"...e invece ora guardava la valle e mi accorgevo che la vedeva tutta e che il suo sguardo si fermava lentamente su tutte le cose, considerandole."
Ennio Flaiano

studio elementare was established in 2008 based in Milan, founded by architect Paolo Pasquini. The team deals with architectural projects and interventions on an urban scale with a specific focus on the relationship of man with the city and its territory, with the aim of investigating the happy coexistence between the quality of urban nature and the community that lives there.

The idea that applies to every project, particularly in the complexity of contemporary reality, is that of being able to offer a humble service that is based on listening, sharing and finally on the elaboration of the final product, which takes into account all the elements, without sacrificing any of them, but rather enhancing the whole. The ideal is that such a process idea can be implemented in reality with a language that does not neglect today’s cultural tension, which calls for that “lightheartedness” of those who live enthusiastically, trying to seize all the opportunities that each work offers to become meaningful.

Founder Paolo Pasquini graduated at the University of Florence, and after a first professional experience in Pisa (exhibition design for the Certosa di Pisa Historic Gallery at the Natural History Museum), he started an important collaboration with architect Italo Rota in Milan (Audiovisual Library of S. Sisto in Perugia, design and planning contest for the Nuovo Museo del Novecento in Milan), and with Aukett+Garretti, (Bodio Center business park in Milan, Competition for the ex Polo Urbano Fiera in Milan). From 2004 he has mantained a steady collaboration with Europa Risorse.

Team

Paolo Pasquini
Anna Milani
Massimiliano Piffer
Cristian Gaglioti

Worked with us

Cinzia Catena, Enrico Arrighetti, Maria Vittoria Mastella, Andrea Giambelli, Fabio Ditroia, Eugenio Fusarini, Tomas Devis De Luca, Loris Luis Perillo, Grazia Mappa, Francesca Basile, Lucia Delmonte, Cristina Cantamessa, Patricia Dominguez Garzòn, Olimpia Rangoni Machiavelli, Silvia Favini, Marco Frisinghelli, Riccardo Simonetto, Maria Tisbe Triaca, Valerio Rigamonti, Fabio Figaroli, Martina Croci, Eleonora Alviti, Giovanni Cuguttu, Chiara Rimoldi, Mojin Zhang, Federico Florenzano, Athiba Balasubramanian, Prarthana Uluganthan

Publications

Segreen Business Park

- The Plan, Panorama Italiano,
On Going 2024
- BIGSEE AWARD 2024, 1° premio, “Industrial buildings and workspace 2024”
- IoArch,
n°111, p.144, 2024, Osservatorio Architettura italiana
- Mostra “Nuove Normalità, Spazi, architettura e persone” Schio-Roma-Favara, 2024

Casa LABE

- AD,
“Una casa minimalista nel cuore di Milano arricchita da note di colore” 2024
- ElleDecor,
“La casa azzurro cielo che conquista il cuore di milano (lentamente)” 2024

Casa AM

- Case & Stili “la Repubblica”,
Nell’ex sottotetto ora regna la luce, January 30th 2016, p. 42

Foodpark

- “Milano. Realizzazioni e progetti dal 1919”, Carlo Berizzi, Dom Publishers, 2015
-“AREA”,
n° 115, March - April 2011

Maciachini Masterplan

-“Guida all’architettura di Milano 1954-2015”, Marco Biraghi, Hoepli, 2015
- Masterplan Maciachini Superurbano, Sustainable Urban Regeneration”, Marsilio Editore
- Ailati. 12ma Biennale di Architettura. Italian Pavillion. Riflessi dal futuro, 2010, Milan, Skira, People meet in architecture, Catalogo Biennale architettura 2010, Venice, Marsilio
- “Elle Decor Italia”, May 2010, Studio elementare, “A10”, num. 31, January February 2010
- Butterfly Conservatory “Abitare”,
n° 498 - Ossigeno Italiano, Dicembre 2009
- “Milan. Verso l’Expo. La nuova architettura”, Maria Vittoria Capitanucci, Skira, 2009, Masterplan Maciachini, “Casamica”, February 2009
- Luca Molinari (2008) Maciachini: A Groundbreaking Urban workshop for Milan, Milano, Skira
- “Il Sole 24 ORE”,
Archinfo, February 2009
- “Il Sole 24 ORE”,
“Progetti e Concorsi” di “Edilizia e Territorio”, 4-9 August 2008, 12-17 May 2008, 5-10 March 2007
- “Tempi”,
n°12, dossier Milano extra, 22 March 2007
- AREA,
n° 92 - supplemento real estate, May-June 2007
- “Il Sole 24 ORE”,
1 March 2007
- “Il Sole 24 ORE”,
“Mondo Immobiliare”, 17 June 2006

Residenze Ex-Berardi

- “Il Sole 24 ORE”,
“Progetti e Concorsi” di “Edilizia e Territorio”, 25 February -1 March 2008
-“Il Sole 24 ORE”,
17 January 2009

Exhibitions

Lumiere, 'Milan Design Week 2023' Pavilion to screen Paramount, Inigo Cabo, a film about Segreen Business Park and its surroundings.

GIOIAOTTO Competition, "Milano work in progress#5 Gioiaotto, March 7-29, 2013, FMG Space for Architecture, Milan.

Maciachini Business Park, International Architecture Biennale Award "Barbara Cappochin" 2011 October 28, 2011 - February 13, 2012

Maciachini Masterplan and Bosco Elementare for Venini, AILATI - 12. , Italian Pavilion, Reflections from the Future, International Architectural Exhibition "People Meet in architecture" - Italian Pavilion Venice 2010

Food Park, "Milano work in progress#2," November 3-28, 2009, FMG Space for Architecture, Milan.

Maciachini Masterplan and Food Park, "MILAN MAC567 and the unseen urban laboratory for Maciachini," October 2009, Urban Center, Milan.

Maciachini Masterplan and Food Park, "Conference on the construction sites of Maciachini, Altra Sede, Maxxi, Porta Nuova, Rho Towers, edited by Modulo magazine," Be-Ma publishing, November 2009, in Headquarters of Professional Association of Milan Architects

Food Park, "Dreaming Milano," April 22-26, 2009 - 48th Salone del Mobile, Milan, Fondazione Mazzotta.

Clients

Benson Elliot
Biovelocity
BNL sgr
BPD
Cassa Depositi e Prestiti
Cromwell Property Group
Goddess Capital
De Agostini Digital
DevItalia
Doughty Hanson
Dry
Emerald
ENEL
ERA Italy
Europe Resources
Fabrica Real Estate SGR
Fullsix
Generali Property
Innovation Campus Milan
Magnolia
Mutado
Patron Capitol
PineBridge
Pharmacare
Junior Glide
Polaris
RBA Publisher
RSM Italy - Tax and Corporate Firm
Samsung Fashion
Sofinnova Partners
Taqa
The British School of Milan
Value Lab
Venini
Vitali S.p.a.
Zambon Biotech
Zodiac Active
Zodiac Active Plus

Consultants

TEKNE
BMS Projects
S.C.E. Project
ARIATTA
WIP
J&A
Rebughini Studio
Mantini Associates
STZ
Arianna Lanzarini
United Consulting
Blue Mini Power
Peverelli Design
Irene Benvenuti
GSA Gueltrini and Stignani Associates
MAKNO & Consulting
Francis Iodice
Philip Romano
Filippo Patrese
Lorenzo Zandri
Onirims Studio
Quatre Caps
Stack! Studios