The new campus of the SDA Bocconi School of Management closed almost immediately after opening in 2019 due to pandemic restrictions. Today, the luxurious buildings of the prestigious Italian business school are already fully functioning. The total space covers 50,000 square meters and cost more than 130 million euros. The project by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa from Sanaa Studio consists of five buildings: for executive education, for master’s programs, for staff and faculty, and a dormitory building for university residents, which accommodates more than 300 students. The infrastructure includes:
• Research centers and laboratories
• Sports center
• Olympic-sized swimming pool
• Gym
• Bars and restaurants
• Conference rooms
• Public spaces with contemporary art
• Green spaces
– all conditions for creating a “city within a city.”
A sports center on the territory is open to everyone. New campus is adjacent to the historical building of Bocconi University, built-in 1945. It ranks 13th in Financial Times MBA Ranking and 2nd in Poets&Quants’ ranking of the best international MBA programs (not including the US). Leading indicators are characteristic of the school learning process, now with LEED Platinum Sustainability Accreditation certification and their new home. Giuseppe Soda, Dean of the SDA Bocconi School of Management, said: “Our buildings have a system to filter the light of the sun coming into the campus, which creates the right thermal temperature depending on the season.” Soda explains: “We don’t want to be perceived as an ivory tower that produces knowledge in a self-referential way. The message we want to give the city is that we produce knowledge that benefits the society at large.” In addition, hybrid learning is facilitating in classrooms that have been equipped with video cameras, microphones, and sound-absorbing ceiling panels in 40 classrooms with more than 2,400 seats. Bocconi strives to offer the best possible education, combining the campus’s beauty with various facilities.