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Casa Pura, a new concept of Alpine home by Perathoner Architects

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In Laion, the small village which marks the entrance to the Val Gardena in South Tyrol (Italy), Perathoner Architects studio has designed Casa Pura, a two-storey house based on the concept of the traditional Alpine home, consisting of a masoned ground floor, wooden upper floor and gabled roof, but reinterpreted by a reduction of the design language and the use of contemporary materials.

Casa Pura consists of a basement with a garage, cellar and utility rooms, a ground floor with a master bedroom and spacious living area, as well as studies and children’s rooms on the upper floor.

Entrances and terraces have been “cut out” of the almost rectangular volume and their exteriors on the upper floor have been equipped with vertical wooden slats: these weatherproof outdoor spaces, which create a smooth transition from the interior to the surrounding nature, in combination with the gabled roof without protruding ends, achieve a simple and compact structure characterised by varied shadows in the recesses and perforations.

The choice of materials also supports the impression of the clear volume with incisions: the fascia of the roof was brightly plastered, just like the walls on the ground floor, whereas the recessed walls on the upper floor were clad with dark larch wood; finally, he floors of the terraces consist of light natural stone slabs or polished screed.

The result is an unusual mountain house, designed to blend harmoniously into the landscape.