247. Aurelio Galfetti /// Casa Rotalinti /// Bellinzona, Switzerland /// 1959-61
OfHouses guest curated by Jeff Kaplon (Subtilitas):
The idea of an evolving relationship to landscape in a daily cycle.
In Galfetti’s Casa Rotalinti, the occupant’s 24 hour cycle of habitation dictates the carving of the brutalist concrete cube perched atop a Bellinzona valley, its massing perhaps referencing the nearby Castello di Sasso Corbaro. One enters the roof from a bridge that connects to a parking space, and descends downward via an organic spiral stair to the picturesque, sunset-capturing glazed area of the “day zone” in which one’s relationship to the surroundings is distant and abstracted. As the day wanes, one continues to descend to the lower portions of the “night zone”, ultimately and literally grounded on the forest floor, where the interaction with the landscape becomes much more intimate.
(Photos: © ‘Aurelio Galfetti Arquitecte’, Quaderns d'arquitectura i urbanisme 155 (1982), 13-15; aureliogalfetti.ch.)
My time as guest curator comes to a close today, so i will be sharing my 7 selections throughout the day. thank you to ofhouses for inviting me, and please visit their site and check their extensive archive. Above is my first selection.
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