Pigna, the treehouse.
In the oldest and widest forest of Italy, where the spruce trees are used to construct violins and other musical instruments thanks to the rare quality of the wood, a new addition to a mountain retreat has recently opened. The project started from the desire to create a structure that is not only a refuge for man, but also a natural element of its environment, a mimesis of its surrounding. From the tree, for the tree.
The treehouses are two. They are developed on three levels, raising ten meters above the ground. The first of which hoover four meter above the ground and serves as a panoramic covered terrace. The second involves the arrival ofthe stairs (which continue following the profile of the “pine cone”, acting as astructural cage) that lead to the interiorthrough two large windows with sliding doors. The living room face the small kitchen and the bathroom door. Next to it, the wooden stairs lead to thebedroom onthe third floor. The double bed lies underneath a round skylight at the top of the structure. The structure is completely made of out CLT insulated with wooden fiber, covered with larch wooden shingles, small in size to easily follow the curvature of the treehouses.
The bed lies underneath a round skylight at the top of Pigna, the perfect place from where to look at the stars.
Credits
Beltrame Studio
Team: Claudio Beltrame, Luca Beltrame, Gabriele Pascutti
Project location: Malborghetto, Italy
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
GFA: 35 m² per treehouse
Photo credits: Ulderica Da Pozzo, Massimo Crivellari, Claudio Beltrame
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