Vesper No. 9 | The Adversary | Fall-Winter 2023
Carlo Gandolfi
The Move of the Rook. A Graft on the Locatelli Tower by Mario Bacciocchi
in Milan
Keywords
Mario Bacciocchi, Milanese Modern, urban
conflict, tower, city
This is the story of a project made up of relationships, embedded in a
system of cross-references ranging from the city to the languages that inhabit
its architecture; from decisions, to measurements, to the scale of detail, that
which allows architecture to be controlled and built. The aim is to tell how
these relationships, alternating, take on the status of successive moves
capable of shaping the urban scene, including conflicts and references. The
story starts from a promenade that crosses Milan’s 20th century
and stops at a house, a graft within the Locatelli Tower built to and design by
Mario Bacciocchi in the 1930s. A place of suspended living, where the open and
domestic space are immersed in the city thanks to a series of intersecting
visual gazes. From this house it is possible to narrate the city; here one can
live, dance, party and feel the wind that is never present in Milan, as if one
were somewhere else, redolent and far from the – although close –
antagonists.
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