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Apartment Building
Piazzale Aquileia / Via Lipari, Milano
1964 - 1965
The
complex, consisting of two apartment buildings, rises on a vast
surface. Both buildings have nine floors and reach a height of about 30
meters.
One of them appears as a horizontal volume facing the piazza Aquileia, while the other is conceived as a tower of slender proportions overlooking the garden.
For the tower-like construction, Vico Magistretti has envisioned the possibility to have variously-sized plans, with the intention to design different apartments.
This resulted in differentiated flats, having various sizes and beeing arranged on a single floor or as duplex. The balconies at the corner are an indice for the various apartment types.
The sequence of different rooms with various sizes results in a structured and plastically articulated volume. This building testifies his deep rooted knowlege
about life and privat spaces, which made him one of the foremost contemporary interpreters of interior architecture and interior design.
The tower appears as a building made mainly of concrete, with pale red window casements. The areas betwenn the largest windows are clad with copper sheets.
The horizontal building volume is marke by the strict use of massive balustrades, which are perforated at the upper edge. A remarkable element in this building,
is a plastically shaped stair, giving access to the roof terrace.
One of them appears as a horizontal volume facing the piazza Aquileia, while the other is conceived as a tower of slender proportions overlooking the garden.
For the tower-like construction, Vico Magistretti has envisioned the possibility to have variously-sized plans, with the intention to design different apartments.
This resulted in differentiated flats, having various sizes and beeing arranged on a single floor or as duplex. The balconies at the corner are an indice for the various apartment types.
The sequence of different rooms with various sizes results in a structured and plastically articulated volume. This building testifies his deep rooted knowlege
about life and privat spaces, which made him one of the foremost contemporary interpreters of interior architecture and interior design.
The tower appears as a building made mainly of concrete, with pale red window casements. The areas betwenn the largest windows are clad with copper sheets.
The horizontal building volume is marke by the strict use of massive balustrades, which are perforated at the upper edge. A remarkable element in this building,
is a plastically shaped stair, giving access to the roof terrace.