1940 Ugo Luccichenti
(1898/1976)
Original,
solar light and architectural solution for a building that is one of the most
successful ideas for the civil part of the Italian Rationalism
The
balconies are 47 m long (154 feet)
“An
interesting example of the compositional maturity reached by Ugo Luccichenti.
The main façade doesn't have the materiality of a wall and it turns into a
chassis designed by the pillars, on the edge of the façade, and by the edges of
the long overhanging balconies. The same design goes beyond the corners and it
is repeated on a portion of the side façades, contradicting the uniformity of
volume of the building. Large windows close the empty areas of the front, as if
to let in the outer landscape within the apartments” (Gianluca Ficorilli -
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)
“While in
the Furmanik Apartment Block by Mario De Renzi the large
balconies are the ones to have the most important formal value, in this project
by Luccichenti the cancellation of the 'wall' plays a crucial role. The large
windows that, interrupted only by the rhythm of pillars, occupy the entire
front of square and round the corners of the side elevations, tend to make
intangible part of the built volume and to project into the interior the
landscape that goes from Villa Ada to Monte Mario. The large balconies, looking
thin for a metal railing (...) lose most of their weight to gain the value of a
thin cantilever” (Piero Ostilio Rossi)
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