Appropriate Bistro Bergsteiger, Sesto Restaurant, North East Italy Architecture, Italian Architecture Photos
Appropriate Bistro Bergsteiger in Sesto
21 July 2020
Design: Plasma Studio
Location: Sesto Dolomites, North East Italy

Appropriate Bistro Bergsteiger
Located in the midst of the Unesco Natural Heritage area of the Dolomites of Sesto, in a position used as a tourist hotspot, Bistro Bergsteiger fits properly and carefully into its natural and built context.
The edge of an embarkment, located along a well-known hiking trail, is used to insert the new volume and to integrate it into the surrounding topography.

The view from the entrance to the valley, on a mountain landscape that closes the area to the south, is not reduced by the insertion of the new volume, just as it does not visually interfere with the existing protected building.
The dimensions are reduced as much as possible, and the geometries adapt to the existing presences.
On one side, the building faces the Cima 12 towards south, and on the other side it dialogues with the surrounding buildings.

In plan, the new volume aligns with the listed building, while the reduced heights are studied to connect its southern elevation with the overall profile of the constructed elements. The result is an architecture that is “appropriate” to the context, which nevertheless develops with character.
The double-pitched roof surface is treated with intensive green and rises towards the main view; full-height ...