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The Sheraton Milan Malpensa Airport Hotel Conference Centre Architects: King Roselli Architetti – Riccardo Roselli Location: Milan, Italy Project Architect: Arianna Nobile Interior Design: Daniele Del Prete Design Team: Andrea Ricci, Mario Augusti, Katia Scarioni, Giandomenico Florio, Fabrizio Bonatti Landscape: Dana Vocino Consultant: Federica Pistola, Andrea Imbrenda Client: DEC Project area: 50,000 sqm Photographs: Santi Caleca King Roselli Architetti was commissioned to design the exteriors of this large hotel in front of Malpensa International Airport as a result of competition winning entry for the overall design of the building. Despite its size (420m long, 64m wide, 21m high) the building was conceived as a design object. Partly because Milan is Italy’s design capital, and partly because we were interested in investigating the technical and architectural properties of a skin or membrane to be perceived dynamically as facade not only on its four sides but also the roof- visible from the access road to the airport complex. The hotel has 436 rooms, a conference center, a spa accessible directly from the airport. The shell is curved around a subframe of pultruded structural profiles and steel arches, wrapping the entire length of each bay in a smooth, continuous skin. The almost flat roof is treated as a facade to be seen from the airport, with openings onto terraces, light-wells or interior courts. The plant extracts and ventilation “breath” through vents twisted out of the roof membrane. Guest Room Blocks The layouts of the rooms are organized in seven bays separated by courtyards which give a bar-code form to the plan and avoid a direct view from the airport into guest rooms. The western face of the hotel is left open to emphasis the horizontality of the volume with shallow water pools set into the lower level at the ends. Facade On the open (west) side these blocks of rooms articulate the facade in an irregular sequence of solid and vo