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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Scarlett Conlon

UNBELIEVABLE: Absolutely prefabulous a vision of the future - Caught on Camera

Inside outside: rooftop garden plants overhang an outdoor space at the house of Valentina Moretti.
Inside outside: rooftop garden plants overhang an outdoor space at the house of Valentina Moretti. Photograph: Valentina Sommariva/Inside Living

When the 43-year-old Italian architect Valentina Moretti returned to Italy from living in Switzerland and the US to help her father, Vittorio, in his construction company, she seized the chance to work on the prototype of her vision for the future of prefabricated homes.

“After many years working with famous architects, I understood that I really wanted to bring architecture into normal life,” explains Moretti. “So, when I returned I started thinking about a new business model connecting an architecture office to a construction firm as one company, to build prefabricated houses and look after everything from start to finish.”

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