DUOPUU

In a small village in the Valsesia Alpine Valley, DUOPUU provided consultancy for the restoration of a traditional house made of stone and wood. The consultancy supports the client and designer in making responsible choices regarding the environmental sustainability of new materials and technological solutions. The main components of the restoration include solid Larch timber structures, wood-fiber insulating panels, and lime plaster. These elements aim to create a harmonious balance with the original materials and construction techniques. The result is a highly energy-efficient house, where traditional construction techniques are reinterpreted through contemporary technologies and passive design principles. / Client: private / Status: finished. *Mia is the name of one of the client’s daughters.

DUOPUU designed a new life for an abandoned villa made of 100% wood and never finished. The greenest building is the one that already exists; this is even more true if the starting point is a house already built in timber. Selected portions of main bearing elements, both horizontal and vertical, have been analyzed to define the entity of mechanisms of wood degradation in the CLT panels and design specific intervention methods. The project's goal was to not demolish the villa and not re-build a new one, demonstrating a new scale of circularity both in the impact of the building construction and the re-used materials and minimizing the new ones / Client: private / Total surface: 300 sqm / Status: finished.