Ripoli House – Raffaele Ripoli Architect

The project involves the transformation of the premises of the Ripoli bakery from 1933 to 1992, and the adjacent warehouses into a functioning B&B accommodation facility from 2004. The reception and rooms of the B&B occupy the ground floor of the original 1800s building of the Gentile-Ripoli family. On the ground floor there is also room 4 whose original architecture was part of the adjacent Palazzo Accattatis of the 1600s. The kitchen and terraced veranda for breakfast are located on the first floor. The owner’s room in the attic. The recovery consists of the elimination of some parts outside the original plant, a new internal distribution of spaces in relation to the new destination with minimal design choices in tune with the historical and rural Calabrian architecture. The main materials are the lime plasters with rough effect, S. Lucid stone and the concrete beat for windowsills and entrances rooms, chestnut wood fixtures with internal and overhead darken, or pre-existing reconstructed materials such as masonry in windows ill. exposed stone, chestnut wooden lintels and C3 entrance door and new materials such as sprung wood laminated for the canopy on the terrace, the wooden entrance doors, the iron and wooden ladders, the gres floors with rough surface. Outside is planned the recovery of the facades, with plaster makeover, with wooden fixtures and iron balconies, eaves and descendants in galvanized sheet metal and the roof with clay cups and the refurbishment of the flat roof cover of the terrace and relative balcony . The work is planned in several stages.