Villa Girasole

Angelo Invernizzi, a wealthy Italian engineer of Genoa, Italy, dreamed of building a house that would “maximize the health properties of the sun by rotating to follow it”.

[3] He designed the house for himself with the help of Romolo Carapacchi, a mechanical engineer; Fausto Saccorotti, an interior decorator; and Ettore Fagiuoli, an architect.

“People who believed in a new era: nothing should be built as before.” Having a family connection to Marcellise, even though working and living in Genoa, he wanted to build the house there in its hilly splendor and with its memories of a simpler life.

[5] Invernizzi first began drawing designs for his rotating house in 1929, but construction started in 1931, only during summer months.

"In keeping with the project's experimental nature, a considerable amount of adaptation and refinement accompanied construction".