The Forte Quezzi district, also known as Il Biscione because of the sinuous shape of its buildings, is a social housing complex in Genoa built between 1956 and 1968 by six groups of designers coordinated by Daneri and his deputy Fuselli.
The five blocks of flats follow the contours of the hill on which they are set, following a building style inspired by Le Corbusier's 1930s model. Built at the height of the economic boom, the houses were intended to accommodate the large number of families arriving from the south, although little remains today of all the projects that were to gravitate around the area.
Daneri's research is aimed at developing a settlement model that transforms the suburbs from isolated fragments with no relationship with the old centre into an organic continuation of the city that continues to refer to its centre.
The large communal loggia is one of Genoa's most beautiful viewpoints over the city and the sea, usually the privilege of the wealthier classes, which the architects courageously decided to grant to all the residents of the neighborhood. The sea becomes a constant presence, a breath, a protagonist.