Garage Maiocchi 10

Laboratorio Permanente and ASA (Paolo Caracini) transform an old garage in Milan into a collective space where art, design, and fashion come together to shape new cultural experiences. 

The new home of Spazio Maiocchi relates to the city through a concrete grid of prefabricated modules that frame fixed glass alternating with openable panels of etched aluminum. The entrance, marked by a setback, opens to the main room characterized by an alternating system of brick vaults.

The reuse project was configured as a restoration of all the structural elements of the original layout. The architectural quality was preserved through the adoption of sophisticated consolidation and chemical surface treatment technologies. A single architectural device was introduced in the background, a grandstand made of reinforced concrete modules opens to the multiplicity of urban uses.