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Anna Maritano

  • Site : basement15.com
  • Adresse : via San Rocco 15 20135 Milan
Anna Maritano lives and works in Milan. Since 2006 she formed her own architecture studio in Milan. She has work closely together with Giulia Griotti, to whom she is linked by a twenty-year friendship. Together with them, Angelo Lorenzi shared national and international projects and competitions. Currently they employs 3-4 collaborators who are working on projects for public buildings, private houses and urban development. A sort of small workshop on living, wher craftsmanship and reflections on the city intertwine. Anna Maritano studied architecture at Politecnico di Torino. She was awarded in 1994-1996 Pensionnaire pour l’architecture, at the Académie de France à Rome. She obtained a Ph.D. title in 1999. She was an adjunct professor at the Università di Genova Architecture School from 1999 to 2009, where he held teaching and research. She was awarded the Leone di Pietra - in the 10. International Architecture Exhibition - Biennale di Architettura in Venice - with a project on Pantelleria, a tourist harbour (Marino Narpozzi, chef) In parallel to the project activity, she has done lectures, lessons and critiques at Italian and foreign Universities, Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Torino, Università di Bologna, Università di Genova, University of São Paulo, Brazil. She carried out critical activity trough exhibitions and texts about Italian and international contemporary architects: Ignazio Gardella (Electa), Gino Levi Montalcini (Domus), Luigi Caccia Dominioni (Area), Uwe Schroder (Aion). In 2019 she edited (in collaboration) the Marino Narpozzi's critical writings, entitled “Conversazioni in-disciplinate sull’archietttura”, (Aion edizioni). In 2020 she published an essay “Envois e Académie de France à Rome: il disegno fra maniera e invenzione”, (NElac, USP, Brazil). she is associate with Giulia Griotti Angelo Lorenzi and Filippo Mascaretti

Malaspina Idea - a garden city

Client: Private
Size: 67.000 m2
Status: Competitions by invitation, 2017
Key staff: Anna Maritano, Giulia Griotti, Angelo Lorenzi, Emanuele Colombo, Paolo Molteni.


Malaspina Masterplan competiton (Pioltello, Milan) is an opportunity to analyze a part of the territory straddling the city and the countryside, in which important phenomena of transformation are underway (construction of a highway and the expansion of Linate Airport).

We believe that the geographical condition and the evolution of forms and needs of living in the extended city, require different and innovative solutions and choices of urban design, in the sense of sustainability and relationship with the environment.

The design idea contained in our masterplan is that of a Dense Garden City, which is placed in continuity and connection with the context both green and built.

The Masterplan consists of a few simple elements that structure a system of high living and architectural quality:
- A large central Park that occupies the heart of the area: it creates an extraordinary green lung, crossed by bicycle paths, play areas, spaces for sports and recreational activities; it connects the structures of the complex and with its filtering surface allows the management of water. The green structure, in fact, works as an environmental infrastructure.
- A system of buildings functionally independent but strongly characterized from the morphological point of view, allows a wide urban articulation.The project is built around a poly-lobed "palace" building, characterized by a brick facade and a plan built around a central core, with a free floor area, flexible and suitable for both residential and tertiary articulation. In the residential use it allows easy subdivision and multiplicity of views. In the tertiary use, it exploits the potential of sky/ground tower organizations also assuming different developments in height of the single buildings or vice versa it allows more fractioning.
This composition by polygonal figures structures a game of semi-open courts, now concave and now convex. These spaces that are determined within each aggregation, and between the building complexes, define an extraordinary variety of places and pleasant inclusive spaces that recall the urban public space but at the same time incorporate the quality of natural space, proposing precisely the idea of the Garden City.

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