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CityLife Tower
The tower designed by Arata Isozaki and Andrea Maffei as part
of the redevelopment programme of the historical trade fair area in Milan
commissioned by the company Citylife will reach a height of 207 meters in 2015,
and will be the tallest in Italy.
The skyscraper, comprised of a modular system that
can in theory repeat indefinitely, has six office floors in each of the eight
modules clad with a double-glazed glass skin. The vertical continuation of the
modules, slightly convex, has been designed to create the concept of a
tower without end. Four slanted “struts” help to support the tower along the
two main façades (reducing, among other things, the bulk of the load-bearing
structures in the internal space) and act as one of the bracing systems.
“In our archipelago of forms – explains Andrea
Maffei – we found it interesting to develop the idea of a skyscraper without
end, a sort of endless tower. We wanted to study a concept to be applied to the
skyscraper, even before imagining its aesthetics. In the aspiration
for maximum height, we chose to apply the concept of a modular system that
could repeat indefinitely and seamlessly.”
project
TCa CityLife Tower, Milan, Italy
program
offices
client
CityLife s.r.l., Milan, Italy
architects
Arata Isozaki and Andrea Maffei
design team
Pietro Bertozzi, Takeshi
Miura, Alessandra De Stefani, Chiara Zandri, Vincenzo Carapellese, Roberto
Balduzzi, Francesca Chezzi, Takatoshi Oki, Stefano Bergagna, Paolo Evolvi,
Elisabetta Borgiotti, Adolfo Berardozzi, Sofia Bedinsky, Atsuko Suzuki,
Antonietta Bavaro, Carlotta Maranesi, Higaki Seisuke, Hidenari Arai / Andrea
Maffei Architects s.r.l., Milan, Italy
structural engineering
Maurizio Teora (PD),
Luca Buzzoni (PM), Matteo Baffetti / Arup Italia s.r.l., Milan, Italy Favero
& Milan Ingegneria s.p.a., Mirano, Italy
facades
Mikkel Kragh, Mauricio
Cardenas, Matteo Orlandi, Maria Meizoso, Carlos Prada / Arup Italia s.r.l., Milan,
Italy
mechanical systems
Gianfranco Ariatta,
Roberto Menghini, Riccardo Lucchese, Andrea Ambrosi, Sylvia Zoppo Vigna / Ariatta
Ingegneria dei sistemi s.r.l., Milan, Italy
fire control
Salvatore Mistretta,
Milan, Italy
vertical
infrastructures
Jappsen Ingenieure, Frankfurt, Germany
lighting
design
LPA Light Planners Associates, Tokyo, Japan
sound
engineering
Vernon Cole, Cole Jarman, Addlestone, Surrey,
United Kingdom
project
management
J&A, Milan, Italy
Ramboll, London, United Kingdom
contractor
Colombo Costruzioni, Milan, Italy
size
built surface for the tower: 81.615 mq
surface for parking areas (outdoors and
underground): 44.485 mq.
maximum building height: 207 m
number of floors: 50
number of office floors: 46
number of work stations: 3864
schedule
competition: 2003 (results: 2004) / design:
2005-2011 / start of construction: 2012 / estimated completion: 2015
of the redevelopment programme of the historical trade fair area in Milan
commissioned by the company Citylife will reach a height of 207 meters in 2015,
and will be the tallest in Italy.
The skyscraper, comprised of a modular system that
can in theory repeat indefinitely, has six office floors in each of the eight
modules clad with a double-glazed glass skin. The vertical continuation of the
modules, slightly convex, has been designed to create the concept of a
tower without end. Four slanted “struts” help to support the tower along the
two main façades (reducing, among other things, the bulk of the load-bearing
structures in the internal space) and act as one of the bracing systems.
“In our archipelago of forms – explains Andrea
Maffei – we found it interesting to develop the idea of a skyscraper without
end, a sort of endless tower. We wanted to study a concept to be applied to the
skyscraper, even before imagining its aesthetics. In the aspiration
for maximum height, we chose to apply the concept of a modular system that
could repeat indefinitely and seamlessly.”
project
TCa CityLife Tower, Milan, Italy
program
offices
client
CityLife s.r.l., Milan, Italy
architects
Arata Isozaki and Andrea Maffei
design team
Pietro Bertozzi, Takeshi
Miura, Alessandra De Stefani, Chiara Zandri, Vincenzo Carapellese, Roberto
Balduzzi, Francesca Chezzi, Takatoshi Oki, Stefano Bergagna, Paolo Evolvi,
Elisabetta Borgiotti, Adolfo Berardozzi, Sofia Bedinsky, Atsuko Suzuki,
Antonietta Bavaro, Carlotta Maranesi, Higaki Seisuke, Hidenari Arai / Andrea
Maffei Architects s.r.l., Milan, Italy
structural engineering
Maurizio Teora (PD),
Luca Buzzoni (PM), Matteo Baffetti / Arup Italia s.r.l., Milan, Italy Favero
& Milan Ingegneria s.p.a., Mirano, Italy
facades
Mikkel Kragh, Mauricio
Cardenas, Matteo Orlandi, Maria Meizoso, Carlos Prada / Arup Italia s.r.l., Milan,
Italy
mechanical systems
Gianfranco Ariatta,
Roberto Menghini, Riccardo Lucchese, Andrea Ambrosi, Sylvia Zoppo Vigna / Ariatta
Ingegneria dei sistemi s.r.l., Milan, Italy
fire control
Salvatore Mistretta,
Milan, Italy
vertical
infrastructures
Jappsen Ingenieure, Frankfurt, Germany
lighting
design
LPA Light Planners Associates, Tokyo, Japan
sound
engineering
Vernon Cole, Cole Jarman, Addlestone, Surrey,
United Kingdom
project
management
J&A, Milan, Italy
Ramboll, London, United Kingdom
contractor
Colombo Costruzioni, Milan, Italy
size
built surface for the tower: 81.615 mq
surface for parking areas (outdoors and
underground): 44.485 mq.
maximum building height: 207 m
number of floors: 50
number of office floors: 46
number of work stations: 3864
schedule
competition: 2003 (results: 2004) / design:
2005-2011 / start of construction: 2012 / estimated completion: 2015
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