Designed by Wespi de Meuron Romeo architects, The original substance of this historic stone house, in the core of the village of Scaiano, consists in the main building with a cellar with vault and two floors above with kitchen, living and sleeping spaces. A later added annex, also completely made in solid natural stone, contained on the ground floor a small grape brandy distillery, on the 1.floor a room with above an attic. Exterior stone stairs and some small walls in front of the main facade seems to have been created at the same time as the annex. In front of the main building, there was original ? before the annex was built – a small square, the only one in the village structure.
Photography: Hannes Henz
Before the conversion, this building was inhabited for over two decades. It was protected with a provisory roof against decay, but it needed a complete renovation to be adapted to the contemporary needs of comfort. The stone walls were mainly maintained, just the joints had to be remade. The isolation is applied to the inside of the walls. All wooden beam floors were replaced with concrete floors, which reinforce the old walls additionally.
On the main house, a new pitched roof in wood construction was inserted in the stone walls, meanwhile, on the annex, it was created a roof terrace with a natural stone-paved floor.
Photography: Hannes Henz
The main architectural target of the intervention was to carve out the force of the massive stonewalls and to gain this ar...