Presso Biblioteca Bovisa Candiani - Via Candiani, 72 - 20158 Milano (Bovisa Campus - building B1)
For requests and information write to materioteca@polimi.it or call 02.2399.8052
To access the library you need your magnetic card (Policard).
You can search and find the materials in the special materials catalogue
Free access during the library opening hours. Assistance and support service open from 9.00 am to 4 pm.
20 seats are available.
All material samples may be viewed onsite. Up to 10 samples may be borrowed for 5 days, deferable twice gaining access to the Personal Area of the catalogue.
The onsite loan may also be made through the self-check machine, which works with the user’s personal badge.
An assistance and support service is available for searching materials, preferably with a warning phone call.
Materioteca is an archive that gathers about 10,000 samples of materials in order to support teaching and research.
The available samples are divided into material classes: polymers, wood, ceramics, glass, metals, paper/cardboard, recycled materials, stones and building materials, textiles, fibres and yarns, composite materials, innovative materials and smart materials.
There are also available for consultation: the Maglieria Marina Spadafora which contains samples made by and for the Italian designer Marina Spadafora during a career of more than forty years in the knitting industry, and the Lino Archive of SISTEMA MODA ITALIA, which collects original flax yarns and fabrics produced by different companies since 1993.
The collection is constantly enriched and updated through contacts with national and international producers.
The samples are visible in the materials sample catalogue.
Head of Bovisa libraries and Acquisition Unit: Piero Ruggeri, ph. 02.2399.7175, e-mail piero.ruggeri@polimi.it
Manager of Campus Life Division: Chiara Pesenti, ph. 02.2399.2428, e-mail chiara.pesenti@polimi.it
Monica Corio - ph. 02.2399.8052 - e-mail monica.corio@polimi.it