The new seat of the Comun General de Fascia sits within the project area, responding to the diverse requirements arising both from the functional brief and from the identity and specificity of the place. The building occupies the footprint of the former Vittorio Veneto barracks and establishes strong relationships with its surroundings by articulating the volume into two elements drawn from the local building tradition: a stone base and an upper timber volume. The project reinterprets traditional materials and construction techniques in contemporary form, confirming the duality of the concrete base and the upper volume in XLAM timber technology.
The building inserts itself into the site with measure: on the north front the volume steps back to generate a wide welcoming space marking the entrance to the town hall; on the opposite front it relates to the ancient Antersieff road, where the level of the municipal floor creates resting spaces that begin the walk leading down to the parish church of San Giovanni. Above, the council hall opens towards the Pantl stream and the peak of the Sas da le Doudesh.
The base body acts both as a device mediating the change in level to the west and as the element around which the two roads bounding the plot connect, generating new spaces for the local community. The upper body becomes the visible, recognisable element, an icon of the new municipal seat. The roof pitches are clad in timber shingles and pierced by longitudinal openings protected by metal overhangs; the base is in smooth fair-faced concrete cast with modular panel formwork, inside and out.