De Montel - Milan Spa
Information
Client: TERME & SPA ITALIA
Project:
De Montel - Terme Milano
Architectural Designer:
Arch. Federico Pella
Services: Preliminary, final, and executive design, Construction and Structural Management, CSP/CSE
Location: Milan (MI)
Status: Built
Year: 2018 - 2025
Team: Arch. Marzorati + Tecnarc + Par’c Nouveau + Politecnico di Milano
he Spa Theater project, winner of the international call for proposals "Reinventing Cities," involves the rehabilitation of the stables and surrounding green areas, with the intention of creating a new urban park to serve citizens. The proposal to create a Spa and Thermal Park stems from the fact that there is thermal water in the subsoil.
If in the 19th century Ebenezer Howard expressed the idea of the "garden-city" as a counterpoint to the industrial city with its intrusive fumes, today Milan becomes the spearhead of a model of urban transformation in which new parks make it increasingly a "garden-city." Along these lines, the project for the Ex Scuderie De Montel, in the San Siro district of Milan, winner of the international call for proposals "Reinventing Cities," aims to recover the relationship with water, with the earth, with vegetation: all within the logic of well-being and balance between the urban community and nature.
The proposal to create a Thermal Park and SPA on the site of the former De Montel Stables stems from the concrete fact that water with thermal characteristics is present in the subsoil. Starting from this fact, the project to rehabilitate the stables and surrounding green areas was developed with the intention of creating a new urban park defining a harmonious confluence of architecture and nature at the service of citizens. Gardens and vegetable gardens will be created within the park, which together will compose a large urban oasis where past and future will meet, in the name of people's well-being and the stimulation of creativity.
J+S is the group leader of an R.T.P. that managed the international competition Reinventing Cities - C40, during 2018 and 2019 which then led to the definition of De Montel - Teme Milano. The conservative restoration project along with the overall re-functionalization and regeneration of the area was managed between 2019 and 2021 largely during the Covid period in close collaboration with both the Superintendence and the Municipal Offices; the construction site started in 2022 and was completed in early 2025. This is a unique intervention that brings a largely demolished building with an original function for horse shelter, stables and warehouses to one of the largest Urban Spa centers in Europe by emphasizing its historic Art Nouveau appeal with the modernity and contemporaneity of attractions and services for a truly exciting customer experience. Management of the administrative procedure, structural architectural design and construction management/CSE was provided by a multidisciplinary Team that grounded J+S's many years of expertise in Urban Wellness and Leisure.
