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Architects: Matteo Thun & Partners
- Area: 39000 m²
- Year: 2009
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Photographs:Matteo Danesin, Daniele Domenicali
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Urban: Urb.a.m. s.r.l, Francesco Moglia
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Landscape Architects: AG&P, Valerio Cozzi
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Civil: B.C.V. progetti S.r.l, Alberto Vintani
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Structural: B.C.V. progetti S.r.l, Alberto Vintani, Claudio Cerra
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Services: Planning s.r.l, Gianluigi Marazzi, Matteo Bosetti, Tieghi Andrea
Text description provided by the architects. The transformation of Via Tortona, which was started by the businessman Alessandro Cajrati Crivelli back in the 1990s, is continuing, revealing its full potential for redeveloping and reinterpreting some of the most interesting urban spots in the metropolis. The Tortona 37 project by Matteo Thun & Partners is part of this healthy process of reusing the land and strengthening it through low environmental impact architecture. A building project which salvages a former industrial plant covering 25,000 square metres (it used to belong to General Electric) and restores it to the city through cutting-edge energy-efficient technology. Tortona 37 is a mixed-purpose architectural complex composed of five buildings set out like the courtyard around a garden planted with trees. Each rectangular-based building has 6 levels allowing double-exposures for the property units. They are double height (7 m) units generating open spaces with an interior mezzanine of great functional versatility. Here showrooms, laboratories, professional studios, shop and offices find their own custom design: the highly flexible interior spaces also ensure sustainably over time. An overhanging white lattice on the facade frames the wide glass windows of the entire complex, which culminates up on the roof with large terrace, authentic urban plazas with extensive views across the horizon.
