At the intersection between Via Castelbarco and Via Sarfatti were placed functions related with Master Programs and Administration. To the south, the Recreation Center serves as a buffer area between the Campus and the Viale Toscana. Also contain a fitness center open to the public with olympic swimming pool, a gym, a fitness center and on East, on the quieter side of the area, will be located the residential tower, accessible from via Castiglioniuna, with 300 bedrooms for students and visiting professors, thanks to which the University will cater to the growing demand for housing generated mainly by foreigners.
Among the different parts of the project grows, winding through the entire area, a large public park of 17,500 square meters, open to students and residents.
The entrance to the new Bocconi School of Management opens on the north side of the plot, which facilitates entry to existing Campus. The building contains an entrance lobby with a transparent double height, with areas on the upper level and a large auditorium at the bottom. From the entrance, through the building, you can access the system courtyards of the complex, which houses the cafeteria on the ground floor of the administration building and the store is on the same level Master Building Program.
Bocconi calculated investment is approximately EUR 130 million and the completion of the work is expected to be by the end of 2018. "Cells of communication and transparency improved concept of motion (rector Andrea Sironi said during the presentation) the University must include both knowledge and people.
The new project is part of a long tradition of high-level architecture that the University has always given its buildings. The new complex will be the latest in a series that began with headquarters in Via Sarfatti by Giuseppe Pagano and Gian Giacomo Predaval in 1941, to the Residence in Via Bocconi by Giovanni and Lorenzo Muzio (1956), who also designed the expansion on Via Gobbi (1966). To this we must add also the building for classrooms by Ignazio Gardella (2001) and, in 2008, the building in Via Roentgen signed by McNamara with Yvonne Farrell.
