Mirror Houses – Peter Pichler Architecture
Peter Pichler Architecture created the ‘Mirror Houses’ as a pair of holiday homes set close to the city of Bolzano, north Italy, and is surrounded by the dolomites.
The client, who lives in a farmhouse of the 60s on the site, asked to design a structure for renting out as a luxury holiday units, so guests have their small autonomous apartment. A maximum degree of privacy for both the client and the residing guest should be taken into consideration. Each unit contains a kitchen / living room as well as a bath- and bedroom with big openable skylights to allow natural light and ventilation. A small basement serves for temporary storage.
The projects initial volume is split in 2 units that are slightly shifted in height and length in order to loosening the entire structure and articulating each unit. Mirror glass on the west facade borders the garden of the client with the units and catches the surrounding panorama while making the units almost invisible.In certain views from the clients garden the old existing farmhouse is mirrored in the new contemporary architecture and is literally blending into it rather than competing against.
The new structure is oriented towards east with their private garden and an autonomous access and parking for their guests. Each unit contains a kitchen / living room as well as a bath- and bedroom with big openable skylights to allow natural light and ventilation. A small basement serves for temporary storage.
Both units are floating on a base above the ground evoking lightness beside offering better views from their cantilevering terraces to the impressive surrounding landscape. The volume opens towards east with a big glass facade that fades with curvilinear lines into the black aluminum shell. Mirror glass on the west facade borders the garden of the client with the units and catches the surrounding panorama with pool while making the units almost invisible.
In certain views from the clients garden the old existing farmhouse is mirrored in the new contemporary architecture and is literally blending into it rather then competing against.
