Villa Capellaro

Marcello Nizzoli, Gian Mario Oliveri, 1953 – 1955

Designed between 1953 and 1955 by Marcello Nizzoli and Gian Mario Oliveri, Villa Capellaro is part of the nucleus of villas designed for the factory executives by the architects already working in Ivrea on jobs commissioned by Olivetti. Villa Capellaro is distinctive for the research done into a special volumetric composition accentuated by the different solutions used for treating the facades (stone and plasterwork). As in the other buildings designed by Nizzoli, many elements of the composition often considered to be secondary take on the role of characterising the building and in this case we are speaking of the positioning of the open cement and stone masonry of the retaining wall and the horizontal beams with brise-soleil being prominent features of this architecture.

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