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Hub of Huts in South Tyrol
20 Sep 2022
Design: noa* network of architecture
Location: South Tyrol, Italy

Photos: Alex Filz
Hub of Huts, Italy
Hub of Huts: the village upside down

For its latest South Tyrolean realisation, noa* returns to Hubertus in Olang, one of the first places to have revealed the studio’s expressive power. After the iconic cantilever pool, a new suspended platform defies gravity law by overturning the concept of wellbeing.

When noa* designed the cantilevered swimming pool for Hubertus in 2016, the studio envisioned it as a rock stranded between earth and sky. In 2019 a new assignment was granted to the architects, the design of a dedicated wellbeing extension. It was not an easy task for a building that had already found its symbol in the swimming pool, yet this served as inspiration for the new project.
In an initial research phase, the team of architects examined the new starting situation and captured the house?s atmosphere in its context. From the observation of the surrounding landscape reflected in the swimming pool, the design concept came to life: to materialise what one sees mirrored on the surface of the water, as if the image were a transient rendering ready to be converted into reality. It is a concept that plays with the horizon

line, the perception of upside-down, and the points of view. Lukas Rungger, the architect in charge of the project a...