Strategic Development Plan by Surajkumar Nandakumar

Politecnico di Milano - Architecture and Society Faculty Master degree Course of Urban planning & policy design Urban Policy Design Studio Prof. A.Balducci, A.Bruzzese, G.Nardone Tutors Ilaria Giuliani, Daniele Pennati, Fabrizio Radaelli, Monica Righetti Yuliya Georgieva | Arturo Gonzalez | Lucia Mason | Suraj Nandakumar

1. THE AREA U N D E R S TA N D I N G

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T E R R I T O R Y

Ter r ito r ial Co ntex t Infra s t r u c t u re St at i s t i c s Environments | B orde rs | R elations hips Ongo i n g p ro je c t s Ac tor s Probl e ms a n d re s o u rce s

2. THE CONCEPT F I R S T

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3. THE PROJECT P R O J E C T

B U I L D I N G

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P R O C E S S

The s trategy S an D o n ato St at i o n S ant a G i u l i a R ogo re do St at i o n E x Ca p ro n i Annexu re

4. REFERENCES AND CASE STUDY 5. PORTFOLIO T H E

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THE AREA

Terri to rial contex t Milan is an epicenter of a Mega city region in the north of Italy which is guarded by gates that serve to connect hinterland to world at large. Milan is strengthened by transportation infrastructure on the periphery of the city which remain as efficient equipments but and only for that precise function. Through the years the border which defined the city have changed, moving to different distances and disappearing, leaving space to areas which were considered sort of â&#x20AC;&#x153;no manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s landâ&#x20AC;?,

1.1 Te r r i to r i al Co ntex t

all around the city and in contact with the closest loop of municipalities around Milan. The aim of the studio is to face the negative consequences which grow with the city: congestion, pollution, expulsion of urban workers, environmental decay, conflicts in the public space, crisis of the welfare state, housing affordability to promote an urban region that is more comfortable, more environmentally sustainable and more friendly towards its inhabitants and businesses.

Considering the bordering and neglected areas as resources for a better habitability, where to favor new governance experiences. The border area of the analysis is located in the South East of Milan in between the municipality of San Donato and Peschiera Borromeo. The aim of this first approach is to read and understand the territory. Looking at the wide physical elements and to how they shape the entire territory.

Area of intervention Railway Highway River Parco Sud

1.1 Ter r i tor i al Contex t

I nfrastruc ture This territory is affected by the presence of relevant linear elements more or less crossable: the big infrastructures (railwayâ&#x20AC;? highway) and the river Lambro are composing and organizing the territory. Each of them have different conditions and different ways to interact with the surroundings. All these three elements (mobility+natural) with the addition of the Linate airport which is located on the west of the area, create the strongest division and fragmentation of the whole territory. Shaping in a quite defined

1.2 I N F R A S T R U C T U R E

way the areas of interest, this elements are playing a strong role as borders. In the end the result is that the area is the most isolated and physically inaccessible on a human scale is the one located between the railway and the tangenziale and the one located between the tangenziale and the Lambro river. After realising how physically fragmented by this linear elements the area is, we decided to look to the ways in which it is connected. This represents the ATM Milano service with the suburban lines serving as connection

to Milano, and the big infrastructures themselves for both private and public transportation. The final image was an area with a high accessibility potentiality, not in all the situation well / enough exploited. Looking outside the borders of the municipality of Milan, San Donato expresses all the potentiality of a territory located on tangenziali system (urban highways), with the presence of Metro line and an extraordinary proximity, with municipality of Peschiera Borromeo, with Linate airport.

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1.2 I nfrastruc ture

Rail way

The railway works as a wall in most of the situations. It interacts in two ways with other elements. 1| The Railway stops: works as an attractor to other elements because they are related with the accessibility to the territory. 2| The crossings: give the quality of porosity to the wall.

1.2 I N F R A S T R U C T U R E

Highway

This element has the same property of a wall, as the railway. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s height is necessary for question of public health related to the insolation of the street itself (but also to provide good habitability conditions). It is needful for the accessibility of the territory, but nobody wants to be near it.

Lambro River

This natural linear element have different properties than the previous ones. The attraction points depend, not on its structure, but on the different elements that are placed along it. Because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a natural element, it attracts natural elements along it, as the kitchen garden, and green areas.

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Stati s tics | demo graphics

1 . 3 Statistics

MILAN inhabitants: 1.324.110 foreigners: 16,41% 862 for: 25,5 % inh:

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PESCHIERA BORROMEO inhabitants: 22.832 foreigners: 5,6 %

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Neighbourhoods of Milan

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Neighbourhoods of San Donato

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Neighbourhood on the border of big mobility infrastructure with a high presence of foreigners population Neighbourhood on the border and with big green open spaces inside and a relative high presence of foreigners

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SAN DONATO inhabitants: 32.788 foreigners: 13,2 %

1 . 3 Stati s ti c s

Environments | B orders | Relationships

Analysing the territory we distinguished three guidelines which could be helpful to understand its nature. So the territory all around Milan has been seen as a composition of environments, divided by a variety of borders, sharing different types of relationships. The Environments are a way to associate a physical element to a human activity, places were human activities take place. Observing the urban fabric we can

distinguish different kind of materials, classify them and associate them with an activity. This doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean that the activity that is associated with the environment is the only function that affects this place, it is a way to read and interpret an environment. An architectural example: The classroom is a place to learn, the physical elements are organized to have lectures and presentations, to share knowledge. But

1.4 Env i ron m ent s | B ord ers | R el ati o n s h i p s

inside this environment other activities can take place, at lunch time you can eat, when there is no lecture you can do individual work. Spontaneous and necessary activities can emerge. A border is an envelope or the edge around an environment or between two environments. The presence of a border define an edge which for different reason may be or not crossable.

ENVIRONMENTS

BORDERS

RELATIONSHIPS

1.2 Environments | Borders | Relationships 1.4 Envi ron ments | B ord er s | R el ati on s h i ps

ENVIRONMENTS

The largest subset of related people, activities and materiality that define a characteristic on the footprint of an urban fabric.

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6. Abandoned Environments a. Unused | b. Decay

Work Environments

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Open Space Environments

Future Environments

Mobility Environments

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BORDERS

A border is an envelope or the edge around an environment or between two environments. On the loop scale we can address 3 types of borders: Cultural, Administrative and Physical and work on two scales of intervention Local and Super Local: Local - related to the specific sites and Super Local to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Loop cityâ&#x20AC;? strategy interventions. 1.Cultural Border 2. Administrative Border 3. Physical Border

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CULTURAL Border

ADMINISTRATIVE Border

PHYSICAL Border

A border created by the difference between people from different nationalities, cultures and religion, sharing bordering environments and in the city scale these kind of conditions are perceivable in the bordering areas where the city has pushed the social housing developments and peripheral developments in the past.

The political division between the governance of municipality of Milan and the municipalities surrounding it is an administrative border. They cannot be seen or perceived they exist in the governance structure of cities.

All types of high mobility infrastructure and any kind of areas that are not crossable and large enough to be perceived as a barrier-railway, highway, abandoned areas, inaccessible agricultural areas, enclaves.

1.4 Envi ron ments | B ord er s | R el ati on s h i ps

This area as well as many other areas around Milan has been characterized by a series of proposals for new development projects (even in relation to the EXPO 2015 and to the funds which were expected). Now there is an intensive future development pressure all stalled by looming crisis and multiple factors. Which got the most of the projects stuck and they will probably never be implemented. All these â&#x20AC;&#x153;under-developmentâ&#x20AC;? areas will probably became neglected/abandoned spaces, until a new succesful proposal will be done and actually implemented. In addition to the land developemnt projects this area is characterized even by a couple of infrastructural projects: the prosecution of the yellow metro line in direction of Peschiera Borromeo (not started yet) and the creation of a new metro line (blue- fourth line) in the direction of the Linate airport (to be realized for the EXPO and not started yet). To these should be added the implementation of the capacity of the Paullese road thought to solve some problems of accessibility to the city of Milan from west.

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AC TUAL LAN D US E

Città del gusto: part of the 2015 EXPO, it’s a requalification project to improve the existing commercial activities related to food markets.

Santa Giulia project: it’s a residential and commercial project; which got stuck because of soil remediation problems. Ponte Lambro residential development . San Donato - Milan mobility interchange: the difficulties of municipality working togheter, stopped it.

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FUTUR E PR O JE C TS

Cittadella della Giustizia: it should be realized before 2015 and it got stuck mostly economical and burocratic issues.

1.5 Projec ts on goi ng

Analysing the actors:

Special and general interest

The numbers of actors and people which can be involved in the project is enormous, mostly it depends on the scale of the intervention. To have a specific view on the actors involved will be necessary to have a look to the specific projects and to the strategy implemented. At this point of the analysis what can be done is to present all the stakeholders which for different reason present interest for the whole area.

ATM and BikeMi: The Azienda Trasporti Milanesi is a company owned by the Milan Municipality. ATM started in 2008 a new system of bike sharing which involved the historical center of Milan, but is planning to be extended to cover the whole territory of the municipality.

Political interest Provincia of Milan: It’s the intermediate level of administration of the territory (between the regional and the municipality level). It has mostly a strategic role in the planning of the cityregion. Municipality of Milan and of San Donato: They are the lowest level in the matter of territorial planning. Zona 4: It’s the lowest level of the administrative management of the territory, even if it doesn’t have proper decisional bodies. The city of Milan is divided in 9 zones.

1.6 Ac to rs

FFSS and Trenord: The Ferrovie dello Stato and the Lombardia Railway manage the entire railway system (which does not consider the metro but it does consider the suburban lines) inside the area.

Kitchen garden by groups or individuals: This is an association of people that share the same interest towards urban agriculture. They can be formally as well as informally organized, even around Milan there are a lot of different examples of management of kitchen gardens. Using this activity as a sustainable actor towards the development of the border situation, against soil consumption and even to increase the habitability and safety of the neglected areas.

Risanamento by Zunino: It’s the local developer who took in charge the construction of Santa Giulia and which got in bankrupcy after the discovery of the cost for remediation of the area. Ortomercato: The Ortomercato of Milan is the largest wholesale vegetable market in Italy, has a total area of approximately 445,000 square meters. The market sees an audience of about 9,000 people a day. Ortomercato is a citadel and works within itself with no relationship with our site since its physically divided by the railway line and connected by an underpass. Linate Airport: It’s the second airport of Milan, close to idroscalo and inside of the municipality of Peschiera Borromeo. It was mostly related to national flight but it had a strong development which actually took it to compete with the biggest Malpensa airport on the international level. Parco Agricolo sud: It’s the Agricultural park which covers the entire area in the South of Milan.

1.6 Ac tors

Fragmentation a n d B orde r s From the first interpretation the image of the territory came out to be a highly fragmented. A composition of environments, divided by a variety of borders sharing different types of relationships. What we mean by fragmentation is that the area is separated by individualized functions, people, culture, administration, physical mobility and natural elements that over time refrain from talking to each other. This homogeneity in built experiences bordered by perceptional and physical boundaries is a limiting city experience and needs to be dealt with in a sensitive manner differently

1.7 Prob l e m and resources

both locally and super locally (loop). The peripheral Municipalities are very compact near these administrative borders and tend to be fragmented as they approach the extremes of their administrative borders with most other municipalities but Milan. These municipalities share a common identity of being peripheral to Milan and exchange enormous resources between each other. Unfortunately the individual owners on both Milan and peripheral municipalities have a strong tendency to define their respective boundaries; physically and mentally by resorting to boundary mechanisms like

fences, violence and filth. From a local perspective this division of environments has been useful to identify the most fertile vocabulary to work with. Which are mostly the abandoned / future developments areas, which can be related to existing mobility and working environments, the neglected spaces in between existing environment and in between administrative borders. So that the fragmented nature of the periphery of Milan needs to be dealt with promoting special functions thereby creating functionally separate identities for the periphery neighborhoods.

Work Environments Neighborhood Environments Open Space Environments Future Environments Mobility Environments Abandoned Environments

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The existing environments are identified by their specific borders that in the diverse cases have different influence on the communication between them. To improve it and the usage of public spaces we have come to the dis| cover| play concept which aim is not to break completely the borders but to punch them creating fishes in between, giving the opportunity to valuable environments to become visible and seen through and in some cases opening them completely. This fishes will permit the creation of new environments borrowing, exploiting, stealing, destroying or even buying space from the existing ones. It will even permits to fix the existing environment to emphasize their value .

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The concept Dis I Cover I play stems from the idea of education . It is a mean to play allowing for discovery and reflection. Education is a very versatile word that connotes with multiple societal problems and delves to heal them with community learning activities.

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Also one of the main objectives is to designate playful environments in the urban fabric to create opportunities for the community to reflect and discover each other and new experiences. We believe that the fragmented community of the old historical town and the new development

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part needs common anchor points to knit together as one habitable society. Thereby not disturbing the form of the existing environments but overlaying a new layer of interstitial public spaces with newer functions , which are invisible to communities today.

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T H E P R O J E C T strategy | action | feasibility

Educate |Urban Agriculture Voluntary urban agriculture is a common practice in Milan. Three types of communities, ones who perform urban agriculture in an institutional framework and some who rent land from the municipality and others who illegally occupy abandoned land for growing food. The latter two receive no perks or facilities from the municipality. These spaces are walled by thick shrubs or waste material. This community has a high sense of ownership and pride for their activity.

There is an increased sense of perceived threat among the urban farmers. They are scared for their produce and equipment, owing the lack of infrastructure, system and recognition for their art by both the municipality and people of the city. Such tension is unnecessary for a healthy and noble activity like farming. Our strategy is to democratize urban farming by shaping an urban agriculture community and institutionalizing the same by using cascina as nerve centers to monitor, educate, equip and nurture this urban phenomenon. This initiative will serve to unite agriculture produce, food and culture in the multicultural Milan. Connect | Gates Milan is an epicenter of a Mega city region in the north of Italy which is guarded by gates that serve to connect hinterland to world at large. Our strategy believes that together these gates can solve a lot of congestion and pollution related problems of Milan.

3. 1 Th e strateg y

These strategic developments have a range of benefits: firstly these interventions will limit car entry to city reducing congestion, aid implementation of pedestrian network, tree avenues, green public transportation and harness bike transportation improving the quality of life in the city. Secondly if these transit-hubs begin talking to each other through efficient and fast transportation options then entering the city is a choice and not a necessity. Thirdly such fringe interconnected developments will reignite the real estate market for better and new imagination that is not limited or restricted by the historical lineage. And will open avenues for diverse well networked unique functions around the city of Milan. Adapt |Decay Post industrialized and now shrinking city of Milan has many abandoned and decaying spaces awaiting development. This wait is creating many non traversable and unaesthetic holes in the city. They range from soil polluted land to abandoned industrialized buildings and floating population gypsies who occupy desolate areas.

Our strategy objectives to resize, restore and reuse are methods to revive these areas. Primarily we would like to maintain a record of abandoned spaces. Then this data would become a useful resource for a creative institution to be based on.

This multi-functional agency can propose ideas, gather consensus, provide consent, execute and maintain a range of pop-up activities so as to include these marginalized areas within the city grasp. More over this agency can provide cognitive resources and expert advice of how to deal with decaying and polluted spaces in the city of Milan. Temporary |Recreation Our concept of discover play defines the relationship between temporary and recreation. In the advent to consume less land and reuse land for various activities is the basis of our idea. Currently most temporary recreational activities are concentrated in the center of city targeting tourists and the shopping audience.

Our strategy is to introduce a toolkit for play cutting across age, sex, place and ethnicity. The idea of plug and play devices play an important role in activating places with low or no recreational facilities. Also these devices can be circulated in and around the city as per demand and sequence and allow for distribution of talent from the city to be exhibited across the city. This range of devices will add recreational value to residential, industrial and desolate spaces and reclaim happiness lost in the people living in the vicinity. Basing these activities in unused parts of the city will add new spaces to the city which are otherwise ignored.

3 . 1 Th e s trate g y

MIL AN lo op strategy Discover play is the spine of the project that spans across four themes that reflect both on city loop and the local scale. Playfully intertwining education, connection, adapting and temporariness to improve the vibrancy and habitability of the periphery of Milan and surrounding municipalities. The idea to use these core four themes to delegate unique roles to the surrounding municipalities thereby creating unique centralities around Milan is our key focus.

3 . 1 Th e strateg y

Our strategies resonate with simple binding principles that will enhance Milan presence in northern Italy as a nerve center for most local, regional and international encounters that the city experiences every day. Community learning and food are key education tools we use to break the borders in urban agriculture and ethnicity. Treating the gates of the city of Milan with renewed program, equipping them with playful facilities and interconnecting them in time is our approach to address connectivity.

Reusing resizing and restoring derelict facilities to adapting them to 21st century needs is our third approach. Lastly harness the idea of capturing a fleeting moment and generating curiosity through temporary time bound ideas to reclaim forgotten terrain through a place making approach is the keystone that keeps our strategies alive. Together the four threads will weave a fabric of uneven grain to create unique patterns around the city of Milan.

3 . 1 Th e s trate g y

CHOIC E of the area of inter vention

This fragmented neighborhood can be dealt better by a two point approach. Firstly, we choose to pronounce certain borders thereby isolating areas with specialized function. We believe that by intervening in these specialized environments by a place making and playful program, to increase efficiency, will improve the overall habitability of the neighborhood. Resorting to such selective

3. 1 Th e strateg y

design interventions the environment in focus will have a strong identity and generate curiosity among other environments that surround it in the neighborhood. Secondly, if the border interests of A & B environments are directed towards a third C environment then prioritizing a connection through C for A & B is an ideal solution to increase the overall neighborhood access.

The choice of the area after this deep analysis ended up on to four areas which in different ways were addressed by the matter of borders and which are designated inferior or suffer of mal image. To deal with this situations and with the approach already listed we decided to use different declination of the concept play to develop through the matrix of modalities that we identify.

3 . 1 Th e s trate g y

SAN DONATO station

Is the last metro station of the yellow line serving the periphery of Milan and many municipalities that lie right outside Milanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s administrative boundary. Through this strategic project we primarily tackle the neglect created by an administrative

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boundary between Milan and San Donato. Secondly we address end stations of metro station and define guidelines as to what other roles can the former perform besides simply being an inter-modal transport hub. Thirdly we wish to delegate specialized

functions to each of many gates of Milan of which San Donato is one of the important port of entry and fourthly attempt to create a concentric mobility network around Milan to increase interconnectivity around the city limits.

3.2 S a n d o n ato s tati o n | mo d a l i ti e s matr i x

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3 . 2 S a n d o n ato s t at i o n | t h e s t rate g y

Actor and time analysis The diagram orchestrates the time of action and the relevant core actors in participation to make the actions possible. The projectual actions are in red. The vertical axis is time and the horizontal axis is the actors.

3. 2 S an don ato st atio n | t im elin e a n d a c to rs

Social Feasibility : The premise of the social feasibility are two public centric projects the transfer of market from Milan municipality area to San Donato and the San Donato station front development

The rest of the 5 projects are public-private patnerships and have a strong capitalist flavor so as to finance theformer public projects.

The social feasibility is run on a methodical approach of who, how, when, what and how much power the consultation with public will be incorporated into the project.

Methods

Market transfer

San Donato station front

Who | participate

Residents of San Donato and Market sellers

Residents of San Donato

How | participate method

Seminars and inter-ethnicity workshops

Workshops for activities in the public space

When | stage of involvement

The beginning of the project

Once project is Sanctioned by core actors and preliminary land development is done

What | issues to be solecitated

Location and security

Recreational Activities, program of space, cultural events and security

How much | pubblic authority limit

Municipality has higher stake in decision process and citizens input would be acknowledged

Citizens have higher stake in program and activities of space and municipality sets financial limits.

The Goals of the project firstly Integrate the San Donato inter modal station into San

Donato city, secondly Increase the usability of the San Donato Station area and thirdly

realise the full potential of San Donato as a prominet gate to city of Milan.

Actors

Resources

Benefits

Milan Municipality

Land, Economic, Legal and Political

Economic, Stimulate Real Estate development, improve livability and add civic pride

San Donato Municipality

Land, Economic, Legal and Political

Economic, Stimulate Real Estate development, improve livability and add civic pride

ATM

Economic and logistics

Economic, people freindly and identity

Cascina owners

Areable land, building and identity

Economic, restoration and maintenance

Political Feasibility :

3.2 S a n d o n ato st ati o n | s o c i a l a n d po l i ti c a l fe a s i bi l i t y

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3. 2 S an don ato st atio n | econ o m ica l fea sib ilit y

3.2 S a n d o n ato s tati o n | e co n o mi c a l fe a s i bi l i t y

3. 2 S an don ato st atio n | final lo o k

3 . 2 S a n d o n ato s tati o n | f i n a l l o o k

SANTA GIULIA

The strategy approach we have to deal with the stigmatic crisis situation of the area is untraditional in the Milan context. Considering our concept of Discover I Play we propose the area to become an activator to the entertainment industry all together in one place. The main obstacle we have is to deal with the cost of soil remediation which led to bankruptcy the project. The strategy is to proceed with a risk analysis that will claim the possibility of land use for temporary activities harmless for the users with the aim of gaining the money required for reclamation and implementation of the

3. 3 S anta Giulia

existing master plan in the future 15 years. We are breaking down the area in 9 lots proposing Risanamento to promote temporary activities and lease some parts to interested developers for certain periods. Infrastructure is to be provided first by Risanamento. As in Milan there is no big Amusement park we are proposing the location of one in the area, as well as a new area dedicated to travelling Circus and related temporary entertainment visitors. Also a new properly located area for concerts and festivals, a parking covered by solar panel providing shadow for the

cars and electricity to the nearby lots. A part is to become a Paintball field and another one occupied by an urban camping site providing low cost accommodation for the temporary visitors. All the lots which are currently not in use should be planted with seasonal flowers giving aesthetical effect and new image to the place. An important actor involved in the process is the ATM which is to provide a temporary bus before the completion of the tram elongation. The final result should be a phased reclamation of the lots one by one and construction of the desired plan.

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3. 3 S anta Giulia | time line a nd a c to rs

Social Feasibility :

How much | public authority limits They have control on the type of activities but not on project itself, on security, noise and accesibility

Goals: - Remediate the soil - Propose profitable activities to gain money - Create things to do - Build a new image - Improve border conditions - Integrate the surrounding areas Obstacles: - Soil pollution - Cost of remediation - Financial conditions of the land owner - Negative image and possible surrounding communities opposition

The Goals of the project firstly to find an alternative to soil remediation through risk analysis , secondly attract new actors to

invest in temporary entertainment activities in collaboration with Risanamento and thirdly change the image of the place and

give an example of how to deal with post industrial developments using temporary activities.

Actors

Resources

Benefits

Milan Municipality

Legal, Cognitive, Political

Stimulate industrial development, improve livability, activate an abandoned area

Risanamento

Land, Economic, Legal and Political

Stimulate Real Estate development, improve livability activate the process

ATM

Economic, Cognitive ( logistics)

Economic, people freindly and identity

Concert actor

Economic

Economic, attraction of big events in the new entertainment hub of Milan

Amusement park actor

Economic

Economic, restoration and maintenance

The social feasibility is run on a methodical approach of who, how, when, what and how much power the consultation with public will be incorporated into the project. Methods Who | participate Residents of Santa Giulia and residential complexes surrounding Santa Giulia project neighborhood How | participate method Educational seminars about soil pollution and innovations possibilities in the current

context, Exhibition of ideas and workshops for collaboration. When | stage of involvement Throughout the whole process What | issues to be solecitated Security, noise, accesibility and activities

Political Feasibility :

3.3 S a nt a G i u l i a | s o c i a l a n d po l i ti c a l fe a s i bi l i t y

3. 3 S anta Giulia | fina l loo k

To propose relevant activities to the size of the lots we have subdivided in the area we have done a comparison with similar one’s from around the world. The proposed place for concerts is properly north - south oriented and similar in size to the one in Millenium park – Chicago. The area devised for visiting circus or other temporary activities is the size of the already existing one in viale Puglie but the one in Santa

Giulia’s area is better located in the city in terms of accessibility. Comparing the Tivoli luna park size we have identified an area size for an amusement park. Right next to it an area for a paintball is kept referenced to the one close to St. Lucia lake in Assago. The buffer space along the road is to become a community greenhouse for urban agriculture. An area on the border with the viale Ungheria is meant to be a temporary

urban style campsite to accommodate temporary visitors of the entertainment activities in the area and other low cost temporary accommodation seekers. The areas left should be promoted by the event department manager of Risanamento to lease and meanwhile all vacant lots should be planted with seasonal flowers ( for example – Brassica napus – blooming yellow, spring effect – 1.5 months ).

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ROGO REDO st ation

Is the second last metro station of the yellow line and also an important stop for outstation trains. Rogoredo is an important destination for the failed mega project of St. Giulia and old Rogoredo. Firstly as a part of entrusting civic pride and adding

3. 4 R ogoredo st atio n

some exuberance to the periphery of Milan designing the nonexistent station front is essential. Secondly the area of Rogoredo is sparsely vegetated due to which the railway announcements rebound in the living spaced day and night.

Creation of thick vegetation at the station front and adequate noise proofing of the station is imminent. Lastly increasing public access by completing the tram line and adding some new program is curtailed for this gate of Milan city.

3.4 R o g o re d o s tati o n | mo d a l i ti e s matr i x

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3. 4 R ogoredo st atio n | t he area

3 . 4 R o g o re d o s tati o n | th e s trate g y

3. 4 R ogoredo st atio n | t ime lin e a n d a c to rs

Social Feasibility : The premise of the social feasibility are two public centric projects the Cascina Development and the Rogoredo station front development and area greenification

is to improve habitability of the area. The tram line completion and noise insulation of Rogoredo has concensus among the St Giulia and Rogoredo residents.

The social feasibility is run on a methodical approach of who, how, when, what and how much power the consultation with public will be incorporated into the project.

Methods

Cascina Development

Station Front Development & Green

Who | participate

Residents of old Rogoredo and St. Giulia

Residents and regular travellors

How | participate method

Seminars and community activity workshops

Workshops for activities in the public space

When | stage of involvement

Once Cascina restoration is complete and activities can be housed

The beginning of the project

What | issues to be solecitated

Activity and use of property

Noise, security, image of place and future of project

How much | public authority limits

Municipality has higher stake in restoration and citizens input would be acknowledged on activity

Citizens have higher stake in program and activities of space and municipality sets financial limits

The Goals of the project is to integrate the Rogoredo station long

distance station into Rogoredo area. Increase the usability of the Rogoredo

Station area and Realise the full potential of Rogoredo as a prominet gate to city of Milan

Actors

Resources

Benefits

Milan Municipality

Land, Economic, Legal and Political

Economic, Stimulate Real Estate development, improve livability and add civic pride

ATM

Economic and logistics

Economic, people friendly and identity

Cascina Owners

Arable land, building and identity

Economic, restoration and maintenance

Political Feasibility :

3.4 R o go red o s tati o n | s o c i a l a n d po l i ti c a l fe a s i bi l t y

Ex- C APRONI industries

It is an ex-industrial warehouse owned by Caproni industries located on a prime location of via Mecenate. The industrial vintage building is surrounded by logistic centers, car and spare parts dealers, television and music production studios, Forlanini residence and a social housing tower.

3. 5 Th e E x- Ca pro n i in dust r ie s

The area is an exuberant mix of vibrant isolated islands that work well within themselves but have no reason to talk to each other. We wish to address this resource of multi-ethnicity of the area and the floating population through food. Firstly we wish to create a multi cuisine

public space combined with an international culinary food school. Together and when combined with the former strategic transportation ideas this location becomes a good breeding ground for ideas, culture, food and students.

3.5 Th e Ex- Ca pro n i i n d u s tr i e s | mo d a l i ti e s matr i x

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3. 5 Th e E x- Ca pro n i in dust r ie s | t h e a rea

1 Furniture attractor Adding â&#x20AC;&#x153;playâ&#x20AC;? activities to the border, along via Mecenate, and increasing the porosity of the neighborhood to create spaces for integration.

2 Green Connector Green corridor to connect Via Mecenate with Cacina Monlue through sport facilities

3 Food Center

4 Green Connector

A cooking school with a public square for events, that will create a new image for the neighborhood. The main project to regenerate the area through food

5 Spots for permanence

Green corridor to integrate via Mecenate and the neighborhoods surrounding. Creation of a hybrid building of parking and housing

Mantain the open spaces in-between the buildings., and free areas of parking to create places of permanence. Improve connection to the new hybrid building

cooking school

facilities food events

Public Space

Connection

3.5 Th e E x- Ca p ro n i i n d u s t r i e s | t h e s t rate g y

Food Center Residence | first floor commerce Facilities Open Space | connectors

Temporary Activities Temporal food events will be placed at the food center, this main activities will create synergy through food. Spot activities will be placed along via Mecenate.

Adapting Th ex-caproni industries will be adapted for cooking courses, and public events related to food.

Green System Green corridors with specialized activities (sport, leisure) will integrate via mecenate, with the neigborhoods surrounding and important places like Cascina Monlue

Connecting As Via mecenate will be the main conteiner of activities, it will work as a strip for the connection of the elements surrounding green corridors.

Community Learning The food center will work as a public place for the community to interact and learn through food.

Events Different kind of activities will be placed along via Mecenate, mostly related to food. The main attraction area is the food center.

3 . 5 Th e E x- Ca p ro ni in dust r ie s | t h e st rategy

3.5 Th e E x- Ca pro n i i n d u s tr i e s | f i n a l l o o k

3. 6 An n exure

3 . 6 An n ex u re

REFERENCES

TEMPORARY URBAN SPACES | Florian Haydn, Robert Temel The ephemeral, trial and error, and the unplanned are gaining legitimacy. Temporary uses are both indicators of this development and beneficiaries of a new way of seeing. The book provides extensive documentation of projects involving temporary use from throughout Europe and the United States. THE URBAN KITCHEN GARDEN | These experiences are a sort of remediation, even if on a micro level, to the problem of soil consumption: they give and education on sustainable environmental practice, and are an answer to the need of “being community”. It would be appropiate to have a census of this areas, to regualte them and to offer them to a free use.

IN BETWEEN | Aldo Van Eyck, Amsterdam He proposed a diffused strategy for common spaces. He planned a series of playground equipped in a elementary way, placed in vacant open spaces in between neglected places. One of the main element of this approach is in providing technical solutions conceived to meet population contigent needs.

L’AUTORECUPERO | It’s a more sustainable and economic solution then new buildings: the interested people organize themselves, they start projecting, and to use the common knowledge to cooperate. This operation create sense of belonging and relationship of reciprocity and permit the access to the house (goods) even to people who were normally excluded from the market. STRATEGIC PLANNING for Contemporary Urban Regions | Alessandro Balducci, Valeria Fedeli, Gabriele Pasqui The Milan innovative strategic plan is based on two main premises: the idea that cities and territories are experiencing profound transformations; and these transformations are actually affecting the way in which we design urban policies and planning processes.

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LANDSCAPE URBANISM | Rem Koolhaas It should provide suggestion about the project of what is in between so many different patterns, provides a key to conceiving a wide re-composition of contemporary city in the whole, at a large scale. This concept promote order and densification as well as porosity and rarefaction of intensely urbanized spaces.

TEMPORARY | MACBA Square, Barcelona The MACBA museum in Barcelona and especially it’s square is a great example of how a it can host a diversity of temporary activities through the time. With just simple interventions such as painting a football field on the ground and it invites users right away.

COMMUNITY LEARNING | Joanne Elgart Jennings, Anna Shoup “Philadelphia’s ‘Love Letter’ Murals Spark Revival” It’s a short movie about an art initiative, the neighborhood wrote “love letters” on the facades of buildings walls and everywhere they could. It is a great example of how you can interact to a community in a very non - invasive way.

CONNECTIVITY | Park Villette, Paris It is situated in the northeast corner of the city, between two subway stations. Parc de la Villette’s challenges are twofold: to decentralize the city and create a second area of focus and to supply additional culture to the citizenry of Paris. It’s a living reflection of the people who use it, parts of it can be taken down, changed and built again. ADAPTIBLE – FLEXIBLE | Paley Park, New York | William H. Whyte, “The social life of small urban space” Paley Park is celebrated as one of the smallest manageable urban parks, and a prime example of a successful privately owned public space. The design for this squares proves that in even a small space can serve both a popular meeting ground and a place for relaxation and calm.

COMMUNITY LEARNING | “People vs Borders” | Kallipolis Dobrinja. A project of urban and environmental renewal of the areas surrounding the Dobrinja river, which also includes interventions aimed at enhancing the public use of these areas. The people and their representatives have been involved in a participative strategic plan, in order to favour dialogue and shared development strategies.

4 . R e fe re n ce s a n d c a s e s tu d y

B O Ri nDp iEc tRu r eSs

Santa Giulia neigbourhood view from Cascina Merezzate

Railway underpassage view from viale Forlanini

Abandoned building on the corner of via Petagalli and via Bonfadini

Ex-Caproni industries view from via Mecenate

Social Housing view from via Norico

Railway tracks Rogoredo neighbourhood view from the train

Pedestrian crossing entrance to Rogoredo station from the side of Rogoredo neighbourhood

Parking street Esselunga in piazza Ovidio

Interruption via Cassio Dione

Interruption last floor of the parking in San Donato metro station

Interruption cars depo in via Giacomo Medici del Vascello

interruption private vs. public garden in Rogoredo neighbourhood

interruption green field on the border of Rogoredo neighbourhood

Kitchen garden Catalogue of kitchen garden doors all around the area of analysis