Umamma is a stunning hotel ft historic brick interiors located in San Miniato, Italy, designed in 2019 by Giovanni Settesoldi.

Description
The project?s goals in terms of rediscovery, restoration and consolidation of the original structure, could only be achieved by local masons.
Bearing walls made of 16th century sack-masonry, ranging from 1 to 1.5m thick, filled with a layer of tuff that had never seen the light before, could be handled by traditional craftmanship perpetuating generations-long skills and, what?s most important, care, love and pride for their land.
Where walls had to be reinforced, restored or opened up, natural materials and traditional practices had been put in place as a pre-requisite of the entire project. Terracotta, tuff, lime mortar; the reuse on site of removed bricks; the finding and restoration of sandstone slabs, the interweaving of brickwork and granite insets and lintels — they all employed locally-based materials and methods. It is to them, the unnamed masons from around the corner, the project owes its credit. GIOVANNI SETTESOLDI. Owner. Creative Director.
The description of the intervention is apparently simple: the renovation and interior design of a space of 230 sqm in a sixteenth-century building of historical and architectural value located in a hilly area of landscape protection on the Via Francigena, between Pisa and Florence.
The pre-existing situation and the client’s request were, however...