Malga Fosse: Renovation

Malga Fosse: Renovation

 Passo Rolle, Italy  Architecture Competition  2012

The competition concerns the renovation of a small alpine center, built some decades ago on the side of the Malga, with a larger structure. The competition instructions specified a restaurant-cafe, a twelve room residence, a cultural event hall and a multipurpose room in the new building. A new path was planned to connect the building to the existing trekking path. The building structure is a reinforced concrete basement  that supports the restaurant/cafe, the residence and the panoramic terraces above. The indoor parking spaces, general services, cultural event hall and the multipurpose room are in the basement. The north-east glass wall offers a view from the inside of the peak of the mountains that form the Pale di San Martino. The restaurant/cafe and residence upper part is built of wood trusses with a steel structure in the central core. The interior walls surface is wood. All the exterior walls are dark stone. The shape and construction system of the building would help to make the building energy efficient and would allow the facility to stay open during the winter.

Maurizio Trovatelli + Barbara Colombo with Markus Habicher, Studio Gheza Engineering and Sebastiano Ercoli (Visual Project).