page_title: Casa del Fascio (Como)
section_title: Facades
hierarchical_section_title: Casa del Fascio (Como) / Description / Facades
caption_attribution_description: English: Casa del Fascio (Como)
context_page_description: The Casa del Fascio of Como, also called Palazzo Terragni, is a building located in Como, Italy, in the Piazza del Popolo, and it is one of the masterpieces of Italian Modern Architecture. It was designed by Italian architect Giuseppe Terragni. It was inaugurated in 1936 as the local office of the National Fascist Party. After the fall of Fascism in 1945, it was used by the National Liberation Committee Parties and in 1957, it became the headquarters of the local Finance Police, who still occupy it. The building has a square plan and four stories.
  Thanks to its high historical-artistic value, Casa del Fascio was listed by the Superintendency of Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape in 1986.
context_section_description: The facades composition is based on golden ratio and clear geometrical proportions. These are made up of opaque parts, covered with Calcare di Bottincino slabs, and translucent parts of concrete-frame glass blocks. (Dal Falco, 2003, pp. 22-24) The four facades, equal in size, are different in architectural motifs and in the relationships between full and empty spaces, while maintaining their coherence for the materials used and for the structural rhythms. 
  The main facade on Piazza del Popolo is characterized by a large loggia divided into five spans. Here, Terragni had inserted curtains in order to shield the summer sun rays. The transparency of the loggia is balanced by the opaque lateral part that constitutes a real torre littoria, incorporated, however, in the parallelepiped volume of the building. It is in this portion that the documentary and illustrative scenes by painter Marcello Nizzoli were originally intended to be placed.
  The Via dei Partigiani façade is defined by long wooden and iron windows and a concrete-frame glass block wall that occupies the span of the main internal staircase. Depending on the function of the rooms, the windows are divided into: ribbon windows for the bathrooms and "L" windows for the offices.
  In the Via Pessina facade, the structural parts emerge in the three central spans thanks to the presence of the wooden windows and the respective concrete-frame glass block railings. On the top floor, instead, the wall recedes slightly creating a small loggia.
  The rear facade, finally, presents, in the central portion, an emptying of the structure given by the glass wall on the ground floor and the large attic loggia on the top floor. In the central part there are "L" windows, while in the service staircase portion there is a vertical glazed window.
caption: Main facade of the Casa del Fascio in Como
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