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Sumit Singhal
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.

City Life Milano Residential Complex in Milan, Italy by ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

 
September 6th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS 

The Residential plot is composed by 7 linear buildings set along a continuous path around two land areas: Rc1, including buildings C1- C2-C3 and Rc2 with buildings C4-C5-C6-C7. The land areas are divided by a strip of public park.

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  • Architects: ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS 
  • Project: City Life Milano Residential Complex
  • Location: Milan, Italy
  • Photography: David Bombelli, Gionata Xerra
  • Project Director: Gianluca Racana
  • Project Architect: Maurizio Meossi
  • Design Team: Vincenzo Barilari, Cristina Capanna, Giacomo Sanna, Paola Bettinsoli, Gianluca Bilotta, Fabio Ceci,Veronica Erspamer, Arianna Francioni, Stefano Iacopini, Mario Mattia, Serena Pietrantonj, Florindo Ricciuti, Giulia Scaglietta, Giovanna Sylos Labini, Anja Simons, Marta Suarez, Tamara Tancorre, Giuseppe Vultaggio, Massimiliano Piccinini, Samuele Sordi, Alessandra Belia
  • Site Supervision Team: Cristina Capanna, Veronica Erspamer, Stefano Iacopini, Giulia Scaglietta, Florindo Ricciuti

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  • Competition Team: Simon Kim, Yael Brosilovski, Adriano De Gioannis, Graham Modlen, Karim Muallem, Daniel Li, Yang Jingwen, Tiago Correia, Ana Cajiao, Daniel Baerlecken, Judith Reitz
  • Structures: MSC Associati, Milano
  • M&E: Hilson and Moran Italia, Milano
  • Fire Prevention: Ing. Silvestre Mistretta
  • Project Specifications: Building Consulting, Napoli
  • General Contractor: City Contractor srl, Milano
  • Electric (Construction): Impes
  • Mecanic (Construction):Panzeri
  • Facades: Permasteelisa Group
  • Size: 7 buildings from 5-13, storey 38000m2 gross surface, 230 units 2 storey underground car parking 50000m2

Image Courtesy © David Bombelli

Image Courtesy © David Bombelli

The buildings can accommodate up to 230 luxury apartments, with common facilities. The skyline of the residential complex is defined and characterized by a sinuous fluid line. The roof outline raises continuously from building to building, starting from 5-storey C2 building facing Piazza Giulio Cesare it reaches its maximum height at building C6 13th floor, thus ideally setting a unified and unique skyline.

Image Courtesy © Gionata Xerra

Image Courtesy © Gionata Xerra

Great care has been given to site and buildings orientation, taking into account environmental and comfort requirements so that most apartments face south-east and at the same time allocate the best views from the terraces, towards the city or the public park.

The façades design involves continuity and fluidity: the volumetric envelope of the buildings is defined by a curvilinear movement of balconies and terraces, opening up into a rich variety of private spaces, both interior and exterior, echoing the landscape below.

Image Courtesy © David Bombelli

Image Courtesy © Gionata Xerra

The façade materials – fiber concrete panels and natural wood panels – emphasize this complex volumetric movement and at the same time give a private and “domestic” quality to the interior of the residential courtyard.

At ground level, the double-height lobbies are flooded with light by large openings stretching from floor to ceiling, designed to confer strong visual continuity with the park.

Image Courtesy © Gionata Xerra

Image Courtesy © Gionata Xerra

Although great consideration has been given to the ground floor design and morphology, the project is formally defined mainly by the roof profile and the intense urban horizon it generates. This strategy was determined by the awareness of forthcoming towers looking upon the residential roofs and by the strong will to engender, within the inner courtyard, a completely new residential landscape, reassuring yet dynamic.

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Image Courtesy © ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

Image Courtesy © ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

Image Courtesy © ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

Image Courtesy © ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

Image Courtesy © ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

Image Courtesy © ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

Image Courtesy © ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

Image Courtesy © ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

Image Courtesy © ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

Image Courtesy © ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

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Categories: Apartments, complex, Housing Development, Residential




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