Concrete

Apartment blocks

Monza, I, 1972

Architect:
Angelo Mangiarotti, Milan

º A+U 12/1978
Bona, Enrico D.: Angelo Mangiarotti.
Il Processo del Construire. Milan 1980
Finessi, Beppe (ed.): Su Mangiarotti,
catalogue of the Milan Triennial for
Architecture and Design. Milan 2002
Herzog, Thomas (ed.): Bausysteme
von Angelo Mangiarotti. Darmstadt 1998
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• Storey-height precast concrete sandwich

elements
• Used for two different apartment blocks: in
Monza and in Arioso, Como, (1977, five-
storey building with facade broken up even
more than in this building by projections and
returns)
• Flexible arrangement leaves open areas for
tenants to use as they wish

Isometric view (not to scale)

Plan of 1st, 2nd and 4th floors
scale 1:500
Vertical sections, scale 1:20
Detail of roof-facade junction
scale 1:5

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 Concrete

1 Wall panel: storey-height precast concrete, with inte-

gral 120 mm rigid polystyrene thermal insulation
2 Precast concrete roof edge element
3 Wooden window element, fir
4 Wooden window, fir, with double glazing:
4 mm toughened safety glass + 9 mm cavity +
4 mm toughened safety glass
5 Folding wooden shutter
6 Sheet copper, bent to suit, 8/10 mm
7 Precast concrete parapet element
8 M12 bolt + nuts
9 Steel angle, 60 x 60 x 8 mm, for fixing roof edge
element, welded to steel flat cast flush into reinforced
concrete roof slab
10 Steel angle, 60 x 120 x 8 mm, for fixing wall panel,
welded to steel flat cast flush into reinforced
concrete roof slab

1 5 4

9 8

3 2

10

2 1

1 2+3

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