Messner Architects clads RVTK apartments in Italy with contrasting facades

Italian studio Messner Architects has extended and reconfigured a house in South Tyrol to create three apartments, each with a contrasting exterior finish of plaster, wood and metal.
Named RVTK, the building overlooking the town of Silandro was originally built in 1978 and sits within a gently sloping site with a partially sunken ground floor.
The house was transformed into three apartments
In 2020, its owners approached Messner Architects to renovate and expand the home, turning each of its thr