The Tower of Villa Mogna, Pecetto Building, Turin Architecture Design Italy, Italian Architect
The Tower of Villa Mogna, Pecetto Building
23 February 2022
Design: BP+P Boffa Petrone & Partners
Project by the Building Group, design by BP+P Boffa Petrone & Partners

Photos © Piero Ottaviano
The Tower of Villa Mogna: a stairway to the sky, a tower you can live in on the Turin hill.
The Tower of Villa Mogna Building Design in Pecetto
Turin, February 2022. In Pecetto, the “village of cherries” located on the hill south-east of Turin, stands the historic Villa Mogna, so called because it was the ancient residence of Mario Mogna, the mayor of the municipality in the early twentieth century. He was responsible for the introduction of cherry tree cultivation, essential for the local economy.
The ancient residence, built in the eighteenth century, is surrounded by a park of over 3,000 m2. In the park, not far from the manor house, stands an ancient tower, built in the nineteenth century and recently renovated by the Group Building. The aim of the project was to give new life to the three-storey building, transforming it into a modern, livable space, characterised by innovative solutions and equipped with cutting-edge technological devices: ideal as a guesthouse for accommodating guests at the villa on weekends.

The work, which was carried out by hand and took about eight months, restored the perimeter walls of the tower, using old mortar and bricks and leaving ...