We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Pedevilla Architects about their original and creative Residence & Chalet design work. Pedevilla Architects is an award-winning architectural designer, that makes our world a better place with their original residence & chalet works.
Pedevilla Architects ("PA") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Chalet La Pedevilla Residence & Chalet. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
PA : The main principle was to fit a design into a traditional environment. Therefore we took most characteristics of the neighbouring buildings as role model.
PA : With our design we always strive for a masterpiece in craftsmanship. In this case the whole structural element (basically the naked house) was castes in exposed concrete. All fixtures were pre-positioned.
PA : Media & Publications. We also like to publish it on our homepage.
PA : Mainly the design process takes two years. After that the construction process takes another two years.
PA : We considered the existing traditional buildings in this area, which are self-contained mountain farm houses.
PA : The design is singular. We will not re-do it. Every client will receive his own design.
PA : Our way of working. Our way of doing design. Developing our own style of architecture.
PA : We as Pedevilla Architects corporated with Arch. Caroline Willeit who helped us refine the design process.
PA : Main target was to take the farmer and the farm house and reorganise it in the modern age. Everything changes through that: sozial, ecological, eceonomical habits. Thats why the farm house turned into a modern residence and the stable turned into chalet, wich is up for rent.
PA : Basically the floor layout and the constructrion.
PA : Pliscia 13 is basically the adress of the house. Plaiscia is the name of the hamlet, which consits of a handful of buildings.
PA : pc & model.
PA : Tradition, Regionality, Modern Interpretation, Material Reduction.
PA : We mostly corporated with the cratsmen. But as on every other construction site with the specialised planners.
PA : We do a lot of rendering, 3d visualisation and modelling before the final design. So technology is indisplaceable.
PA : We did a lot of traditional & regional based research. Research on role models. Did case studies. The outcome is surely unique for this special location , but could in therm of background not be transported into urban areas.
PA : Biggest challenge was the moulding of the structural element, namely the naked house. All fixtures were inlay works and could not be changed afterwards.
PA : Because it is a unique design, which did win a lot of awards in the past years. It is very welcomed by the media and a very good publicity item. It is after all an italian design.
PA : We improved a lot in terms of construction and pre-planning knowledge.
PA : None at the moment.
