MAUDEN SpA HEADQUARTER, VIA STEPHENSON 43/ASurface 700 mq- 11° floor: 350 mq- 13° floor: 350 mq The project was supervised by Paul Frello & Partners (www.frello.com) and involved the renovation of a total area of about 700 square meters of intervention for the new office building of Mauden Spa in Milan.The company, founded in 1987 as a broker of hardware products, has been transformed over time becoming business partner to major brands. Now has a structure of about 50 people, operating in the two offices in Milan and Rome, and business volume of over 45 million euro, Mauden is a systems integrator of all the national territory in a position to meet the most complex requirements of firms medium and large public administration and to ensure continuity of customer and supplier relationship and quality of service.The offices are located in one of the focal points of the city, the north-west, an important point of connection between the city center and the future home of Expo 2015 and are situated on the eleventh and the thirteenth floor of the skyscraper Alliance Insurance.The offices have meeting rooms, break areas and well over 50 seats: split between executive, sales, back office and technical positions.The design concept plays on the full transparency of the glass, a material that has been chosen to allow the users to enjoy the city view at 360°.An idea that has been accomplished thanks to the innovation and technology of materials. Glass walls, produced by Zamborini Interiors Srl, themselves become carriers, allowing the total absence of vertical uprights. The extreme technical flexibility is deliberately concealed by the lightness and transparency of the system, wherein the primary profile keeps unchanged its dimensional characteristics and techniques in all the solutions, as the Telescope with the perimeter profile for adjustments in the yard and the possibility to be equipped with curtains, lighting and anything else the designer intends to do.The acoustic properties of the materials used for the walls that relate to the countertops give excellent performance, also thanks to the inclusion of sound barriers which provide a high sound insulation.Project by Paolo Frello Collaborator: Marco Vignati, Marzia Moretti and Daniele Gagliolo Photo by Valentino Bellini