The office La Serenissima was designed in 1962 for the Campari company by the Soncini Brothers in the heart of Milan – next to the historic building “Cà Brutta” by Giovanni Muzio.
Park Associati, an architecture firm based in Milan, have dealt with the refurbishment of this LEED Gold Certified Building in 2012.
“The aim of the new scheme is to provide a maximum level of flexibility in terms of the division of the internal spaces, with a sense of uniformity given by the system of the internal lighting and improved access and circulation,” – said the architects – “The design choice has been to recuperate the ground floor and to reassign its generous amount of unused space to commerce. The original facades were replaced to create a more energy-efficient envelope, a glass skin of variable modules that is able to recompose, like a soft and transparent sheet, the new distribution of the spaces of the ground floor”
Architects Park Associati
Location Via dei Cavalieri del Santo Sepolcro, 4, 20121 Milan, Italy
Project Year 2012
Photographs Luca Onniboni
