NEW CIVIC CENTRE SAN DONATO MILANESE

International consultation by invitation.

Project data

  • Status
    Competition
  • Year
    1991
  • Tipology
    Civic centre
  • Location
    San Donato Milanese, (MI) Italy 
  • Client
    SNAM Spa and Municipal governement of San Donato Milanese, (MI) Italy

Description

One of the last areas free of public property in San Donato Milanese, the most important town of the southern edge of Milan, becomes the place where Spam S.p.a and the municipality project the creation of a Civic centre for the city.

Bellini’s project proposal tends to leave a strongly characterised mark in comparison with the fragmentation of the more immediate context: a large rectangular public space lined with trees and defined by arcades and buildings with arcades, with the new civic centre in the centre of the space diagonally crossed by a glass tunnel. The design of the green area underlines the contrast between the diagonal profile of the tunnel and the orthogonality of the main open space.

(Ermanno Ranzani)

Credits

Architect
Mario Bellini Associati

Design Team
Mario Bellini  with Loretto Buti e Masahiro Matsuno