Residenze Carlo Erba

Milan, Italy

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Residenze Carlo Erba

Milan, Italy

Firm

Eisenman Architects
AZ Studio
Degli Esposti Architetti

Type

Residential › Apartment

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2019

SIZE

100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft

BUDGET

$10M - 50M

For a triangular site bounded by non-descript buildings, this project attempts to create a symbolic contemporary apartment building with the number of units required for commercial viability while responding to the context, particularly to the adjacent public garden, by continuing the garden onto the site. Restricted by the height limit due to the local regulations, we designed a series of horizontal bands stacked with slight offsets that create four different layers in the nine-story building.

The first three floors constitute a base course similar to historic urban palazzi with travertine cladding and punched window openings of similar size, with inset balconies. The fourth floor, or second layer, is like a traditional piano nobile; it is set back from both the face of the travertine base and the marble face above, and its glazing contrasts with the stone surfaces. The third layer, floors five and six, is articulated by enameled metal frames that create a horizontal band running the length of the façade. These frames are set forward of the actual west face of the building. On the east facade, they excavate the mass of the building in a carving lattice. The fourth and topmost layer, floors seven through nine, is in one sense not a horizontal layer but, in its stepped profile and volumetric mass, a series of “urban villas” with large planting terraces. The whole ensemble of distinct layers slightly shifted off center produces a dynamic effect, which, combined with traditional materials and window openings, marks the project as being of Milan today.

The S-form of the building was determined through a series of studies seen in diagrams that show how it meets both program and zoning requirements and also incorporates an early 20th-century classicist building on the site. This building becomes part of the condominium, as well as its formal entrance. The public garden to the west now “ends” in the curve of the condominium’s west elevation.

Collaborating firms:

Eisenman Architects
Degli Esposti Architetti
AZstudio

Client
Pinerba s.r.l., a company of Morelli Group

General contractor
Italiana Costruzioni (Rome): phase 2 and completion
CLE Cooperativa Lavoratori Edili (Bolzano): phase 1

Engineers
Structural: Studio d’Ingegneria Associato Ardolino, Bolzano;
Mechanical and electrical: Sistema Group Engineering, Montichiari (BS)
(preliminary phase); A.T. Advanced Tecnologies, Rome (execution phase); Studio
MGM, Gallarate (execution phase)

Photographers
Maurizio Montagna
mauriziomontagna.com
Drone photos
Marco de Bigontina ESPERIENZA-DRONE
esperienza-drone.it

Other
Supervision of construction:
Arch. Lorenzo Degli Esposti
Arch. Paolo Lazza
Arch. Stefano De Vita

Project surveillance:
Geom. Giorgio Marocchi - Sherpa Engineering, Mantova (Phase 1);
Geom. Tristano Barroccu, Milan (Phase 2).

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Residenze Carlo Erba

Milan, Italy

Other Projects by Eisenman Architects

Yenikapi Archaeological Museum and Archeo-park

Residenze Carlo Erba

Milan, Italy

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