Prada Foundation Design

FONDAZIONE PRADA MILAN OMA-AMO

The total exhibition space of 17,500 m2 will comprise 7,500 m2 of an existing industrial complex and approximately 10,000 m2 of new buildings. The complex will house the Foundation’s different events, which will be dedicated to disciplines ranging from cinema to design, architecture to philosophy, and fashion to performance. It will further include a permanent exhibition space for displaying the result of more than 15 years of the Foundation’s activities in the form of largescale installations.

The Prada Foundation’s new art centre and permanent exhibition space is situated in a location that includes buildings dating from 1910 belonging to one of Milan's first manufacturing companies. Preserved in their original conditions, there are 7 different existing structures of warehouses, laboratories and brewing silos surrounded by a large courtyard.

AMO’s project adds an exhibition building, an auditorium and a museum tower to the existing structure to house selections of works from the collection. The project’s unique approach includes the idea of the coexistence of contemporary architecture with the regeneration of an historic area, representing the evolution of the industrial development of Milan that continues to the present day.

THE TOWER

THE BOX

THE IDEAL MUSEUM

THE COURTYARD EVENT-SPACE