The old – New haybarn

The street is really narrow here. On the right there is another wood-stack, this time it is three-dimensional: “Free Water”. A woman is crying, she entrusts the protest against the privatisation of water to a copious blue tear on her sad face.

One pays for the common good and the only remaining free water will be our tears.

As the street opens up to the left there is a restored building which is especially well-finished; as it should always be.

This restoration has been carried out using local stone, lime mortar and sand, respecting the criteria used in the past and avoiding the use of cement products. The external plaster work is still the original and the balconies have been made in saw-cut larch, left natural and then pattern cut to respect traditional motives. Despite having changed its intended use, the building has maintained the same structure of a traditional haybarn.

Also note the rather particular paving, used for very steep slopes instead of the usual cubes of porphyry. A few more steps and you are back in the old square.

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