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Visualization © Laboratorio Permanente
Drawing © Laboratorio Permanente
Visualization © Laboratorio Permanente

Urban Corner - international competition

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Client
International competition promoted by Compagnia di San Paolo
Team
Nicola Russi, Angelica Sylos Labini, Mario Ventilato, Marco di Forenza, Luca Cozzani, Francesca Lina Pincella, Alessandro Zanoletti, Giacomo Palomba, Alberto Ceriotti, Alberto Benetti Genolini, Gabriel Jakober

The Stephenson district is largely characterised by the presence of introverted buildings, rigidly defined by boundaries and enclosures. The building works as a big and bright lantern that, through its transparency, establishes a relationship of continuity with the external spaces. The central position occupied by the project area represents the great opportunity to rethinak a stronger public space able to reconnect the existing discontinuity, becoming a condenser of new social activities. In a context defined by the diffuse presence of vertical buildings, the choice of a flat volume gives higher visibility to the architecture that, due to its horizontality, contrasts the background. The horizontal landmark has been conceived as a super-infrastructure that works in harmony with its environmental and social context by offering new liveable spaces for the entire district. A mineral podium intersects the constructed architecture, extending the public space inside and approaching the working environments, with a continuous system of collective terraces and gathering places. The organisation of the inside space has been designed to provide maximum flexibility: the project models the volume defining a complex architecture where working spaces interact with collective ones in a composition of formal and informal environments.

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