Spazio 46
Pergola
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LAGUNDO
PERGOLA
HANNES PEER
KINDOFSPACE
Spazio 46 is a residential loft located in Algund, above Merano in South Tyrol, designed by Hannes Peer. It marks the first project by the Milan-based architect in his native South Tyrol — and it arrives as a deliberate counter-position to the architectural language that already defines the site.
Twenty years after the opening of Pergola Residence, designed by Matteo Thun, Karin Innerhofer continued the story of the house by commissioning Spazio 46 above the existing complex. Its concrete construction reads as young and modernist, yet sits no less convincingly in the landscape. With its seemingly floating overhangs, Peer's hillside structure evokes the spirit of Fallingwater amidst the vineyards, a reference that clarifies the ambition: this is not contextual architecture in the passive sense, but a building that holds a conversation with its surroundings rather than disappearing into them.
The interior logic follows the same principle of productive tension. Local walnut and roughly hewn gneiss define the haptic quality of the rooms, materials that carry the weight of the region without resorting to the decorative regionalism that Peer's architecture consistently refuses.
The furniture selection anchors the space in a specific moment of design history: a concrete sculpture by Daniele Danelli from the 1960s, vintage nesting tables by Gianfranco Frattini for Cassina, and Vladimir Kagan's Cloud sofa, pieces chosen not for period consistency but for the shared quality of objects that occupy space with confidence rather than decoration.
