Terrazza Triennale. Milano, Italy
Designed by Paolo Brescia, Tommaso Principi and Andrea Casetto of OBR with Maddalena D’Alfonso, the restaurant on the roof top of the Palazzo dell’Arte of the Triennale di Milano offers visitors a new dimension of quality dining provided by chef Stefano Cerveni.
The exhibitions by the Triennale di Milano have always been a synthesis of design and architectural experimentation; on such occasions Parco Sempione was turned into a theatrical stage for the new myths of urban living and the Palazzo dell’Arte became a marvellous device of cultural promotion.
The project by OBR reinterprets the tradition of the Triennale conceiving the restaurant on the rooftop as a transparent glass pavilion, suspended above Parco Sempione and the skyline of Milano and Castello Sforzesco.
Climbing up to the terrace of the Palazzo dell’Arte, visitors are greeted by a aromatic garden conceived by the landscape architect Antonio Perazzi, behind which rises the glazed pavilion of the restaurant, set back from the portals in the historic façade.
The pavilion, engineered by Buro Happold and Milan Ingegneria, and manufactured by Capoferri, can be opened completely all the way around its perimeter and is characterized by a light modular structure of stainless steel that allows easy and rapid assembly, combining industrial technologies with craft skills.
A large mobile curtain of 400 square meters floats above the glass roof. Opening completely to one side, it allows the pavilion to function as a bioclimatic self-thermo-regulating greenhouse that can be used in different ways in the day/night-time and permits guests to dine in the shade at lunchtime or under the stars in the evening.
