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MAGGIOLINA, MUSHROOMS, AND STILT HOUSES

MAGGIOLINA, MUSHROOMS, AND STILT HOUSES

Milan

Via Lepanto and Via Perrone di San Martino 8

Where there once was the Maggiolina, an old farmstead on the banks of the Seveso River, there is a fantasy world of houses known by few, with a remarkable architecture. In the 1940s, after the world war, Mario Cavallé had the idea of creating very special structures to serve as temporary residences for displaced persons: he built mushroom-shaped houses, with a rounded stem serving as the living space, and the cap being the roof. Twenty years later, the mushrooms were converted to igloos and lost their original shape. Just down the road, instead, there is La palafitta (the stilt house), the private residence of the architect Luigi Figini, which, as the name suggests, is raised above the ground by means of stilts. No neighborhood for the conformists.
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