The building in question Zenale out on the pathway, a minor road that connects two major roads of the center of Milan, Via San Vittore and Corso Magenta near the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The body of the building, dating back to 1901, began around form with a “L” on a courtyard. the volume overlooking the main road and turned to less than the wing North is part of the property bordering the park. The façades reflect the characteristics morphology typical of buildings the end of the nineteenth century the area. The main road, five floors above ground, strain has a base in Lombardy, the plan ground and upper floors in imitation ashlar plaster with a design that simulates the presence of brick on sight. The façade is punctuated by large string courses and from wrought iron with floral design of balconic wooden doors and shutters on sliding wall. The home front on the court is more austere, openings and plaster painted with regular Milan taxes yellow gray. The North elevation to the garden is completely blind since it is bound by the easement against of the surrounding properties. The front was plastered today, not stained and full of action subsequent spontaneous tenants (windows, views, outdoor machines of air conditioners). on it, despite the lack of formal value, a constraint concerns indirect Superintendence for the Artistic for the presence of historical monuments in the vicinity ( Santa Maria delle Grazie and the Palace of the Bells) The intended use of the original provided to pianop basement cellars, workshops the ground floor and residences on upper floors.
Creating a portal to the FieraMilano: a 43-storey, 190 metre retail tower emerging from the site, giving shape to a torsion or vortex, a slow rising and twisting from its base. Horizontal energy is released into a vertical, spiralling vector aligned with the snaking forms of the housing across the river.
Project Architect: Paolo Zilli (Tower), Maurizio Meossi (Residential)
Tower Design Team: Andrea Balducci Castè, Mario Mattia, Giuseppe Morando, Annarita Papeschi, Matteo Pierotti, Peter McCarthy, Line Rahbek, Arianna Russo, Carlos, Sebastian Martinez
“City Futura” is a visionary urban design proposal for an expansion of the City of Milan set in the year 2210. The project is part of a development plan for fifteen different sites located on the outer ring connected by the Milan Metro line. An eclectic international group of architects including Mad Office from Beijing, R&sie(n) from Paris, Rojkind Arquitectos from Ciudad de México and B+U from Los Angeles among others were invited to each choose one of the available sites and envision an “arch-urban object”. Our site is located in the North-West part of the city close to Piazzale Giovanni dalle Bande Nere adjacent to the Bande Nere metro train station. City Futura is superimposed over the existing city leaving most of its buildings untouched and tapping into existing infrastructure and expand it.
Cecil Balmond was approached by Targetti + LouisPoulsen to create a semi-permanent design for the firm’s new showroom, Spazio Luce, in Milan. According to Targetti + Louis Poulsen, Spazio Luce is a ‘light factory,’ promoting the ‘culture of light,’ exploring its interrelations with architecture, art, sociology, science and design.
This project is a contemporary interpretation of the architecture of the 16th-century courtyard of the State University of Milan,translated and transformed from rigid Cartesian geometries into the linear fluidity of dynamic space. Adapting to the natural contours of the courtyard and the forces that converge towards its center, the project emphasizes the slope of the arches, creating a powerful vortex of spatial distortion that favors dialogue with the surrounding colonnade.
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