DUOPUU

DUOPUU designed a new life for an abandoned villa made of 100% wood and never finished. The greenest building is the one that already exists; this is even more true if the starting point is a house already built in timber. Selected portions of main bearing elements, both horizontal and vertical, have been analyzed to define the entity of mechanisms of wood degradation in the CLT panels and design specific intervention methods. The project's goal was to not demolish the villa and not re-build a new one, demonstrating a new scale of circularity both in the impact of the building construction and the re-used materials and minimizing the new ones / Client: private / Total surface: 300 sqm / Status: finished.

In a small village in the Valsesia Alpine Valley, DUOPUU is providing consultancy for the restoration of a traditional house made of stone and wood. The consultancy supports the client-designer in making responsible choices regarding the environmental sustainability of new materials and technological solutions. The main components for the restoration include solid Larch timber structures, insulating panels made of wood fiber, and lime plaster. These elements aim to create a harmonious balance with the original materials and construction techniques / Client: private / Status: on-going.