Rogoredo Waveyard

Year: 2021

Location: Milan, Italy

Typology: Student housing

Rogoredo Waveyard is a student house close to the railway station of Rogoredo in the outskirt of Milan. The site is challenging because of the presence of railways, heavy traffic roads and an indutrial area along the edges. However the site is well-connected to the city centre thanks to bus, metro and railway lines. Two long volumes define the court between them as the social core of the project, protected from the noise outside. Two curved bridges enclose the space on the shorter edges connecting the two buildings and at the same time keeping the ground floor permeable. The ground floor hosts public facilities and it is very transparent to attract people in the courtyard. Upper floors are instead a student residence with different housing units. The building structure is made of a timber frame and CLT panels. The external cladding is in aluminium, a reference to the industrial character of the area.