House in Pregassona

Mario Botta – House in Pregassona, Single-family house in Pregassona-Switzerland, 1979

"The attention paid to this house is the result of the considerations I have developed around the relationship between the home and the surrounding environment, which in our case, for example, presents the ambiguous characteristics that derive from separating an urban area from a rural one. The house has adapted to this ambiguity: on the one hand it presents itself as an urban presence capable of designing a road junction but, on the other, it aims to re-propose elements derived from traditional rural construction, welcoming a loggia and an elevated belvedere. From this point of view this work is very different from my houses of the seventies, expressions of much more defined and, ultimately, limited problems. The interesting aspect of this new house seems to me to lie precisely in the desire it interprets to grasp and, if possible, comment on the modifications undergone by our territory, where the boundaries between the urban and the rural are becoming increasingly uncertain".
Mario Botta, Research in the 80s, edited by Peter Disch, Lugano, 1990

The cubic volume of the house is dug vertically on the south elevation by a deep slit that ends in the roof skylight and highlights, through the large window, the internal distribution space. The north facade is marked by the cylindrical body of the staircase that defines the organizational axis of the house: the porticoed entrances on the ground floor, the living area on the first floor and the sleeping area on the second. Mario Botta (Botta.ch)

Project: 1979 / Construction: 1979-1980
Client: Liliana and Domingo Sampietro
Land area: 600 m260 / Usable surface: 1100 mXNUMX / Volume: XNUMX mXNUMX