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PIAZZA DELLA SCALA, MILAN – ITALY, 2015

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
MENTION
WITH MORAMARCO+VENTRELLA

PIAZZA DELLA SCALA IN MILAN IS A SYMBOLIC AND MULTIFUNCTIONAL SPACE, INTENDED BOTH FOR PERMANENCE, AS A PUBLIC SPACE AND “OPEN-AIR FOYER” FOR THE SURROUNDING BUILDINGS, AND FOR TRANSIT, INSERTED INTO THE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL ROUTE THAT FROM PIAZZA DUOMO, THROUGH THE GALLERIA VITTORIO EMANUELE AND PIAZZA DELLA SCALA, REACHES BRERA, THE SFORZA CASTLE, VIA MONTENAPOLEONE, AND PIAZZA SAN BABILA.

TEATRO ALLA SCALA SERVES AS A REFERENCE POINT FOR THE PROJECT, WHICH ADOPTS AN ORTHOGONAL AND PARALLEL GRID TO THE THEATRE, APPROXIMATELY SIX METERS APART, MODULATED AND DEFORMED TO ADAPT TO THE FOOTPRINTS OF THE EXISTING BUILDINGS. THE GRID GENERATES A SYSTEM OF 6.5-METER VERTICAL ELEMENTS MADE OF BRASS TUBES, PLACED AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF THE AXES, IN HARMONY WITH THE HEIGHTS OF THE SURROUNDING PLINTHS. THESE MULTIFUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS DIFFUSE LIGHT AND SOUND, BRINGING THE THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE OUTSIDE.

ALL THE BUILDINGS IN THE SQUARE FORM A PROSCENIUM OF IT, IN A RECIPROCAL RELATIONSHIP, IN WHICH ONE IS AN EXTENSION OF THE OTHER; THE OPEN SPACE EXTENDS INTO THE ATRIUMS OF THE BUILDINGS AND VICE VERSA. THE PROJECT AIMS TO REBALANCE THE LARGE VOID OF THE SQUARE IN RELATION TO THE EXISTING BUILDINGS, INDEPENDENTLY OF THE PEDESTRIAN, TRAM, OR VEHICLE ROUTES THAT CROSS IT.