Sunday, December 20, 2009

Elisabeth & Helmuth Uhl Foundation - Laives, Italy [modostudio]

Modostudio has won the competition for the Elisabeth & Helmuth Uhl Foundation (a private art & science organization) in northern Italy town of Laives.
The building blends well into the hillside and will reduce the amount of resources by utilizing the same footprint as the existing buildings. The demolished building material will also be used in the new construction, which would appear to be comprised primarily of stone. Modostudio writes that "an innovative photovoltaic + solar system will be experimented for the first time," which is not clearly seen in the renderings.

The building hugs the landscape and has a circulation spine running through it that connects the earth to the sky
image credits: modostudio



Another design that should blend well into the hillside is TT-Villa by we architecture in Phuket, Thailand
image credit: we architecture

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