SPEDstudio has won second place for the Casa della Memoria Design Competition in Milan, Italy. Casa della Memoria, with an area of 185.80 sqm, will house the headquarters of some of the associations involved in the preservation and dissemination of “memory” of the conquest of freedom and democracy in Italy, as well as multi-purpose areas and exhibitions.
One can find the project site in the North-East part of the largest re-qualification zone in Milan, “Porta Nuova Isola”. The lot, 887 sqm in dimension, must confront the compact urban textures of Via Confalonieri to the North and the linear residential complex projected by the architect, Larange, to the West. To the East, the lot borders the new viability of the link between Via Volturno and Via De Castillia, while to the South there is Isola’s park area, the natural extension of the Porta Nuova gardens designed by the Petra Blaisse studio.
