12/06/2017 – It is called Frame and was presented to the press last Thursday. It is the first model of LeapHome, a new construction solution born from the experience of LEAPfactory, developed through building at high altitude and in extreme, difficult environments. It is a house entirely made through an industrial process: simple, innovative, adapted to specific needs and desires, and designed to rethink the paradigms of living.
The challenge for LeapHome was to create precise elements that can be combined at will, like pieces of Meccano. In other words, it applies industrial production methods to all the elements that make up a house. As with a car, the various components are assembled on site entirely dry, without further processing or adjustments.
The great added value of LeapHome lies in its nature as an integrated product, overcoming the traditional distinction between load-bearing structures, envelope, systems, finishes, and furnishings. Every detail is integrated into the whole in order to maintain absolute quality and aesthetic consistency. The house comes complete with technological systems, fixed furniture, and accessories, ready to be lived in, and is delivered turnkey to the client, with especially rapid construction times and surprising ease of assembly.
The spatial layout offers several optimized configurations for different uses and can be fully customized. The main finishes, both interior and exterior, as well as the home’s technological equipment, can be selected from a range specifically chosen and optimized during the design phase. This simplified process also allows great flexibility over time, as well as complete reversibility, so substantial changes can be made without difficulty.
Frame is open to the public until the end of July in Lissone, in the outdoor area of the company Cleaf.
The house offers a medium-sized residential program (130 sqm), arranged on two floors: a double-height living room overlooked by a gallery with a study area; a dining area with kitchen; two bedrooms and two bathrooms; and a large private outdoor terrace.
It also reinterprets the principle of the "oriented gaze" that characterizes other well-known LEAPfactory projects.
Examples include the Gervasutti bivouac and LEAPrus 3912: longitudinal structures that offer generous panoramic openings on opposite fronts and show the characteristic hut-shaped cross-section that defines the house and its idea of domesticity.
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