La Pervinca is the result of a project that reinterprets the places and functions of the past to give them new life and purpose. In Guastalla di Reggio Emila, in the Reggiana Plain, a young couple inherited their childhood home and chose to renovate it according to an architectural project that would recognise its identity and the passage of time and translate them into new forms, for the creation of a private residence, an agritourism and a B&B. The project to restore the farm building (originally intended partly as a dwelling and partly as service facilities for the fields), entrusted to Archiplan Studio, has preserved the intertwining of the signs of rural life and family memories, enhancing the decomposition of the material and, at the same time, establishing a precise relationship with the landscape and contemporaneity.
In this context, Isoplam‘s Deco Nuvolato cement floor tiles weave the link between spaces, affective memories and new uses by connoting environments with a material almost primitive in its essence, such as cement, applied in a continuous covering that embodies the perfect synthesis of strength and lightness. This floor solution is characterised by delicate plays of colour that turn from a lighter background towards darker nuances, while the cement, quartz and pigment components restore all the identity and incisive character of concrete. Apparently harsh and aseptic in the Mineral Gray hue, this element manages to be in perfect assonance with the architectural ensemble and the landscape context, which is why it was also used in the outdoor spaces. In the walkways and around the swimming pool area, the light helicopter effect ensures a perfect nonslip and non-skid grip as well as excellent resistance to weathering, abrasion and cracking. At only 10 cm thick, Deco Nuvolato perfectly matches the dry layout of La Pervinca and offers the people who live and stay there the ideal solution from a practical, technical and aesthetic point of view.
Ph. Giuseppe Gradella
