A building restoration project in Italy that blends art and history in the natural setting of the hills of Biella is a special property, not to be missed. Designed in an architect's studio in Milan, let's have a look around Teca House, born from a collaboration between Federico Delrosso and Alberto Savio.
Designed with a minimal-naturalist approach, Teca House is a contemporary building born from the professional friendship between Delrosso, a Milanese architect, and Savio, a designer and textile entrepreneur of Biella origins.
The project consists of the restoration of a small rustic cottage in the beautiful setting of the hills of Biella in the Italian countryside. At the core of the renovation project is a compositional inversion, which brings the pre-existing, rustic volume outside, dematerialising it to rediscover its materialistic and symbolic truth under a new light. From the "roots" of an agricultural past, now in disuse but with some of the elements maintained, a contemporary work is born.
The building, which takes its inspiration from Philip Johnson's Glass House, has an area of about 80 square metres that extends another 50 by opening the sliding glass walls that surround the entire volume of the building. The flexibility of the project makes this space ideal for meetings or a business cocktail, but it is also an intimate refuge for reading or yoga practice. Teca House can also be transformed into a guest house and has been conceived as a precious cultural container, a landmark with the intention of creating new possibilities of relationship with the territory of Biella.
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