casa, plurifamiliare, e torre

This is a plain-faced trapezoidal house-block, its tower absorbed into the body of the building rather than standing apart. The structure rises three storeys, built in rough stone courses, with wooden floor beams and a double-pitched roof of curved tiles. The facades are entirely without ornament, no mouldings, no carved details, no flourish at all. Inside, the building contains three dwellings, along with a carriage house and three storage rooms. It is a workmanlike, unapologetically practical arrangement: a tower-house that has become a small apartment block, its medieval verticality tamed into three storeys of domestic life. The austerity of the stonework suggests a building that was never meant to impress, only to endure. Some towers were statements of power; this one simply got on with the business of housing people, storing things, and keeping the rain out.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.