Yggdrasill
My archetypes come from the North, bonded to mighty forests and gods. From the lands of ice and fire, from the plains of Yggdrasill. From the stormiest waters calmed into the embrace of the fjords. From the sacred lands of kings worshippers of noble fate.
Thomas Allocca
Yggdrasill
Luxury Resorts and Residences
Yggdrasill is an architectural and structural model for private residences and resorts. It integrates functional, aesthetic, structural, and energetic performances through rigorous attention to technical detail, material quality, spatial design, and thermodynamics, bridging the visible and the invisible into a systemic framework. The result is the possibility of developing high-quality distinctive solutions, conceived to last for decades at very low energetic cost and maintenance.
Beyond a living space that is merely protective, Yggdrasill's solutions create spaces of belonging, offering comfort and inspiration, spaces where one can feel healthy and vital, not simply standing apart as a distant owner and guest, but both protected by and protector of the house-system. Yggdrasill's model makes it possible to develop customized solutions to experience the living spaces as an extension, and not a limit, of our material and spiritual identity.
Resort/Residence | 160 sqm
Only bad-built houses kill people.
The well-built ones can only allow earthquakes to invite them to dance.
Thomas Allocca
Dancing with the Earth
In 1980, the Irpinia earthquake damaged my family's house. It was one of the most terrific earthquakes in the history of Italy. Hundreds of thousands of houses collapsed like sand castles on a rainy day. Even concrete buildings were severely damaged, shattering their common mythical consideration as the eternal material. We could go back home after two years. I was nine years old, and since that experience I have been obsessed with antiseismic systems.
I will never forget the horrific sound of the house cracking all around us in the darkness of the night, while my brother, my parents, and I, all together in just one hug, were protecting each other, waiting for the end of the earthquake. Years later, remembering that experience, I had clear that I wanted to start from the high-school to learn how to design good-houses for preventing other children from experiencing earthquakes in the same terrific way I did.
Resort/Residence | 240 sqm
