In Rome’s Fleming district, Piazza Monteleone di Spoleto is being transformed into a dynamic space that reconnects the community with nature. The design focuses on depaving the existing surface, replacing it with permeable materials that enhance water management and reduce heat. A rain garden enhances stormwater retention, creating a sustainable ecosystem that adapts to the challenges of climate change. An energy canopy with photovoltaic panels shelters the new market, offering a protected, open space for daily rituals and spontaneous interactions. Sixteen new trees, including Paulownias, Lindens, and Magnolias, shape a cooler, greener piazza, while a photovoltaic canopy shelters the new market, blending energy efficiency with vibrant public life. By linking the porticoes on opposite sides, the design establishes a seamless connection, activating the piazza with spaces for leisure, play, and cultural events. This new urban oasis becomes a living, breathing stage for the neighborhood, a place where community and nature thrive together.

As part of Roma Capitale's program to redevelop and enhance public spaces for the 2025 Jubilee of the Catholic Church, ADAT’s design for the Unità Market project is focused on rejuvenating a historic structure in the heart of Rome, redefining the market experience and rethinking its functional and architectural characteristics. The intervention aims to enhance a historic market complex to attract a broader audience than traditional markets, transforming a single-function structure into an urban gallery capable of meeting diverse community needs and creating a new social hub. The new Unità Market includes redesigned food and shop stalls replaced by new structures called "lanterns," which can transform from commercial booths into illuminated devices during events and activities outside traditional market hours. Upon closing time, the backlighting of each lantern can be programmed to create interactive light scenes specifically for various events and activities hosted by the new market, such as neighborhood events, art exhibitions, craft fairs, and informal study and work meetings. The goal of the intervention is to transform the traditional neighborhood market into a multifunctional, multilevel urban attraction while maintaining its popular appeal.

The ‘U DESIGN MUSEUM’ is a proposal for Helsinki’s New Architecture and Design Museum, redefining the city’s skyline with its bold U-shaped form that blends historical context with contemporary ambition. Its sloping roof and transparent skin connect Helsinki’s historic and modern architecture, reflecting the city’s evolving identity. More than a building, the museum creates a vibrant civic space, fostering connections between the city, its residents, and its architectural form. At ground level, public programs—including a library, workshops, galleries, and cafes—activate the building’s ends, dissolving boundaries between the museum and the urban fabric. Ramped pathways ensure accessibility, inviting diverse audiences to engage with the space and fostering a sense of belonging. Natural light and curated views transform the museum into a layered urban gallery, culminating in a rooftop terrace offering unparalleled views of the city. Rooted in sustainability, the building incorporates a versatile rhombus skin system that maximizes daylight while minimizing heat loss. The use of local materials—such as glue-laminated timber beams, Finnish wood, and stone—along with upcycled glass and passive energy systems, establishes the museum as a model of ecological, social, and economic sustainability.

Our design for "The School at the Center of the Future" envisions the school as an integral part of the park and urban environment, acting as a catalyst for change in the social context of the periphery of Brescia. It introduces a dynamic new landscape with programmable spaces, linking open areas and broader networks to create an integrated social, cultural, and ecological system. The surrounding park functions as a landscape laboratory for restoring natural systems, addressing challenges such as climate change, urban resilience, pollution, and biodiversity loss. The school is situated within a layered landscape of horizontal and vertical habitats, blending wild nature, productive landscapes, and cultivated gardens. This design fosters a dialogue between humans and nature, offering a mix of environmental education, sports, and creative activities. The restorative design strategy transforms the site into a living ecosystem that manages water, creates habitats, and produces food, while celebrating biodiversity and cultural diversity.

ADAT / Studio FM Milano has been commissioned by Società Giubileo 2025 to shape the visual identity for the Jubilee 2025, a global event with a message of hope for all people. The Jubilee is a unique opportunity for Rome to present itself to the world, welcoming millions of pilgrims and tourists with significant funding allocated to modernize the city and enhance services, so that Rome can showcase its historic beauty at its finest. These improvements will inevitably impact traffic and access to key sites; therefore, it's essential to make these projects visible and easily recognizable, allowing citizens to understand their connection to Jubilee 2025 and engage with the event in a meaningful way. Taking this extraordinary opportunity and challenge, our project aims to create a new standard for public construction sites in Rome and its relationship with the community by transforming the traditional barriers of the works into an osmotic layer for the city. The task includes branding guidelines for construction sites and an operational manual for project implementers, ensuring a cohesive image that communicates Rome’s preparations for the Holy Year.

ADAT Studio’s proposal for the Science Museum of Rome is based around an open-air building that will redefine the traditional museum experience by creating a public and shared space that focuses on the relationship between history, humanity, and nature and how these subjects engage in constant dialogue. The museum becomes a hub for citizens and researchers, a new open community that surpasses conventional boundaries between public and private, natural and artificial, past and future. Together with the urban forest that opens to the city, ground-level spaces create a ‘diffuse gallery’ for hosting exhibitions, events, and science-related meetings. ADAT Studio’s “Science Forest” is intended to become a place for gathering, studying, socializing, and encouraging debates. The new terrace offers a buffer zone for open-air exhibitions that fades the threshold between the existing volume and the glass surface. Conceived as a passive bioclimatic box, the museum offers visitors an experience with plant communities in a new ecosystem. The architecture and landscape arise from a holistic approach, enhancing the biological interactions with flora, fauna, and other organisms.

The new Taranto Aquatic Stadium is an ambitious project designed to meet three key goals: creating an Olympic swimming facility for the 2026 Mediterranean Games, providing the city with a lasting community resource post-event, and establishing a new waterfront landmark to revitalize and enhance the city’s identity. Mobility, landscape, and architecture come together in an integrated strategy: the site acts as a bridge between the city and the sea, where public, private, and service flows are woven into a cohesive landscape that adapts to the area’s varied contexts. The architecture extends into the landscape, amplifying local assets while harmonizing with historical elements such as the Torre d’Ayala, archaeological remnants, natural vegetation, and the waterfront. The design embraces a dual yet unified character: on the city-facing side, it’s an iconic but respectful structure with a porous, reflective facade that honors the natural and historical setting. On the seafront, it becomes a landmark that blends into the cliffs with local materials, gradually extending toward the sea through terraces and green spaces.

Opera169, designed by ADAT Studio for Harrest, translates the vibrant spirit of Washington Heights into a forward-thinking residential building concept. This six-story project on 169th Street blends seamlessly into the urban landscape with its brick facades and geometric design, honoring the neighborhood's character and the urban context. Each of the eight apartments includes generous storage and private balconies that connect residents to the street and surrounding spaces, enhancing interaction with the urban environment. A communal green roof terrace promotes biodiversity, reduces heat, and provides stormwater resiliency, aligning with a sustainable vision for resilient, inclusive city living. Opera169 by ADAT Studio is a residential building with a human scale that respects the vocation for green spaces of the neighborhood and answers to the needs of a post-pandemic society, ever more conscious about the value of social interaction and direct contact with nature.