San Martino Buon Albergo, Italy
Villa Girasole
San Martino Buon Albergo, Italy
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Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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Villa Girasole, constructed in the 1930s near Verona in northern Italy, is a rationalist house conceived by architect Angelo Invernizzi and built in collaboration with Ettore Fagiuoli. The villa's defining feature is its rotating structure, which follows the sun's movement throughout the day—a design principle that inspired its name, *girasole*, meaning "sunflower" in Italian. This innovative mechanism allows the entire house to turn in response to solar position, embodying both the rationalist aesthetic of its era and a poetic engagement with natural forces.
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- San Martino Buon Albergo, Italy
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