.
“d’Architettura”, n. 20 aprile 2003