The winner was announced in the architectural competition organized by Coima for the design of the Melchiorre Gioia areas: the studio Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel, whose proposal was selected based on criteria of environmental sustainability, innovation, technology applied to buildings and new modes of utilization of spaces.
“We worked on the project by thinking about a significant element in its own right that would also be part of a wider-ranging urban design, basing the conception of the architecture on innovative technological and above all cultural principles, towards a new way of using architecture and its material and immaterial relationships with the city,” says Patricia Viel.
The competition included the participation of 50 architecture firms, from which the following were selected: Alfonso Femia, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, DPA, Gensler, Grimshaw, Herzog & De Meuron, KPF, MAD, NBBJ, Hembert Penaranda, OMA, Pickard Chilton, SOM, UNS, Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel, Carlo Ratti Associati, Ingenhoven, Plp Architecture and Wilmotte & Associes, of which the last five were shortlisted prior to the final choice.