Villa Neviera, located in Cellina, Italy, was restored by Archigemma Studio in 2022. Known as “Il Rifugio,” it preserved historic features and sustained a connection with the surrounding landscape and structures. Now a hotel, the building’s authentic character remains intact, promoting local culture and ensuring economic compatibility within the tourism sector. The project focused on preserving its typological elements while adding native vegetation and eco-friendly features. Villa Neviera exemplifies sustainable development and the importance of collective conservation efforts.

The mission of the intervention, highlights a heritage too often denatured, emphasizing the need for far-reaching actions. The objective was to safeguard the relationship with the surrounding landscape, without neglecting or modifying the raison d’être of the main building and other structures present in the area.
Villa Neviera, better known as “The Refuge” because it hosted King Victor Emmanuel III during his stay in Brindisi, is part of an entire real estate complex subject to intervention, immersed in the Brindisi countryside. The project therefore pursues the task of conserving the equality of the place, without planning extensions and/or typological, material, and geometric transformations of the structures; it reaffirms the general principle of considering every maintenance and recovery intervention as part of a collective action aimed at preserving the ...