Località - Location: Laives - Italy
Committente - Client: Elisabeth and Helmuth Uhl foundation
Fase - Phase: invited architectural competition | winning project
Superficie - Area: 1.150 sqm
Importo lavori - Construction budget: confidential
Anno - Year: 2009
Team: Design team: Modostudio (Fabio Cibinel, Roberto Laurenti, Giorgio Martocchia)
The project is the winning design of a competition by invitation which have seen the participation of five teams from Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. The goal of the competition was to design a building able to host the activities of the foundation. It will be located on the top of a mountain facing the valley towards Bozen. The site has a spectacular panoramic view and an amazing surrounding. The project wants to preserve the environment using the same footprint of the existing buildings which will be demolished once the construction will start. It will host a glasshouse for experimental plants colture, researcher’s room, a refectory and other spaces to support the foundation activities. The design wants to express the tension generated from the particular site and from the specific functions of the foundation building. A tension generated from the relation between the indoor spaces and the outdoor environment, between the traditions of the site and the innovation of the foundation research, between the space for working and for living. The project wants to protect its guests from the particular climatic conditions but at the same time to take advantages from the spectacular surroundings and environment. The design will take care about sustainability. Most of the used material will be recovered from the demolishing buildings, an innovative photovoltaic + solar system will be experimented for the first time. The building will be Klimahouse certified.