We are renovating an old soap factory into a community house in a small town at the foot of the Italian Alps.
Travelers, artists, wonderers, strangers, friends and family are welcome to join us in our quest for slow and sustainable life.
Travelers, artists, wonderers, strangers, friends and family are welcome to join us in our quest for slow and sustainable life.
About the name.
Every project has to have a name. We wanted to simply name the house because that's what we want to do: to create a community house - a place where people can live together for one day or for years. It's an up-cycle house because that's what we like to aim for: a creative transformation.
We aim to restore the building itself into a eco-friendly beautiful and comfortable living space by using reclaimed materials as much as possible. The same thing we wish to do with the furniture and all the art we create and teach. We realize it's impossible to do this 100% but we would like to give it our best try. Upcycling will always be part of the life of this house. |
Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality and environmental value. That's the definition of upcycling by Wikipedia and it has got some key words to us such as: process, transformation, environment. We don't see this purely as a material but also a spiritual concept. Turning sometihing unwanted into something beautiful of a greater value, is a spiritual concept. |
Community House. Co-working and Makers' Space. Home-Stay.
About Us.
Giona.
Sono un artigiano da sempre. Creare è in me un'esigenza innata che vuole scoprire continuamente contesti nuovi. Ho sempre amato l'idea di casa come rifugio, luogo d'incontro e di accoglienza per la creatività e la cura dei rapporti umani. Il nucleo della propria comunità. Il mio sogno è rendere disponibile uno spazio condiviso che sia ponte equanime tra il viaggio e il radicamento e faccia emergere una sintonia tra la scoperta dello sconosciuto e la coltivazione del familiare. I've always been an artisan. I was born with a need to create, which pushes me to discover constantly new contexts. I've always loved the idea of a home as a refuge or a shelter, a place of encounter, to host creativity and care for human relations. A centre of community. My dream is to make a space available for sharing, what is a bridge between a journey and growing strong roots. |
Tiina.
I'm a design addict and I love to come up with new ideas for projects, travels, events... I guess it's because I really love to gather folks together and meet new people. I have been dreaming of starting a community house for all my life. Even as a child I always built big houses for my barbie dolls and then played out with my twin sister the melodramatic lives of the various characters who lived in that house. When I grew up I moved around the globe a fair bit but always made sure I would live with other people. Building a community is a lifestyle I have developed. I still love to travel and see new places but I never want to move too fast not to have time build relationships with the people of the community where I stay. |
Join us! |
We would love to have you. You can just show up but we would appreaciate if you let us know before hand.
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