Casa Tersicore

Casa Tersicore
© Maurizio Montagna

CASA TERSICORE

Degli Esposti Architetti

LOCATION
Milano, Italy

CATEGORY
Houses

CLIENTS
Immobiliare La Sorgente, Immobiliare La Sorgente, Gafforelli Grou

GENERAL CONTRACTORS
Impresa Gregori e Loch

SUPERVISION OF CONSTRUCTION
Lorenzo Degli Esposti, Paolo Lazza, Francesca Grass

AREA
2150 m

YEAR
2018

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Lorenzo Degli Esposti, Paolo Lazza, Milan, Stefano Antonelli

Text description provided by architect.

Casa Tersicore was built in Milan, near the Naviglio Grande. On the street, the body of the building is four stories high, which bends around the corner, and then rises seven stories high in a type of turret.

Casa Tersicore
© Maurizio Montagna
Casa Tersicore
© Maurizio Montagna

The ground floor of the building is set slightly back from the edge of the loggia on the first and second floors. This loggia runs along both the street front and on the side orthogonal to it, towards the interior of the lot.

The decorative suspended pilasters (lesene) of the loggia, 15cm thick and variable in width, are designed in a slowed perspective (prospettiva rallentata), so that on the long side viewed from the street they appear equidistant because of the perspectival view, while in reality, their intercolumniation is progressively greater as they get further away from the street.

Casa Tersicore
© Maurizio Montagna
Casa Tersicore
© Maurizio Montagna
Casa Tersicore
© Maurizio Montagna

An ideal continuity can be mentally reconstructed by projecting the lines in the intervals between the parts of the frame, like the altanella positioned on the corner.

By changing the point of view, or when you are on the top-floor terraces enveloped by frames, you have the impression of being inside a very transparent interior or outside but in a sheltered setting – in any case, in the open air.

Casa Tersicore
© Maurizio Montagna
Casa Tersicore
© Maurizio Montagna
Casa Tersicore
© Maurizio Montagna

Casa Tersicore carries on the research of modern Milanese buildings, including those on Via Fatebenefratelli by Mozzoni and Ghidini, on Via Lanzone by the Latis brothers, on Via Anelli by Giancarlo Malchiodi, on 26 viale Beatrice d’Este by Perogalli and Mariani, among others.


Casa Tersicore
© Maurizio Montagna
Casa Tersicore
© Maurizio Montagna
Casa Tersicore
© Maurizio Montagna
Casa Tersicore
© Maurizio Montagna


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