The Rozzol Melara complex is one of the biggest and most controversial social housing facilities ever built in Trieste … Rozzol Melara was inspired by Le Corbusier’s La Tourette and, with its large circular voids, is reminiscent of the architecture of Louis I. Kahn. The complex was designed with four main slabs arranged as a large square resting on a hill. … The complex was completed in 1983 when some of the social models at the base of the project were already obsolete, which is why some common spaces (shops and indoor walkways) re- mained incomplete at first and this contributed negative impressions of the building. Excerpt from Giovanni Damiani’s article in: SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey. Catalog DAM + Wüstenrot Foundation, Zurich (Park Books) 2017

The complex has undergone constant maintenance interventions over the years; services have been provided to the community and a new identity has been created, although some commercial lots remain vacant. Nowadays the neighborhood is safe and people who live there are generally satisfied, so, to a large extent, they decided to redeem their houses.