One morning we had a private tour of Mario Botta's first residence he designed. It overlooks Lake Lugano and has a winding driveway leading up to the house (which we walked). The house is not built into the side of the mountain, the area around the house is actually layered and the house is built onto one of the steps or layers. The core is a central winding staircase and different planes of floors rotate off of this staircase. The main entrance is the red steel bridge connecting the driveway plane to the top level of the house. In my opinion, one of his only pieces of work that I like...and I dig it a lot.
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