Article source: GEZA Gri e Zucchi Architetti associati

Z House is an alpine house, a holiday home.

A place to live an intense relationship with nature and the mountains.

The site on which the house is placed is a complex place, with a steep slope, access uphill, a few buildings around and full of panoramic “frameworks”. The approach path is thus one of the key points of the project, the arrival is a precise and inevitable sequence: the road climbs steeply, the house shows itself from afar in the middle of other buildings, then hides and then reappears in a scenic perspective from the bottom where you can feel the whole size of the building. To enter inside, however, it is necessary to turn around with an obligatory, necessary path, in which the perception of the house gradually loses the built context and fits into the natural one. During this journey of “passage” it becomes gradually smaller, the scale is reduced and from a volume of three floors then you get to a small and solitary monopiano volume, framed only by the landscape.

Image Courtesy © Gianni Antoniali

• Architects: GEZA Gri e Zucchi Architetti associati (arch. Stefano Gri, Arch. Piero Zucchi, with arch. Stefania Anzil, arch. Tina Carletti, arch. Marjana Dedaj arch. Elisa Mansutti)
  
• Project: Z House
• Location: Tarvisio, Italy
• Photography: Gianni Antoniali
• Structural Design: Ing. Alessandro D’Agostino (Adastudio)
• Mechanical Plants Design: HT Engineering
• Electrical Plants Design: Studio Battista
• Supervision of Works: Ing. Alessandro D’Agostino (Adastudio)
• Contractor: Impresa Edile Pellegrini & C
• Mechanical Plants: Astel srl

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