Tagged Carlo Ratti Associati

On the occasion of Milan Design Week 2023, Italo Rota and CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati unveiled “Walk the Talk”, an installation that dramatically transforms Milan’s Botanical Garden into a 3500 square-mete...

Carlo Ratti Associati with architect Italo Rota and urbanist Richard Burdett propose a large solar farm as centerpiece of Rome's bid to host the World Expo in 2030. The project uses renewable energy as the bas...

At Milan Design Week 2022, international design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and architect Italo Rota unveil a project that turns the city’s Botanical Garden into an energy park. “Feeling...

International design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, in collaboration with Italo Rota, unveils the Greenary, a residence that revolves around a ten-meter-tall tree at the center of the house. M...

Can a beach umbrella use sun’s energy to provide cooling? Sammontana, Italy’s leading gelato and frozen-desserts brand, has invited international design and innovation firm CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati to des...

Italian practice CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and a team led by Australian real estate group Lendlease have won the international competition to design the University of Milan’s new science campus. Located in th...

Italian architect Carlo Ratti and Itali Rota have unveiled MEET, a center for digital culture in Milan designed to maximize chance encounters between visitors. The project occupies a historic palazzo, known f...

Italian practice Carlo Ratti Associati reveals a collaboration with the financial company Sella Group to design new workplaces, addressing post-pandemic challenges. The pilot project of the Open Innovation Cen...

CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati unveils Pura-Case, a portable wardrobe purifier that uses ozone to remove most micro-organisms, bacteria, and viruses from clothes and fabric. The project aims to address the needs of ...

Just four weeks after the launch of CURA, a global open-source initiative aimed to convert shipping containers into plug-in Intensive-Care Pods for COVID-19 patients – the first unit has been built and instal...

Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota have teamed-up with engineering studio Jacobs and digital studio Squint/Opera to design CURA (Connected Units for Respiratory Ailments) with the aim to convert ship...

How will urban highways look like in 2050? Can they be transformed from urban and social barriers into flexible spaces for living, playing and farming? These are some of the questions addressed by the “New De...

International design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati has won the “Reinventing Cities” competition with a project for a new office building and center for scientific research in Milan, Italy....

CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, together with global energy company Eni, has developed an architectural structure made of mushrooms, installed within Brera’s Orto Botanico as part of  Milan Design Week 2019. G...

International design and innovation office CArlo Ratti Associati (CRA) introduces Guido, a concept for a driverless robotic cafe. Guido has been developed for Makr Shakr, the world’s leading producer of robot...

International design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati has unveiled the Greenary, a renovated farmhouse designed around a 10-meter-high (32-feet-high) Ficus growing within the main living area. Li...

Architect Carlo Ratti has unveiled the first mass-market robotic bartender for Makr Shakr, the world’s leading producer of automated cocktail makers. The new app-controlled machine, called Nino, features tw...

Carlo Ratti Associati has developed Paint by Drone, a portable technological solution that employs drone formations to draw on urban facades. The project aims to turn any blank vertical surface into a space for...

Turin-based design and innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati introduces Paris Navigating Gym project, a human-powered Gym Boat that cruises along the Seine River by using energy sourced from passengers’ wor...

Italian architect Carlo Ratti Associati has created Lift-Bit, is a modular, digitally-reconfigurable furniture system that allows a sofa to seamlessly turn into a chair, a chaise longue, a bed, a lounge room, a...