Luino, Italy
Jacopo Mascheroni of JM Architecture’s Pinwheel House is a pavilion-like, wooden house nestled in a glade of the oak tree forests typical of the lake region bordering Switzerland.
A project shaped by the boundaries and topography of a small sloping plot, where the suitable buildable area corresponds to a natural terrace in the narrowest portion of the site.
The design followed the building setbacks’ constraints and the need for a living area facing the lake valley.
With one side parallel to the contour lines of the slope, and two sides aligned with the back lines, the simple geometry