It must not have been easy for Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel to come to grips with a context composed of towers of various heights, ranging from anonymous global modernism to solutions brandishing Art Deco tops, classical cupolas, oriental interpretations of the curtain wall. In such a cityscape the presence of a linear public park in front of the lot became the key with which to shape an idea for an exclusive residential building facing towards nature, taken as the “urban setting of reference” (Patricia Viel).
The building is composed of three towering stone blades for a height of 160 meters, with a rhomboid pattern that is a “tribute to the Milanese tradition of great architects,” Antonio Citterio says. Gio Ponti, Piero Portaluppi and Luigi Caccia Dominioni were architects “who thought of the interiors as integral parts of the building, a habit that has since been lost” (Citterio).
While the Treasure Garden in Taiwan springs from the rhomboid motif of the facades, almost as if to protect the internal spaces from the adjacent buildings, the external texture becomes a reference for the definition of the image of the interiors, substantially the protagonists of the whole project.