Condominio in viale Roma, Modern villa in Marina di Massa, Italy.
Condominio in viale Roma is a modern residential building in Marina di Massa with a rectangular layout, two floors, and a distinctive circular entrance hall topped by a copper-covered dome above the stairwell. The complex contains seven apartments total, with four units on the ground level and three on the upper story, along with private parking and garden areas.
The building was constructed in 1985 to a design by Ettore Sottsass, who according to Giorgieri (1989, p. 239) gave it "particularly refined solutions" that set it clearly apart from the surrounding architecture. Its planning file is held in the Archivio Edilizia Privata of the Comune di Massa, and the building was entered in the cadastre in 1989.
The colour scheme is the building's most recognisable trait: pink facades, exposed concrete on the string course and corner pillar, white columns, eaves and window frames, and deep blue ceramic cladding on the parapets and metal profiles around the side window. The entrance is framed by two semicircles, one a low curved wall enclosing a ground-floor private garden.
The building sits near parking areas and features an easily recognizable circular entrance that makes it simple to locate and enter. The surrounding area provides convenient access to the gardens and allows for easy movement around the complex.
The first-floor terrace is cut into the west corner of the street front, closed toward the interior by a semicircular glass wall. The overhanging eave that crowns the whole building continues across the terrace, carried there by a single exposed corner pillar. Two narrow white columns rise from parapets clad in blue ceramic.
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