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Montebar Villa is a prefabricated wooden house nestled in a panoramic area overlooking the Swiss Alps in Medeglia, Canton of Ticino. A sublime location, sunny during throughout the year. Jacopo Mascheroni’s project was created in compliance with the local building standards, which imposes each house to have a dark grey pitched roof to integrate with the landscape. The design research focused on a homogeneous solution with the use of just one material for covering both the roof and façades to give the building a monolithic, mono-material, and monochrome appearance, like a natural rock. The only exception is the south front of the house, which provides a spectacular view through the glazing of the living area, in front of which a loggia was created to be used during the summer months. The house was built with a wooden structure, an insulated frame, and prefabricated elements assembled in a few days. The same layering was used for both the roof and the perimeter walls, with 22 centimetres of insulation and a double layer of external ventilation to achieve high energy performance. The porcelain stoneware cladding, installed on an aluminium ventilated façade system, gives a homogeneous appearance to the shell. The energy efficiency of the building is completed by the glazing of the living area, which consists of a curtain wall with thermally broken aluminium horizontal profiles and vertical glass uprights, and with insulated selective and Low-E glass. The window fittings of all the other rooms have a thermally broken aluminium profile with triple insulated glazing. In the pursuit of surface coplanarity, every face of the shell has been designed slab by slab with a dynamic pattern with three different formats, which have 45-degree mitred edges. The same porcelain stoneware was used to cover the folding shutters created as per drawing. This way, when the shutters are closed, the compositional design remains consistent with the seamless façade scheme. The six-sided asymmetrical roof is offset towards the mountain and calibrated to have the main side with the same slope of the mountainside, thereby allowing for perfect integration with the landscape.


High energy saving standards have been adopted to keep the maintenance costs low during the four seasons. The underfloor heating system is controlled by an electric heat pump, while the indoor lighting system consists of LED fixtures. During the summer, the house is kept cool by cross ventilation, which allows the cold air rising from the creek on the western side to cross the entire house. The villa has the living area, three bedrooms, a study, two bathrooms, a laundry room, a technical room, a pantry and a storage room, all on one level, except for the two double-height junior bedrooms, which have a mezzanine where the bed and TV area are located.


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