The original building dates back to the beginning of the 20th century and it is an example of the so-called “Tabià”, a typical alpine construction, famous in our region – Veneto – which was used in farmer times as stables and barn. The structural type of this tabià is called “a telaio”, with wooden beams and pillars.
Since it is placed on a sloping ground, the tabià has a partially buried basement, composed by walls made of stone.
RESTORATION CONCEPT: the tabià has been completely renovated; it has been dismantled and then assembled so as to preserve its original type of structure. Some wooden beams and pillars have been cleaned and reused or sometimes replaced also by recycling some old materials in order to maintain an overall color scheme.
On the contrary, the basement has a metal frame filled in by bricks coated on the outside with a stone wall covered with a fine layer of mortar.
So as to keep the original atmosphere of the tabià, we avoided changing all cladding into wooden blind-walls: that light penetration, given by the plank slightly separated from the facades situated on the south, is now ensured by a system of opening frame and shutters in which the planks of the shutters reproduced and creates the same spacing effect. The glass walls offer a new perspective and correspondence between the inside of the tabià and the surrounding environment.
TYPE: due to the small size of the building, we decided to create one single large room on each storey of the house. As far as staircases and technical rooms are concerned, we moved them between the main central part and the blind-walls on the north. We opted to remove some parts added recently. In the basement we designed a new geometry with a room that extends below the pavement of the entrance.
As to the roof, it has been completely redone with the purpose of preserving the external overall aspect of the original tabià: despite the fact that it is a ventilated roof, one can only notice the joists, supporting the wooden planks and the metal covering coating.
MATERIALS: all wooden elements (both structural and covering ones) are made of solid larch. As regards the exterior stone-wall, we recycled all the previous old porphory sliced stones. On the contrary, as for the interior of the tabià, we used dolomite stone slabs.
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