place: Pordenone
client: Private
assignment: direct
architects: arch. Vittorio Pierini, arch. Elisabetta Lot, arch. Ivo Boscariol
services supplied: project, construction management
project: 2021/22
construction: 2022/23
photography: Massimo Poldelmengo
The project involves the renovation of a single house from the 1960s of significant dimensions, with a basement, mezzanine and first floor, built on a flat lot in a peripheral area of the city of Pordenone.
The intervention saw a total renovation of the house, improving both the formal appearance and the energy and structural performance.
As regards the first point, the house has undergone a general redevelopment, without distorting the pre-existing architectural system.
New environments with larger and more usable spaces have been created in the living area, merging existing rooms. Greater brightness was obtained thanks to the modification of the existing windows and the creation of new window openings.
Distribution updates have led to a reconfiguration of the entrances and service areas, as well as in the sleeping area, dedicated to the bedrooms and the study, to best respond to the client’s wishes.
New finishes were used (large format tiles in the living area, wooden flooring in the sleeping area), plasterboard in the walls, with chromatically differentiated stairwell.
Lower heights characterize the distribution compartments, both to contain technical compartments and for LED and recessed lights.
A new base raised about one meter compared to the remaining garden can be used as an outdoor space on the east and west fronts, joined by a sidewalk with 2 stairs on the north side.
As regards the structures, a perimeter reinforcement was created at the base level of the entire building, as well as at the columns. Furthermore, the floors were reinforced, both in the living area of the mezzanine floor and on the first floor above.
Reinforced concrete hoops with a thickness coinciding with the current masonry have been provided in the new openings, while the infilled ones use solid bricks.
The roof was also renovated, with a reinforcing cap and reinforced concrete curb.
Outside, the addition to the south west, built later than the house, was demolished and a perimeter base was built. On the same side a volume was built containing the bathroom and laundry, to act as a secondary entrance; on the upper side there is a terrace that can be used from the office on the first floor.
The intervention also involved the radical improvement of energy performance through the use of insulating material of different types and thicknesses throughout the building. The windows and doors were replaced with new ones in aluminium, with low-emissivity glass, with a monobloc system.
The thermo-hydraulic system is characterized by the presence of a low energy consumption system, guaranteed by the photovoltaic system with storage and inverter and by the heat pump, all optimized by a floor heating and cooling system, ceiling dehumidifiers and ventilation system mechanics.
These measures have led the house to obtain an energy class equal to A4, compared to the starting G.
