UNITY IN MULTIPLICITY THE NEW BOCCONI URBAN CAMPUS, DESIGNED BY SANAA SHAPES, SURFACES, PERCEPTIONS IN A CURVILINEAR BUILDING GROUP

摘要

The realization of a particularly innovative project designed to house the new urban campus of the Bocconi University of Milan was recently inaugurated. The morphological, typological and technological characteristics of the project, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa's Sanaa architectural firm in Japan, are such as to merit a careful description also from the point of view of the adopted topological methodology. The constant curvilinear shape of the forms in the overall composition of the plan creates a space where the physical and perceptive continuity of some elementary forms that modulate and collide, creating a particularly characterized, innovative and surprising environment. The structure of the complex of buildings is organized - into the former Centrale del Latte industrial food plant abandoned area - distributing the various functions required by the University's customer through a system of planimetric forms derived from an original circular shape, but progressively altering the initial symmetry with different dilatations and internal voidings, which seems to refer to generative topologies or homeostatic morphologies.