METROGRAMMA design a residential building in Offenbach, Germany.

The building is located in the new residential compound of Offenbach, a small but fast growing town close to Frankfurt am Main.
The strategic location of the building grants a direct view on the main square (the principal access of the urban plot) towards the railway station and a more private facade towards the residential courtyards.

The used typological solution provides the subdivision of internal space into simplexes and duplexes. The internal layout provides a wide typological range, offering various apartment sizes and a more flexible typological choice. At the same time reduce the amount of internal distribution.

The facade design encompasses two different strategies for the front and the rear facade.
The front one, towards the main square, is defined by a modular grid that includes a regular brick frame, glass balauster and a inlayed planters on the floor in continuity with the indoor space.
Within this frame glass panels, permeable partitions and sun screens overlap according to the users needs.
The rear facade applies the same strategy, lightening the top floor through a linear terrace.
In both cases the regularity of the grid is broken on 4 crucial axis by glass boxes protruding from the facade itself.

METROGRAMMA design a residential building for Milano Sesto competition.

This is the largest redevelopment project of disused industrial areas in Europe.

The competition had for the project proposal of a residential building agreed to be realized in the field of “ex Falk Areas and railway scale”. The building is provided as a multiple and with a consistency of 12.500 sqm of Slp, as well as interracts. The ground Floors are also present of the commercial functions.

The project is configured with a central court plant with dancing thoughts and as a traditional device of building a building for community, and as an instrument to guarantee every real estate unit a double opposed facing. The building volumes do not remain constantly in the height , but they are transforming slipping the one on the other to promote: the natural lighting of all the environments through the emptying of the high part of the volume, the natural aeration of the units through the draining of the low angle towards the city, the contact between the city and the commercial and common spaces of the ground floor through the opening of the court on the main course.

The facades have been designed in order to express a certain uniformity and general recognitional external contemporary to a compositional variety that confirms lightness and domesticity to the volume.

Six different prefabricated modules have been thought, everyone presents a particular type of windows, while maintaining the same modular dimensions. It is possible therefore, varying simply the accommodation of the modules, obtaining a notable variety of internal spaces and a diversified composition of the facades. All modules are designed to be compatible with the internal organization of every unit.