Building in Brussels Street

Project by Venturino Ventura - Via Bruxelles 77–79, corner of Via Salaria, Rome

Venturino Ventura has created a small residential dream in via Bruxelles: a building that challenges rigid building codes, embraces urban nature and becomes a living sculpture. In an often inflexible architectural context, this building built in 1968 emerges as a poetic and experimental act, as forgotten as it is nostalgically admired today.

Curved balconies and greenery
The terraces protrude with a wavy profile, cantilevered, creating a plastic rhythm on the entire facade. The inserted plants, as well as the large windows, emphasize the connection between inside and outside, light and shadow.

In one of the corner balconies, Ventura designed a hole to accommodate a cypress tree that passed through the floor structure until it was later removed. This choice shouldn't be considered a whim, but rather a deliberate desire for a dialogue between architecture and nature.

This architecture is considered Ventura's most iconic work, a successful example of post-war residential architecture, which combines functionality and poetic suggestion.