Brick Wall, Milan

The projects assumes as the starting point the perception of the city of Milan as a succession of closed walls guarding a secret, luxurious garden.

With this premise the project rises a 17 mt. tall, 3 mt. thick wall that excludes the permeability towards the city. Perceived as an uniform mass of bricks, the wall is indeed a semi-permeable curtain to the inner distribution system.

The walls cracks on its corners meeting other buildings, thus creating the accesses to its inner world, made of green spaces surrounded by high brick cloisters that fade the enclosure of the common spaces.

The hostel in facts develops on mainly in two dimensions characterized by functions: 

On the vertical axes the hostels rooms hang from the load-bearing distribution wall.

On the horizontal axis the common spaces, such as a restaurant and an art gallery open to the inner gardens and than to the city.