milan, rho fiero

The swooping glazed roof that carpets Massimiliano Fuksas’ exhibition corridor harmonizes the various building types deployed along its length while a raised walkway creates a continuous circulatory datum by which typological form and building access can be modulated. The building types contain program, the walkway coordinates their use, and the roof characterizes the communal space. Despite the project’s eccentric appearance, Fuksas restrains each element’s variation in order to evoke more deeply coherent compositional relationships among building types, walkway connections, and roofscape behavior. Immense exhibition halls lining the corridor define the project’s dimensional parameters.