RESIDENZA LE STELLE, LOCARNO, SWITZERLAND


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Changeability outside & inside too


Apartments in the two river-facing towers take up a full floor each, but have slightly different floor plans and window arrangements. Buzzi says: “We drew on the idea popularised in Milan and known in Italian as villa a piani – reproducing a whole house on one floor and to have these ‘houses’ stacked on top of each other.” This gives occupants a greater range of views outside, while, according to Buzzi, the absence of the corridors that are often found in apartment blocks means residents can “fully perceive from the inside the true dimension of the building”.


The changeability of the brick cladding facade is a design theme repeated inside by the organisation of spaces in the apartments. "We wanted every apartment to be different, which is not always the case


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