Overgrown concrete pergolas have been installed around Monticello, a brick house restored by Di Gregorio Associati Architetti in northern Italy.
Di Gregorio Associati Architetti has restored and extended the rural house surrounded by vineyards, opening up its interiors to terraces surrounded by large concrete frames.

Leaving the original house's structure largely intact, the architecture studio surrounded three sides of the house with a double ring of concrete trellises.
The inner area forms a glazed extension and the outer structure shields it from the sun, with plants growing down from the concrete frame.

To the north and east, the living space opens out onto seating areas, again sheltered beneath the plants that grow on the concrete frames. On the west side the plain brick facade of the original building has been retained and large windows introduced.

"The interstitial space is located between the bricks of ancient manufacture and the new concrete frame," said the studio founder Francesco Di Gregorio.
"It ideally represents the intimate relations between past, present and future, which the house is constantly interrogating."

Panoramic views of the surrounding countryside contrast with internal padded fabric panels that  line the walls of the existing brick structure.

"The perimeter walls of the original volume have been upholstered with German fabric of different colours, alternating with Italian ceramics and quartzite from the nearby Val ...