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DF DC hides Swiss apartment block behind Pisa Baptistery-informed concrete wall
Architecture studio DF DC has designed a concrete apartment block overlooking Lake Lugano in the south of Switzerland that has a concrete exoskeleton so that the interior spaces are free to change over time .
Named after its street, Via Carona 6 contains 14 private-rental apartments that are shielded from the road by a concrete wall that was informed by the architecture of the 14th-century Pisa Baptistery.
Top: Via Carona 6 by DF DC. Above: the building is located beside a rail track
Built on a Swiss hillside the five-storey building is located alongside a winding road and above a railway track.