place Tarvisio (UD)
year 2019
client Società Alpina delle Giulie
The group Società Alpina delle Giulie section of Trieste of the Club Alpino Italiano, has launched a competition of ideas “by invitation” for the renovation of the lodge named Rifugio Guido Corsi in the town of Tarvisio (UD). The lodge Guido Corsi is placed on a rocky terrace in the center of a wide valley surrounded by the southern sides of the Jôf Fuârt, with a view on the Canin Mountains.
The project is giving a solution that maintains and reuses the entire existing structure. At the same time the project contains an extension of the area within the limit of the 30% of the gross limit surface that allows to improve the general fruition of the lodge and to reach the required functional comfort’s goals.
The concept of the project is characterized by the addition of a new volume on the back of the building that can host new spaces at the different levels integrating the remaking of the roof and the redefinition of the side’s zones of the accesses and of the distribution.
The project proposes a solution that aim, through a unique addition to the pre-existing structure, of integrating the different aspects such as the preservation of the historic image of the building, the quality of the composition of the extension in relation to the pre-existence, the specific aesthetic and its presence in the landscape, the sense of the spatial organization, the constrution’s and the structure’s quality, the quality of the outdoor and of the indoor environments of the lodge.
The objectives of the renovation project can thus be summarized as follow:
- The achievement of the capacity of 66 guests;
- The creation of 75 seats for the refreshment service;
- The creation of 55 seats in the outdoor area;
- The creation of 2 beds for the managers and 4 beds for the collaborators;
- The optimization and the renovation of the existing spaces and their update to the current standards;
- The creation of spaces to host the following functions: dining room/ “Stube”, bar area, kitchen, pantry with refrigerating room, bedrooms with 4/6/8 beds, bedrooms for the managers and for the collaborators, guests bathrooms (of which at least one with direct access from the outside), bathrooms for the manager/collaborators, wardrobe and shoes storage, drying room, storage room and broom closet, warehouse, technical room;
- The improvement of the energetic efficiency of the existing building’s elements (roof, doors and windows);
- The arrangement of an independent winter space;
- The extension of the lodge’s space;
- The renovation of the systems.
Competition of ideas, ranked third
project
G STUDIO STP + starassociati + C. Depaoli + S. Girodo +
A. Bruzzone + FAPA Engineering + Prof. R. Dini