Prima Riva

Renovating a house means, first of all, observing it, understanding it, listening to it.
It often means taking a step back, in order to give back something that was already there — under the dust, under the cladding, under habit.

In the Prima Riva project, we found ourselves before one of those houses that do not ask to be overturned, but to be given attention. That do not need reinventing, but understanding.
Once a farmhouse on the estate of the Collalto Counts, today it has come back to life as a family home. But this is not a rebirth in the usual sense of the word: it is a return to the truth of the place.

We found a house that had lost part of its function, but not its identity.
There were authentic materials, old floors, simple proportions.
The light was already coming in the right way.
There were marks, traces, rhythm.

There was no need to overwrite. There was a need to translate.

And so a renovation took shape that does not chase novelty, but respects the durability of the project: over time, in everyday gestures, in the coherence between inside and out.
We recovered original elements and used them to write a new grammar.

We worked so that the space would accompany life.

In a time that moves fast, giving value to conviviality and slowness is a strong stance.

And there is another level, invisible but constant, that runs through the whole project: wellbeing.
Not as a function or a dedicated zone, but as a guiding principle.
The light, the materials, the proportions, the routes through the house: every detail helps generate a quiet balance.

In the end, that is the point.
To create something that can be lived in naturally, for years.
That accompanies, without imposing.
That lets the people who live there come to the fore.

 _{Andrea Impiombato Andreani}

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