Urban Green Loft in Milan Inhabitat.com 6.12.09

Urban Green Loft in Milan
Inhabitat.com 6.12.09

This awesome eco-renovated loft in Milan just gave us another reason to live in Italy. (We'll add it to the ever-growing list we plan to present to our husband at some undetermined point in the future.) Complete with a dazzling rooftop garden (with 35 fruit trees!), a Finnish soapstone fireplace (which heats the entire home for a full day on only four pieces of firewood), local sheep's wool insulation, and solar panels on the way, all we can think is, Um, when can we move in? More below the jump...

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The 2-year renovation of this loft was done by Architect Alessio Rogoldi and Designer and Professor of Green Management, Fabrice Leclerc. The green rooftop helps keep the house cool, while the Finnish fireplace (called the ‘Tulikivi’ fireplace) has cleaner combustion and 7x less the carbon particle emissions than traditional fireplaces.

So inspiring! It's great to see what the future of green design looks like.

Read the whole article and see many more pictures at Inhabitat.

Comments (5)

"our husband"? are we a sect?

posted by TML on June 22nd 2009 at 8:25am
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I live in Milan and this post annoys me: Milan city is wither these mansions or teeny tiny little studio apartments that still cost an eye of the head. These houses are truly beautiful but unreachable. They require so much money people cannot make in a lifetime and an army of cleaning staff. This is why I truly praise Apartment Therapy for bringing the focus back to what people try to do with their tiny homes and even tinier budgets. Give me a regular flat that looks great after hard work and long nights spent building Ikea furniture, painting and decorating with no money whatsoever. Anyone with a little taste and a lot of money can have a house like this.

posted by barbara.agatha on June 22nd 2009 at 9:32am
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I just read the article on Inhabitat: VIA TORINO? This flat is on via Torino?!
This is something like saying that the flat is on Times Square...Wow.

posted by barbara.agatha on June 22nd 2009 at 9:35am
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regarding Barbara's annoyance- the construction of this beautiful flat provides jobs for all kind so of creative folks and trickle down inspiration for those of us on a budget. Ikea is environmentally speaking a nightmare. If you go to Craigslist and type in Ikea you will see the real expense of that kind of consumerism it all ends up in land fill because the shine of bad construction and poor quality wear off pretty quickly. Ikea can have some pluses but personally I loved this post and am Ikead out. Buy old stuff or just get it off the side walk and fix it up.
I also think it's a positive as it shows an investment in things that are really important like plants and makes an effort to live with a smaller carbon footprint!

posted by profumodibergamo on June 22nd 2009 at 1:50pm
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barbara aGATHA YOU ARE dEFINATELY Thinking as I am ...

posted by Zika on June 23rd 2009 at 7:54am
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