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News • News • 25 Mar 2022
New Urban Campus for Bocconi University features SANAA’s signature theme of transparency
The new Urban Campus for the Bocconi University is located on a large site close to the city centre of Milan, adjacent to the existing university. In a radical departure from the axial relationships and rectilinear volumes typical of the adjacent campus, the project comprises several sinuous buildings with shimmery metallic skin.
Filippo Fortis
Each building on the new campus is dedicated to its own program: the teaching and administration building (several interconnected cells), dormitories and a recreation centre. Only half the 35,000 square meter site is occupied by new buildings, with the remainder dedicated to green space.
Philippe Ruault
Transparency is a signature of SANAA, and this project is no exception. The see-... More
Project • By Gariselli Associati • Private Houses
Architecture for addition
On the hills of central Italy, a house 60s with an attached craft activity is transformed by the recent restructuring in a family house. A large marble base on which has been reassembled the whole construction. Scenes that go beyond the large base to extend the surrounding terrain and communicate with it. The materials that alternate are: cotto facing in dividing walls, glass mosaic columns, copper in finishes and coverings, marble and brick on prospectuses. Covered walkways, porticoes and a large terrace overlooked by large windows for the new ground floor apartment, whose clients were asking precisely to be able to enjoy the surrounding landscape and feel constantly inhabitants of their green garden... More
Project • By Gariselli Associati • Villages
Heritage
An elegant village in the hills of North of Italy. Complex architectures that combine the rural appearance of the place with the most modern design concepts, bucolic structures that intersect with modern elements, classical materials are combined with the most advanced building products. A quiet place where architecture becomes an integral part of nature by means of natural materials and bright colors that blend in idyllic tranquility and equilibrium. In collaboration with Ing. Vittorio Ravazzini and Arch. Annalisa Vandelli. More