There is a bit of San Francisco in Turin too. Single-family houses of 2 or 3 floors lined up along the streets that thin out towards the hill. We are in the Madonna del Pilone area, behind the Fausto Coppi Motovelodromo, at the intersection of Via Lomellina and Via Tonello. Here + Studio architetti Filippo Orlando with Mediapolis Engineering has just completed the transformation of a corner lot, previously used as a parking lot, into a new residential complex, with an unusual language for Turin, alternating exposed concrete, steel, raw wood strips and glass.
Preserving the two underground floors of the existing garage, the project reconstructs the missing piece in the building curtain. Articulated in a corner volume of four floors above ground with a pitched roof with dormer windows, the new building, in the alternation of materials and full and empty spaces, looks to the deconstructivist architecture of the west-coast. The basement is a reinterpretation of the surrounding buildings of the ’50s, in which the building is often raised from the ground by a pilotis floor: the apartments are therefore “suspended”, going to rest and set on the wooden slats from which the basement is made, light and transparent. The project thus outlines a house “on stilts” with a simple and bright design that with a clever play of staggered floors adapts to the slope of the hill.
The corner lot is characterized by two distinct facades. The urban facade, oriented north and west, is hybrid and vertically marked by different elements. The edges of the lot and the central corner block recall the pre-collinear urban fabric, characterized by single-family houses. These volumes are covered with rough plaster and play with the staggering of the openings and the alternation of full and empty spaces obtained by subtraction, culminating in the corner loggia on two levels. The protruding bow-window volumes, on the other hand, dialogue with the elegant 1950s residential architecture of the context, in the scanning of the terraces closed by metal rod railings and in the use of porcelain stoneware modulated in shades of purple red.
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