The Swiss couple Carlo and Leontina Bianchi were close friends of Mario Botta when he remodeled an old apartment for them in the small town of Genestrerio. Soon after, in 1971, the same family commissioned a newly graduated Botta to design a new house, but this time in the area of the canton of Ticino, at the foot of San Giorgio Monde and with views of Lake Lugano. While the listing requirements were very similar to that of the previous remodel: a house with economic rooms for a couple with two children, the process of thinking in the new house was very different. In fact, it came to be almost like it was constructed starting with the roof.