INA-Casa Houses, Pozzuolo Martesana
INA-Casa
Roof: pitched roof with brick tiles
Load-bearing structure: beams and piers in reinforced concrete
Windows: painted wood
Façade: white plaster; bush-hammered concrete (base)
In many ways this project is similar to the project for the INA-Casa houses in Morbegno, built during the same period. It envisages the construction of a single block divided into two, square plan volumes, one with three floors above ground and one with four; the single block is centred around a shared staircase and rests on a bush-hammered concrete base indicating the presence of sub-basement cellars.
The two apartments on each floor are arranged based on a plan-type that clearly separates the day area - with one room and an open kitchen in one apartment but separate in the other - from the sleeping area with two small bedrooms and a bathroom in the middle. All the living rooms have a trapezoidal loggia with a parapet designed using the same solution adopted for the communal staircase.
Like most of the INA-Casa buildings, this one has very simple finishes (since they were cheaper): white rustic plaster and double pitched brick roofs. Painted wood was used for the doors and windows.
