Repetition and geometry: the House of the painter Zigaina designed by Giancarlo De Carlo

In 1958, the architect Giancarlo De Carlo designed the house for the painter Zigaina in a small town in the north of Italy. Mainly known for his urban theories and his participation in the Team X, the architect De Carlo in this project interprets a modern vision of the single-family home. It is a house with separated rooms, connected through small spaces like corridors. These spaces are covered by a gable roof. The unity of the house is obtained through the decomposition of the spaces - aggregates - and the recomposition of the elements with the large roof. The paper deals with the design of a single-family home in the Modernity through the example of the house built by De Carlo. The aim of the research is to relate the composition’issues of this project with the issues related to the project of the single-family house in the Modern, highlighting a new way to face the topic of the house, strongly linked to the tradition.