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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Milanofiori Residential Complex in Via Roggia Bartolomea, Assago Milano by OBR – Open Building ResearchApril 5th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: OBR – Open Building Research Milanofiori Residential Complex is part of a cluster characterized by a series of functions (offices, hotels, restaurants, cinemas, residences), which has deeply contributed to the improvement of the surrounding area of Assago, in South Milan.The design of the Residential Complex seeks a symbiosis between architecture and landscape, so that the synthesis of artificial and natural elements could define the quality of living and the sense of belonging of the inhabitants. The interface between the building and the garden catalyses the interaction between man and environment.  Image Courtesy ©OBR – Open Building Research
 Image Courtesy ©OBR – Open Building Research This interface is defined by the “C” form of the complex, which embraces the public park – conceived as the extension of the existing landscape – and by the porosity from interior to exterior that characterizes all 110 units.  Image Courtesy ©OBR – Open Building Research The two primary façades of the development differ in design: the one facing the street outside is more urban, while the one towards the inner public park is more organic. The design of the urban facade stimulates the sense of belonging, utilizing the composition of the white frames, which outline and identify the units. These frames incorporate vertical wooden panels, which can slide across the frames and control internal daylighting and privacy as necessary. The organic facade overlooking the park acts as double glazed bio-climatic greenhouses. The co-planarity between the glass of the greenhouse and the glass of the guardrail creates an effect in which figure-ground merge and constantly reverse roles. This produces a kaleidoscopic effect overlapping the reflection of the public park outside with the transparency of the private gardens inside.  Image Courtesy ©OBR – Open Building Research The geometry of the building is shaped by the terracing of the upper levels for optimum solar exposure and by the tapering of the external terraces in order to increase privacy for inhabitants. The winter garden has a double value: an environmental one providing a buffer zone, which allows thermal regulation, and an architectural one in allowing the extension of the interior living space towards the exterior landscape, permitting different uses as seasons change. The overlap of different garden layers, from public to private, creates a holistic natural landscape, which is directly customised by each resident by cultivating their internal gardens, thus personally designing the facade of each unit.  Image Courtesy ©OBR – Open Building Research In line with ever changing developments in contemporary living, the porosity of the architecture makes Milanofiori Residential Complex an evolving organism, in perpetual change, favouring the dynamic exchange between architecture and nature and stimulating the interaction between man and environment. Nomadism and sedentarism. In contemporary life the house has become a place which we leave from and return to. This means that nomadic and sedentary attitudes coexist in our everyday experience. To express this duality, it is not enough to think only in terms of housing types that meet the most varied requirements of all possible users. Instead, a paradigm shift is needed, reversing the direction of the discussion: from the house as an object to the inhabitant as the subject.  Image Courtesy ©OBR – Open Building Research Living in the garden. Breaking free from the presence of the hypertrophic house, the design of the housing is the expression of the site as a whole, rather than a physical place. This is not simply blurring the distinction between inside/outside, but finding the continuum in which space-time are unified in one entity that cannot be separated. In the garden space and time become a whole evoking the essential meaning of living, in the sense of “taking care”.  Image Courtesy ©OBR – Open Building Research From collective to polyvalent interconnected complex. The project involves a series of open spaces for social interaction in synergy with other parts of the cluster. In this sense, the typical user lives an “interconnected life”, with multiple possibilities of movement even within the same cluster. We try to superseded the concept of “Unity” (d’Habitation) in favour of a polyvalent system that overcomes the typical nuclear family separation between housing and workplace imposed by the industrial civilization, towards new models for mutual relations and transversality.  Image Courtesy ©OBR – Open Building Research
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