restoration col del moro

Restoration Col Del Moro   -  completed 2017

One of the recurrent issues when restoring an old farmhouse is where to locate the internal stairs and what material to use. These houses had in fact the two floors completely separate, the ground as stables for animals and the upper floor for the people, with no internal connection but only an external – usually beautiful – staircase. So, when renovating the ground floor we need to insert new stairs. In order to save space and achieve lightness, I like to insert slender metal stairs, often in cor-ten (rusty metal) a material that integrate itself beautifully with the old, existing materials, such as stone, brick, timber of traditional umbrian farmhouses.  A renovation in Umbria by architect Marco Carlini
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