Palazzina and the city

Abstract

In the years of economic recovery, this specific kind of residential buildings represented a thriving business, thanks also to the enormous availability of clients:
the upcoming bourgeois class, ambitious and determined on self-affirmation, more closely related to opulent and individual domestic models than to the creation
of the city as a collective fact. The high flexibility the volume has been manipulated with over time, i.e. its adaptability to different semantic registers, its aptitude for distributive, structural, material and linguistic experimentations, made this typological anarchic and indifferent element to urban morphology paradoxically turn into the most adaptable to the changes of the city. Ideal for newly formed or low-density cities, it showed its capability of settling easily within the informal voids of un-built areas, in the contorted lots, in those heterogeneous, widespread or consolidated spaces of the city.