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Apartment Building
Via Quadronno 24, Milano
1960 - 1962
Shortly
after the three-cylinder house, the architects Angelo Mangiarotti and
Bruno Morasutti had the opportunity to design a new residential building
located in a more central area of the city of Milan. Althoug the exterior of the building differs completely, they try to follow certain principles of
the earlier building. Mangiarotti and Morasutti had the intention to achieve freestanding shapes, by rigorously repeating the elements at
the basis of the composition. Somehow the building resembles the architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, but at the same time it shows
expressionistic elements. The tower-like apartment building on Via Quadronno 24 is a technically conventional structure,
based upon a concrete skeleton and the adoption of a system of vertical elements. These elements may accomodate glassed walls, balconies or
a solid-core closing structure. The building with its great ceiling heights has two apartments per floor, each with their own service entrance.
The plan of this building is asymmetrical and features many kinks and steps. On the side facing the park, there are different flats,
resulting in an elevation which differs from floor to floor. The plan of the building is of a remarkable flexibility, which is made possible thanks
to the mentioned solution, which allows that the various external panels could be adapted in relation to the user's needs to modify the interior.
This motif is a standard theme for resarch in the architectural panorama, both in Milan and elsewhere.
It has also been further investigated by Angelo Mangiarotti in the houses in Monza and Arosio.
located in a more central area of the city of Milan. Althoug the exterior of the building differs completely, they try to follow certain principles of
the earlier building. Mangiarotti and Morasutti had the intention to achieve freestanding shapes, by rigorously repeating the elements at
the basis of the composition. Somehow the building resembles the architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, but at the same time it shows
expressionistic elements. The tower-like apartment building on Via Quadronno 24 is a technically conventional structure,
based upon a concrete skeleton and the adoption of a system of vertical elements. These elements may accomodate glassed walls, balconies or
a solid-core closing structure. The building with its great ceiling heights has two apartments per floor, each with their own service entrance.
The plan of this building is asymmetrical and features many kinks and steps. On the side facing the park, there are different flats,
resulting in an elevation which differs from floor to floor. The plan of the building is of a remarkable flexibility, which is made possible thanks
to the mentioned solution, which allows that the various external panels could be adapted in relation to the user's needs to modify the interior.
This motif is a standard theme for resarch in the architectural panorama, both in Milan and elsewhere.
It has also been further investigated by Angelo Mangiarotti in the houses in Monza and Arosio.