San Maurizio Apartments in Monte Mario

Luigi Moretti - San Maurizio Apartments in Monte Mario, Rome 1962-1965

This architecture is an attempt to give shape to a feeling of violent expansion that from the inside of the structures wants to pour outwards: a charge of energy that from the inside wants to explode towards the outside and its opposing and contradictory forces.

The terraces, overlapping horizontal basins, have visually eliminated all the vertical masonry; the closing perimeter, set back, disappears, leaving evident the extension of the inside towards the outside. There is no longer a 'facade', but a continuous curved surface on all sides, born from a free design, not from fixed rules or structural needs
Luigi Moretti