Temporary Spaces

Back in Black

| Ballen House designed by @lcla_office ; photographed by Luis Callejas |

Inside:  abandoned mining village ‘Colonna’ (2.425 m asl, the highest iron mine in Europe).  Cogne Valley, Italy. 

The first historical information of the magnetite deposits exploitation dates back to 1432. In 1910, construction began on the mining village of Colonna, which once housed around 400 workers and was a state-of-the-art art facility with a church, cinema, canteen and even one of the first X-ray machines in the infirmary.