MIAW2010 by MIAW-Milano International Architecture Workshop

re-appropriation

2010

workshop

architecture

international

milano

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The Miaw workshop is open to all students enrolled in the MAs programs at the Faculty of Architecture and Society of Politecnico di Milano. Candidates shall submit the registration form they can download from the web www.miawblowordpress.com to efisia.cipolloni@polimi.it The deadline for submission is 12/09/2010

for information arch. efisia cipolloni efisia.cipolloni@polimi.it ph +39 02 2399 2643 fax +39 02 2399 2600 www.miawblog.wordpress.com

curated by massimo bricocoli antonella bruzzese fabrizio leoni ingrid paoletti matteo poli gennaro postiglione luigi spinelli andrea tartaglia matteo aimini lorenzo bini giancarlo floridi andrea gritti paolo mestriner salvatore porcaro

from 27.09.2010 to 02.10.2010 school of architecture and society politecnico di milano

‘milano international architecture workshop’ 2010 is the first edition of a teaching programme that will take place every year at the school of architecture and society, politecnico di milano. Miaw aims are to stimulate cross-over thinking and researches in the design field and to stimulate students to achieve an interdisciplinary approach towards design problems. Miaw provides an international forum for schools, teachers and students exchange, but is also an informal platform to discuss the issues and share the ambitions that education implies. The overall theme of Miaw 2010 is ‘re-appropriation’. ws01 sami rintala ws02 john nastasi, stefano converso ws03 alexander roemer ws04 silja tillner ws05 enric massip-bosch ws06 izaskun chinchilla moreno ws07 anouk vogel ws08 adam kurdahl

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re-appropriation re-appropriation is the cultural process by which a group reclaims - re-appropriates terms artefacts or public spaces that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group. The term re-appropriation can also extend to counter hegemonic re-purposing, such as citizens with no formal authority seizing unused public or private land for community use. The term re-appropriation is an extension of the term appropriation: a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner. The erasure from the collective memory of the image, presence and vitality of an urban space is a painful act. Reasons for such dissolutions are multiple: ideology, alteration, progress and, in general, change. Architects artists and policy makers have the mission to question this erasure. They can develop the capacity to turn this erasure into a powerful source of creativity. Over the time, urban development turns appealing zones into marginal areas. A prosperous and attractive place in a distinct time may start to loose glamour, to get shabby and being forgotten. Old factories have been swallowed by the city in its impetuous development, squares and promenades turned into places exclusively occupied by cars while other public places, in the city core or outside the city, not even found other values simply becoming forgotten spaces, terrains vagues.

The urban and metropolitan landscape is no longer defined as “secure and stable place of contemplation, but presents itself as a mobile device and is continually altered”. Looking at our cities is possible to see weak but constant upheavals that tend to make explicit and visible some forms of resistance and action. Among such practices we can identify a cultural and historical model in the initial appropriation of public spaces developed by the Parisian flâneur and his walks through the labyrinthine passages, which had converted the streets into intérieur, or in the Situationist International drifts which used maps and topography of the transitional spaces, not just to “fix” the territory, but to radically change it, grounding the design process of architecture and city planning on the subjective perceptual experience. In the contemporary age, the city is increasingly seen as an experiential field. These processes have become more mature and culturally aware, and sensitive as well as to read, interpret and implement the system of opportunities offered by the urban context. While meta-design actions, aim at the recognition of the value and potential of public spaces, through a descriptive approach in reading, decoding and contextually providing new opportunitiesy, while more formal planning actions aim at activating these spaces. In this sense, dismissed space and abandoned places, neglected areas and brownfields, which use to be “swamped places” neglected by the official maps,

become the paradigmatic examples of urban spaces which can regain with a new meaning, value and shape; offering significant the opportunities for creative re-signification and reappropriation of the city. These occupation, reappropriation and activation actions often tend to draw in the urban fabric a “minor geography” capable of giving visibility and responses to the needs and forgotten desires of an “insurgent” city. Participants to the MIAW workshop are invited to identify spaces in Milan that either have an unexpressed potentiality either lost their characteristics, importance for the community and have been, for several reasons, marginalized and excluded from everyday life. From the smallest corner in the urban fabric to the large areas on the city margin, from the closest site of Piazza Leonardo da Vinci to the Milanese Hinterland, the Workshop wishes to illustrate possible scenarios of re-appropriation capable to revitalize these dormant places. In a 21st Century that is overwhelmed by image, information and dynamism, it is particularly important for architects and policy makers to recognize and assume the special role of the creative recovery of forgotten spaces.

ws01 sami rintala business time or reappropriation of real value

Sami Rintala, architect and artist, founder of Rintala Eggertsson Architects (Oslo), his work is based on narrative and conceptualism. Resulting work is a layered interpretation of the physical, mental and poetic resources of the site: Sixty Minute Man (Venice Biennale 2000), Land(e)scape (1999).

The concept is to discuss and criticize the winning western capitalist philosophy of measuring all human activity in economic value, and in this way leaving many interesting and meaningful ideas unused/ unstudied as they do not possess the seemingly necessary idea of short-term gain or maximum productivity. Our cities have become a no man’s land of non-personal corporate buildings, sterile commercial spaces and oversized traffic systems; something to pass by or to consume. We live in a series of spaces of no special interest, non-places. It is time to reclaim the human environment from the uncivilized hordes of moneymakers. We need a good business plan. 1.Day We try to find the best ‘business idea’ for a specific site in the university area. We will create a ‘business plan’ that is rooted on other deeper and more real human needs, and to make a small ‘gas station’ or ‘shopping mall’ or ‘kiosk’ for selling these values, for everyone’s gain. A good business needs a logo, a name and market strategy as well, so these will be exploited.

2.Day - 5.Day Construction of the space/ building, opening 2.10. where the ‘business’ starts running and selling the ‘products’ for passers-by. The idea is of course to expand the business on other countries, continents and finally other planets. The workshop is based on Dalai Lama’s statement: ‘The Western Civilization has made the greatest input to our smallest needs.’

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ws02 john nastasi, stefano converso custom variable components

John Nastasi is the Founding Director of the multi-disciplinary ProductArchitecture Lab at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. Recipient of Harvardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rice Prize for advancement in Architecture and Engineering and visiting professor at the GSD where he teaches digital design and fabrication.

The workshop will be focused on development of custom variable building components. Using a reference surface as a point of departure, students will define a skeleton framing system with a multiple series of constructive elements, designed and developed during the week. The work will progress from wireframe geometry to the definition of a robust parametric structure and ultimately to the detailed development of a parametric building component. Potential instantiation of the component across the system will be discussed. The components and the structure will be developed using parametric modeling methods starting with points, lines and planes and ultimately arriving at automation methods such as user features and the Catia based Power Copy. Scale models will be constructed using laser cutting technology while further development will result in the development of 1:1 components utilizing direct 3D printing technology. In parallalel to design development, several case studies will be shown to introduce projects and prototypes of advanced fabrication technologies and technological transfer from other

industries to architecture using examples from the Milan region. The aim of the workshop is to develop a direct connection between rule-based digital design (computation) and materiality (fabrication). This will ultimately lead to a fusion between geometry, craft and understanding of space that will recall in the contemporary context the quality of production achieved by the tradition of Italian design culture.

ws04 silja tillner re–connecting individual pieces of the fragmented city fabric

Silja Tillner studied Architecture at the TU Wien and Urban Design at UCLA Los Angeles. Since 1995 she runs her own office in Vienna in partnership with Alfred Willinger. Among her recent projects in Vienna: ‘Urbion’, the redevelopment of the Gürtel area and the ‘Skyline Spittelau’ Office building. Website: www.tw-arch.at

The situation: a neighborhood where the urban pattern has been separated by infrastructure (railways, highway, river,...) and has suffered as a consequence. The deterioration of buildings and open spaces as well as an abundance of left-over spaces in the vicinity of the dividing line are usually the visible results of these inner-city borders. Usually, these infrastructural elements are bordered by a buffer zone that even widens the interstice. Vacancies in nearby buildings and low-value uses have come to reflect the problems of the area. The task: to question the purpose of the infrastructure to date, possibly realigning or abandoning it, then re-connecting the separated urban fabric. The goal is the re-appropriation of left-over spaces along the infrastructure and their re-programming and redesign, thereby allocating possible sites for buildings, open spaces, parks and connecting elements. Design solutions for these areas shall be developed. Research on comparable international situations: Madrid Rio, Glendale Freeway, L.A. River, High Line in New York, Big Dig in Boston, Vienna Gürtel, IBAStadtumbau 2010... Strategy: An intense site analysis

preceding the actual planning and urban design: the workshop begins with observation and research of the site. Build on strengths: Identification of existing strengths, so that a concept for new and appropriate uses shall be developed accordingly. Based on the use concept and depending on the size of the site, a building typology and scale will be defined. Open spaces are a design element of their own and accompany the building sites. Development of design ideas and image transformation: a story shall be told that identifies the unique and special character of the area.

ws05 enric massip-bosch urban reappropriation guidelines for a workshop

Enric Massip-Bosch Barcelona, 1960. Associate Professor, Architecture Design Department - UPC. Guest Professor in Barcelona, Madrid, Amsterdam, Venice, Bucharest and Tokyo. Established EMBA_Estudi Massip-Bosch Arquitectes in 1990, with which he has developed projects and won competitions in several countries in Europe and Asia.

The progressive urbanization of societies around the world runs parallel to another critical phenomenon: the progressive privatization of public space. This phenomenon is not linked to any specific social situation and affects all sorts of political structures: from Arab countries where land is originally held by an elite, to Chinese cities where in theory all land belongs to the people. Even European democracies suffer the increasing influence of the market on spatial planning which, together with a common social disaffection from politics and civic life, prepare a fertile ground for private interests to push forward and shape our cities without any contestation. But architecture has to have a say and fight for the common good. How can a week-long seminar address such deep issues? We start from the need to restate the importance of creating an open-standard city for everybody by orientating our work towards urban re-appropriation strategies. And we propose a bold approach in which we feel confident enough in this partis-pris to use 100% traditional architectural instruments such as intuitive prognosis, anedoctical evidence-

gathering and sixth-sense intelligence in order to produce a non-rationalized proposal to metabolize segregated, privatized areas of Milano into the larger body of the public sphere.

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urban reapprop riation

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ws06 izaskun chinchilla an abstract for a philosophy doctorate acknowledgements

Izaskun Chinchilla, Studio Professor at the University of Alicante (2002 to 2007), at Madrid University and in Barcelona. She claims for a strong professional compromise towards social circumstances and innovation. She took part to the 8th and 10th Biennale di Venezia, and to the V Bienal de Arquitectura (Sao Paulo).

The belief that scientific and humanistic subjects can be separated into clearly different and detached areas of knowledge makes no sense any more. Links and connections spontaneously join distant disciplines. The architectural project demands a dominating panoptic position above all over groups of information. Population statistics, sociology data, cultural information, meteorological and geographical conditions, urban context, territorial claims, economical management, technological arrangement or aesthetic coherence must be simultaneously taken into account. Multidisciplinary work has become a kind of compulsory practice for those concerned with contemporary and future directions of architecture. Environmental concerns renewable energy, passive means usage and new technical requirements now become essential agents for architecture. Architecture no longer consists simply in making buildings. We no longer trust in abstract objects whose existence does not require a site. Ecological consciousness involved in the appearance of technical attitudes is generated as a social pulse.

Landscape concerns, ecological solutions, demand of material efficiency, arise as a political program.

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LABORATORY This group will work like in a laboratory. This is a place conected with the reality where a very precise way of working. Firstly, it consists in a movement from the laboratory to the real world, the "outside", there a phenomenon will be caught and brought to the laboratory. This new material, free from its outer inputs, will reveal its own nature. miaw Âˇ 2010 Âˇ re-appropiation

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POST-PRODUCTION We will use what is given, we will re-‐program what is stopped. Reality is full. We don't need to produce but consume what it has just been produced. Nowadays, in view of oversatura8on and overconstruc8on, we should start to manipulate produced material and to protect prime materials. miaw · 2010 · re-appropiation

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PROTOTYPE This group will work like in a laboratory. This is a place conected with the reality where a very precise way of working. Firstly, it consists in a movement from the laboratory to the real world, the "outside", there a phenomenon will be caught and brought to the laboratory. This new material, free from its outer inputs, will reveal its own nature. miaw Âˇ 2010 Âˇ re-appropiation

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ws07 anouk vogel the re-appreciation of subtle beauty

Anouk Vogel was born in Geneva, Switzerland. She studied landscape architecture at the Metropolitan University of Manchester. She has been living in different countries and has worked for West 8, Bureau B+B, and Petra Blaisse. In 2007 she founded her own practice for landscape architecture and design in Amsterdam

Through carefully considered architectonic interventions in the landscape or in the city Anouk Vogel is searching for sustainable answers to questions related to a continuously changing perception of the public domain. The interventions are often poetic in nature and can be either temporary or permanent. Through small or large scale interventions the potential of existing qualities in a given context is explored and given a new meaning. The power of natural processes is combined with authentic design solutions in order to trigger change in the use and the experience of a place. The re-appreciation of subtle beauty, excellence in craftsmanship, and the sensual understanding of a location represent key factors in Anouk Vogelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work. The forces of complementary disciplines are joined to enlarge the designerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision where multi-layered ideas simultaneously form large gestures.

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ws08 adam kurdahl

Milan is an anomaly among Italian cities. Milan doesn’t suffer under the clichés of the archetypical picturesque Italian appropriating milan city. Milan is the one city in milan appropriated Italy, which not burden with its historical past, has managed to rethink itself. Since the postwar reconstruction, it has been the engine of Italy for good and bad. 1 million people live within the City Adam Kurdahl is partner borders, 7 million people in the in Space Group Architects. overall metropolitan area; Milan Space Group Architects is reveals us the collapse of the an international Norwegian European centric city model. It has practice working in large become inherently unsustainable. scale urban planning, Originally as a statement of its urbanism and large projects strength within art and design, in the public realm. Adam Milan has become renown for its Kurdahl and Space Group has fairs and venues. Commerce has won numerous prizes for their turned the city from a producer of work, among others first prize ideas to an importer and displayer in Archiprix International. of ideas. Furniture is no longer Prior to Space Group Adam designed in Milan, star architects Kurdahl worked with OMA, are imported (“New International Rotterdam. Style”), the new peers in fashion are educated in London. We no longer travel to Milan, we travel to its fairs. Milan is ripe for a second rebirth. In pure opposition to the modernist radicals, architects and planners have decided for complete preservation of our historic (European) cities. Italy is at the forefront, involuntary turning her cities into vernacular

(retail driven) theme parks. Architects obsession with representation through building production has forced us out. We are mindlessly exporting ideology-deprived projects to distant deserts. Dare we critically look at the current understanding and functioning of our own city centers? Dare we imagine an Architect that doesn’t practice through production but through erasure?

TABLE OF CONTENT Introduction SCENARIO A: Comune di Milano SCENARIO B: Release_MI SCENARIO C: A second bombing SCENARIO D: The potentials of invisible

APPROPRIATING MILAN - MILAN APPROPRIATED Milan is an anomaly among Italian cities. Milan doesn’t suffer under the clichés of the archetypical picturesque Italian city. Milan is the one city in Italy, which not burden with its historical past, has managed to rethink itself. It has since the rebuilding been the engine of Italy for good and bad. Originally as a result of its strength within art and design Milan has become known for its fairs and venues. Development has turned the city from a producer of ideas to an importer of ideas. The furniture are no longer designed in Milan, its star architects are imported (“New International Style”), the new peers in fashion are educated in London. We no longer travel to Milan, we travel to its fairs. Milan is ripe for a second rebirth. 1 million people live in Comune di Milano, 7 million people around the city; Milan reveals for us the collapse of the European centric city model. It has become inherently unsustainable. For the last 30 years Milan the population of Milan has declined. Simultaneously the surroundings has been sprawling. The sprawl has a density that should suggest urbanity, the region around Milan is one of the densest populated in Europe. The region of MiODQ LV PRQR HQWULF &RPPXWHU WUDI¿F VXIIRFDWHV 0LODQ RQ D GDLO\ basis. The city center is increasingly becoming a caricature of itself; brand shops, brand bars, brand hotels, brand brands. The city is becoming mono functional. The city cannot sustain its own cultural production; from diverse culture to consumer culture. Milan – the Galleria. If no action is taken Milan will be drained. Milan is shrinking in ideas, production, population, tax revenue and culture. Milan is discussing an ambitious plan to halt its decline and double its population in the coming years. The proposal suggests a shift from a land use of 0,65 to 1. The ambition is to do so only on already constructed land. Can Milan, as it did under its last rebuilding after the bombing, with its unique combination of Italian, international and Central European, once again show the way forward? The workshop will develop an Atlas of ideas for how to realize Milan’s ambitious plan. Each scenario will take a radically different idea as its starting point and project it into the future. Together forming an atlas of ideas for Milan.

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SCENARIOS: Since the eighties the population of Milan has declined by 25% / 450.000 inhabitants. The PGT outlines a plan to increase the population from today’s 1.300.000 to 2.000.000 in 2015 . An increase of 700.000 inhabitants equals the construction of 70.000.000m3 new built mass. It is envisioned that this increase should happen on former industrial sites and rail yards within the city border. The program would increase the average FAR of the city from 0,65 to 1. 7KH SURSRVDO KDV VSDUNHG D ¿HUFH SXEOLF GHEDWH UHJDUGLQJ WKH qualities and future of Milan; can this proposal be realized ZLWKRXW ¿OOLQJ DOO RI 0LODQ¶V RSHQ VSDFHV" +RZ ZLOO 0LODQ GHDO WKH WUDI¿F SUHVVXUH LQ WKLV IXWXUH VFHQDULR" :LOO WKH VXJJHVWHG increase form the collapse of the city? The workshop will investigate scenarios for doubling the city without consuming unbuild land. Scenario 0: What happens when no action is undertaken? The project will project the last 30 years of Milan decline and WKH FXUUHQW GHYHORSPHQW SODQ LQ WR WKH QH[W \HDUV +RZ ZLOO Milan develop under the current strategy?

Scenario 1: Nodal city Milan is on one hand a central player in an international economic network of cities and simultaneously the center of gravity for a local economy. Throughout history Milan has at critical moments reinvented itVHOI WR HQVXUH WKH FLW\¶V FRQWLQXHG DIÀXHQW IXWXUH 7KH ¿UVW ELJ shift was with the demolition of the Spanish wall in the nineteenth century. Comune di Milano is 18km with a population of 1.3 mill inhabitants – down from 1.8 mill since 1980. The region of Lombardia and particular Provincia di Milano owes their success to the strength of Milan. While the population of Milan has been decreasing the province has been growing. Today one of the densest populated areas in Europe. Provincia di Milano consists of 134 commune’s making any coherent planning gestures impossible. Largely served by Autostradas the greater Milan is sprawling. Every day 800.000 cars enters the city of Milan from beyond the borders of the commune. Overcome the suffocation of Milan by strengthening its neighbors. Consolidate the province. Any plan for the development of Milan must include its greater Metropolitan area. The project will project future growth around the existing cities and villages around Milan. Strategies for containment and GHQVL¿FDWLRQ ZLOO IRUFH QHZ FHQWHUV $ QRGDO SODQ LV GHYHORSHG Clustering around major infrastructure hubs and growing along the main arteries. Green corridors of equal importance and strength ZLOO GH¿QH WKH SODQ The scenario suggests making Provincia di Milano the new Comune di Milano.

Scenario 2: Milan revealed A new power structure - Corriere della Sera revealed The shadow council of Milan embodied in the Corriere della Sera shareholders are charged with betrayal against the nation. Milan appropriates their properties. Revealing an underlying invisible power structure in the city. The city can sell or they can use this as a new opportunity? A seemingly irrational pattern for development scattered throughout the city.

Scenario 3: A second bombing Imagine a new plan for Milan. Save the monuments. Save the major arteries. New grids, new fabrics. Dare we look critical at the current reading and functioning of RXU RZQ FLW\ FHQWHUV" 5H LPDJLQH +DXVPDQQ PHHWV &HUGD Cartesian projection of new projects. A grid of new large super structures are overlaid with the city fabric. The project will project a â&#x20AC;&#x153;collage of gridsâ&#x20AC;? on Milan, designing a slow but radical transformation of the city.

Scenario 4: Invisible doubling The project will look at an invisible doubling of Milanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s density within it city borders. By careful incisions and replacements the proposal will project a 30 year development plan that will leave the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appearance un-changed while boosting its life. The project will locate voids in the existing city fabric and suggest new programs for them. (Voids; parking lots, uncompleted EORFNV G\VIXQFWLRQDO EXLOGLQJV VXEXUEDQ GHQVLÂżFDWLRQ

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CommiƩment CityLife Società partecipata da Generali ProperƟes, Gruppo Allianz, Immobiliare Lombarda-Gruppo Fondiaria SAI e Lamaro AppalƟ. Architects Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki, Daniel Libeskind, Pier Paolo Maggiora Project Data Project area CityLife owned area mq 255.000 areas of the Comune mq 111.000 areas given to the Comune mq 65.000 gross area mq 288.879 housing 51% terƟary 49% park and public areas park and public areas of CityLife mq 130.000 areas given to the Comune mq 65.000 public parking lots mq 27.000 parkings for residents mq147.000 parkings for oĸces and commercial mq 50.000 History compeƟƟon July 2004 construcƟon Time 2007 – 2014

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PORTA NUOVA 10 CommiƩment Hines Architects Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects, Boeri Studio Project data Surface area mq 515.793 Gross area mq 340.693 Green mq 160.000 Parking lots 3.300 History ConstrucƟon beginning 2007 ConstrucƟon ending 2012

CURRENT PROJECTS Citylife 9 Garibaldi-Repubblica 10 Palazzo della Regione 11 Rubaƫno 12 Portello 13 Polo Esterno Fiera Milano 14 Porta ViƩoria / BEIC 15 Bicocca 16 Santa Giulia 17

PLANNED PROJECTS Bovisa 1 San Siro 2 railway staƟons 3 farini 3.1 greco 3.2 bovisa 3.3 p.ta genova 3.4 san cristoforo 3.5 lambrate 3.6 p.ta romana 3.7 IsƟtuto neurologico Besta 4 CERBA 5 EXPO 2010 site 6 CiƩadella della GiusƟzia 7 Ponte Lambro 8

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DENSIFYINGAREAS CommiƩment Regione Lombardia Architects Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects, Caputo Partnership e Sistema Duemila Project data Surface area mq 33.700 Gross Area mq 87.000 Green mq 27.700 Parking lots 718 History CompeƟƟon April 2004 ConstrucƟon beginning October 2006 ConstrucƟon ending July 2010

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CommiƩment Risanamento S.p.A. Architects Foster & Partners, Caputo Partnership U.R.B.A.M., GiorgeƩa Project data Surface Area 1.200.000 mq Gross area 706.500 mq Green Green areas and public spaces 461.000 mq Urban park 316.000 mq Parking Lots 21.000 posƟ History Beginning of the project March 2002 Previewed ConstrucƟon works ending 2012

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CommiƩment Fondazione CERBA Architects Urban and Architectural project BOERI STUDIO / Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca, Giovanni La Varra Consultants LAND srl e Territorio srl Project data Surface Area mq 620.000 Gross Area mq 310.000 Green mq 310.000 Parking lots 4.500 History Beginning of the project 2008 Previewed ConstrucƟon works ending 2012

1 _ 2 0 03. T he city counc il promotes a tende r fo r the development of the vacant areas leŌ aŌe r t h e d ism issal of F iera Milano C ity. The

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Or i g i nal aims and requests : H i g h standars in terms o f ac c es s ibili t y, l i fe q u al i t y and usability of the area H i g h a rchitectural and environmental qua l i t y S t ro n g idenƟ ty of the projec ts

A l l t h e ex pectaƟ ons are dis regarded! The ﬁna l p ro je cts reveals its elf as the ul Ɵ mate eco no m i c sp e c ulaƟ on! N o public s pac e is leŌ to the ci t y, n o ac cessibility is granted to no n res ident s a nd t h e architectural quality o f the res idenƟ a l uni t s i s al s o quesƟ o n a b l e i n s p i te o f ve r y h i g h co st s an d p resƟg ious arc hitec tural ﬁ rms invo lve d!

CITYLIFE CommiƩment CityLife (Generali ProperƟes) Gruppo Allianz, Immobiliare Lombarda-Gruppo Fondiaria SAI e Lamaro AppalƟ. Architects Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki, Daniel Libeskind, CityLife owned area mq 255.000 areas of the Comune mq 111.000 areas given to the Comune mq 65.000 compeƟƟon July 2004 construcƟon Time 2007 – 2014

SANTAGIULIA CommiƩment Risanamento S.p.A. Architects Foster & Partners, Caputo Partnership U.R.B.A.M., GiorgeƩa Surface Area 1.200.000 mq Beginning of the project March 2002 Works ending 2012

Po r t a N uov a has b e en a di ĸ c u l t v o i d i n M i l a n ’s u r b a n f ab r i c f o r m a ny y ea r s . S i n c e t h e F i Ō i e s t h e C i t y o f M i l a n h a s t r i e d t o r e d e s i g n t h e a r ea which was destroyed by bombs during the S e c o n d Wo r l d War. M o s t o f t h e m aj o r i t a l i a n a r c h i t e c t s h av e a n s we r e d t o t h e c a l l s d u r i n g t h e y ea r s b u t n o n e o f t h e p r o j e c t s h a s b e e n r ea l ize d . D ur in g t h e N i n e Ɵ e s a c a l l w a s l a u n c h e d t o d e v e l o p a n e w fi n a n c i a l d i s t r i c t b u t t h e TA R r e j e c te d t h e p r o p o s a l f o r a v ar i a Ɵ o n o f t h e PRG a n d t h e p r o j e c t s to p p e d . O n l y G a r i b a l d i Towe r s , o w n e d b y F e r r o v i e d e l l o St a t o, we r e b u i l t . T hi s project introduced for the first Ɵme the proposal for the CiƩà della Moda which is c u r r e n t l y o n i t s w ay t o b e b u i l t . I n 1 9 9 6 a n e w p r o p o s a l w a s s u b m i Ʃe d t o b u i l d s o c ia l h o u s i n g b u t , o n c e a g a i n , t h e TA R o p p o s e d t h e p r o j e c t . T h e g o a l i s n o w t o b u i l d i n t h e a r ea t h e n e w h ea d q u a r t e r s o f R e g i o n e L o m b a r d i a . T h e p r o p o s a l a l s a i n c l u d e s a p a r k , a l a r ge p a r k i n g a r ea a n d t h e C i Ʃ à d e l l a M o d a c o m p l e x . The c o m p a ny for the development of Garibaldi-Repubblica launches a new call and fi n a l l y s e l l s t h e a r ea t o t h e H i n e s I t a l i a enterprise , winner of the compeƟƟon with a m as t er plan by C e s ar Pe lli . T h e n e w h ea d q u a r t e r s o f R e g i o n e L o m b a r d i a a r e m o v e d t o t h e a r ea o f P a r c o d i G i o i a a n d t h e c o m p e Ɵ Ɵ o n i s w o n b y Pei - C o b b A r c hi te c t s . Hines and Fondiaria SAI come to an agreement about CiƩà della Moda, 25 architects from 8 countries are called to enter proposal for an e x tensi ve sp e c ula Ɵ o n w h i c h i nv o l v e s a l l t h e a r ea s a d j a c e n t t o t h e p a r k .

PORTANUOVA CommiƩment Hines Architects Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects, Boeri Studio Project data Surface area mq 515.793 ConstrucƟon beginning 2007 ConstrucƟon ending 2012

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h u ge ex tensions o f agric ultural land in the Pa rco Sud area buying them piece by piece small areas f ro m local far mers . The City Council revises PGT assigning a virtual b u i l d ing index , approximately 0,2, to the a re a s of Parco Sud which were previously enƟ re l y d e si gned to be an agric ultural park with a n i ndex e q u al to 0.03. S inc e the index impos e d i s vi r t u al, a chance is o īered to land owners to take advantage of it elsewhere out of the area. Th e CE RBA foundaƟo n , a n o - p ro ﬁ t co m p a ny wh o ’s promo Ɵ ng the development of an ad vanced biom edical res earc h c enter, cho o s e s L i g re sƟ ’s properƟes to built the new project wh i ch include clinic and res earc h ac ƟviƟ e s but al so estate investments ! UlƟ mately ﬁ na nci a l b acke rs, are the s ame s hareho lders o f C o r r i e re d e l l a S era. Th e big quesƟ on is : s ho uld CERBA nec e s s a r i l y r i se o n these sƟll agricutural areas owned by L i gre sƟ ? I s i t go i n g to b e j u st a n ex t ra o rd i n a r y i nte r venƟon or the beginning of o t he r s p e culaƟ ons and a bus es for o f an ins ane g ro wt h o f t h e city ?

CERBA CommiĆŠment Fondazione CERBA Architects Urban and Architectural project BOERI STUDIO / Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca, Giovanni La Varra Consultants LAND srl e Territorio srl Project data Surface Area mq 620.000 Beginning of the project 2008 works ending 2012

Maurizio Cattelan. The Middle Finger 2010

Mediobanca 14,2%

Fiat 10,5%

Giuseppe Rotelli 7,54%

Eﬁparind 7,75%

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Dorint Holding S.A. Franco Tosi ItalcemenƟ S.r.l. S.p.A.

Societè de PartecipaƟon Financère Italmobiliare S.p.A.

Fondiaria SAI S.p.A.

Milano Assicurazioni

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Saiﬁn S.p.A.

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Banco Popolare 3,63%

Edizione S.r.l. Banco di Napoli

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Sinpar Società Gruppo Merloni 2,1% di InvesƟmenƟ e Partecipazioni S.p.A. 2,06% Merloni Invest S.p.A.

% Powerful enterprises in Milan are involved as funders in all the main real estate investments, building districts with a very high density index and mostly addressed to rich customers that demand luxurios lodgings. The prices for these new buildings are the same as for those in the city center. So why aīord such an expensive investment in these poorly designed luxury enclaves? The answer is that too oŌen shiny adverƟsing make up for lack of quality in the projects. If so, is architecture going to be just a booster for economic speculaƟon? The main ﬁnancial companies and enterprises also own a considerable amount of properƟes spread in the most central, historical areas of the city where usually their Headquarters are located. What if we force these acƟviƟes outside of the center? The city center has a deep heritage of urbanity wriƩen inside it’s DNA whose potenƟal is far more powerful than in any larger area of development in the outskirts. This is why it needs to be repopulated!

PROPERTIES properĆ&#x;es owned by corriere della sera board of directors

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COMPARISON properĆ&#x;es owned by corriere della sera board of directors

The city is energy to be reappropriated, entropy to be increased! We want people to live the city from every corner, driŌing in spaces,exchanging mulƟsen We want the city to be a free ﬂux of events, unexpected, exciƟng, thrilling! We want architecture to be a

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nsorial experiences, enhancing relaƟons. a booster with true potenƟal which is not about fake eidola, spectacular images and speculaƟons. We want architecture to be an aƩractor for everybody.

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We need to increase the density and find new spaces in the city: _ Can this happen without denaturalising the existing structure of the city ? _ Is it possible to increase the density without changing the of Milan ? _ What are the existing resources in Milan ?

We analyzed our city keeping in mind these questions and recognizing the void as a great possibility to fill the numerous empty spaces. Are the voids enough to answer the demand of necessary living area? By the characterization of the voids and the possibilities estimation that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change the city structure but let it grow.

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