Mario Cucinella: Roma Tre Rectorate and Milan Projects

Architect Mario Cucinella discusses his upcoming projects in Rome and Milan. In Rome, his firm won a project finance competition for the new Rectorate of Roma Tre University, set to complete by 2019. The building will feature a transparent auditorium facing Via Ostiense, a public square, and a raised piazza, with a south side left open to reduce heat. In Milan, from November 18, La Triennale hosts 'Empatia Creativa,' an exhibition of five Cucinella projects: UnipolSai headquarters and COIMA headquarters at Porta Nuova, Città della Salute e della Ricerca in Sesto San Giovanni, a museum in Corso Venezia, and the Nuovo Polo Chirurgico e delle Urgenze for Ospedale San Raffaele. The museum, a private initiative, will be an underground space for ancient art. Cucinella also works on the Abitazione per la Pace in Scanzano Ionico, a prototype home for immigrant families using natural materials, aiming for spring 2017. In Pacentro (L'Aquila), he collaborates with Action Aid on a participatory school design. His SOS School of Sustainability continues for a second year, focusing on social and sustainable architecture.