Park Associati, S.r.l.

Pharo Office Building

Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti

PHARO OFFICE BUILDING

Park Associati

ARCHITECTS
Park Associati

FOUNDING PARTNERS     
Filippo Pagliani, Michele Rossi

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING 
General Planning

ARCHITECTS
Alexia Caccavella, Antonio Cinquegrana, Corrado Collura, Valerio Conti, Giancarlo Gastaldin, Lorenzo Merloni, Davide Pojaga, Marco Vitalini

M&E ENGINEERING
General Planning

SECURITY COORDINATION     
Reaas

FACADES CONSULTANT
Gualini

PROJECT DIRECTOR   
Marco Siciliano

LANDSCAPE DIRECTOR   
Marianna Merisi

SENIOR ARCHITECT
Ciro Capasso

VISUALIZERS
Mario Frusca, Stefano Venegoni

GRAPHIC DESIGNER   
Marinella Ferrari

GENERAL CONTRACTOR 
Carron

SITE SUPERVISION
General Planning

PHOTOGRAPHS
Marco Cappelletti, Nicola Colella - Park Associati

AREA
22100 M²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Milan, Italy

CATEGORY
Apartments, Office Buildings

English description provided by architects.

Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti
Pharo Office Building
© Nicola Colella - Park Associati

Pharo, a new office building designed by Park Associati, was built on a lot that, given its crucial position along the city center access roads and its proximity to the Citylife and Portello neighborhoods, has great strategic potential for urban development. Thanks to these elements, this is a place of great interest for the evolution of Milan's urban morphology.

This project of urban mending was developed around the key concept of permeability, which was the leitmotif behind the volumetric decomposition of the typical urban block, in particular of the continuity of the front in Via Gattamelata.

Pharo Office Building
© Nicola Colella - Park Associati
Pharo Office Building
© Nicola Colella - Park Associati

On the corner with Via Teodorico, the building is recessed from the pavement’s profile, giving life to a completely open area accessible by the public, a new reception square generated by the building’s elegant planimetric play. 

Barycentric with respect to the building's composition, the hall is a passageway leading to the square connecting both Piazzale Türr and Via Teodorico – an expression of the site’s high permeability.

The complex is a dynamic succession of volumes sharing a single organic language, characterized on the façade by the rhythmic sequence of the jutting elements and the different material qualities of the surfaces.

Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti
Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti
Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti

The highest volume is a 67-meter-high tower, while on the opposite side of the lot, the lowest 8-meter-high structure is designed to be an auditorium.

Both volumes are lit at night, the tower resembles a lantern, a luminescent lighthouse that adds a new landmark to the cityscape.

Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti
Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti

The building is LEED Platinum certified, so it is extremely energy-efficient. Energy saving was also one of the main themes of the study of the façades’ design language, which alternates transparent glazed surfaces and solid surfaces in anodized aluminum sheets or perforated sheets.

Within this complex of dynamic volumes, the façade sections covered in sheet metal serve the double purpose of limiting irradiation – an inevitable problem common to all-glass façades – and guaranteeing some privacy.

Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti
Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti
Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti

In line with sustainability-related issues, the use of materials on the façade was kept to a minimum.

The depth of the jutting sheet metal shielding elements increases as they climb from the lower floors to the upper floors, where their function of sun shading is needed most.

Such size variations contribute to defining a fluid and dynamic perception of the entire building.

Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti
Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti


Pharo Office Building
© Nicola Colella - Park Associati
Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti
Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti
Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti
Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti
Pharo Office Building
Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti
Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti


Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti
Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti
Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti
Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti
Pharo Office Building
© Marco Cappelletti

Pharo Office Building
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Pharo Office Building
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Pharo Office Building
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Pharo Office Building
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Pharo Office Building
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Pharo Office Building
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Park Associati, S.r.l.
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Park Associati, S.r.l.
Via Garofalo, 31, 20133 Milano MI, Italy