Vineyards in Riposto: Natural Lodge Experience

23/01/2017 – The Lodge is natural on the Farm vineyards, Riposto (CT), were in the studio, catania – Basel | Calvagna.
It is embedded into the "minimal mansions, lush vegetation and a nursery specializing in the production of Mediterranean plants".

“The new elements of the structure of agricultural holdings, which was developed in harmony with its environment is built of modules that are rectangular with small regular blocks, and are arranged side by side to contrast the nature that surrounds you.

An old lava flow was placed to renew the habitat – the height that marks the boundary of the property is upstream in relation to the function of the nursery and extends to the valley. This gradient determines the range of the transition, which is configured by the plantation of a forest of palm trees, the generation of a new landscape, in the variable thickness and resolution of rates to adapt to the natural morphology of the site. The visual relationships between the areas are changed, therefore, the hut, the role of the elements of mediators for the perception of places.

The experience, in the lodge allows the guest to resonate with the landscape both inside outside. In each lodge of the inside it is structured, intensive and bound with explicit natural character.

The ceiling is made of unbaked clay, with inserts made of hemp, leaves and volcanic sand, the materials and dimensions for the touch are sensitive to the surface. The bathroom is a natural stone from the lava of Etna and made of resin based of clay. You may see a view of the Central room through a filter made of glass and the sheets of paper or pumice stone, red, or expanded clay based of material-glass.

These features uniqely combined and classified are enriched in each lodge to give the sense of identity that is recognized and reinforced. In some cases, through the lushness of the design, it seems to bring the power and unpredictability of nature that surrounds you".

There are four types of Lodges: individual, family, forest, and alcove.

In the pavilion of the forest , the interior is well thought out as a dream forest: the soil, resin, gloss, black was chosen, according to the 2500 cannes of bamboo hanging from the ceiling. It is dark and irregular, but controlled by the use of software-parametric in the implementation phase. The ceiling, along the walls is built of wood burned superficially with the Japanese Shou-Sugi-Ban technique.

In the pavilion of the niche in the private sector from the bed dug, the inside of a box to live in, makes strips of wood and poplar combined, and in the form to define all the pieces of furniture: bed, sofa, night table, and a TELEVISION in the niche. The "zone of life", is not only recognized in the alcove but separates and defines from the outer shell, the rooms, the wardrobe and the bathroom.

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