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Forest of Verdi

Music becomes a place

Location
Rogoredo, Milan, Italy
Year
2022
Contribution
Competition design & coordination
Project type
Conservatory campus competition proposal
Courtyard: undulating steel mesh and recessed glazing
Courtyard: undulating steel mesh and recessed glazing

A campus proposal for the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, connecting musical rhythm with courtyards, gathering places and routes through the landscape.

Music unfolds through time; architecture lets us choose our own route. Forest of Verdi explores this distinction through a conservatory campus whose courtyards and passages offer different ways to encounter music, people and landscape.

Performance and teaching spaces are connected by courtyards and sheltered routes. Undulating mesh filters the glazed façades; a solid concrete canopy admits daylight through openings above the trees. Beyond the park boundary, the surrounding buildings place the proposal within Rogoredo. The original plans and section reveal the campus organisation alongside the early sketches.

Context & credits

Competition proposal for Urges Architecture S.R.L. Design and competition coordination: Architect Denislav Sokolov. Auditorium Rhino modelling: Alice Cole. Concept brainstorming: Henry Morgan. Presentation: Ece Yegen. BIM report coordination: Gioia Puddu.

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Moving through the campus

Campus axis: concrete canopy, openings above the trees and the surrounding city
02Campus axis: concrete canopy, openings above the trees and the surrounding city

Organisation in the original sketches

Forest of Verdi · early spatial perspective
03Forest of Verdi · early spatial perspective
Original drafted plans: basement, ground floor and first floor
04Original drafted plans: basement, ground floor and first floor
Plan details: auditorium, music rooms and shared landscape
05Plan details: auditorium, music rooms and shared landscape
Longitudinal section A–A
06Longitudinal section A–A

A place for listening

Auditorium interior study
07Auditorium interior study

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Designs, drawings, images and music authored by Denislav Sokolov / Deniz Atasoy are protected by copyright. Collaborative work is presented with project credits and the author’s contribution identified. Rights in contributions by other collaborators remain with their respective authors.