MARIO BOTTA

Mario Botta (April 1, 1943) is an architect born in Mendrisio,

canton Ticino, Switzerland.
He designed his first home at 16 years of age, although it is
unknown if it was built.He studied at the Liceo Artistico in
Milan and at the University Institute of Architecture (IUAV) in
Venice where he graduated with Carlo Scarpa.His ideas were
influenced by Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn and with those who
had the opportunity to work during their stay in Venice.He
opened his own office in 1970 in Lugano.
His style is strong and geometric.Its buildings are often built
with bricks.His particular style can be seen throughout
Switzerland, particularly in the Ticino region and also in the
Mediatheque in Villeurbanne (1988), a cathedral near Evry
(1995) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1994).
Since 1996 he teaches at the Academy of Architecture in
Mendrisio, University of Italian Switzerland.

ARCHITECTURAL
STYLE
1.HIS STYLE IS STRONG AND
GEOMETRIC.
2.OFTEN HIS DESIGN ARE BASEN ON
VERY SIMPLE SHAPES.
3.SEPARATION OF SERVICE SPACES
FROM LIVING.
4.CREATING UNIQUE VOLUME OF
SPACES.
5.BUILDINGS ARE OFTEN BUILT WITH
BRICK.
6.HIS USE OF MATERIAL
WIDE,VARIED AND OFTEN UNIQUE.
7.HIS PARTICULAR STYLE CAN BE
SEEN THROUGHOUT SWITZERLAND.

HOUSE IN LIGORNETTO
Introduction
The architectMario Bottaplanned this family house in 1975 and commissioned
by Giuseppina Bianchi Danilo.
Location
The site is located in a suburb of Ligornetto, forming the boundary between the
urban and rural areas.
Concept
The project idea is to set a limit. Housing is treated as a wall that defines the
urban area of the field.
The wall now houses cut into the center, opening to the outside and creating a
privileged relationship with the landscape at that point. The rest of the house is
closed, as a kind of protection afforded by its large side walls.
Volumetrically, is a rectangular base prism is not intended to blend with the
landscape, by contrast, stands as an artificial body emphasized by the dashed
horizontal contrasts with the surrounding natural environment.
Spaces
The volume consists of three floors.
Pedestrian access is through the middle of one of its long sides. So you get to
the core of the plant, where the vertical and horizontal movement. Vehicle
access is by one end of the prism.
Each floor is divided in half into two areas linked by an outward movement. This
movement is the most significant element of housing as it combines its spaces,
the visitor about the landscape that surrounds and illuminates the interior. Along
with the circulation are the outdoor spaces on each floor. This element also
separates the public areas and private housing.
The light does not fall evenly in the house, but does so in terms of plant height.
On the ground floor less light enters the first and in this, unless the latter.

Rotonda House
Introduction
Usually when an architect is entrusted a project, it begins with the study of the
environment, analyze the site and try to meet the needs of your customer. Mario Botta
uses a different method, instead of making that first investigation begins with the
affirmation of a simple geometric shape. In this case, the house made for Liliana and
Ovid Medici, is a resounding cylinder and solid gray concrete. This action does not mean
that the architect has ignored the environment or not taken into account the shape of
the plot, on the contrary it is a studied response to the topography and surrounding
buildings. With a hill in the background, on the west side, on which numerous chalets all
shapes and styles were built, stands elegantly House Rotunda.
Situation
The house a small plot of land, 750 m2 located on the northern edge of a residential
neighborhood on the outskirts of Stabio, Via Pietane 12 canton of Ticino, was built
Switzerland
Context
The context to consider was: the situation dictated by building codes, development
project near the old town, communication through roads that become passable roads
and pattern of fields and hills covered with vineyards.
Concept
"I imagined a circular building, crossed in its north-south axis by a fissure from which
descends daylight. A volume organized on three levels, a tower, or rather, an object
designed and cut himself . The intention was to avoid any comparison and / or contrast
with the surrounding buildings, but looking a spatial relationship with the distant
landscape and horizon. Using a cylindrical volume wanted to avoid elevations,
necessarily, be compared with the facades of the around existing homes.
Structure and materials
The bearing wall made of bricks, has been undermined and fractured. To help withstand
voltages difficult Botta ripping the same with almost imperceptible joints help of armed
and angular brackets metal that keeps the balance concrete, achieving the effect of
"tension" on a wall to be incomplete tends to close . This composition helps you
invested stepped wall that overlooks the vacuum. Loads diverted to the sides of the
central hole is spread below the static and visual reaching equilibrium.
The main materials used were cement, brick across the front, steel and glass. The floors
inside are wood