The architectural recovery of historical listed settlement Casa Gualerzi is based on the preservation of the typological and morphological building?s characters.

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Architects: NatOffice

Location: Reggio Emilia, Province of Reggio Emilia, Italy

Architect In Charge: Christian Gasparini

Area: 400.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Filippo Poli

Building Contractor: coesa srl

Structures: Paolo Delmonte. ingeos

Heating And Energy System: Stefano Anzillotti. Ren Solution

Site Supervision: Christian Gasparini. natoffice

Site Area: 60000 m2

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From the architect. The architectural recovery of historical listed settlement Casa Gualerzi is based on the preservation of the typological and morphological building?s characters.

Section A

?The project works on existing indoor levels, reinterpreted contemporarily, whereas voids and full spaces of the historical facades and the typological elements such as the porch, don?t change but becomes key points to define free plans inside the volume, that slide on each other generating double and triple height cavities.

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The staircase is studied on the columns original system of the barn. The spaces on the first floor underline th...