Not just a simple houseboat, but a small masterpiece in the history of modern architecture, designed by the same architects as the Torre Velasca, deliberately recalled in the name “Velarca”: the houseboat designed by the Milanese Studio BBPR (Gian Lugi Banfi, Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti and Ernesto Nathan Rogers) in 1959, commissioned by the couple Emilio and Fiammetta Norsa, after a long restoration is now at its original landing, in Ossuccio, on Lake Como in front of the Isola Comacina.
A true work and a design object, which takes up in its forms and spaces the characteristics of the typical architecture of the Milanese studio: the attention to the environment, the interpretation of the place, the quality of the design and the accuracy of the construction, which make the Velarca extraordinarily modern and at the same time anchored to the past.