Bocconi Campus

Milano, Italy

Source: Profile Magazin

Edition 28

Information about the reference project

Type of building:	Education and Culture
Products:	Façades
Series:	ADS 75 HD.HI, AWS 75 BS.HI+, FWS 50 S
Location:	Milano, Italy
Completion:	2021
Architects:	SANAA / Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa
Specialist company:	ALLUMINIO MANUFATTI 2000 S.R.L.,GUALINI S.P.A.
Picture credits:	© Philippe Ruault

Project description

With its elegant glass buildings and wide-ranging views, the new campus of Bocconi University in Milan conveys a sense of modernity, openness and communicative togetherness. Bocconi University, one of Italy’s most important higher education institutions, wants to use the project to emphasise its pioneering approach. World-class architecture has already been created during previous expansions. The most recent example is a building designed by Grafton Architects, whose founders were awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2020, the most prestigious award in the world of architecture.The Japanese architecture duo Kazuyo Sejima and Ryūe Nishizawa (SANAA ) – also a Pritzker Prize winner – has designed an ensemble of six buildings arranged around a green park for its campus expansion.These outdoor areas are open to the public, entirely in keeping with the typical residential buildings found in Milan with their walkways and large interior courtyards.

Four of the building structures with amorphous floor plans touch one another, creating attractive spaces in-between, as well as an exciting dialogue between the architecture, green spaces and pathways. The teaching and administration rooms as well as a hall of residence for 300 students are housed here. Two organically shaped buildings containing a sports and leisure centre as well as an Olympic swimming pool are located a short distance away. The horizontal aluminium façades have been designed using the FWS 50 SG system. Three new mullion profiles with depths of 115 mm, 155mm and 185mm were developed for this purpose. The developers opted for the AWS 75 BS.HI aluminium system for the double-leaf window doors. The window frames were specially redesigned for the split façade; both the profiles and the accessories had to be customised. This enabled the clean lines of the façade design to be maintained throughout. The FWS 60 aluminium system and the ADS 75 HD.HI aluminium door system were used for the entrances.On the sides facing the streets and the park, undulating grilles made of expanded metal run in front of the glass facades, enveloping the building structures like a curtain. These metal grilles provide sun shading and create an interesting interplay between transparency and concealment.

Source: Profile magazine, issue 28

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Product information

ADS 75 HD.HI

Multifunctional solution for large-format commercial doors with high continuous loads

The Schüco ADS 75 HD.HI (Heavy Duty High Insulated) aluminium door system combines high durability with multiple functions and attractive design options – perfect for challenging commercial buildings with high security requirements.

The extremely stable Heavy Duty system is designed specifically for heavy or oversized door leafs with large opening widths and high continuous loads.

Highly thermaly insulated block window with concealed vent for sophisticated design requirements

With outstanding thermal insulation values and a slimline design without visible vent contours, Schüco AWS 75 BS.HI+ (Block System High Insulation) meets the highest energy-efficiency and architectural requirements with the greatest possible transparency.

The aluminium block window system is part of the Schüco AWS modular system for the 75 mm basic depth and features optimised characteristics in terms of function, energy efficiency and design.

Thanks to a high level of system flexibility, attractive design solutions are possible for a wide range of architectural requirements in the building envelope: as a punched opening, ribbon window or insert unit in Schüco façade systems as well as a "floating window".