Casa Rosset

De Carlo Gualla architects has designed a house on a mountain slope near Aosta that explores the changes to residential building in terms of spatial organisation and energy saving.

Casa Rosset
This project centred on the construction of a house on a mountain slope in the vicinity of Aosta and started out by asking two basic questions; the first addressed type and the changes seen in residential building today in terms of spatial organisation.
The second was more architectural and focused on how to construct a building now that energy saving has become an essential requirement.
De Carlo Gualla, Casa Rosset, Aosta
De Carlo Gualla, Casa Rosset, Quart, Aosta, Italy
The theme of residential building has lost its centrality to the modern architectural debate since the mid-1970s but, in the meantime, changes have occurred in social dynamics and the way we live. Key factors are certainly the longer time children now remain in the family home plus the increasingly popular custom of having guests to stay.
The housing type handed down to us by modernity, and based on a strict division between living and sleeping quarters, is totally inadequate for today’s cohabiting adults; indeed, relations between adults living in the same house prompt a spatial model more similar to that of a village of separate nuclei all linked to communal spaces. This is basically the scheme chosen for the Rosset House design and seeks a strong relationship between internal spaces, functions and architectural form.
De Carlo Gualla, Casa Rosset, Aosta
De Carlo Gualla, Casa Rosset, Quart, Aosta, Italy
The building features the latest system technology (geothermal energy, heat pumps, external insulation, low-emission glazing) but the design is distinguished more by the role played by its architecture than its technology – a passive system that saves energy. This brings into play the building’s ability to adapt to the specific context and optimise its energy requirements by way of its architectural features. All these passive architectural devices, along with the sophisticated system technology, have produced a building with extremely low energy requirements that – thanks to approximately 50 mq of photovoltaic panels built onto a steel cantilever roof running in front of the living quarters – is totally self-sufficient as regards energy.
 
Casa Rosset, Quart, Aosta, Italy
Program: single family house
Architects: De Carlo Gualla
Structures: Studio Peaquin
Thermotechnic: Andrea Mantovani
Contractor: Edilvi Costruzioni
Area: 400 sqm
Completion: 2012

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