Buildings with four homes

Marcello Nizzoli e Gian Mario Oliveri, 1950

The buildings with four homes close off the residential area to the west. These houses consist of two staggered parallelpiped shaped volumes and have a projected roof which overhangs the buildings, covers the stairwell and have a high impact roof garden. Externally, the houses are distinctive in the depth of the balcony recesses (some screened by diagonally positioned steel rails), whilst on the inside the living rooms and master bedrooms are situated facing west, the bathroom and other bedrooms face the east. Designed in 1951 by Nizzoli and Oliveri, these two buildings provide a good example of the ongoing study into housing in Ivrea by the two architects and which resulted in the drawing up of a wide range of housing shapes contributing to makingthis city a laboratory of ideas and proposals. 

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