Interiors in the Padua area testo abitare / nuovi edifici

programme: plans, interiors construction management for a new single-family residential building.

client: private commission

team: sophia los

collaborators: giovanni baron, marta stocco

city/area: polverara (PD), Italy

status: completed, 2017

 

 

We intervened when the property was still unfinished, re-defining the room layout as much as possible, taking care of the finishes, detailing, and fitted furnishings. The skirting is the fil rouge of the project, and it features a “string course” trimming the wall while occasionally turning into a service space handle. The rows of beige-toned and white stripes on the staircase level and in the living room accompany you visually as you climb the stairs, and they also shorten the long corridor on the ground floor. The neutral base meets a more lively look in the bathrooms, whose colours were expertly picked by the children. Subsequently, we designed the children’s bedrooms after a long discussion with them. The comic artist Davide Charlie Ceccon suggested his original characters Bilbo and Batbilbo for the boy’s room while he created a new ad hoc character, Margherita, who he also added to his subsequent children’s comics.

 

The living room tabletop, designed by the studio, is by Elisabetta Carron.

Photos: Alberto Sinigaglia

 

 

 

Two homes for two sisters | 1 testo abitare / nuovi edifici

programme: plans, interiors & garden construction management.

client: private commission

team: sophia los, luca parolin (garden), massimo asci (building)

city/area: pontelongo, italy

status: completed, 2005 – garden 2007

 

 

Two sisters put me in charge of handling the interior design of their two-family home (a colleague’s project) under construction and its garden. The two homes reflect the sisters’ different personalities and conceive identical volumes as if they were variations on the same theme, moving from the women’s distinct needs, desires and orientation. The first house features neutral tones, while two chromatic hints, the complementary colours red and green, are used, one at the entrance and one for the staircase behind the small fireplace. We designed the children’s bedrooms – which we entrusted to the artist Elisabetta Carron – in both homes, plus all the finishings and the bespoke furniture.  The dining table is her design, as well. In the garden – which recalls the rural landscape – close to the house, we designed a section for herbs and roses. The large lawn facing the living room integrates the surrounding landscape thanks to some trees guiding your eyes in the distance.

Two homes for two sisters | 2 testo abitare / nuovi edifici

programme: plans, interiors & garden construction management.

client: private commission

team: sophia los, luca parolin (garden), massimo asci (building)

city/area: pontelongo, italy

status: completed, 2005, garden 2007

 

 

Two sisters put me in charge of handling the interior design of their two-family home (a colleague’s project) under construction and its garden. The two homes reflect the sisters’ different personalities and conceive identical volumes as if they were variations on the same theme, moving from the women’s distinct needs, desires and orientation. The second house features chartreuse green paired with other fresh tones, like lavender and a shade of green chosen to brighten the staircase. We designed the children’s bedrooms – which we entrusted to the artist Elisabetta Carron – for both homes, plus the finishings and the bespoke furniture. A notable piece is a table featuring a pierced centre with a vase inserted for flowers, fruit or as a glacette. The table has recently become a limited series item produced by Il Tuo Legno https://www.iltuolegno.it/serie-limitata/.

The gardens flank a shared area between two private spaces and feature an orchard at the entrance and a romantic secret garden with rose varieties.

 

 

photos: alberto sinigaglia and sophia los

A house with a view testo abitare / nuovi edifici

programme: final house plans for a single-family building.

client: private commission

team: sophia los, gianluca rosso

collaborators: marta stocco

city/area: vicenza, italy

status: unrealised, 2014-2015

The project concerns the construction of a single-family bioclimatic wooden building in bio-architecture for a couple. For years, they sought the right spot for their idea of a dream house. For reasons outside both our control, we sadly could not bring the project to fruition. As soon as we found the land, a scenic spot immersed in the greenery, we immediately delved into the project with enthusiasm. We began with identifying some typical traits of local settlings, the climatic and geographical context while also responding to the commissioners’ ‘desire for living’ and making it into a project. From a typological point of view, to avoid building a detached house, we opted for a “borgo” house (often found in that area) made of irregular volumes paired together and shaped more by the terrain, the sun and the wind than by designers’ well-laid plans. The estate land is sloping, facing north and east, and partially agricultural. To expose the house to the sun and exploit its potential, we angled the building towards the south-east and used the building land to the maximum. Because of the lie of the land, the building will be dug into the ground partially, to the mountainside.

programme: concept, preliminary and executive architectural design, interior and landscape design

client: eco surf resort, lda

team: sophia los

collaborators: Engineering Tisem, Luis Henrique Dos Santos, Maria Filomena De Jesus Miranda Frade, Natasha F. Pulitzer, Luca Vecchiato, Chiara Dal Molin, Marta Stocco, Patrizia Callegari and Giuseppe Baruzzo

location: Peniche, Portugal

status: completed, 2014

 

 

To be a guest of nature.

The eco-surf camp was built inside a natural reserve 2 km away from the ocean, making it a popular destination for surfers and people fond of ecotourism, in a territory of great food-and-wine, landscape and cultural interest. The four-star village, immersed in the woods, features a surf-house (restaurant, large multifunctional hall, spa area), the keeper’s lodge, a service building, seven bungalows and eighteen custom-made tents (glamping), as well a Skatepark, a bio-lake and a permaculture garden. The village is entirely built with wood. The guests’ opportunity to dwell in areas of outstanding natural and environmental beauty allows for new experiences like restoring a healthy relationship with nature or strengthening the senses. Offering an unusual housing experience highlights the uniqueness of the holiday, as guests live inside tree houses on stilts, enjoying the open spaces, or witness the recovery of existing traditional housing types. The project means to harmonize anthropological and technological aspects. The village generates an ecosystem complementary to the woods, implementing a management model that controls interactions between the buildings and the environment, ensuring input and output balance as much as possible, making buildings increasingly autonomous from infrastructures and resources.

The project was carried out with European funds.

A house in Madonna di Campiglio testo abitare / nuovi edifici

programme: concept, final plans and construction management of the interiors and the garden.

client: private commission

team: Sophia Los

collaborators: aldo marzoli, renza mara calabrese, giovanni pesamosca (wooden structure )

city/area: madonna di campiglio, Italy

status: completed, 2011

 

 

For this project, we collaborated with a local architect. The villa is organised on three floors, including a basement, and presents various orographic complexities. We designed the building along with the interiors and the garden. The house, clad in local larch wood from the ground level up, was conceived like a large scale piece of furniture where we took care of every aesthetic, building, functional detail following bio-architectural principles. The building construction uses Xlam, and the electrical, plumbing and HVAC plans were laid out very carefully alongside the furniture to reduce the false walls containing the systems and highlighting the natural wood effect to the maximum. The chosen panels feature high-performance eco-compatible properties. Doors, windows and cladding were left purposely unfinished so the house could age naturally. The roof shingles and granite cladding were made according to the valley’s traditional techniques, bringing in the last available workers skilled in these processes. Moving away from Alto Adige traditions and closer to those in Trento, the house takes after some of the themes in Val Rendena, applying them to both balconies and interiors.

Eco Village in Brazil testo abitare / nuovi edifici

programme: holiday village, feasibility study and general planning for the realisation of an eco-compatible village with a golf club, and division into plots

client: private commission

team: sergio los with sophia los, natasha pulitzer

with: SYNERGIA progetti, tourist and financial project: roberto lauricella – ICP group SA trust

city/area: morro de são paulo, brazil

status: unrealised 2001-2005

 

 

The intervention touches 39 expandable hectares of land, located in a landscape of great beauty with patches of tropical forest (“Mata Atlantica”), water streams and beaches, including a 500 m wide shore facing the coral reef. The tropical climate is mitigated by breezes making the stay comfortable all year round. The project affects the only cleared out area available on the island, and it comprises the definition of a Resort with 200 rooms and 100 bungalows with tennis courts, and a residential settlement made of eighty 5000 m² plots next to an eighteen-hole golf course. 

http://www.synergiaprogetti.com/it/ecovillaggi-e-micro-citt%C3%A0/item/222-villaggio-turistico-nell%E2%80%99isola-del-morro-de-sao-paulo.html

 

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