Playarquitectura made a trip to the towns of Torbole, Bolzano and Balazzo del Grappa accompanied by the IG Passivhaus Veneto association to visit buildings completed or under construction according to the Passivhaus standard.

In Torbole we visited the first Passihaus hotel in Italy, the Ecohotel Bonapace located next to Lake Garda, which also has the Klimahaus Hotel Gold seals and the Arca Platinum award for its Sustainable construction. The owners of the hotel Aricco and Elisabetta, architect and hotel manager respectively, attended us with great warmth and familiarity and explained in great detail all the design and construction phases of the hotel, as well as the incipient ecotourism market that is creating their hotel in the region. Visiting this hotel is a highly recommended experience for lovers of the Passivhaus standard as it allows you to experience the sensations of its interior comfort, as well as enjoying a privileged environment and unbeatable personal treatment.
In Bolzano we were able to visit the old Post Office building masterfully restored by the architect Michael Tribus to meet the Passivhaus standard and offer an aesthetic lesson in intervention. Inside the building we were offered a guided technical visit in which the entire rehabilitation process of the building was explained, which ended on the roof garden from which the entire city of Bolzano can be seen.
The trip ended with a visit to a single-family house under construction that tries to combine traditional Italian construction systems with the new construction technologies of the Passivhaus standard. Thanks to the exhaustive explanations of Giusseppe and Claudio of the IG Passivhaus Veneto we were able to assimilate the combination between traditional and modern construction techniques.

We would like to thank the staff of Ecohotel Bonapace, Michael Tribus and Giusseppe and Claudio from IG Passivhaus Veneto for their attentions.