Palazzina - restoration of the Caimi Art & Cultural Center

Milano
The concept wants to underline and amplify the features and peculiarities of each room. They will be a sequence of locations, different in geometry, natural or artificial light, materials and colors, and will form an architectural promenade along the whole building.
Picture © Laboratorio Permanente
The Palazzina during “¿Soy Cuba?” exhibition
Photo © Luca Cozzani
An axonometric view of the builing
Drawing © Laboratorio Permanente
The Palazzina during “¿Soy Cuba?” exhibition
Photo © Luca Cozzani
The Palazzina during “¿Soy Cuba?” exhibition
Photo © Luca Cozzani
The Palazzina during “¿Soy Cuba?” exhibition
Photo © Luca Cozzani
The Palazzina during “¿Soy Cuba?” exhibition
Photo © Luca Cozzani
The Palazzina during “¿Soy Cuba?” exhibition
Photo © Luca Cozzani
The Palazzina during “¿Soy Cuba?” exhibition
Photo © Luca Cozzani
Architects
Laboratorio Permanente
Year
2017
Client
Private
Team
Nicola Russi, Angelica Sylos Labini, Luca De Stasio, Pietro Ferrario, Mario Ventilato, Marco di Forenza, Alessandro Zanoletti, Luca Cozzani, Francesca Lina Pincella, Evgeniya Dubova
Structural Engineer
Eng. Pietro Boerio
MEP
STII Studio Tecnico Ingegneria Impiantistica

Laboratorio Permanente completed the renovation of an early XX century Milanese building. These spaces are conceived as a flexible sequence of rooms, different in geometry, natural or artificial light, materials and colours, to accommodate several different cultural activities.
The concept indeed wants to underline and amplify the features and peculiarities of each room that creates an architectural promenade along the whole building.
To express the full architectural potential of the building and to solve all the critical structural, systemic and aesthetic issues, the renovation project includes different interlaced restoration philosophies: the historical, philological and scientific restoration. These three different approaches define the adaptive reuse as general philosophy of the project.

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