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Enrico Sassi

CÀ ROSSA RENOVATION AND EXTENSION . Pregassona-Lugano

Enrico Sassi Architetto . photos: © Marcelo Villada

The building known as “Casa Rossa” (Red House) is a building owned by the municipality of Lugano, which houses a children’s library on the basement floor and the “Circolo Anziani Pregassona”, a recreational and social self-managed space for the elderly where lunches, dinners and events are organized, on the upper floor.
The space used by the senior citizens’ club was inadequate and no longer complied with hygiene standards as requested for the kitchen was concerned and lacked the minimum sanitary facilities needed by law. Continue reading Enrico Sassi

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Enrico Sassi

Renovation Grotto della Rocci . Gandria

Enrico Sassi Architetto

The Grotto della Roccia is a small historic building, which has been out of use for almost a century, set in the rock at the beginning of the Gandria path and overlooking Lake Lugano.
The building has three levels: a basement with a barrel-vaulted cellar excavated in the rock above which there is a small terrace, a ground floor with one side made of rock whose internal dimensions are 3.4 x 3.6 m and an upper floor of the same dimensions that was only accessible from the outside. Continue reading Enrico Sassi