Arup and David Chipperfield Architects have begun the joint design process for a new arena Milano Santa Giulia, a new urban district that is under redevelopment in the southeast of Milan for CTS Eventim, only a few kilometers from the city center and connected to the high-speed train network and motorway.

Evolved on the basis of a master plan by Foster + Partners, the new city district encompasses residential buildings, buildings for education, commerce, and leisure as well as an extensive park.

Its completion is due in 2025. The arena will cater for sports and cultural events with up to 16,000 spectators and will initially serve as a venue for the Winter Olympic Games in early 2026.

David Chipperfield Architects and Arup have designed on top of a raised podium made of mineral materials with a wide outdoor staircase. The elliptically shaped arena rises up in the form of three rings of differing heights, seemingly floating on top of each other.

The hard materiality of the podium and the arena is counterbalanced by organically designed green spaces with trees. In addition to measures to minimise the consumption of resources and CO² emissions, the sustainability concept includes photovoltaic systems on the roof, generating sufficient energy on site to extensively cover the needs of the energy-efficient building.
 
“We are very pleased to have been invited to develop the design, along with our partners Arup, for the Arena in Santa Giulia. We believe that this will not only be an important venue for Milan but that the building and the new piazza will contribute to the physical quality of this important development. We look forward to seeing it become a new destination in the beautiful city of Milan.”
David Chipperfield
 

Project description by David Chipperfield Architects

Milano Santa Giulia, a new urban district is under redevelopment in the south-east of Milan, only a few kilometres from the city centre and connected to the high-speed train network and motorway. Evolved on the basis of a master plan by Foster + Partners, the new city district encompasses residential buildings, buildings for education, commerce and leisure as well as an extensive park. The centrepiece of the area is a new arena, catering for sports and cultural events with up to 16,000 visitors. It will serve as a venue for the Winter Olympic Games in early 2026 and will subsequently be used for large concerts, sports events and festivals. Outside of event hours, the wide outdoor areas will also provide a new opportunity for social interactions for people from the neighbourhood as well as from the whole city.

The arena, which is being developed in a collaboration between Arup and David Chipperfield Architects Berlin, is placed in the extreme south of the rectangular site. The strategic position of the arena creates a spacious piazza of over 10,000 square metres in the northern section of the site, which can also be used as a venue for outdoor events. The elliptical form of the building is inspired by the archetype of the amphitheatre, is reinterpreted with modern tectonics and materials. Slightly rotated from the north-south axis, the arena welcomes arriving guests from the west. It is supported by a raised podium that occupies almost the entire site and opens up to visitors via a wide flight of steps as well as an entrance cut into the podium at street level.

On top of this podium made of mineral materials, the arena rises up in the form of three rings of differing heights, quasi floating on top of each other. Their metallic materiality is characterised by the shimmering aluminium tubes during the day and the LED strips of the large-scale media integration that light up at night. The rings are connected by light, transparent glass bands in the spaces in between as well as with the floor. Towards the piazza, the rings project irregularly, giving the building its dynamic form. The hard materiality of the podium and the arena is counterbalanced by organically designed green spaces with trees that extend down the staircase, reminiscent of a green hilly landscape.

Inside the arena, there are two tiers above the parterre level as well as a level with lounges and skyboxes. All seats are accessible via spacious lobbies at all levels, as are catering and service facilities. The necessary car parking spaces are located within the podium as well as in a multi-storey car park that evolves from the podium, closing off the site to the north. In addition to measures to minimise the consumption of resources and CO² emissions, the sustainability concept includes photovoltaic systems on the roof, whose energy generated on site largely covers the needs of the energy-efficient building.

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CTS Eventim Group.
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David Chipperfield was born in London in 1953 and studied architecture at the Kingston School of Art and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London before working at the practices of Douglas Stephen, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster.

In 1985 he founded David Chipperfield Architects, which today has over 300 staff at its offices in London, Berlin, Milan and Shanghai.

David Chipperfield has taught and held conferences in Europe and the United States and has received honorary degrees from the universities of Kingston and Kent.

He is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and an honorary fellow of both the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA). In 2009 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 2010 he received a knighthood for services to architecture in the UK and Germany. In 2011 he received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture and in 2013 the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association, while in 2021 he was appointed a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in recognition of a lifetime’s work.

In 2012 he curated the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.

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Published on: March 11, 2022
Cite: "David Chipperfield Architects starts project for Arena in Santa Giulia" METALOCUS. Accessed
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