SMALL ARCHITECTURE FOR EVERYONE WITH A LAKE VIEW THAT BLENDS IN WITH THE SOUTH TYROLEAN MOUNTAINS

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Lake House Völs is an idyllic cottage in spectacular lake and mountain scenery in South Tyrol, Italy. It is a project signed by the NOA (Network of Architecture) architecture studio , which blends modern design and architecture that works in harmony with nature. It is a place of rest and recreation, a small and charming public refuge built by the municipality of Fiè (Bolzano) for hikers (in summer) and lovers of ice skating (in winter).

The hut stands on an old structure that has been demolished to create a new architecture that dialogues with the surrounding environment . To warm the project and make it welcoming, NOA has chosen untreated wood as the main material, which in addition to having the right aesthetic qualities has a low visual impact on the landscape.

The cabin on the lakeit consists of two buildings: the main one, which houses an open kitchen and dining area, and a terrace with a panoramic view; and a secondary one, a separate cube where there are toilets and changing rooms for athletes who go to the lake to swim or ice skate. Both blocks are connected by a transverse axis, which leaves an open space to be used as a lookout. As for the interior design, the architects have focused on a strong visual balance between inside and outside, choosing green as the base color for the floor, walls and ceiling, with different shades, obtaining an atmosphere in continuity with nature.

THE HOUSES THAT WE ARE (AND THOSE THAT WE WILL BE) TOLD BY LUCA MOLINARI

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“The house – the most loved and stable place of our life, the space in which we think we can take refuge and in which to build safe fragments of our existence, the most resistant memory in a daily life made up of continuous changes – is probably the phenomenon on which there is less reflection in this first quarter of a century. The introduction of The houses that we are by Luca Molinari , a book published by Nottetempo in 2016, he starts from a very correct consideration: we are all talking about public spaces and it almost seems that we are forgetting our home.

However, it was 2016, the year in which the battles on meeting places became increasingly bitter and attentive in relation to the dizzying growth of metropolitan life. In 2020 the lockdown keeps us all at home instead, and a sentence like: ” Starting again from the house , from the house that we are and that we live in absent-mindedly, today involves returning to primary gestures”, written by Molinari himself four years ago, sounds contemporary current. Like a seer in a showdown with the new everyday life, in the heart of the lockdown, Molinari could not help but flesh out his one chapter essay:The houses that we will be , which then (re) gave life to Nottetempo’s book today in bookstores, on sale, in its new edition .

Luca Molinari, architect. Between Lodi, Barcelona, ​​Milan (where he was director of the NABA design school, \ Milan Triennale and scientific director of the Piero Portaluppi Foundation), he traveled and travels not only with his projects but also with the word – thanks to which he established himself among the most important voices of independent Italian criticism. Superior Council of Cultural and Landscape Heritage, an advisory body of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, and everything he writes translates into a healthy and rational architectural reflection and not just a contemporary taste.