Residenze Elba
The building dates back to the 1920s and combines the model of the bourgeois building with neo-Romanesque and neo-Renaissance styles that give it a particular eclectic character.
The aim of the project was to make the most of the gross surface available in height by creating a new attic floor (beyond the recovery of the attic).
At the architectural level, the project wanted to maintain the characteristics and compositional relationships of the pre-existing architecture and therefore the main work concerned the new volumes, which did not have to completely change the uniformity of the existing building, and the materials, which had to reinterpret the theme of decorative terracotta, a distinctive element on the facades.
The roof extension, instead, presents itself as a small contemporary architecture built at the level of the terrace mainly glazed and surrounded by a flat overhanging structure covered with prefabricated elements in terracotta, which has the dual function of protecting transparent fronts and as sunshade.
The materials and colours that characterize the described architectural solutions make direct reference to the context and to the existing building.
Even when the architecture of the annexation deviates from the formal styles of the past, the material choices follow the same principles, adapting to the contemporary morphology and enhancing the direct aesthetic comparison with existing colours and textures.
