COSENTINO CITY MILANO

PIAZZA FONTANA 6

A small imaginative exhibition takes shape through design thinking focused on a building of a free typology, both ideal and real at the same time. The thought is close to action and construction thanks to the practice of rapid prototyping and the universal language of making.
It is the drawings and the 3D resin models that tell the story of the projects—architectures very different from one another, united by the single constraint set by the curator Danilo Premoli: a square plan or double rectangle with equal height, essential for creating a three-dimensional architectural cube. The personality and poetics of the designers emerge firmly. In both small and large design interventions, the intentions are clear and the aspirations are transparent. A printer from the technical partner DWS Srl is operating during the exhibition to demonstrate the potential of 3D printing and the ever-relevant usefulness of modeling ideas.

The architects featured in Architettura 6.0 at Cosentino City Milano in Piazza Fontana are Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia, Dontstop Lab (Maurizio De Caro and Michele Brunello), MYGG, Park Associati, Vittorio Grassi Architects, and Giuseppe Tortato Architetti.

EM3 PLANET EARTH MODULE / Vittorio Grassi Architects
Vittorio Grassi Architects’ proposal for Architettura 6.0 is a prefabricated building that originates from a cubic form measuring 9 meters on each side and gradually curves into concave or convex faces. The residential units, composed of repeated and modular sections, are designed to be produced through an off-site industrial process, delivered to the construction site, and installed.
The firm conceives architecture as a sustainable industrial process based on scalability, modularity, and customization: only in this way can quality and control be achieved while making processes more efficient. EM3 Planet Earth Module is an integrated project in which the end user is involved from the very beginning; careful design is therefore combined with a deep relationship with the individual. The philosophy of the assembly kit—namely the possibility of creating buildings using a predefined selection of elements, whether aggregable spaces or building components—makes it possible to generate different architectural languages starting from the same vocabulary.
The building can be customized and adapted according to the characteristics of its location, and the overall composition can change depending on climate and specific needs, as can materials and finishes. “The only real limit of this architecture lies in our imagination.”