OFFICES CORSO DI PORTA NUOVA 19

Milan, Italy

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INFO
Redevelopment of the offices building Corso di Porta Nuova 19
Milan (Italy)
competition 2020
program: Redevelopment and elevation of the 7-floor office building located in Corso di Porta Nuova 19 in Milan: offices, coworking, cafeteria / bar, laboratories, ateliers, nursery, auditorium, exhibition spaces, underground parking
surface: 14.227 sqm
contracting authority: JLL for Kryalos Group
project: Alfonso Femia / Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia with
landscape: Michelangelo Pugliese
structure engineering + demolition: B&C Associati I Whitbywood
services engineering + BIM: Ariatta
acoustics: Biobyte
facades: Aiace srl
environment and security: Yard Reaas
geometer: Wescan solutions
flows and intermodal dynamics: MIC / Mobility in Chain
fire safety: Ing. Edmondo Antonio Corbo
certifications : LEED Platinum + Well Being V1
images: ©Alfonso Femia / Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia & Diorama
“Our intention here is to enhance the heritage, by reinforcing its existing characteristics, to offer the building a new urban identity. The proposed actions aim to affirm a unitary urban and architectural sequence which, nevertheless, seeks to decompose and recompose the elements of a whole in search of spatial optimization on the floors. Redesigned, the ground floor offers new added value to the building, thanks to its varied programming and the rediscovery of the central courtyard as a horizontal (garden level) and vertical (agora level) living space.” AF

Construction and identity
Redefining the shape of the built whole is done by restructuring the exterior facades. We also propose to completely rethink the interior ones. These actions are the starting point for the new morphology and the new identity of the building.
Simplified, the new geometry of the two bodies of the building develops in harmony with the last two floors, the highest level of which was born from the proposed elevation.
Visibility, uniqueness and functionality: these are the characteristics that guide our architecture for this project.
The two bodies of the building, autonomous entities yet part of a unitary whole, are linked by a new central and dynamic distribution: a central courtyard, a primary place protected at its ends by the volumes of the stairwells which, extruded and open to the outside, play with the materiality of the new urban fronts.