PRG: Bosco della Musica
Milan, IT
An exterior precedent for lifting a large multi-story glazed block on slender pilotis to create an active public portico and preserve ground-level urban continuity.
- What we like about this project
- Variegated pastel-colored curtains inside each window bay create a shifting rhythm of color across the otherwise uniform glass facade.
Materials
- glass
- steel
- brick
- concrete
- fabric
Visual identifiers
- elevated-volume
- slender-pilotis
- floor-to-ceiling-glazing
- colored-interior-curtains
- public-portico
Style tags
- contemporary
- rationalist
- transparent
- civic
Visual tags
- civic
- elevated-mass
- curtain-wall
- public-realm
- urban-integration
- pilotis
- Geometry
- An elongated three-story rectangular volume is elevated on a double row of slender steel pilotis, creating a generous covered ground-floor portico. The upper facade is divided into regular vertical structural bays fully glazed with floor-to-ceiling windows and operable interior curtains.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glazing system with integrated floor slabs and movable vertical fabric shading elements behind glass.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame superstructure with slender tubular steel pilotis supporting upper floor plates.
- Spatial scale
- Pedestrian scale at ground level contrasting with the expansive length of the elevated three-story block.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting sharp vertical shadows beneath the pilotis and glowing on the expansive glass curtain wall with soft interior color reflections from curtains.
- Atmosphere
- Open, airy, and socially active, with warm interior accents visible through cool exterior transparency.
- Environmental context
- Urban public plaza with mature trees, a lower brick building volume in the background, and surrounding street infrastructure.
- Spatial experience
- The building lifts off the street edge to extend the public piazza underneath, framing views of a brick heritage building and pedestrian circulation beneath the sheltered pilotis zone.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical rhythm established by the repetitive steel structural bays and floor-to-ceiling window mullions.
- Style reading
- Contemporary civic rationalism
- Program
- Music school or cultural civic center with public plaza
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, steel, brick, concrete, fabric
- Visual identifiers
- elevated-volume, slender-pilotis, floor-to-ceiling-glazing, colored-interior-curtains, public-portico
- Style tags
- contemporary, rationalist, transparent, civic
- Visual tags
- civic, elevated-mass, curtain-wall, public-realm, urban-integration, pilotis
- Geometry
- An elongated three-story rectangular volume is elevated on a double row of slender steel pilotis, creating a generous covered ground-floor portico. The upper facade is divided into regular vertical structural bays fully glazed with floor-to-ceiling windows and operable interior curtains.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glazing system with integrated floor slabs and movable vertical fabric shading elements behind glass.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame superstructure with slender tubular steel pilotis supporting upper floor plates.
- Spatial scale
- Pedestrian scale at ground level contrasting with the expansive length of the elevated three-story block.
- Lighting
- Bright midday sun casting sharp vertical shadows beneath the pilotis and glowing on the expansive glass curtain wall with soft interior color reflections from curtains.
- Atmosphere
- Open, airy, and socially active, with warm interior accents visible through cool exterior transparency.
- Environmental context
- Urban public plaza with mature trees, a lower brick building volume in the background, and surrounding street infrastructure.
- Spatial experience
- The building lifts off the street edge to extend the public piazza underneath, framing views of a brick heritage building and pedestrian circulation beneath the sheltered pilotis zone.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict vertical rhythm established by the repetitive steel structural bays and floor-to-ceiling window mullions.
- Style reading
- Contemporary civic rationalism
- Program
- Music school or cultural civic center with public plaza
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture