Add To Collection
Add to Collection
Milanofiori
Milanofiori
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
Milanofiori
The Milanofiori housing
complex is part of the master plan by Erick van Egeraat characterized by a series of functions (offices, hotels, restaurants, cinemas, leisure, residences) that define together a cluster whose elements appear to follow the characteristics of the surrounding
landscape creating a public park as the extension of the existing forest. The design seeks the symbiosis between architecture and landscape, so that the synthesis of artificial and natural elements could
define the quality of living and the sense of belonging by the inhabitants.
The
interface between the building and the garden becomes the field where interaction between man and environment takes place. This interface is defined by the "C" form of the complex which encompasses the public park, and by the porosity from interior to exterior that characterizes all 107 apartments.The two facades are designed differently: the one facing the street outside is more urban, and the one towards the inner park is more organic.
The design of the urban facadestimulates a sense of belonging thanks to the composition of white frames which identify separately the units. These frames include vertical
wooden panels of different widths which can slide across the frames and control
the inner light as necessary.
The organic facade overlooking the garden features double glazed bioclimatic greenhouses.
The co-planarity between the glass of the greenhouse and the glass
guardrail covering the string-course creates an effect where the shape of the construction and the
background merge
and reverse their roles constantly, producing kaleidoscopic effects overlapping the reflection of the public garden outside with the transparency of the private garden inside.
The geometry of the building is shaped by translation of the upper levels in line with positions of
optimum solar exposure and by tapering of the external terraces in order to increase introspection among residents.
The winter
garden has a double value: an environmental value in providing a buffer zone
which allows thermal regulation, and an
architectural value in allowing extension of the interior living space
towards the exterior landscape (and vice versa) permitting different uses from
summer to winter.
Through the
overlap of different natural layers (the public park, the open terraces and the
winter gardens) the project seeks a kind of a holism of nature,
where various personal interactions of these natural layers create an intensive
landscape that is directly and personally customized by each resident.
In line with ever changing developments in
contemporary living, the porosity of the architecture makes Milanofiori
residential complex an evolving organism, in perpetual change, preferring the
dynamic exchange between architecture and nature and stimulating the
interaction between man and environment.
The
Milanofiori project investigates new ways of contemporary living by developing three themes.
Nomadic and sedentary. Contemporary life brings each of us to live a
house as a place where you come from and where you come back to, in a continuous alternation of time and space.
This means that sedentary
and nomadic attitude coexists in our every day living experience. To express this duality it is not enough
to think just in terms of housing types that meet the most varied requirements of all possible users. It is needed instead a paradigm shift that lies in reversing the direction of the discussion: from thehouse as an object to the inhabitant as the subject.
Living in the garden. Breaking free from the presence of the hypertrophic "house", the dwelling is thought more as the
expression of the site as a whole, rather than a
physical place. This is not simply blurring the distinction between inside / outside, but finding the continuum in which space and time are unified in one entity that cannot be separated. To do this we need to think of an opportunity: the
garden. In the garden space and time are unified, they become continuous, recovering - evoking - the essential meaning of living in the sense of "taking care".
From collective complex to "polyvalent-interconnected system”.
The project involves a series of open spaces for social interaction in synergy
with other parts of the cluster. In this sense, the typical user lives an
"interconnected life", with multiple possibilities of movement even
within the same cluster. We try to overcome the concept of "Unity"
(d'Habitation) in favor of a polyvalent system that overcomes the typical
nuclear family separation between housing and workplace imposed by the
industrial civilization, towards new models of mutual relations, trade and
transversality.
complex is part of the master plan by Erick van Egeraat characterized by a series of functions (offices, hotels, restaurants, cinemas, leisure, residences) that define together a cluster whose elements appear to follow the characteristics of the surrounding
landscape creating a public park as the extension of the existing forest. The design seeks the symbiosis between architecture and landscape, so that the synthesis of artificial and natural elements could
define the quality of living and the sense of belonging by the inhabitants.
The
interface between the building and the garden becomes the field where interaction between man and environment takes place. This interface is defined by the "C" form of the complex which encompasses the public park, and by the porosity from interior to exterior that characterizes all 107 apartments.The two facades are designed differently: the one facing the street outside is more urban, and the one towards the inner park is more organic.
The design of the urban facadestimulates a sense of belonging thanks to the composition of white frames which identify separately the units. These frames include vertical
wooden panels of different widths which can slide across the frames and control
the inner light as necessary.
The organic facade overlooking the garden features double glazed bioclimatic greenhouses.
The co-planarity between the glass of the greenhouse and the glass
guardrail covering the string-course creates an effect where the shape of the construction and the
background merge
and reverse their roles constantly, producing kaleidoscopic effects overlapping the reflection of the public garden outside with the transparency of the private garden inside.
The geometry of the building is shaped by translation of the upper levels in line with positions of
optimum solar exposure and by tapering of the external terraces in order to increase introspection among residents.
The winter
garden has a double value: an environmental value in providing a buffer zone
which allows thermal regulation, and an
architectural value in allowing extension of the interior living space
towards the exterior landscape (and vice versa) permitting different uses from
summer to winter.
Through the
overlap of different natural layers (the public park, the open terraces and the
winter gardens) the project seeks a kind of a holism of nature,
where various personal interactions of these natural layers create an intensive
landscape that is directly and personally customized by each resident.
In line with ever changing developments in
contemporary living, the porosity of the architecture makes Milanofiori
residential complex an evolving organism, in perpetual change, preferring the
dynamic exchange between architecture and nature and stimulating the
interaction between man and environment.
The
Milanofiori project investigates new ways of contemporary living by developing three themes.
Nomadic and sedentary. Contemporary life brings each of us to live a
house as a place where you come from and where you come back to, in a continuous alternation of time and space.
This means that sedentary
and nomadic attitude coexists in our every day living experience. To express this duality it is not enough
to think just in terms of housing types that meet the most varied requirements of all possible users. It is needed instead a paradigm shift that lies in reversing the direction of the discussion: from thehouse as an object to the inhabitant as the subject.
Living in the garden. Breaking free from the presence of the hypertrophic "house", the dwelling is thought more as the
expression of the site as a whole, rather than a
physical place. This is not simply blurring the distinction between inside / outside, but finding the continuum in which space and time are unified in one entity that cannot be separated. To do this we need to think of an opportunity: the
garden. In the garden space and time are unified, they become continuous, recovering - evoking - the essential meaning of living in the sense of "taking care".
From collective complex to "polyvalent-interconnected system”.
The project involves a series of open spaces for social interaction in synergy
with other parts of the cluster. In this sense, the typical user lives an
"interconnected life", with multiple possibilities of movement even
within the same cluster. We try to overcome the concept of "Unity"
(d'Habitation) in favor of a polyvalent system that overcomes the typical
nuclear family separation between housing and workplace imposed by the
industrial civilization, towards new models of mutual relations, trade and
transversality.
Product Spec Sheet
Were your products used?
Join as a manufacturer to add your products.