Dropcity Centre for Architecture and Design

Dropcity is a place for researching, imagining, experimenting with, and implementing alternative forms of design and architecture in a world of systemic crises. It cultivates the emergence of boundary-breaking ideas and facilitates their materialization.

Located inside the connected tunnels behind Milan Central Station, Dropcity was first envisioned by architect Andrea Caputo back in 2018 with the aim of establishing a place for people to meet, discuss, and imagine better ways of practicing design, architecture, and society.

Scheduled to open permanently in the fall of 2024, Dropcity will create an urban model unseen before in Europe, hosting exhibition galleries, production workshops, carpentry, robotics and advanced prototyping laboratories. In 2025, both its materials library and public library, with a focus on architecture and design topics, will be accessible to the public. In addition, to complete the the centre as a cultural apparatus, a large area will be dedicated to research, teaching and office spaces for professionals.