The skyline of Milan will be enriched with three new skyscrapers. Six years after the award of the tender for the construction of the new headquarters of the Eni energy group and a series of stop and go and adjustments during construction, the green light has arrived for the works. The project is important and involves the development of a large sustainable architecture complex in Milan, precisely in the municipality of San Donato, in the south-eastern area of the Milanese city. The design was entrusted to the American studio Morphosis Architects, which will work together with the Romans of Nemesi, while the works will be carried out by the giant Salini Impregilo which was awarded a contract worth 171 million euros.
A NEW SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE IN MILAN
The new center will develop over a total area of 65 m13000 where there will be three executive offices, a conference centre, an exhibition space as well as a company canteen. The tallest skyscraper that will rise above all will be the Icon Tower, an eleven-story building that will be able to accommodate around 24 workstations. The largest structure, which will occupy a total of about XNUMX thousand square meters for a total of nine floors, will be the Landmark Tower. In the centre, the Skygarden Tower will rise, which will represent the reception building, within which the congress center will also be built.
GOAL: LEED GOLD
We are talking about sustainable architecture in Milan because the maxi-project will be built in compliance with stringent standards of energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. Although the interventions and design and plant engineering choices that will determine the efficiency and low environmental impact of the complex have not yet been disclosed in detail, we know that, as reported by Salini Impregilo, all the requirements of the Leed certification will be met with the goal of obtaining the highest level, the Gold.
AN ULTRA MODERN CONCEPT THAT WILL FOCUS ON GLASS
Even from a design point of view, specific data on the structures that will make up the pole of the new sustainable architecture in Milan has not been disclosed, but some renderings published by the architectural firms involved give us an idea of how the new area will probably appear. The buildings will most likely focus on an ultra-modern concept and massive use of glass.
THE VALUES THAT WILL GUIDE THE PROJECT
But the choices will be guided by a series of guidelines that represent the values that want to be respected and which will be at the center of the maxi-project of sustainable architecture in Milan. To make them known and to explain them is the Nemesis study, which summarized the principles in three points:
a) man and the community at the centre: the project attributes a central value to the idea of Civitas: the symbolic and functional heart of the new Headquarters is the square, a meeting place for the Eni Community, around which the new Management Center.
b) democracy and integration: from architecture tout cour to architecture-landscape: the directional towers lose their self-referentiality building an architecture with a prevailing horizontal dimension, democratic, and closely integrated with the landscape. With a stratified and dynamic architecture, the Center narrates the richness of geological stratification and the composition of the soil-landscape as a source of energy and life.
c) research and innovation towards a new sustainability: the design concept gives shape to the Exploration and Production process through a metamorphic architecture, a fluid and dynamic continuum, rich in interconnections, symbolizing the transformation of matter into energy.
