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Apartment, Office & Commercial Building
Piazza Velasca 4, Milano
1950 - 1952
After the second world war, the two Architects Mario Asnago and Claudio Vender resumed their intense work in the city of Milan.
They got the possibility to work in central areas of the city and were able to made an important contribution to the rehabilitation of the urban territory.
Regarding thse interventions, the italian architect and author mentioned that "the architects propose a personal hypothesis meant to redeem the
middle-class house not by resorting to history but through the sublimation of the building techniques in the figurative purification of abstractism".
The design of the building on Piazza Velasca 4 is aligned with the neighbouring construction, as it would be an ordinary layout without anything special.
But the façade is conçeived as a strongly graphic design. The height of the elevation is split in two parts. The lower part has the appearance of an
extraordinary high base clad with natural stone, while the upper part is revetted with clinker. Both parts of the building have four floors. The upper
part has large square windows with a partition, while in the lower part shows smaller square windows without a subdivision which are set flush with the façade.
This differentiation in the treatment of the windows and the use of the materials on the façade gives the building its strong and interessting expression.
Only the ground floor differs from the above mentioned layout of the windows.
They got the possibility to work in central areas of the city and were able to made an important contribution to the rehabilitation of the urban territory.
Regarding thse interventions, the italian architect and author mentioned that "the architects propose a personal hypothesis meant to redeem the
middle-class house not by resorting to history but through the sublimation of the building techniques in the figurative purification of abstractism".
The design of the building on Piazza Velasca 4 is aligned with the neighbouring construction, as it would be an ordinary layout without anything special.
But the façade is conçeived as a strongly graphic design. The height of the elevation is split in two parts. The lower part has the appearance of an
extraordinary high base clad with natural stone, while the upper part is revetted with clinker. Both parts of the building have four floors. The upper
part has large square windows with a partition, while in the lower part shows smaller square windows without a subdivision which are set flush with the façade.
This differentiation in the treatment of the windows and the use of the materials on the façade gives the building its strong and interessting expression.
Only the ground floor differs from the above mentioned layout of the windows.