Summer retreat, winter retreat, mountain retreat, family retreat… Casa Carezza is a retreat in many ways, a place to desire and to feel at home. While the building, with its glazed facades opens up on two sides to the mountain panorama, it is closed off towards the buildings surrounding it, creating privacy, protecting its intimate spaces from undesired views and adding to the retreat feeling. Its shingle-clad shell which leans onto the local building tradition that has used this technique over centuries, will weather in time; and it’s welcome to do so! Immersed in the landscape the building plays with the different heights of the terrain; a large portion of the building is located underground, illuminated by light shafts, maximizing the floorspace while minimizing its visible impact in the mountain panorama.