Sestriere | Residential Building
Duchi d’Aosta Area, SestriereThe building is constructed near the famous “white” tower from the 1930s, the symbol of the ski resort. The project revisits and pays tribute to the mountain huts and Italian rationalist architecture of the period when Sestriere came to life, thanks to Vittorio Bonadè Bottino’s designs. Blending and blending into the mountain context using wood and white plaster, playing on the volumes and perspectives created by the balconies overlooking the valley, the building fits harmoniously into its surroundings. The curved glazed bow window on the southeast corner becomes both a sort of visual pivot from which the balconies are detached, a distinctive architectural element and a reinterpretation of the rationalist houses of the 1930s.
To the north, the building appears closed and marked by the holes in the windows in the white plaster walls and is only “broken through” at the staircase, where a wooden wall (partially brise soleil) reveals the entrance and the distribution spaces. The building gradually opens up towards the south through a wooden surface that incorporates the doors, a sort of “skin” that acts as a filter between the living areas and the landscape and the architecture of the Tower.
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