Made in Milan

This project takes place in Milan and aims to bring productive activity back to the city centre. In this project, nine vertical production towers are being developed as plugins at the M2 subway stops and using existing infrastructures, networks, verticality and depths.This buildings will contribute to the mix of functions dear to the city of tomorrow.

The logistic aspect, flow management and the possibilities offered by the environment where the factory is located are fundamental. Milan benefits from an efficient rail and is a crossroads for goods. To get from the outskirts to the city centre, the entrances and exits of materials and goods will be via the M2 metro network. In this project, nine vertical production towers are being developed as plugins at the subway stops. These vertical plants receive goods in the basement by underground freighter from midnight to 6am (storage area and dock gantry). In the same way, close deliveries will be made via drone and automatic car. For compactness reasons, factories become vertical. These productive spaces take the form of a screened concrete tower in order to accommodate several industries (mutualization of logistics and vertical movements) and thus machinery.The management of the flows, is carried out via a traffic (structural) column that links the storage/logistics area of the basement to the high production floors. A hierarchy is put in place for the plant organization, ranging from low value productions (fully mechanized) to high value productions at the top of the tower. About the mono-functionality of existing factories, their visibility and poetic link, this new factories propose new uses and space. There would be 3 types of associated spaces ; housing, office/tertiary and public/leisure space, located at the base and top of the tower. The site developed architecturally is Porta Nuova at the Metro Gioia stop, a new quarter of the towers. The production tower takes over the plot of an old building, ends in the park and passes over a roadway. This tower proposes production floor and public spaces, restaurant, amphitheatre, exhibition space, shop, commerce. The building consists of a woven concrete structure. Porticoes with fine and high beams cover the long spans. The open-plan spaces see the development of circular staircases and pink concrete boxes that give rhythm to the place and close certain functions. Concrete arches, covered with terrazzo, filter the light in the facade and on the flat roof.