Achieving maximum energy efficiency in the Arctic, a house for Ariston, by LEAPfactory
03/12/2018.
[Disko] Greenland
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This is a project built by LEAPfactory and developed by the firm Ariston, experts in thermal comfort for the home. This firm proposed the challenge of building a modular, ecological and zero impact house, in an area known as Disko Island, on the west coast of Greenland, where a group of Danish scientists is investigating climate change.
Disko Island, Greenland. Ariston house by Luca Gentilcore/LEAPfactory. Photograph by Paolo Verzone
Building process. Ariston house by Luca Gentilcore/LEAPfactory. Photograph by Paolo Verzone
Disko Island. Ariston house by Luca Gentilcore/LEAPfactory. Photograph by Paolo Verzone
The research team of the University of Copenhagen working in the field on the Island of Disko. Ariston house by Luca Gentilcore/LEAPfactory. Photograph by Paolo Verzone
Building process. Ariston house by Luca Gentilcore/LEAPfactory. Photograph by Paolo Verzone
Structure building. Ariston house by Luca Gentilcore/LEAPfactory. Photograph by Paolo Verzone
Ariston housing in construction front view. Ariston house by Luca Gentilcore/LEAPfactory. Photograph by Paolo Verzone
Installers helping in the construction. Ariston house by Luca Gentilcore/LEAPfactory. Photograph by Paolo Verzone
Envelope construction phase. Ariston house by Luca Gentilcore/LEAPfactory. Photograph by Paolo Verzone
Exterior view. Ariston house by Luca Gentilcore/LEAPfactory. Photograph by Paolo Verzone
Ariston housing in construction. Ariston house by Luca Gentilcore/LEAPfactory. Photograph by Paolo Verzone
An Ariston installer finishing assembling the Ariston Comfort Zone. Ariston house by Luca Gentilcore/LEAPfactory. Photograph by Paolo Verzone
Interior of the Ariston home. Ariston house by Luca Gentilcore/LEAPfactory. Photograph by Paolo Verzone
Ariston house by Luca Gentilcore/LEAPfactory. Photograph by Paolo Verzone
Ariston house by Luca Gentilcore/LEAPfactory. Photograph by Paolo Verzone
The three installers of Ariston inside the house next to the professor Morten Rasch, head of the research team of the University of Copenhagen. Ariston house by Luca Gentilcore/LEAPfactory. Photograph by Paolo Verzone
Ariston house by Luca Gentilcore/LEAPfactory. Photograph by Paolo Verzone
Section and ground floor plan. Ariston house by Luca Gentilcore/LEAPfactory.
Elevations, Sections and ground floor plan. Ariston house by Luca Gentilcore/LEAPfactory.
The house is highly efficient and has been built in collaboration with LEAPfactory, manufacturer of modular homes with zero impact on the environment
In this remote enclave of the planet, a team of scientists from the University of Copenhagen is dedicated to collecting samples to investigate climate change. Lacking an adequate infrastructure to take refuge, it was impossible for them to remain working several days in a row on the ground due to the low temperatures.
It is a house with two waters, zero impact on nature, an outer cover designed to generate a high energy efficiency capable of providing comfort and reducing energy consumption to the maximum. Conceived by Ariston in collaboration with Leapfactory. The structure is developed longitudinally, offering a panoramic view, with a living room, a bedroom, a bathroom and two technical rooms with capacity for six people. The pillars and beams of the structure are visible from the inside, which gives rhythm to the space, which incorporates very functional furniture.
"Unlike other projects, what we have done in Greenland is a different construction called 'framework' and it needs to be mounted on site. The first challenge was to build in a short time an industrialized kit that could be used even in very cold and windy environments", says Luca Gentilcore, founder of Leapfactory SRL "During the planning phase we take care of every last detail, taking into account the environment in which which we would be working, so there should be nothing missing in this project. We list all the components to not forget even a single screw."
It was built in 20 days with the help of the residents of the city of Disko, an island in Greenland. The transfer of all the material was made from Italy, passing through Denmark, to reach Greenland. A trip made by plane, icebreaker boat and snow dogs ... It has been an authentic adventure and the end result is a house that has become the home of Danish scientists.
The house today is a reality, and is the first modular and design house built in the Arctic, which works as a refuge for scientists in the winter months, where temperatures drop to -50 ° C. A house built to achieve maximum energy efficiency, equipping the Ariston Comfort Zone with high-tech and latest generation products.
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Architect
Luca Gentilcore
Collaborators
The installers are Yuanshuo 'Andy' Huang, (33 years old, China); William Randaccio (43 years old, Italian) and Oleg Belly, (28 years old, Russia), chosen through a worldwide selection process among professional installers who volunteered to go to the Arctic.
Builder
The company that has built the house is LEAPfactory srl (http://leapfactory.it/en/), founded by Luca Gentilcore and Stefano Testa.
Area
58.0m²
Stefano Testa - Luca Gentilcore. LEAPfactory
LEAPfactory. It all began when an Italian duo of architects, Stefano Testa and Luca Gentilcore, as well as an enthusiast climber and a skier, decided to bring together their two souls: nature and inventiveness, technology and beauty, mountains and architecture. Through its evolution, LEAPfactory has remained committed to its roots as a mountaineer - architects driven company, always used to push its boundaries further. The goal: to realize a new way of building, according to the environment and the future.
Stefano Testa. Founder. Milan, 1966. Architect with a PhD in Interior Design. Stefano has taught Interior Design and Architecture and Urban Design at the School of Architecture of the Politecnico di Milano, and Industrial Design at the New Academy of Fine Arts (NABA) in Milan. Co-holder of Cliostraat, a multidisciplinary design office inclined to research and experimentation based in Turin since 1996 (www.cliostraat.com). He founded LEAPfactory to explore the contamination among his two souls: architecture design and mountain. Exponent of the pioneering season of the rock climbing and later sports climbing, climbing teacher and federal instructor, Stefano still continues to tighten handholds, not despising intrusions in different mountaineering disciplines.
Luca Gentilcore. Founder. Sanremo, 1978. Luca graduated cum laude in Architecture from Politecnico di Torino in 2004, and from then he practices architecture working with different architecture firms in Turin, and with Cliostraat among them. In 2008 he founded the office Gandolfi Gentilcore Architects with the colleague Silvia Gandolfi, working in the fields of architecture design and preservation. Luca is an alpine skiing instructor since 2011. In 2013 he founded LEAPfactory with Stefano Testa, to combine the practice of architecture with his mountain experience.
Team.
Stefano Testa. Founder. Milan, 1966. Architect with a PhD in Interior Design. Stefano has taught Interior Design and Architecture and Urban Design at the School of Architecture of the Politecnico di Milano, and Industrial Design at the New Academy of Fine Arts (NABA) in Milan. Co-holder of Cliostraat, a multidisciplinary design office inclined to research and experimentation based in Turin since 1996 (www.cliostraat.com). He founded LEAPfactory to explore the contamination among his two souls: architecture design and mountain. Exponent of the pioneering season of the rock climbing and later sports climbing, climbing teacher and federal instructor, Stefano still continues to tighten handholds, not despising intrusions in different mountaineering disciplines.
Luca Gentilcore. Founder. Sanremo, 1978. Luca graduated cum laude in Architecture from Politecnico di Torino in 2004, and from then he practices architecture working with different architecture firms in Turin, and with Cliostraat among them. In 2008 he founded the office Gandolfi Gentilcore Architects with the colleague Silvia Gandolfi, working in the fields of architecture design and preservation. Luca is an alpine skiing instructor since 2011. In 2013 he founded LEAPfactory with Stefano Testa, to combine the practice of architecture with his mountain experience.
Team.
Stefano Testa | Founder
Luca Gentilcore | Founder
Silvia Gandolfi | Design Manager
Edoardo Boero | Design Area
Stefano Girodo | Design Area
Cristiana Minetto | Foreign Relations
Mary Lefebvre | Sales & Communication
Luca Gentilcore | Founder
Silvia Gandolfi | Design Manager
Edoardo Boero | Design Area
Stefano Girodo | Design Area
Cristiana Minetto | Foreign Relations
Mary Lefebvre | Sales & Communication
