Today we want to talk about the Casa Sperimentale, a brutalist work by Giuseppe Perugini. For those who don’t know, the Brutalism
is an architectural style of the years ’50/’70 that is coming back in various fields, but of this we have already spoken here.
The tree house, also named the work, was designed by Giuseppe Perugini, Raynaldo Perugini and Uga De Plaisant and built in Fregene
in the late 60’s. Typically brutalist, House was built in rough concrete that despite being at odds with the surrounding nature manages
to blend perfectly.
As a kind of nest structure seems suspended between trees and consists of various spaces. There is a House with an open space lounge
double height, spiral staircases to reach the upper floors and a moving walkway designed to raise so as to insulate the House from the outside.
Then there are other facilities such as the pool and meditation room, a concrete sphere cut off by a narrow window in which you can access
through the large circular door.
The intent of the architects was to create a contrast with the heaviness of the concrete and with pillars that rise upward and shells hung
denoting lightness. Unfortunately with the same lightness the building was abandoned. After the death of the architect Perugini in 1995
the structure is worn by time and prey to vandalism. For a work of the kind which is visited by thousands of fans of architecture and that
intrigues many that make set of their photographs, it isn’t definitely the better end. We hope that they can reevaluate the spaces and reclaim
what was his initial glory.