MONZA BEAUTY CONTEST

Monza, Italy

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MONZA BEAUTY CONTEST

Location: Via Cavallotti at the corner of Via Pelletier, Monza, Italy
Client: BP Real Estate srl, which is promoting the competition with the support of its advisor Reality Partners
Architectural and landscape design: Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia *AF517
Landscape architect: Michelangelo Pugliese
Lead architect: Alfonso Femia
MEP and environmental engineering: United Consulting
Project director: Marco Corazza
Design team: Simonetta Cenci (Coordination), Alfonso Femia, Stefania Bracco, Antonia Crespi, Jessica Emma Manzoni, Alfonso Marotta, Li Syuan
Cost control: Fabio Marchiori
Program: Preliminary architectural design of new residential buildings (free market housing) comprising 166 apartments, located at Via Cavallotti corner of Via Pelletier, within the area of the former Buonpastore monumental complex in Monza
Site area: 28,384 sqm
Land area: 12,284 sqm
Built footprint: 2,748 sqm
Gross floor area (new construction): 10,886 sqm
Calendar: Competition 2025
Images: ©AF517, ©Diorama

“We wanted to create a permeable public space capable of linking the different urban sectors through physical and visual continuity. Permeability takes shape in a system of fluid pathways, safe crossings, and direct connections with new focal points” AF
The masterplan engages in dialogue with the green system of Monza, becoming a new public and private green lung and reopening to the city a portion that had so far been impenetrable.The design principles are translated into technological, compositional, and architectural elements capable of integrating aesthetic quality and functional performance into a unified system. We wanted to create a permeable public space capable of linking the different urban sectors through physical and visual continuity. Permeability takes shape in a system of fluid pathways, safe crossings, and direct connections with new focal points. A clear hierarchy between public and private flows, with dedicated access points and transversal connections, makes the complex permeable and connected.