The Bocconi University campus grows and spreads, with the design by Japanese office SANAA, led by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. The design of the new campus will increase the area of the old Centrale del Latte through Via Castelbarco , in the heart of Milan.

At the intersection between Via Castelbarco and Via Sarfatti were placed functions related with Master Programs and Administration. To the south, the Recreation Center serves as a buffer area between the Campus and the Viale Toscana. Also contain a fitness center open to the public with olympic swimming pool, a gym, a fitness center and on East, on the quieter side of the area, will be located the residential tower, accessible from via Castiglioniuna, with 300 bedrooms for students and visiting professors, thanks to which the University will cater to the growing demand for housing generated mainly by foreigners.

Among the different parts of the project grows, winding through the entire area, a large public park of 17,500 square meters, open to students and residents.

The entrance to the new Bocconi School of Management opens on the north side of the plot, which facilitates entry to existing Campus. The building contains an entrance lobby with a transparent double height, with areas on the upper level and a large auditorium at the bottom. From the entrance, through the building, you can access the system courtyards of the complex, which houses the cafeteria on the ground floor of the administration building and the store is on the same level Master Building Program.

Bocconi calculated investment is approximately EUR 130 million and the completion of the work is expected to be by the end of 2018. "Cells of communication and transparency improved concept of motion (rector Andrea Sironi said during the presentation) the University must include both knowledge and people.

The new project is part of a long tradition of high-level architecture that the University has always given its buildings. The new complex will be the latest in a series that began with headquarters in Via Sarfatti by Giuseppe Pagano and Gian Giacomo Predaval in 1941, to the Residence in Via Bocconi by Giovanni and Lorenzo Muzio (1956), who also designed the expansion on Via Gobbi (1966). To this we must add also the building for classrooms by Ignazio Gardella (2001) and, in 2008, the building in Via Roentgen signed by McNamara with Yvonne Farrell.

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Kazuyo Sejima (Ibaraki, Japan, 1956) and Ryue Nishizawa (Kanagawa, Japan, 1966) worked independently from each other before founding the SANAA Ltd. studio in 1995. Having studied architecture at the Japan Women’s University, Sejima went on to work for the renowned architect Toyo Ito. She set up her own studio in 1987 and in 1992 was proclaimed Young Architect of the Year in Japan. Nishizawa studied architecture at the Yokohama National University. In addition to his work with Sejima, he has had his own practice since 1997.

The studio has built several extraordinarily successful commercial and institutional buildings, civic centres, homes and museums both in Japan and elsewhere. These include the O Museum in Nagano (1999) and the N Museum in Wakayama (1997), the Day-Care Center in Yokohama (2000), the Prada Beauty Store in Tokyo and Hong Kong (2001), the Issey Miyake and Christian Dior Building in Tokyo (2003) and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa (2004). Sejima also designed the famous Small House in Tokyo (2000), the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion, Toledo, Ohio (2001-2006), the extension to the Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain (2002 – ), the Zollverein School, Essen, Germany (2003-2006), the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2003-2007) and the Novartis Campus WSJ-157 Office Building, Basle, Switzerland (2003 – ).

In 2004 Sejima and Nishizawa were awarded the Golden Lion at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale for their distinguished work on the Metamorph exhibition.

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have won the 2010 Pritzker Prize.

The 12th International Architecture Exhibition, was directed by Kazuyo Sejima, the first woman to direct the venice architecture biennale, since its inception in 1980.

   

Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima. Kazuyo Sejima

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Published on: November 29, 2012
Cite: "New Campus Bocconi by SANAA" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/new-campus-bocconi-sanaa> ISSN 1139-6415
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