EX GARAGE TRAVERSI

To restructure the Ex Garage Traversi, changing its function to give it a new life, means to resume the fundamental ties of a pieces of the urban and social history of the city of Milan neglected for far too long.
The project intends to:
Interprets the main features of modernity that characterize the artifact (facades and open plan) to harmonize them with the new functional and distribution requirements.
Retrieve the main facade of the former garage like a Mask, a solid urban theater wing to preserve the identity of the street’s curtain of via Bagutta.
Raise a few feet behind the mask, the new Face of the multifunctional complex, a green facade that breathes and which is permeable to the visitors' gaze.
Then put in mutual communication (direct and visual) the City and the multipurpose complex, through the large horizontal eyes of the mask and the transparency of the new ‘green Face’ which communicates with the similar elements that surround it in the public space in front.
The space that is going to be defined between the historic facades, freed from the slabs that no longer respond to the new functional requirements, and the new green facade that wraps the commercial floors, is a dramatic space able to surprise and put in dialectical tension the existing and the new intervention, without any of the parties losing consistency in their mutual comparison.
 

COMPETITION: 2010

Architect
Mario Bellini Architects

Design Team
Mario Bellini with Maurizio Di Lauro

Project Team
Maurizio Di Lauro (project architect)
Luca Bosetti (3D model and render image)
Roberta Totaro
Lia Silva
Silvia Sola
Alessandro Zufferli (3D model and render image)

Consultants
Structure: STUDIO TECNICO MAJOWIECKI
Impianti meccanici: MANENS INTERTECNICA S.R.L.
Restauro: Arch. MAURIZIO MOMO, Arch. STEPHANE GARNERO