Residential | Offices

SeiMilano

Milan | Italy

PROJECT DETAILS

City

Milan

Country

Italy

Customer

Borio Mangiarotti S.p.A.

Architectural design

MCA Mario Cucinella Architects

Period

2018-2020

Amount of works

250.000.000 €

Services Provided

Structure Design | BIM

Sector

Residential | Offices

Dimensions

118.000 m² (offices 20,000 m² + residences 66,000 m²)

Construction technique

reinforced concrete

An inhabited park

An urban regeneration project designed by MCA Mario Cucinella Architects involving an area of more than 300,000 square meters in the western part of Milan. Located between Lorenteggio and Parco delle Cave, SeiMilano is a multifunctional neighborhood that includes residential, office and commercial units overlooking a large green area of more than 16 hectares. Conceived as a large inhabited park, it is part of the larger Green Rays master plan, the metropolitan ecological infrastructure surrounding the city.

An inhabited park

Render buildings new neighborhood SeiMilano

Render detail terraces and balconies new neighborhood SeiMilano

Render outdoor spaces new neighborhood SeiMilano

New piece of the green ring

The intervention is located in correspondence with the M1 line route, which connects it to the city center, not far from the former San Cristoforo railway yard, the terminal of the new M4 line and also affected by renovation projects. SEI Milan proposes the concept of a "garden-city," that is, an inhabited park that provides the city with spaces for sports and leisure, around which mixed functions are distributed: about 1,000 residential units, three office buildings and a commercial area. The area is placed in continuity one of the ecological "spokes" that connect the city with its green belt.

The new neighborhood is articulated along two lines at its eastern and northern borders. Leaving the green system of the park untouched, the backbone of the settlement is formed by the driveway boulevard that follows the north-south directrix, linking together part of the residential area, the area dedicated to the tertiary sector and the commercial spaces. The east-west direction, on the other hand, is traversed by a pedestrian axis that, by connecting to the urban fabric, connects the other residential volumes with the neighborhood's system of services, which includes cultural, religious and sports facilities.

The 20 structures intended for residential use along the north-south axis consist of groups of three, four and five square-based buildings, oriented according to different pivot planes so as to provide an uneven alignment that maximizes the view toward the public park. The buildings, rising 8 or 9 stories, feature a common basement floor and a floor connecting the above-ground buildings.
The underground structures are enclosed within a rigid box system, consisting of a foundation slab, perimeter walls against the ground, and a reinforced concrete slab, enclosing the box. Above-ground structures consist of reinforced concrete piers and cores, fulfilling the function of structural elements subjected to vertical and horizontal actions.

Construction site realization project new neighborhood SeiMilano

Construction sites realization project SeiMilano

Construction site new neighborhood SeiMilano

construction sites buildings new neighborhood SeiMilano

"A new dimension of development, where architecture no longer has that monumental aspect of large buildings, but is dispersed amidst a play between landscape and architecture."

Arch. Mario Cucinella