The project concern the riqualification of Contrada Bricconi, a rural settlement, currently uninhabited, belonging to the municipality of Oltressenda Alta in Valzurio (950 meters high in Bergamo’s orobie mountains) built between the sixth and seventh century, where it’s growing a new agricoltural and farm holidays activities thanks to the personal initiative of a young 28 years old man, Giacomo Perletti.
The oldest part is to be requalified, in order to host some of the previously mentioned activities, by an intervention that would ensure both the preservation and the esteem of the existent facilities.
About the new productive settlement, the knowledge grown along the thesis got to optimize the whole project in terms of functionality and economy Actually, the zootechnical complex has been organized in a unique longitudinal volume whose heights change according to the specific function it hosts inside, offering in this way all the advantages of a united structure but also rythme and proportions that deal with the existent buildings.
A great item of the project has been the roof treatment which has been finally solved through a mono-pitched roof whose incline dialogues with the mountain morphology; similarly, the material item has been a great critical point to face with as it has been finally declined using no-treated larch wood which oxidating gets into a grey colour that dialogues with the stone of the buildings, the rocky mountain side and the wood all around.
The creamery volume embodies a key role into the whole intervent, arising next to an existent building with its same tipology and proportions but using materials and languages of the barn complex.