Discover the Shocking Truth Behind Casa Cattiva with Industria38's Michelangelo Pivetta!
Is Casa Cattiva the Most Infamous Building in Industria38? Michelangelo Pivetta Shares His Inside Knowledge

Michelangelo Pivetta, an Italian architect known for his innovative designs, has recently unveiled his latest project - Casa Cattiva. The house is located in the urban dissemination of the Veneto suburbs and stands out from the vast pulverization of the Veneto's city with its unique character.
Pivetta's design for Casa Cattiva challenges the sad leveling of buildings that has been rampant since the 1960s. The architect describes the area as a professional jungle for disinterested operators, where homogenous features dominate and projects are based on an equivocally interpreted modernity.
In contrast, Pivetta's Casa Cattiva is a hieratic container that presents rare breaches that measure distances and relationships between inside and outside. The volumetric instrument is imperturbable, absolute, and configured by studying space and its figures.
The building's basement is the principal element, and it relates solidly with the earth, fragmented into three different volumes. The basement draws the hardness and physicality of the stone from the earth, adorning itself with its independent formal identity expressed by an enigmatic black color on the outside or worked concrete inside.
The upper floor is a solid, indifferent, and opposite to the whole, resting on the underlying masonry. The parallelepiped with a square section does not glide but rests on the base, touching it like a menhir.
At the top, a secret garden recessed from view is made of a paved stone, a lawn, and a cedar tree. The garden expands towards infinity and provides a meditative space for the occupants.
Casa Cattiva is more than just a house, fortress, or an ark. It is a search for a form of representation of architecture or an affirmation of its immanent vocation to become a solitary piece of a new possible rival landscape.
Michelangelo Pivetta's Casa Cattiva is a testament to his innovative design thinking and his ability to challenge the prevailing norms in the Veneto suburbs.







































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