米兰瑞士全球总部办公室·轻盈与厚重的对话

Firm： DAP studio / elena sacco - paolo danelli

Type： Commercial › Office

STATUS： Built

YEAR： 2011

SIZE： 1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

This early '900 building, 1000 sqm large and organized on 4 levels, has been renovated in order to house Swiss & Global offices.

Even if the project concerns only the transformation of the interiors, it's on the relationship between the building envelope and its inner spaces that the project is founded.

This dialogue has been reinforced through the juxtaposition of matter and lightness, opaque and glazed materials.

The dialectic between outside and inside is the driver of the whole design, and it has oriented all design issues. First of all the choice to cover all the perimeter walls with a sort of almost immaterial and changeable “skin” filtering, from inside, the perception of the historical building.

The covering, made of white wooden splints placed at a distance, creates a succession of solid and void. On the back the splints are closed with transparent or opaque panels: the effect is an inside space that shrink and dilate itself as the “skin” and light change.

Coloured glass volumes organize fluid and flexible spaces, marked by a circularity enabling paths and spaces to interact, merging together.