Cosy: Parco dei Gelsi is a privately initiated residential development that stems from the desire to create an environmentally friendly housing estate. This residential ensemble blends in perfectly with its natural surroundings, a steeply sloping hillside. The basement with the technical rooms was constructed in reinforced concrete and integrated into the slope. Three storeys above ground were built on top using timber construction.
Timber frame construction was chosen as the building system and the exterior walls are insulated with wood fibre. The planner played with different materials on the exterior façades: some of the walls are clad in larch wood, some in titanium zinc and other parts of the façade are plastered. The interior walls were also realised in timber frame construction, while the ceilings and roof are made of wooden beams and clad with visible profiled boards. All the solutions chosen were developed by LignoAlp specifically for the project, with the utmost attention to every technical and structural detail. This made it possible to provide a qualified response to the various engineering and construction issues at every stage of construction, from the study of the construction project in collaboration with the Archos architecture firm through to realisation.
