ACCURSIO - SCANDURRA

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PIAZZALE
ACCURSIO

PROJECT

Name: : Accursio

Location: Milan, Italy

Year: 2022 – ongoing

Typology: : Residential

Area: : SL: 9.938 sqm

Team:
CEAS S.r.l.
Rethink Energy s.r.l.
Studio Mistretta & Co.
Studio Ghezzi

Customer: Abitare In

Relating both to the curtain wall system and the typical open plan of the modern city, the residential complex designed by Scandurra Studio Architettura in Piazzale Accursio presents itself as an organic architecture, a form in progress, open and unfinished, which reacts, through local adaptations, slight rotations, deformations and withdrawals, to both external and internal stimuli.

The goal is the overall redevelopment of the area by arranging a new system of relationships and synergies capable of generating urban quality: with the city, public spaces, and the greenery.

The building does not have secondary facades or blind fronts but offers a view of the three different “faces”, giving a rotational movement to the triangular lot. The architectural design of the building considers an a-hierarchical opening towards the context, underlined by the tapering in the height of the horizontal element that defines it.

Following the strategy of building only along the two external sides of the perimeter, it was decided to free the centre of the lot from pre-existing structures and create a protected garden available to the condominium residents. The central void is conceived as a green, quiet and sunny courtyard where one can find refuge from the traffic of Piazzale Accursio and Viale Espinasse. Different heights and progressive transformations develop around the building, recalling in its variable configuration a natural or biological organism.

Dark bronze-finished metal, as well as grey cement plaster and glass, partly characterised by a back-painting of a colour similar to the metal parts, are the materials chosen to evoke the image of the inhabited mountain and to reconnect with the presence of the automotive industry in the context, of which the nearby and iconic Garage Italia - the historic ENI service station designed in 1951 by Mario Bacciocchi – bears witness.