Peter Pichler Architecture, S.r.l.

The Mirror Houses

The Mirror Houses
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THE MIRROR HOUSES

Peter Pichler Architecture

ARCHITECTS
Peter  Pichler Architecture

LOCATION
Bolzano, Italy

CATEGORY
Houses

PROJECT YEAR
2014

PHOTOGRAPHS
Oskar Da Riz

MANUFACTURERS
Sky-Frame

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The Mirror Houses are a pair of holiday homes, set in the marvellous surroundings of the South Tyrolean Dolomites, amidst a beautiful scenery of appletrees, just outside the city of Bolzano.

The Mirror Houses
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The Mirror Houses
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They were designed by architect Peter Pichler. The Mirror houses offer a unique chance to spend a beautiful vacation surrounded by contemporary architecture of the highest standards and the most astonishing Landscape and beauty nature has to offer.

The client, who lives in a restructured farmhouse of the 60s on the site, asked to design a structure for renting out as luxury holiday units.

The Mirror Houses
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The Mirror Houses
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Guests have their small autonomous apartment and can fully enjoy the experience of living in the middle of nature. A maximum degree of privacy for both the client and the residing guest should be taken into conside- ration.

The new structure is oriented towards east with their private garden and an autonomous access and parking for the guests.

The Mirror Houses
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The Mirror Houses
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Each unit contains a kitchen / living room as well as a bath- and bedroom with big skylights that open to allow natural light and ventilation.

A small basement serves for temporary storage. The projects initial volume is split in 2 units that are slightly shifted in height and length in order to loosening the entire structure and articulating each unit.

The Mirror Houses
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The Mirror Houses
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Both units are floating on a base above the ground evoking lightness besides offering better views from their cantile- vering terraces to the impressive surrounding landscape.

The volume opens towards east with a big glass facade that fades with curvilinear lines into the black aluminium shell.

The Mirror Houses
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The Mirror Houses
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Mirrored glass on the west facade borders the garden of the client with the units and catches the surrounding panorama while making the units almost invisible. The mirrored glass is laminated with an UV coating preventing birds collision.

From certain views of the clients garden the old existing farmhouse is mirrored in the new contemporary architecture and is literally blending into it rather then competing against.

The Mirror Houses
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The Mirror Houses
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The Mirror Houses
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The Mirror Houses
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The Mirror Houses
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The Mirror Houses
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The Mirror Houses
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The Mirror Houses
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The Mirror Houses
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The Mirror Houses
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The Mirror Houses
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Peter Pichler Architecture, S.r.l.
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Peter Pichler Architecture, S.r.l.
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