palazzo, plurifamiliare

This is a multifamily palazzo, an apartment building of the kind that housed the swelling urban population of 19th-century Italian cities. Its irregular plan is forced by the site, straddling the drop between Via San Michele and the ravine of Vico Euclide. Of the five floor levels, only the top one is served by an internal staircase; the ground floor on Via San Michele and the others each have their own independent entrances. The load-bearing structure is a rubble-filled stone masonry wall, a practical, economical technique. The façade on Via San Michele is clearly 19th-century in character, with two round-arched portals, and above them, in alignment, two rectangular windows and two oval ones. The other façade is more ambiguous at its lower levels, settling into the same 19th-century style above. The roof is pitched. It is a building of quiet, workmanlike dignity, shaped by topography and the practicalities of urban living.

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