Tunnels
Transformation of an office, Milano 2009

How to maximize the working units within the spatiality of the courtly halls of a prestigious nineteenth century building?
How to preserve, at the same time, the confidentiality necessary to the legal profession, which does not allow multiple workspaces in the same rooms?
The project transforms the original typology of the grand original apartment defining five parallel bands – typical of the linear office, through the historic spaces. The bands toward the facades, airy and luminous, are dedicated to the offices, the two intermediate bands form two new long passageways and finally, in the heart of the building, all service areas are located. The the passageways are actually two glass tunnels, designed never to “cut” the precious decorated ceilings: these translucent structures become transparent at the top and fold toward the walls, never intersecting the ceilings.