An Italian architect teamed up with her father on the prototype of a very special project on the family hill in Lombardy, then they built 50 of them
hen the 43-year-old Italian architect Valentina Moretti returned to Italy from living in Switzerland and the US to help her father, Vittorio, in his construction company, she seized the chance to work on the prototype of her vision for the future of prefabricated homes.
With Vittorio up for the challenge, the pair set about plotting the project on the family hill in Franciacorta in Brescia, Lombardy. “My father bought this land in the 80s and started his winery business, and later built our hotel; now the whole family lives here,” she says.They started work in August 2018, and the house was ready to move into that December. “We built a 1,000 sq m home in just a few months because it’s prefab!” says Moretti.
With the structure doing most of the talking, Moretti has kept the interior simple. “The building for me is very connected toIn the kitchen, a huge stainless steel island sits on top of black tiles that run throughout the ground floor, linking each room in the space. It’s here that the couple cook hearty Italian meals and Moretti’s favourite Indian dishes with their sons Giovanni, Antonio and Luigi. A table Moretti inherited from her parents acts as a segue into the living room.
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