'Shift Housing' in Cremona, Italy is a new project recently completed by Milanese architecture firm AquiliAlberg.

Characterised by a dynamic play of perspectives, the firm's concept challenges the constraints formed by local area regulations and a very small and narrow site.

With two opposite rotations of 4°, the two floors of the residential building have been shifted.

By rotating the ground floor front facade anticlockwise - elevated 1.2 metres from the ground - and rotating the first floor front facade clockwise, the results are two volumes with an 'X' direction visible on the front side.

The gap between the two volumes is a strong mark which was created for structural needs, but additionally emphasises these shifted perspectives.

The effect, with the open cantilevered loggias is a strong exchange between the concepts of fullness and emptiness, lightness and dynamism.