From an Old Workplace to a Modern Living Space: Montevecchia House
The house was made out of a warehouse and a barn, inside an apartment building in Montevecchia, in northern Brianza, Italy.
The house was made out of a warehouse and a barn, inside an apartment building in Montevecchia, in northern Brianza, Italy.
The St Lawrence Reno Condo, overlooking the Cathedral of St. James in the heart of downtown Toronto, was converted into an apartment building from a parking garage in the 80’s
For this villa commission in a quiet village outside of Vienna, Austria, I was challenged with maximizing the volume of a difficult and narrow plot of land in order to create a modern living space for a two-generation family.
The modernized flat with the area of 55 square meters located in the low-rise buildings from the 50’s is a result of joining together two premises.
For the design of this new house, JUMA Architects was specifically asked to develop a compact yet highly livable plan.
Our response is to use an eclectic but carefully chosen palette of materials and colours to give the house this painterly and textured quality. A main component of the design is a concrete and timber tree which rises from the garden.
The Fountain Villa is a renovated weekend house from the era of the First Republic. When we first saw it, it didn’t look like it does today. It was burdened with deposits that had stuck to it over the years, and its First Republic spark was long gone.
The apartment was built for a family, a couple and two young children. The Qbik Loft included a selection of finishing materials. In addition, we have designed solid furniture: kitchen, bathrooms, wardrobes.