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South-east façade
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View of the house from south-west
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View of the house from west
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Recycled parapet from previous house
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Detail of the façade
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Site plan
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Ground floor plan
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Floor plans
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Longitudinal section
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Elevations
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Catalogue of salvaged window- and doorframes
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Sketch
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Comparison: old house - new house
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A2 panel
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Wood and Straw House
Studio Albori. Laveno Mombello, Italy
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Name of work in English
Wood and Straw House
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Name of work in original language
Casa di Legno e Paglia
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2024
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Work Location
Laveno Mombello, Italy
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Studio
Studio Albori
EUmies Awards 2024 Nominees
A small house built of wood, straw, lime and salvaged materials, stands in the historic context of the small town of Laveno on Lake Maggiore.
Collaborators
Structural engineering: Opera Mista srl; Collaborator (office) : Ippolita Barnato; Collaborator (office) : Martina Biffi; Collaborator (office) : Manuel Frediani; Collaborator (office) : Alice Gramigna
Program
Single house
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Labels
Isolated
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Client
Private
Completion
2022
The house is cut in two parts: in the shaded one, squeezed against the neighbouring house, are the stairs, bathrooms and a small attic. In the other half are the two main rooms, the balcony and the solar panels, facing the sun and the lake.
In accordance with regulations, the house reproduces, with very few variations, the outline of a previously demolished building.
The foundations are made of metal gabions filled with stones, the structure is made of Piedmontese larch wood, the perimeter walls are filled with straw bales and plastered with lime, leaving the wooden structure exposed on the outside. The project incorporates many salvaged materials: the external and internal window and door frames, roof tiles, parapets, gates, grates, and the stones in the small garden all come from the pre-existing building, from other demolitions or from local scrapyards.