Wiggly house is a single-family residential building located in a difficult context 50km away from Milan in Italy, characterized by multi-storey buildings that surround it.

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Architects: ifdesign

Location: 22100 Como, Province of Como, Italy

Lead Architects : Franco Tagliabue Volontè, Ida Origgi

Area: 150.0 m2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Andrea Martiradonna

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Wiggly house is a single-family residential building located in a difficult context 50km away from Milan in Italy, characterized by multi-storey buildings that surround it.

© Andrea Martiradonna
Because of this promiscuity, the house tries to protect itself reducing  the openings toward the outside as much as possible, compensating with big or smaller patios, both closed and open, that give light to the inner spaces in a more suitable way.

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The covering reaffirms this principle. Canadian gray granite covers the entire building to symbolize this idea of protection with the exception of the walls where the volume is subtracted by the grey-plaster made patios. 

© Andrea Martiradonna

This way the building tries to open upwards:the pitch of the roof folds restless in search of the zenithal light in a...