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Little House On The House

LITTLE HOUSE ON THE HOUSE

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Little House On The House
© Raffaele Cetto

DESIGN TEAM
Luca Valentini, Raffaele Cetto, Mattia Giuliani

CONSTRUCTION
Self-built

CONSTRUCTION
Self-built

PHOTOGRAPHS
Raffaele Cetto

YEAR
2011

LOCATION
Tenna, Italy

CATEGORY
Small Scale

Little House On The House
© Raffaele Cetto

In winter time when the leafs fall down from the trees, you can see what they hide and Tenna’s hill shows itself as a composition of graduates terraces towards Caldonazzo’s lake.

Between them you can glimpse small sheds used to store agricultural tools. These sheds are usually made by local stone and their roof can be built in different ways. This project involves the renovation of one of these.

Little House On The House
© Raffaele Cetto
Little House On The House
© Raffaele Cetto

When we were appointed for this project, the stone shed was in very bad conditions: the roof was collapsing and the external walls were about to fall down with it.

We decided to restore it keeping as much as possible the original features because we wanted the shed to be well integrated into the surrounding landscape.

Little House On The House
© Raffaele Cetto
Little House On The House
© Raffaele Cetto

Within the original walls perimeter we inserted an independent and different element to be read separately from the stone walls.

This element is composed by two parts: a wooden volume and an iron one which serves as entrance and as landscaping telescope. Both elements were dry-built and then lowered inside the stabilized stone walls.

Little House On The House
© Raffaele Cetto


Little House On The House
© Raffaele Cetto
Little House On The House
© Raffaele Cetto


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South Elevation
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East Elevation
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West Elevation
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North Elevation


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Site Plan
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GRound Floor Plan


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Diagram
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Longitudinal Section

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Via Alberè, 8, 38050 Tenna TN, Italy