Architecture of Genova-4 : quartiere INA-Casa di Forte Quezzi

Architecture of Genova-4

quartiere INA-Casa di Forte Quezzi, Genova, 1956-68

architects : coord. Luigi Carlo Daneri, capigruppo Eugenio Fuselli, Robaldo Morozzo della Rocca, Angelo Sibilla, Mario Pateri, Gustavo Pulitzer Finali, Claudio Andreani

"......between 1956 and 1967, the huge INA-Casa district of Forte Quezzi, intended to accommodate 4,500 inhabitants distributed in 894 housing units. In realizing the Forte Quezzi district, Daneri headed a team of thirty-five architects, and five long houses were built following the hill’s curved contour line. The largest, Block A, renamed 'Biscione'(Big Snake) and whose construction was supervised directly by Daneri, is a six-storey building, 540 meters in length. On the third floor, it is traversed by an internal road which creates an architectural promenade."

(excerpt from https://italics.art/en/tip/the-ina-casa-plan-in-genoa/)

more photos https://www.flickr.com/photos/jacqueline_poggi/albums/72157644941862071

more photos https://architectureofdoom.tumblr.com/post/62699984548/omnisolidatum-ina-casa-forte-quezzi-l-c

more info https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscione_(Genova)

(image from Architecture of Doom)

(image from Architecture of Doom)