UNICREDIT

HUB OFFICE
Location: Via G. Verdi 7, Milan, Italy
Latitude/Longitude: 45°28’06.6” N 9°11’18.4”E
Gross Area: 640 mq

Elevation: 211 m

Function: Bank Office

The project takes place in the city center of Milan.
As one of the most important banking company, Unicredit is trying to set
up a new typology for their offices by mixing public and private spaces.
Clearness in distribution was one of the concepts leading the design
phase in order to separate in any case these two spheres: flexible rooms
for quick meeting are placed in between as a filter, while all the work-
ing areas are in an open space to strenght the interaction between col-
legues.
Light was also very important since the site is underlit due to the existing
small windows: the project opens new arches in the facade in order to
get more light inside from the front; the existing dome is replaced with
a plane glass roof where a circular window allows the light to spread in
the remaining dark areas.

NOTES: NOTES: NOTES:

- the floors above and
the adjacent buildings
had been considered as
shading in the Sefaira
analysis.
- The front facade is ex- Climate Consultant was
posed to low eastern used as a starting point
sun all over the year. for the design strategies
Which requires vertical
louvers

EXISTING SITUATION 640 mq DESIGN PROPOSAL 640 mq

The simulation Due to the simula-
shows the energy tions, arches are
consumption during designed in the
the year. the main front facade.The re-
influence of lighting sult presents more
system is due to the balance in the dis-
underlit qualities of 2030 Challenge: 90 Heating: 19901 Underlit: 79 tribution of light in- 2030 Challenge: 90 Heating: 19463 Underlit: 43
the building. Actual: 98 Cooling: 13048 Well Lit: 8 side and the shift- Actual: 89 Cooling: 10507 Well Lit: 26


Lighting: 27243 Overlit: 13 Lighting: 10372 Overlit: 30
Equipment: 14711
ing to an heating Equipment: 12001
depending system

The scheme shows The front public ar-

the underlit pres- eas are now directly
ence of direct light illuminated during
during the year. the year and the
This is caused by design of a circular
the materials and glazed plane roof
the position of the in the dome area
dome behind other allows the light to
buildings that plays spread in the previ-
as shading system. ous underlit spaces.

G-LAB Building & Technology Studio, MSc in Architecture, Politecnico di Milano Student: Paolo Osti

 Dome 1 L

A1
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 L steel profile

Steel plate

L steel profile

Metal connection

Window steel frame

Double glazed glass (th.=20mm)

Concrete tiles

Beige concrete tiles (th.=1cm)

Insulation (th.=3cm)
Precast screed (th.=6cm)
Concrete Structure
False ceiling
omega support

False ceiling
cardboard (th.=2cm)

Axonometric View (A-L;1-14)

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 LED illumination LED illumination

A2
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Rubber
Insulation (th.=40mm)

Vertical section A1 (A-L;1-5)

A1 Horizontal section A2 (A-E;6-14)
Facade elevation (F-H;6-14)
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