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The project – assigned to Archt. Nicola Tommaso Bettini – involved the completion of the interior areas of the new MTA Headquarter in Codogno, already defined both in volume and outer structure by Architect Giuseppe Falchetti.
The intervention covered about 5,200 m2 of usable area, to house the operational and management offices of the company.

The fundamental aspect of the project of the interior areas consists of the presence of a vast rectangular courtyard that, protected by glass roofing, contains a real winter garden.
The project of this space, embedded in the heart of the new MTA offices, wanted to express the fascination evoked by the encounter between technological artifice and natural element with the willingness to create a highly technological functional container. The inner garden, overlooked by the activities of the new MTA offices, blends light, water, colour, matter and technology in everchanging shapes and expressions that give life to a harmonious space.

The grid of the floating floor used in all work environments – essential for the operation of some of the technological plants – has also been adopted in the courtyard and used as reference grid on which to weave the natural elements of the garden: grass, trees, stones, water and light. The same material of the grid changes from porcelain stoneware of the offices, into natural stone of Carniglia, differently treated to recreate a light and elegant chiaroscuro and to enforce the compositional and sensorial system of the square.

Planting, achieved by greenhouse essences of African origin (Bucida Buceras), was carried out in the central part of the courtyard coherently with the symmetrical plant of the building. The choice of plants with high trunks has allowed to insert in the general composition a vertical visual axis that transmits the sensation and the perception of the courtyard to the upper floors.

The water was placed in the terminal part of the perspective axis, the lowest level of the square, setting a visual and formal limit to the composition of the ensemble.

Light also has an essential role in the project, be it natural or artificial: the constant change of reflections and colours of the materials present in the courtyard; the horizontal plane obtained with inserts of walkable opal glass, thanks to a series of lighting cuts into the stone. Enclosed between blind structural walls, the vertical connections were realized in such a way as to open to natural light and viewable from the courtyard in correspondence to the landings of the various floors while the ramps and intermediate junction floors are illuminated by cuts of indirect artificial light.