Climate Urbanism FINAL REPORT a.y.2019-2020 by Michele Cerruti But

Michele Cerruti But and Daniela Ciaffi with Andrea Alessio and Alessandra Terenzi

CLIMATE URBANISM caring and living in the medial Europe

Politecnico di Torino MArch - Architecture for Sustainable Design atelier Urban Planning D

Fall 2019/2020

Atelier Urban Design D

Final Report

“Climate Urbanism” moves from the dominant narrative of “sustainable urbanism” based on “resiliency” to a radical systemic approach that considers Climate Change (CC) alterations as a present condition instead of an eventual future hazard, aiming at evolving new models of living together instead of preserving the actual neoliberal narratives. In Mapping CC the students make visible CC present implications on space and society. Tackling CC offers instead a set of radical development scenarios. While promoting spatial justice as a climate action issue, the atelier works with the case of Biella, a “medial” territory representing the majority of contemporary territorial conditions in Europe.

Michele Cerruti But and Daniela Ciaffi with Andrea Alessio and Alessandra Terenzi

CLIMATE URBANISM caring and living in the medial Europe

Politecnico di Torino MArch - Architecture for Sustainable Design atelier Urban Planning D

Teachers: Michele Cerruti But, Daniela Ciaffi

CLIMATE URBANISM caring and living in the medial Europe

Collaborators: Andrea Alessio, Alessandra Terenzi Students: Ahmet Can Aktolug, Şevval Alp, Sepehr Arzjani, Tugana Aydin, Aynur Baghirova, Antonia Ballesteros Rodriguez, Juan Benavides, Chiara Bitonto Carlucci, Ivo Casadio, Francois Cayla, Erika Cerra, Arsalan Chabok, Yuan Chang, Gabriel Paul Cotrau, Yagmur Danis, Niyazi Batuhan Dizlek, Esma Dolgun, Mahmoud Elsayed, Catalina Godoy Mesa, Nicolás Esteban Gonzalez, Berke Gündoğdu, Hassan Hijiazi, Loris Insinna, Aditya Tejas Joshi, Tolunay Karakas, Oyku Kildan, Ceren Koçaslan, Mehmet Ali Kurt, Iva Lazareska, Katherine Valentina Lucena De Sousa, Carla Maina, Gauri Parag Mankeekar Nehal, Mehdi Khan, Mina Mohammadzade Shahriari, Maria Alejandra Mora Rivera, Sara Moradi, Mobina Motiei, Leonardo Narvaez Martin, Hebatallah Nassar, Hamidreza Noroozi, Naydis Ochoa Galvis, Melis Turkan Ozalp, Andrés Panza Uguzzoni, Francisco Javier Ramírez Estrada, Alejandro Rossetti, Dario Ruotolo, Faezeh Sadeghi, Parinaz Sadoughi, Sena Sagiroglu, Maria Alejandra Sanchez, Armin Shamseddini, Disha Nilesh Shroff, Haocheng Sun, Aswanuddin Syed, Jinxuan Tang, Fulya Tanyel, Merve Tatli, Brenda Torres, Jana Tosheva, Thanh Hai Tran, Valentina Trujillo, Yasemin Usta, Gizem Veral, Abishek Vijayan, Chao Wang, Liushi Xue, Feng Zhang, Lirong Zhu, Xiaoxiao Zhu

FINAL REPORT

SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION

FIRST PART MAPPING CLIMATE CHANGE

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50 52 53 57 61 65 70 71 75 79 83

CC IMPLICATIONS ON SOCIETY CC IMPLICATIONS ON PRODUCTION CC IMPLICATIONS ON MOBILITY CC IMPLICATIONS ON BUILT ENVIRONMENT CC IMPLICATIONS ON NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

SECOND PART TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE

SCENARIO A: AN EMERGENT METROPOLIS SYMBIOTIC REGENERATION RAIL TERRITORY GOLDEN GROWTH CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION SCENARIO B: NATUREVOLUTION NATURE INTEGRATION NATURE CONTINUITY NATURE-CURE CITY NATURBAN

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SCENARIO C: THE CONSCIOUS CITY CYCLING TERRITORY EDU-TOURISTIC TERRITORY WELL-BEING TERRITORY ECO-TOURISTIC TERRITORY REFRESHING TERRITORY

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SCENARIO D: KNITTING THE CITY ENTANGLED PRODUCTION SOCIAL COHESION INTERTWINING SPACES INTERLACED MOBILITY THE LIVING PATH

Climate Urbanism is an atelier of Urban Design within the MArch in Architecture for Sustainable Design of Politecnico di Torino. The Atelier was planned as a face-to-face learning experience, anyway the pandemics transformed it into an online learning environment, connecting 69 students from 20 countries in the world, 4 teachers, almost 50 stakeholders involved, a dozen of guests. The atelier focussed on Climate Change as a starting point for evolving future scenarios. The first stage is about Mapping CC implications, the second stage is about Tackling CC. DEVELOPMENT Europe and sustainable development

The contemporary development of European territories can’t be anymore the same of the past. Last century’s growth generated an articulated space together with an extraordinary palimpsest of human traces, economic and production models, ideals, imaginaries, norms and rights. This development process is today fragile, weak and no longer sustainable. Not only from an economic or financial point of view (as the 2008 crisis has highlighted) and not only from an environmental point of view. The un-sustainability of that development model concerns in fact a much wider number of issues, which includes social inequality and gender differences, welfare system availability and adequacy, mobility and infrastructure rights and justice, delegation and participatory processes, work and innovation, climate change, resources exploitation, energy production... Dealing today with the territories therefore means on the one hand dealing with what has been inherited

from the consequences of the twentieth century’s development such as the social fixed capital, abandoned buildings and soil exploitation, cohabitation forms and individualism, contemporary societal weaknesses and fragility. On the other hand also means coping with each of these issues by imagining how to ensure a future “that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”1.

Italies and Italian development

Since the XX century Italian development has been uneven it is possible to define more than just one territory and the whole century has been characterized by many counterposed Italies. If the first half of the century could be defined through the image of a northern industrialized and advanced Italy against a poor and underdeveloped Southern Italy2, the second half also saw the birth of a “Third Italy”3. Starting from the North-East-Center (NEC) regions, this model has been properly defined in the Seventies as an alternative, diffuse and positive economic model: “the Industrial Districts”4. Small enterprises, family-based society, communitarism, industrial atmosphere and local 1 World Commission on Environment and Development (1987), Our Common Future, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2 “Progetto ‘80” was anincredible vision to transform Italy into one only equally developed country thanks to Production, Infrastructures and the relation between nature and anthropic environment. See Renzoni C. (2012), Il progetto ‘80. Un’idea di Paese nell’Italia degli anni Sessanta, Firenze: Alinea 3 The most outstanding works are: Bagnasco A. (1977), Tre Italie. La problematica territoriale dello sviluppo italiano, Il Mulino, Bologna; Fuà G., Zacchia C. (eds., 1983), Industrializzazione senza fratture, Il Mulino, Bologna; Brusco S. (1989), Piccole imprese e distretti industriali, Rosenberg & Sellier, Torino. Nevertheless those text were not translated in other languages, they represented a milestone in European economic literature and helped in giving a better understanding of European local development. 4 In 1979, Giacomo Becattini retrieved the concept of the industrial district, originally shaped by Alfred Marshall in Book IV of his Principles (Marshall, A. (1920). Principles of Economics, London: MacMillan), to explain the agglomerations of small firms that flourished in the Italy of the late 70s. Becattini would later define the industrial district as “a socio-territorial entity which is characterised by the active presence of both a community of people and a population of firms in one naturally and historically bounded area” (Becattini, G. (1990). “The Marshallian industrial district as a socio-economic notion”, in Pyke, F., Becattini, G. and Sengenberger, W. (eds.): Industrial districts and interfirm cooperation in Italy, Geneva: International Institute for Labour Studies). From then on, the Marshallian industrial district (MID) has been the focus of a huge corpus of theoretical literature and experiments all around the world. To name only few: G. Becattini, M. Bellandi and L. De Propris (eds.), The Handbook of Industrial Districts, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA; Crouch C., Le Galés P., Trigilia C. and Voelzkow H. (eds.) (2001). Local Production Systems in Europe: Rise or Demise, Oxford: Oxford University Press; Zeitlin J. (2008), “Industrial Districts and Regional Clusters”, in Jones G. and Zeitlin J. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Business History, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 219-243; Bennenbroek, N. and Harris, R. I. D. (1995). “An investigation of the determinants of profitability in New Zealand manufacturing industries in 1986-87”, Applied Economics, vol. 27, pp. 1093-1101; Boix, R. and Galletto, V. (2004). Identificación de Sistemas Locales de Trabajo y Distritos Industriales en España. MITYC, Secretaría General de Industria, Dirección General de Política para la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa (mimeo); Bönte, W. (2003). “R&D and productivity: Internal vs. External R&D: Evidence from West German manufacturing industries”, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, vol. 12, nº 4, pp. 343-360

development5 are the features of an economic model who soon became a guidance for medial European territories such as in Spain, Germany, UK. Contemporary Italian geography anyway can not anymore be described through “only” three Italies. NEC is not anymore consistent: in fact from one side Northern Italy is more and more developing around the central global city of Milan6, Emilia-Romagna is developing as a strong network region, anufacturing-based Alps foothill development increases its differences between single areas. The Center regions have completely different development trajectories7. Souther regions is also very various and its gap with Northern regions increases. Did the Third Italy disappeared? We would better propose the concept of “Medial Italy”. Not a geographical concept neither a political definition but a wider description of the multifaceted diffuse provincial territories characterizing the largest part of Italy8.

a deep relation between the green and the gray infrastructure: an exceptional natural world intertwined with an inconsiderate network of roads, rails, electricity plants, lines. A territorial majority that is the very core of contemporary Europe and that also represents an opportunity to re-think the whole horizontal European metropolis as a completely sustainable and democratic place. “Medial” refers as well to the digital condition of urbanity: in medial territories the urban condition depends more on the digital than on proximity. In fact in a medial territory the planetary urbanization enacts through a digital mediation. Pandemics and lockdown accelerated this medial condition, basically promoting a new growth for those places and defining a new spatial emergency.

Medial territories as a European figure

“Medial territory” is a concept we can apply also to Europe. Instead of thinking about Europe as a network of both exploding antagonistic megalopolises and peripheral useless areas we can consider it a as a huge horizontal metropolis where the urban condition is the actual life condition. A huge territory where most of the population live out of the metropolitan areas and still cope with the future through their everyday life. We work on these forgotten and many times abandoned territories. It’s the majority (= “medial”) of Italy and Europe: places with an aging population, strong and sometimes effective manufacture production, with an impressive soil consuming, characterized by 5 Pike A. (2007). “What Kind of Local and Regional Development and for Whom?” Regional Studies, Vol. 41.9, pp. 1253–1269, December 2007; Carlo Trigilia, Economic sociology : state, market, and society in modern capitalism Oxford, Blackwell, 2002; Barca F., McCann P. and Rodríguez-Pose A. (2012), ‘The case for regional development intervention: Place-based versus place-neutral approaches’, Journal of Regional Science, 52(1): 134-152; Biggeri M. and Ferrannini A. (2014), Sustainable Human Development: A new territorial and people-centred perspective, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. An incredible advancement has been done by the international collective of scholars and economists who defined the concept of “Daily Economics”: Collective for the Foundational Economy, Foundational Economy, Manchester University Press, 2018: https:// foundationaleconomy.com 6 Perulli P. (2012), Nord. Una città-regione globale, Il Mulino, Bologna; Berta G. (2008), Nord. Dal triangolo industriale alla megalopoli padana. 1950-2000, Milano: Mondadori. 7 Viesti G. (a cura di, 2000), Mezzogiorno dei distretti, Roma: Donzelli 8 The concept has been developed thanks to Cristina Bianchetti during a long debate between Urbanism scholars regarding apossible new national research on Production and Cities (2017 PRIN proposal). Thanks to the contribution of Michele Cerruti But and Cristiana Mattioli, the concept was used to better understand the actual situation of Italian Industrial District (the final essay can be found in: Cerruti But M., Mattioli C. (2019), “L’Italia di mezzo dei territori distrettuali. Casi estremi di trasformazione”, in Bianchetti C. (ed.), Territorio e produzione, Macerata: Quodlibet). Finally Arturo Lanzani used it as a description for observing the contemporary state of italian sprawl (Lanzani, A., Curci, F. (2018), “Le Italie in contrazione, tra crisi e opportunità”, in De Rossi A. (a cura di), Riabitare l’Italia. Le aree interne tra abbandoni e riconquiste, Donzelli, Roma, pp. 79-107).

SUSTAINABILITY What are we talking about?

The main idea behind our atelier is that sustainability is not a technical issue. It does not concern only the type of windows, solar panels, insulation brand new technologies, hyper digitization, domotics and so on. Sustainability concerns futurability. The way we can understand our present times and the way we can produce our future. The relation between Urbanism and Sustainability is about at least four outstanding issues. - Sustainability concerns individuals and societal inclusion: it’s the possibility of being part of decision making processes, of living and sharing rights, of practicing real democracy, of participating in defining the present and the future. - Sustainability concerns environment. It’s the life of animals and plants together with climate transformation. Pollution of soil, air and water. Life within nature, our possibility to promote a balance in our development. - Sustainability means economic balance. That’s not only about becoming more rich, but it’s about an even wellness system. Economic sustainability means considering Inequalities and Rights as a central issue. - Sustainability concerns humans. The capability of becoming what you want to be, the possibility of living your own identity, who you are, how you live. The role our culture can have in changing reality, the openness and entangled cultural action.

Imagining and Caring

In our atelier we strongly believe that we can cope with the urgency of a societal, environmental, economic and human sustainability through two main tools: Imaginary It’s what we think. How we consider and understand the reality around us. The imaginary is not only a scenery or a fantastic either utopian picture. It’s the real understanding of the present and the capability of envisioning. All the atelier will work on the imaginary. This is the very core of how we intend Urbanism. The most powerful possibility design has is to transform the collective imaginary into a stunning brand new vision of space and time. Caring It’s not what we have to push inhabitants towards (“please, take care of this...”). It’s also not only a voluntary approach towards the territory. If we consider contemporary times as the age of a broken nature and a sick world, then we have to work and design with the highly professional approach of Critical caring. The concept comes from highly skilled medicine discipline: it means to be able to make proper deep diagnosis, and then provide attentive dispositives of change instead of straight solutions.

The core issue of the atelier is Climate Change

The way we produce, the way we live, the way we eat has already affected not only the environment but the whole socio-cultural-economic world. The construction of space and infrastructure can not anymore rely on a now obsolete Western consumerism view, but must focus on how climate alterations offer a new set of clues to adapt it. Urbanism imaginaries must follow their effects on anthropogenic landscapes and have to be aware of the agency that those images have in providing spatial and infrastructural responses to man-induced climatic events for a certain period of time. Imaginary design critically questions the geopolitical implications behind the making of climate alterations and the pressures they enforce on humans and nonhumans alike. This is what we will basically do working on the medial territories of Europe.

From Sustainable Urbanism to CLIMATE URBANISM

Within our course and thanks to our projects we promote a paradigm shift in urban planning moving from the concept of Sustainable Urbanism as the dominant policy narrative among the world’s major cities, based on actions to make “climate-friendly” either “climate-resilient” cities and territories9, to the approach of “Climate Urbanism”10. This shift is characterized by new policies, programs, and development initiatives aimed at: 1. considering climate alterations as a present condition instead of a future hazard and the actual implications (on society, economy, built and natural environment, mobility, digital and physical infrastructures) instead of the future possible alterations as the base for the development 2. tackling climate change through a systemic approach developing comprehensive spatial and infrastructural responses with the aim of evolving new models of living together instead of protecting the actual societal and economical conditions 9 “Neoliberal growth strategies and the principles of sustainable urban development have evolved in tandem since at least the 1980s. City leaders found useful rhetoric in sustainable development platforms such as UN Agenda 21, and in documents by development agencies such as the World Bank, UNDP, the Asian Development Bank, and others. In borrowing this language, urban policymakers engaged in the coupling of neoliberal strategies and ecological concerns until these matured into a popular rhetoric of ‘sustainable urbanism’ – a broad term that we employ as a catch-all for the various sustainable policy initiatives that popularized the urban greening of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Throughout this period, cities began implementing ambitious programs dedicated to ecological modernization, density-oriented development, and smart urbanism in an attempt to present ‘win-win’ scenarios for the economy and the environment. This materialized in different ways, and there has been extensive scholarship exploring the ways cities have coupled sustainability measures to popular growth agendas, as well as the various environmental justice and social justice consequences associated with these initiatives. (...) In short, the connections between sustainable urbanism, central city redevelopment, and the ‘creative economy’ were emphasized, as proponents and critics alike noted the increased number of environmentally conscious knowledge workers seeking green, sustainable, and livable neighborhoods. Throughout this period, the narrative of sustainable urbanism reinforced these trends. What is particularly important is that the ambiguous language of sustainability allowed its goals to be defined according to the priorities of policymakers, corporate elites, and city decision makers, resulting in multiple visions for urban sustainability. [The concept of] ‘sustainability fix’ suggest that the salience of environmental issues forced state and municipal actors to incorporate sustainability policies into planning goals. Early on, many cities saw the opportunity to use the sustainability fix to conflate economic development with sustainable urbanism, leading Krueger and Gibbs (2007: 103) to note that sustainability may no longer be an ‘obstacle to capitalist accumulation, but rather a constituent part of it’. (Long J. & Rice J. L. (2018), “From sustainable urbanism to climate urbanism”. Urban Studies, June 2018) 10 An important paper by Joshua Long and Jennifer Rice (Long J. & Rice J. L. (2018), “From sustainable urbanism to climate urbanism”. Urban Studies, June 2018) explanes how the shift from sustainable urbanism to climate urbanism is totally part of neoliberism and is based on: 1) cities; 2) carbon actions; 3) resilient infrastructures; 4) financial platforms; 5) incresing social inequalities. We think anyway that Europe has a completely different role and functioning within the environment and societies. This is why the paradygm of Climate Urbanism in Europe can be described and pursued in a totally different (and democratic) way.

3. developing a societal infrastructure of multiple private and public stakeholders instead of basing projects on institutional rethorics either privatization 4. promoting the horizontal metropolis as proper site of climate action instead of running local policies based on centers-peripheries narratives While some relevant examples in the world underline the priority of cities in economy, GDP and production, Europe has in fact a different story. European economy is actually based on a more even distribution of richness and this “territorial democracy” can be described through the wide image of an “horizontal metropolis”. If from one side cities emerge as the leading peak of economy, from the other side natural sources, energy production and manufacturing is scattered within the larger “medial” territory. A territorial majority that is the very core of contemporary Europe and that also represents an opportunity to re-think the whole horizontal European metropolis as a completely sustainable and democratic place.

BIELLA, A EUROPEAN MEDIAL TERRITORY The atelier focusses on the case-study of Biella. Biella is a complex territory which has been considered as the cradle of industrial revolution in Italy. It’s a strong industrial district making luxury wool fabrics which is still playing a leading role within the world fashion system, since 70% of the whole worldwide wool production for Haute Couture is made here. Biella is an incredible place that was ravaged by the economic, demographic and societal crisis. Compared to Italy, Biella has the largest amount of abandoned industrial buildings (compared to the amount of soil). The fastest ageing population. Completely malfunctioning connections. An abandoned environment devouring abandoned villages and buildings that causes hydrogeological instability. At the same time Biella is one of the most vivid territory in Italy, with an incredible number of associations and bottom up organizations. Biella hosts three incredible foundations: the one of the last Italian family-based bank, Sella; the one runned by the renowned international artist Michelangelo Pistoletto; the one of the outstanding multinational fashion corporation, Zegna; the one of the local savings bank. An unbelievable individual and societal advocacy attitude (over 1500 associations) supports the lacks and the defects of institutions and territory. What we ask is to work in Biella coping with climate change and sustainability urgency through designing a shared new imaginary.

next page: four synthetic maps concerning the phase Mapping Climate Change

primary secondary railway truck bus line ROAD LINES

uncultivated cultivated woodland GREEN AREAS

industries disused industries BUILDINGS

FIRST PART

MAPPING CC

The first phase aims at Mapping Climate change spatial implications on Biella territory and is focussed on designing what we can call “Plan Nul”. This zero plan is not the reading and the interpretation of the contemporary time. It is instead the most perfect as possible projection of what the territory will look like in the next 5 years if nothing happens. This is already a desiHow does Climate Change gn phase and we know that affects the territory? What is designing is one of the most happening in terms of envipowerful tool we can use to ronment and climate chanunderstand reality. ge? What is really already This phase aims at defining changing? It concerns water, a proper “Primer” for interlandslides, hydrogeological vening in Biella. instability, soil pollution, air Mapping the forthcoming pollution, ecosystems, hafuture means being able to zards. But it also concerns design a trans-disciplinary the social and individual approach and interpretaperception of change, the tion-key. Urbanism and arientifications of the actors, chitecture are the most hothe stakeholders and the orrizontal disciplines caring ganizations involved, the of territory and future: this practices of resilience local is why we ask urbanists to communities are developing. cope with as many discipliIt concerns the effects on pro- nes as possible and to draw duction and manifacture, the a “Big Picture” of contemissue of finacial and impact porary change. In a way, this investments, the economic is the most stunning form of and wellbeing risks. design.

The reflection about Climate Change implications on society is clearly very difficult since involves both aspects related to direct impact on everyday life and indirect effects related to economic, demographical and politcal issues. Those four maps shows different aspects: the first one is concentrating on the growth of some areas. Whilst Biella as a territory seams to shrink fast, some areas instead are growing still faster: an internal migration fluxus is pushing young families, new enterpreneurs, youngsters but also old ladies and gentlemen to specific places. Why? The reason is related to a set of indicators such as the quality of life, the accessibility to services, the bottom-up iniziatives connected with the vivid third sector, a more suitable situation regarding climate implications. Together with the internal migrations, those villages also grow thanks to external immigration of people escaping big cities warming and refuging in the medial territories. The second map instead is a reflections on the four biggest towns of the territory: Biella, Cossato, Vigliano, Valdilana. Thanks to studying the accessibility to education and sanitary services and demographical aspects, the map defines Biella as an ageing territory. The third work is an inquiry on societal answers to environment-socio-economical issues. Since the students identified a dozen of big issue that Biellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s society has to face, they also tried to discover how the society itself is trying to answer it, both from the top-down formal level and from the bottom-up informal level, thanks to the more then 1500 no-profit associations. The last work is an experiment of Design Ethnography. Due to the pandemics, the students could not reach Biella. This team anyway had the chance to widely interview some citizens of different age, gender and job. Through a refined work they try to define some possibe personas and their social behaviour as future users and inhabitants.

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPLICATIONS

ON SOCIETY

TEAM 11 Mehmet Ali Kurt Mina Mohammadzade Shahriari Hamidreza Noroozi

BIELLA an aeging territory

What’s next ? In these days the word Responsibility echoes in our heads… We are asked to be cautious because the actions of each of us weigh on personal and collective safety. Responsibility is something intimate: everyone has developed their own during life. Little by little, ever since we were kids, we start taking care of the surrounding things. As the age increases, the responsibility increases to such an extent that more and more important decisions have to be made. We should try to develop a kind of environmental consciousness that, man after man and city after city, will generate a global consciousness towards the many effects of human activity on our planet. Although the effects of climate change are already under the eyes of most of the world community, some, in 2020, are still reluctant to adopt ecologically appropriate behaviors. Meanwhile, catastrophic events are year after year, month after month, increasingly serious… By developing an environmental consciousness, we will naturally ask ourselves: what can I do for the environment? We will thus begin to think about adopting small daily gestures of solidarity towards the Earth. Because you can’t try to change the future if we don’t change ourselves and our attitudes! And between us? How will it be? It’s nice to think about when we’ll look ourselves in the eye and shake hands, imagine the sounds of the city moving, imagine the smell of flowers blooming and dinners with friends. Because when we are together, when we are part of a community; we are no longer a drop, but an ocean! So, What’s next?

TEAM 17 Dario Ruotolo Armin Shamseddini Abishek Vijayan

TEAM 1 Mahmoud Elsayed Nehal Mehdi Khan Mobina Motiei Aswanuddin Syed

m i c r o s t o r y

m i c r o

s t o r y

m i c r o

s t o r y

m i c r o

s t o r y

TEAM 3 Hassan Hijiazi Sena Sagiroglu Merve Tatli Valentina Trujillo

Production is very central in Biella past and present development. Will it be central also in the future? How climate change will affect the precious production system related to luxury textile? These sophisticated maps aims at understanding possible consequences of the global warming in Biella Manufacturing and Agriculture. The first one related manufacturing with pollution. Also if very high technology and a unique economic efforts of the enterpreneurs changed completely the environmental impact of production, factories and agriculture in Biella remain one of the main causes of air pollution and water contamination. Anyway the textile system bases its quality on water, which means that both the contamination and the global warming will reduce both the quality and the quantity of the blue network. The second map unpacks the production system in its main sectors (industry and agriculture), trying to understand some structural data, the connection with services and professional education and eventually the related emissions. The second panel offers a big picture of an extensive and productive territory The third map explores the textile system aiming at discovering the production chain and its territorial diffusion. While understanding the difficulty of this action, the students document the relation between Climate Change and production focussing on energy consumption and water and try to evolve some ideas for designing eventual scenarios. The last work provides a territorial inquiry of the production system starting from both the network of the enterprises, the natural environment and some excellent â&#x20AC;&#x153;championsâ&#x20AC;? in sustainability. Textile production has different effects on pollution regarding different phases of the production chain. Together with this, wool production is also the very core of Biella identity, both from a territorial, architectural and societal point of view: any project has to take these aspects into consideration, without forgetting that sustainability also concerns individual and social identity.

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPLICATIONS

ON PRODUCTION

A.A. 2019

2020

TAV1

POLITECNICO DI TORINO

MASTER DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

BIELLA: A ROAD MAP TO ZERO EMISSIONS OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS How the climate change will revolutionize the way of living our future. From zero to future scenario. THE WOOL BOX VITALE BARBERIS

OASI ZEGNA

TOLLEGNO 1900 LANIFICIO ANGELICO

FOND. PISTOLETTO LANIFICIO DRAGO LANIFICIO CERRUTI

TERRE ABBANDONATE

ASS. CONTADINI

FILATURA ASTRO

LANIFICIO C. GATTI MOVEMENT OF NATURE

75 µm

WE ARE LOOKING FOR A CONNECTION AMONG: above and below soil water

in order to reduce the emissions of the industries in Biella’s Area and create a circular economy between them.

built agricultural soil

LANIFICIO PRAY

WATER MAP

5 µm

good

15 µm

not good

30 µm

MODESTO BERTOTTO

45 µm

water polution map is obtained taking into account the worst result of the ecological and chemical state.

60 µm

INDUSTRY PRODUCTION 6%

metals

12%

food fashion

24%

11% 3% 4%

33%

computers home system

14% 3%

In Piedmont the industry is mainly textile and 50% has engineering. The latter increased the textile industry.

TEAM10

TEAM 10 Tugana Aydin Erika Cerra Loris Insinna

electrome chanics

28%

11%

ACTORS The web made up of small, medium and large wool companies famous throughout the European medial territory.

STAKEHOLDER

RESILIENT COMMUNITIES Communities born to protect some aspects of the territory.

wide consump tion

PURPOSE We are looking forward to make a good collaboration between these group of people in order to make up a new project for new servicies. The choosen actors belong to different part of the medial territory of Biella, Cossato, Verrone and Occhieppo.

EXPORT

TEXTILE DATA

TEXTILE INDUSTRY

20% 4%

mechanical

dry cleaner 40%

20%

12%

wollen mill 1%

19%

13%

total consumption in Italy

7% 21%

consumption in Biella area

16%

clothes

8% 3%

mechanics

fornitures

ﬁnishing

technical textiles

weaving

carded spinning

dirty wool wash

dyeing and ﬁnishing

10%

14% 4%

35%

Types of textile companies and distribution of employes.

hairdo

10%

15%

textiles

spinning

45%

worsted spinning mills

consumption in Vercelli Consumption of electricity for textile and clothing in Italy and Piedmont.

other

11%

other

5% 8%

mills

14%

Associations directly or indirectly involved in a project in the company activity. They are able to promote new ideas.

other

GROUPA

AYDIN 274178 / CERRA 275209 / INSINNA 269200 _ PRODUCTION

75 µm

75%

59%

plastic rubber leather items other

carding

Water and Electricity consumption.

Export of products made inside the Biella area.

ATELIER URBAN DESIGN D / PROF. MICHELE CERRUTI BUT _ PROF.SSA DANIELA CIAFFI

PM10 MAP

TEAM 14 Catalina Godoy Mesa Leonardo Narvaez Martin Melis Turkan Ozalp

00 4

5340 N

840E

Chao Wang 274332 / Feng Zhang 275797 / Xiaoxiao Zhu 275048 /

Group B team 18

913 1 mobility figure

PM 10 map production data

Source:Unioncamere on lstat data

Four annual pm 10 comparisons

Source:Unioncamere on lstat data

Source:UIB data 2013

Source:Unioncamere on lstat data

Source:Arpa Piemonte

Production chain

Interviews About STEP 1

STEP 1

STEP 2

STEP 3

STEP 4

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produce

Vineyard Farming & Collection In Piedmont, most of the vineyards are distributed in asti and cuneo. Biella has only a small number of vineyard planting areas, which are distributed around Lake Viverone, but this does not affect the production of wine in Biella, for the rise of the tourism industry in the future. Factory produced A l t h o u g h B i e l l a 's w o o l i n d u s t r y i s gradually declining, its long-term wool breeding technology and culture can still be revived. After all, its high-grade wool is still the favor of fashion brands. You can refer to some wool revival cases in New Zealand to restructure the wool industry.

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TRANDITIONAL INDUSTRY (Textile industry,Beer industry)

STEP 4

Vineyard Farming & Collection All three products need to be transported to the factories around biella for bottling or fabric and clothing. Among them, the number of fabric factories is the largest, which also provides conditions for revitalizing the textile industry of Biella.

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Marketing After manufacturing, all products will be transported to supermarkets, hotels, fabric stores, clothing stores for marketing.

Restaurant Wine and mineral water are shipped to restaurants for sale, this is the last step in the production chain.

Fashion industry Fashion is the last step in the wool industr y and the most critical step to revive the wool industry.

Energy production and industry Production Process All production processes must ensure that the environment of origin is not destroyed or polluted, and that the quality of water at the origin cannot be reduced due to water intake and filling. This is an unsustainable way.

Carbon dioxide emissions trend deriving from the use of fossil fuels Percentage contribution to emissions of climate-changing gases in Piedmont by the various emission compartments (SNAP macro-sectors) - IREA 2013

Climate change data

·glaciers The abundant winter snowfall has only partially limited the effects of intense and prolonged summer heats: the 2017 frontal variation measures confirm the trend, now in place for many years, to a marked contraction of the glacial bodies. Bors glacier (Valsesia). The progressive withdrawal of the forehead towards the upper part of the feeder basin e x p o s e s e ve r w i d e r a re a s o f t h e ro c k y substrate.

·precipitation

Spring map Water plant site selection The most suitable place to build a water plant in rimasco is by the lake, which ensures the sufficient and purity of water resources. At the same time, the address of the water plant must be on the side of the road, which will facilitate the transportation of goods.

Basin

Daily rainfall - year 2018

Arimasco is a small town between basins, with the cleanest water in Europe, and due to the basin effect, natural water from snowy mountains will converge here. And the temperature will be higher than in the mountains, which will help people live and build buildings.

Source: Arpa Piemonte

Water system The meeting point of the mountain spring is lago di rimasco, and then the water system is divided into two tributaries with increasing altitude, one of which is the melted snow water of the snow mountain.

Source: Arpa Piemonte

Anomaly of the average temperature in winter 2017/2018 compared to the average for the period 1971-2000

·temperature

Connection between climate and production

TEAM 18 Chao Wang Feng Zhang Xiaoxiao Zhu

Poto U. Monterin, 1923; P. Piccini, 2004 (arch. CGI)

First Idea Based on the Researchs

THE PROCESS FOR A CHANGE

Be part of the project

WOOL TEXTILE PRODUCTION = HERITAGE

Examples of the change Places where the culture and production sectors become one

DEVELOP AN URBANISM THAT CAN HIGHLIGHT THE HERITAGE OF THE CITY PUTTING TOGETHER SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF THE TEXTIL PRODUCTION OF THE TERRITORY

WHO IS THE TARGET?.

PUBLIC: CITY HALL (URBAN PLANNING OFFICE)

Impact areas of the city

Industrial area

Agricultural area

ACTIONS: Innovation - transformation - initiatives

Biella

TEAM 2 Juan Benavides Yuan Chang Jinxuan Tang Brenda Torres

Sustainable factories

Politecnico di Torino

Atelier Urban Design

Juan Pablo Benavides - Yuan Chang - Jinxuan Tang - Brenda Torres

Michele Cerruti But - Daniela CiafďŹ

Mobility and accessibility are probably the main issue for development in Biella. This territory is basically accessible only by private cars. Public mobility such as trains or buses are a very small percentage of the whole mobility system, counting on old infrastructures and a badly organized system. The first map tries to check the distance between places, starting from few very relevant towns and using different means of transport. Whilst nature is one of the key assets for Biella, the natural environment is in fact not accessible unless using a private car. A more “humane” mobility based on feet or bikes is definitely not enough considered. The second work unfolds the concept of “Mobility Justice”. By unpacking the mobility system (means of transport and their age, emissions, accessibility, traffic, migrations...) the students underline the implications of mobility as a societal issue: mobility is a right for individuals, people and non-humans as well. Biella is not democratic in terms of freedom of movement, and this system is also steering toward a highly polluted environment which has consequences on the global level of warming. The third map documents mobility by considering the speed of moving and its emissions. Both the type of vehicles and the the speed have a different impact on pollution and climate implications. The last map connects the grey network of mobility with the blue network of hydrographic system and the accessibility to touristic spots, production system, services. The actual network does not correspond to a well organized system of accessibility.

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPLICATIONS

ON MOBILITY

TEAM 13 Gabriel Paul Cotrau Francisco Javier RamĂrez Estrada Thanh Hai Tran

TEAM 6 Katherine Valentina Lucena De Sousa Hebatallah Nassar Naydis Ochoa Galvis AndrĂŠs Panza Uguzzoni

BIELLA AND ITS MOBILITY ANALYSIS

35 CARBON FOOTPRINT (Kg of CO2 per trip) BIELLA - MILANO/TORINO (Average 91 Kilometers) Truck

16.66

8.65

Car

5.46

Train

Via Don Luigi Sturzo

CARBON FOOTPRINT (Kg of CO2 per trip) BIELLA - NOVARA (Around 56 Kilometers) Truck

10.25

5.32

Car

3.36

Train

CARBON FOOTPRINT (Kg of CO2 per trip) BIELLA - AROUND TOWN (Around 16 Kilometers) Truck

2.93

Car

1.52

1.10

Bus

Bicycle

0.00

Primary Secondary Railway Trunk Provincial Roads Bus Lane General Roads

Train Station

Duomo di Biella

Bus Station

Palazzo La Marmora

Sharing Bike

Parrocchia San Paolo

Radiation Distance by walking

District

Biella-Cerrione Airport

One Hour Traffic Isochronous Circle

COSSATO

VERCELLI

SANTHIA

BIELLA

MILAN

NOVARA

BIELLA

SERRA DI IVREA

TURIN

CHIVASSO

CAR

BICYCE 10min

30min

50min

20min

40min

60min

ABOUT TRAINWAY Biella to Milano Biella S. Paolo - Novara (Trenitalia) Everyday, approximetaly there are 14 options. Here are the hourse about the options; 53 mins. 08:02 - 08:55 (6.00 EUR) 08:51 - 10:03 (6.00 EUR) 09:02 - 09:55 (6.00 EUR) 09:51 - 11:49 (6.00 EUR) 11:02 - 11:55 (6.00 EUR) 12:02 - 12:55 (6.00 EUR) 13:02 - 13:55 (6.00 EUR) 14:02 - 14:55 (6.00 EUR) 15:02 - 15:55 (6.00 EUR) 16:02 - 16:55 (6.00 EUR) 17:02 - 17:55 (6.00 EUR) 18:02 - 18:55 (6.00 EUR) 19:02 - 19:55 (6.00 EUR) 20:02 - 20:55 (6.00 EUR)

ABOUT TRAINWAY Turin to Biella Turin / Porta Susa - Santhia (Trenitalia) Everyday, approximetaly there are 4 options. Here are the hourse about the options; 45 mins. 06:54 - 09:18 (7.20 EUR) 10:54 - 12:18 (7.20 EUR) 14:54 - 17:52 (11.00 EUR) 16:54 - 18:18 (7.20 EUR) +1 Change Santhia - Biealla S. Paolo 28 mins. 07:50 - 08:18 (4.00 EUR) 08:50 - 09:18 (4.00 EUR) 09:50 - 10:18 (4.00 EUR) 11:50 - 12:18 (4.00 EUR) 12:50 - 13:18 (4.00 EUR)

ABOUT TRAINWAY Vercelli to Novara

ABOUT TRAINWAY Santhia to Vercelli

(Trenitalia) Everyday, approximetaly there are 11 options. Here are the hourse about the options; 14 mins. 06:49 - 07:03 (3.10 EUR) 07:49 - 08:03 (3.10 EUR) 09:49 - 10:03 (3.10 EUR) 11:49 - 12:03 (3.10 EUR) 13:49 - 14:03 (3.10 EUR) 14:32 - 14:55 (3.10 EUR) 15:49 - 16:03 (3.10 EUR) 16:32 - 16:49 (3.10 EUR) 17:49 - 18:03 (3.10 EUR) 19:49 - 20:03 (3.10 EUR) 20:32 - 20:52 (3.10 EUR)

(Trenitalia) Everyday, approximetaly there are 11 options. Here are the hourse about the options; 10 mins. 06:38 - 06:48 (2.80 EUR) 07:38 - 07:48 (2.80 EUR) 09:38 - 09:48 (2.80 EUR) 11:38 - 11:48 (2.80 EUR) 13:38 - 13:48 (2.80 EUR) 14:16 - 14:31 (2.80 EUR) 15:38 - 15:48 (2.80 EUR) 16:16 - 16:31 (2.80 EUR) 17:38 - 17:48 (2.80 EUR) 19:38 - 19:48 (2.80 EUR) 20:16 - 20:31 (2.80 EUR)

ABOUT TRAINWAY Novara to Milano (Trenitalia) Everyday, approximetaly there are 14 options. Here are the hourse about the options; 40 mins. 05:18 - 06:11 (5.50 EUR) 06:05 - 06:45 (5.50 EUR) 07:05 - 07:45 (5.50 EUR) 08:05 - 08:45 (5.50 EUR) 08:18 - 09:10 (5.50 EUR) 09:18 - 10:10 (5.50 EUR) 10:05 - 10:45 (5.50 EUR) 10:18 - 11:10 (5.50 EUR) 12:05 - 12:45 (5.50 EUR) 12:18 - 13:10 (5.50 EUR) 13:18 - 14:10 (5.50 EUR) 14:05 - 14:45 (5.50 EUR) 14:18 - 15:10 (5.50 EUR) 15:18 - 16:10 (5.50 EUR) 16:05 - 16:45 (5.50 EUR) 18:05 - 18:45 (5.50 EUR) 20:05 - 20:45 (5.50 EUR) 20:18 - 21:10 (5.50 EUR) 21:18 - 22:10 (5.50 EUR) 23:18 - 00:11 (5.50 EUR)

POLITECNICO DI TORINO

Architecture for the Sustainability Design Atelier Urban Design D

Haocheng Sun Lirong Zhu Luishi Xue Tolunay Karakas

Group A Team 16

MOBILITY IN BIELLA

Prof. Daniela Ciaﬃ Prof. Michele Cerru� But

CLIMATE CHANGE

Regional transportation sustainable development plan to reduce the emissions of air pollutants PM 2.5, COx and COVNM in transportation in the future

Amount of Human-caused warming

50 45 1990

1995

The report did not quan�fy the humn contribu�on of global warming

35 30

2001

The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human inﬂuence on climate.

2010

2019

Human-emi�ed greenhouse Human-emi�ed greenhouse Human-emi�ed greenhouse gases are likely (67-95% gases are very likely (90% gases are extremely likely (at change) responsible for more change) responsible for more least 95% change) responsible than half of Earth’s than half of Earth’s for more than half of Earth’s temperture increase since temperture increase since temperture increase since 1951. 1951. 1951.

25 20 15 5 0

2020

2010 PM 2.5

2030

COVNM

2050

Extreme Weather

EVIDENCE

NOx Increase in Warm Winters

0.4% 0.5%

Among biella trucks, the proportion of fuel used is the largest, while the proportion of sustainable clean energy is the smallest

Transport 14%

Natural Enviornment Changes

Buildings 6%

Further Research

Change Human Behavior

Use of Renewal Energy

Planes 10.6 %

39%

Since 2014, the implementation of automobile exhaust emission standards in Europe has to comply with Euro 6 standards. However, most of the traffic in Biella is still Euro 4 and Euro 3 standards, and the proportion of cars that really meet Euro 6 standards is very small. Such air pollution will accelerate climate change.

15% 22% 92%

92%

22%

Gasoline Gasolio

Among the biella cars, gasoline and fuel account for the largest proportion, and the use of sustainable clean energy accounts for a small proportion, which will increase emissions.

Gasoline

Euro 0

Gasolio

Euro 1

GPL

Euro 2

Methane

Euro 3 Euro 4

Electric hybrid

Cars 47%

13%

14%

55%

Methane

Other 4.5%

Ships 11.2 %

0.1% 6%

Electric hybrid

Industry 21%

SOLUTIONS

1.3%

GPL

Power 25%

Agriculture and land use 24%

CAUSES

CLIMATE CHANGE

Other 10%

Global Emmission by Sectors

Human Ac�vi�es

Mel�ng Glaciers

Euro 5 Euro 6

Trucks 25 %

VEHICLE ANALYSIS

URBAN DESIGN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM AFTER 5 YEARS PRIORITY

COST

Less

Higher

Greenhouse Gases

Vulnerability

TEAM 16 Tolunay Karakas Haocheng Sun Liushi Xue Lirong Zhu

Criteria Pollutants

2 Urban Space

3 Efficiency

Noise

4 Energy

Less 1- Pedestrians

Haocheng Sun Lirong Zhu Luishi Xue Tolunay Karakas

2 - Cyclists

3 - Public Transport

Higher 4- Freight Transport

POLITECNICO DI TORINO

Architecture for the Sustainability Design Atelier Urban Design D Prof. Daniela Ciaﬃ Prof. Michele Cerru� But

MOBILITY IN BIELLA

5 - Automotive Private Transport

Group A Team 16

Haocheng Sun Lirong Zhu Luishi Xue Tolunay Karakas

TEAM 12 Ahmet Can Aktolug Şevval Alp Yagmur Danis Berke Gündoğdu Carla Maina

Built environment in Biella is characterized by a mix of industrial, residential and historical buildings. The first work starts from a huge background research where the students tried to understand the buildings typologies, their location within the territory, the connected emissions, according to the current regional dataset, the quality of the buildings and if the functions are connected ith the typologies or not. The second background panel describes actual demographic tendencies also connected with desirable touristic implementation. The students forecast a future when development is more diffuse than concentrades: Biella is growing at its sides: is the built environment efficient and highly qualitative or not? The big posters describes all this data in a powerful visual way. The first one points out the disperse growing and its pollution effects related to the different functions, the second one defines the next future development according to current previsions and forecast. The second map studies the relation between water and built environment in the specific case study of Cervo River. Through sections and collages the students inquiries the quality of the buildings and their problems related to the climate hazards connected with hydrogeological issues, ice meltingnd the rising of water level. The third work explores the built environment and its relations with the major hazards connected with Climate Change. From one side the built environment is characterized by a wide range of functions where the third sector is very present and visible. From another side, anyway, the built environment can be divided into different areas according to the number of functions/use and to the type of Climate Risk. Landslides, flooding, warming...: Biellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s near future is highly defined by Climate Hazards. The last work focusses on the functions, the use of soil and the distribution over the whole territory. Through a well-defined map it gives a better understanding of the impact of a disperse medial city to the natural environment.

TEAM 5 Antonia Ballesteros Rodriguez Francois Cayla Esma Dolgun Maria Alejandra Mora Rivera

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPLICATIONS

ON BUILT ENVIRONMENT

GROWING UP POINTS

BIELLA BUILT ENVIRONMENT CLIMATE CHANGE LEVEL OF LOCAL ECONOMIES

P A R T I C I P A T O R Y

ZONE I Loop

INHABITANTS YOUNG LOCALS

G R E E N ACCOMODATION CENTER

DYNAMIC- ARTISTIC DISTRICT

START-UP CAMPUS NATURAL TOURISM

TRANSPORTATION SECTION

B E L T

ZONE II Local economy, trade , heritage

BIELLA

G A R D E N S

HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION

ZONE III More green spaces

ZONE IV Art center Textile Museum

ZONE V TRANSPORTATION

Public Actors - Comune di Biella | UďŹ&#x192;cio Urbanissca - Arpa â&#x20AC;&#x153;Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione Ambientale

Private Actors - Studio Varnero | Architect: Valeria Varnero

Third Sector Actors - Fondazione Pistoleeo

TEAM 4 Arsalan Chabok Faezeh Sadeghi Parinaz Sadoughi Yasmin Usta

TEAM 7 Sepehr Arzjani Chiara Bitonto Carlucci Oyku Kildan Gizem Veral

TEAM 9 Niyazi Batuhan Dizlek Nicolรกs Esteban Gonzalez Aditya Tejas Joshi Gauri Parag Mankeekar Disha Nilesh Shroff

Biella is well defined by amazing landscapes, wonderful natural systems, an incredible hydric network, stunning greeneries and forest. Nevertheless climate change is changing this environment as much as the other issues. The first map studies the relation between the green and grey system: whilst many times Biella is described through the contraddiction of an amazing landscape of mountains and an open green system contrasting with the densely productive area and built environment, this work shows how those elements are integrated and related, but also how many green areas may be found in the middle of the built environment. The second map identifies the Cervo Valley, from the very top until its end in the plain, as the most powerful image for Biella. Following its path Biella unfolds itself: the map suggests a landascape approach which could evolve a different idea of Biella itself. The third map focuses on natural diversity. Biella has at least five different ecosystems characterized by at least five geological, faunal and floral environment. Those areas may not onluy be the key for the development but also a natural resource for coping with Climate Change through nature itself. The last map focusses on water. Also if the water system is one of the most relevant precious resources both for the natural environment and for the production system, the hazards connected to water are very relevant as well, together with an impressive lacking of care. Flooding, danger zones, landslides, hydrogeological implications will have an unexpected effect on the territory in the very near future.

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPLICATIONS

ON NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

MAPPING SURFACES G R E E N / B LU E / G R AY I N F R A S T R U C T U R E

NATUR AL

ENVIRONMENT

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LIVING AND NON-LIVING

NATURE / LIVING

LIVING GREEN - VEGETATION AGRICULTURE UNCULTIVATED FOREST SPORTY PUBLIC AREAS PRIVATE AREAS

AGE CLASSIFICATION SOURCE: ISTAT

BLUE - WATER MAIN RIVERS SECONDARY RIVERS ARTIFICIAL LAKES

0-9 10 - 19 20 - 59 60 +

GREEN AREA CLASSIFICATION PUBLIC PRIVATE FOREST AGRI.

USE OF THE GREEN PARKS - POPULATION PUBLIC PRIVATE FOREST

MAPPING SURFACES G R E E N / B LU E / G R AY I N F R A S T R U C T U R E

POLITECNICO DI TORINO / ITALIA ARCHITETTURA PER IL PREGETTO SOSTENIBILE ATELIER URBAN DESING D / PROF. M. CERRRUTI

CEREN KOCASLAN / MARIA ALEJANDRA SANCHEZ IVO TOMAS CASADIO / ALEJANDRO ROSSETTI

AGRI.

NATUR AL

ENVIRONMENT

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LIVING AND NON-LIVING

BUILT / NON-LIVING

NON-LIVING BUILT BUILDED SURFACE EDIFICATION STREETS HOUSES

CEREN KOCASLAN / MARIA ALEJANDRA SANCHEZ IVO TOMAS CASADIO / ALEJANDRO ROSSETTI

TEAM 8 Ivo Casadio Ceren Koรงaslan Alejandro Rossetti Maria Alejandra Sanchez

POLITECNICO DI TORINO / ITALIA ARCHITETTURA PER IL PREGETTO SOSTENIBILE ATELIER URBAN DESING D / PROF. M. CERRRUTI

INDUSTRIES

TEAM 9 Niyazi Batuhan Dizlek Nicolรกs Esteban Gonzalez Aditya Tejas Joshi Gauri Parag Mankeekar Disha Nilesh Shroff

bessa natural reserve

burcina botanical garden

cervo valley

zegna oasis

baragge natural reserve

47 very high

high

medium

low flood vulnerability level

water green areas and forests five ecosystems

TEAM 15 Aynur Baghirova Iva Lazareska Fulya Tanyel Jana Tosheva 0

Rio Chiobbio

Val de Scola

Sessera Diga in Valsessera

Strona di Postua Diga delle Mischie Sessera

Sessera

Rio Gule

Ponzone

Rio Sessaia

Pragnetta

Raimosso

Rio di Campiglia

Bele

Strona di Mosso Bisingana

Cervo River Rio Bogna

La Rivazza

Rio Gattoino

Oropa

Ostola

Rio Luchiama

Rio Grande di Oropa

Rio Canalsecco Rio delle Cavalle

Rio Magiiano

Quargnasca

Rio Sabbia Rio delle Furia

Oropa

Oremo

Stono

Rovasenda

Chiebbia

Elvo River Rio Salsessa

Rio Romioglio

Rio Ponteggia

Rio Celoria

Guarabione

Impianti di Riscaldamento Biella Cerruti Luchino Marzio

Cervo River Chiebbia Rio Bellione Officina +39

Hado Acqua Idrogeno Alcalina

Diga Ingagna Viona

Botany Srl

Ingagna

Rio Tenerelio

Oremo

Olobbia

Elvo River

Olobbia

Roggia-Massa-Serravalle

Elvo River

Biella Territory Water Connections Rivers Old Rivers - 1993 Water Treatment Plant Settlements around the river - danger zones Very danger zones ( in the next 5 years) - Flood Danger Measured Well Lines of the shallow aquifer Recent or current river beds Medium river deposits

Lago di Viverone

Ancient river beds Glacial beds bunlat Density of water usage

TEAM 12 Ahmet Can Aktolug Şevval Alp Yagmur Danis Berke Gündoğdu Carla Maina

SECOND PART

TACKLING CC

The second phase aims at defining prominent scenarios. Starting from both the Plan Zero tendencies and the global trends we ask ourselves what the future would like. What ifâ&#x20AC;Ś climate REALLY change? the population really ages too much? we can move without cars? energy production becomes the leading sector? the SilkWay becomes reality? we fix an individualâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s consumption daily rate? public space becomes an outlet for environmental hazards? we develop solutions for soil pollution? â&#x20AC;Ś Since the contemporary changing conditions also depend on the game of the actors and stakeholders, we tried to understand how to transform a

scenario into reality: how to involve actors in a proper productive and participated process of making. This phase hopefully started with a site visit and a meeting with many actors and stakeholders: thanks to a big process of understanding, the groups would engage their research into a proper entagled process. Through interviews and individual talks, all the students developed an embedded design process engaging with around 50 local stakeholders. While the first phase is based on the combination of five design-issues, the second phase aims instead at defining a precise, unique and solid imaginary with 5 different implications. The goal of this phase is to define a proper inclusive imaginary and to define in which system of interactions among public, private and third sector actors and stakeholders the imaginary can develop into a proper territorial design and development.

GROUP A EMERGENT METROPOLIS A POST PANDEMIC EVOLUTION OF BIELLA AND OTHER MEDIAL TERRITORIES GROUP A

By the year 2050 the population of Biella would have quadrupled owing to the decompaction of proximal megacities like Milan and Turin, as a consequence of CoEMERGENT METROPOLIS vid-19 pandemic and itsEVOLUTION adverse implications dense andMEDIAL unorganized urban A POST PANDEMIC OF BIELLAon AND OTHER TERRITORIES centres. As a result, Biella would need to cater to the rise in demand of housing needs, public infrastructure and transportation as well as recreational and community By the yearWith 2050 the population of Biella would planning have quadrupled owing to the decompaction of proximal megacities like Milan and spaces. meticulous urban strategies of Circular Economy & Territory Turin, as a consequence of Covid-19 pandemic and its adverse implications on dense and unorganized urban centres. As a result, on a would macro the ofmajor areinfrastructure closely associated suburban Biella needlevel to cater(where to the rise inall demand housing cities needs, public and transportationwith as wellthe as recreational and community spaces. With meticulous urban planning strategies of Circular Economy & Territory on a macro level (where all the major medial territories), an organized growth of Biella can be devised which would not cities are closely associated with the suburban medial territories), an organized growth of Biella can be devised which would not only wouldwould contributecontribute to its development aid the neighbouring metropolises to keep density in check. metropolises only tobut itsalso development but also aid thetheir neighbouring to keep their density in check. TEAM 9: SYMBIOTIC REGENERATION Niyazi Batuhan Dizlek, Nicolas Esteban Gonalez R., Gauri Parag Mankeekar, Disha Nilesh Shroff, TEAM 9: SYMBIOTIC Aditya Tejas JoshiREGENERATION Niyazi Batuhan Dizlek, Nicolas Esteban Gonalez R., Gauri Parag Mankeekar, Disha Nilesh Shroff, Aditya Tejas Joshi

TEAM 10:LIVING RAILINFRASTRUCTURES TERRITORY TEAM 10: Erika Cerra, Loris Insinna, Tugana Aydin Erika Cerra, Loris Insinna, Tugana Aydin TEAM 11: GOLDEN GROWTH

Mina Mohammadzadeh Hamidreza Noroozi, Mehmet Ali Kurt TEAM 11: GOLDENShahriari, GROWTH Mina Mohammadzadeh Shahriari, Hamidreza Noroozi, Mehmet Ali Kurt TEAM 16: CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION Tolunay Karakas, Haucheng Sun, Lirong Zhu, Luishi Xue

TEAM 16: CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION Tolunay Karakas, Haucheng Sun, Lirong Zhu, Luishi Xue

1-REGENERATION OF RIVER BASINS Generating spaces for socio-cultural exchange

2-REGENERATION OF AREA AROUND ABANDONED INDUSTRIES Adapting to immediate requirements of Biella

3-REGENERATION OF RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS Creating a sensitive countryside environment

4-REGENERATION OF INDUSTRIAL EDGE Softening the active edge with agricultural lands

56 biella, italy

iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m so happy that we move to biella!

look at this beautiful nature!!! mountains, river it looks amazing! looking forward to live here!! i will go out to see the city...

river wasnt good at all because there wasnt a good stream there was a lot of abondoned buildings...

after a short trip in the city, he realizes that biella is not that beautiful..... river was not beautiful because of quality of the water, there was a lot of abondoned buildings in the city... he keeps reasearching on internet...

look what i found! team 9 from politecnico di torino redesigned biella and you can take a virtual tour!!!!

BIELLA

AN EMERGENT METROPOLIS CLICK HERE TO SEE

biella 2050

people started to migrate to biella. City population quadrupled

industry buildings reused

it is a biking city!

i really like to project of team 9, i hope biella will be as they designed...

30 years later...

biella is such a nice city to live! iwe love the parks and green belts in the city.

biella is a green city

river is much better we can do watersports1!!

living and working in biella. such a nice city to live. i am happy to live here.

the end

TEAM 10

Erika Cerra, Loris Insinna, Tugana Aydin

RAIL TERRITORY TERRITORY RAIL The Biella area acquires a new centrality. By placing itself between Milan and Turin, the railway line is strengthened with the creation of new intelligent stations. This line must not be a limit, but a knot between tourism, agriculture and production. In some areas, we propose the lifting of the railway network to make the soil permeable and continuous. Different types of mobility unfold from each station, such as car sharing, bike sharing and new urban line stops. From each new train stop you can take a route that touches every tourist point in the area. In order to deepen mobility, the study was carried out on different layers: macro mobility, city mobility and micro mobility. From every side of the railway, the potential of the territory is therefore expanding, which goes against the new needs given by climate change and the requests that emerged during the interview. Another important aspect is the movement of water which occurs by connecting rivers from different parts. Besides, it allows a greater permeability of the soil and the cultivation of new types of seeds. This can mitigate the problem during the dry period. Due to the proximity of different production areas, we think about a circular collaboration between parties. The post COVID-19 scenario aims to improve local resources through small and repeatable inputs located inside the medial territory of Biella, this cause a regeneration of green spaces and a new way of experiencing the urban and natural spaces.

A.A. 2019

2020 MASTER DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

POLITECNICO DI TORINO

A MEMORY FLOW

STRADA BIELLA-COSSATO, now. It’s been a long time since i was here...

down the street, here it is. the cervo river. it was our idea of sea. when it got hot we could bathe there.

i didn’t remember so may industries though. the air smeels different now.

apparently, everything still looks the same. this long road, the pale sun and the smoke from the chimneys.

this city reminds me so many things, both good and bad.

fiume cervo.

i understood more of this city by standing outside it and i ended up appreciating biella more.

it’s still early. i can stop here for a while before continuing this trip.

it meant that the summer was starting.

the river has reduced to a slow flow and it is few centimeters deep.

ATELIER URBAN DESIGN D / PROF. MICHELE CERRUTI BUT _ PROF.SSA DANIELA CIAFFI

AYDIN 274178 / CERRA 275209 / INSINNA 269200 _ PRODUCTION

fiume cervo, a summer of A LONG time ago.

yes, a lot has chaged.

GROUPA

yeah, my dad finally gave me permission to ride this old boat.

i think it is older than your grandpa, isn’t it?

oh, c’mon! who cares! Girls are crazy for this kind of things.

TAV1

TEAM10

Sooner or later i won’t do anything with this boat... I will LEAVE biella. i don’t like it here, there’s nothing to do. the air is increasingly polluted, not to mention the water.

why?

HOW MUCH ARE YOU TWO TALKING HERE? I CAN’T EVEN TAKE A NAP... STOP THIS BOAT, PLEASE.

WHILE YOU TALK ABOUT PROBLEMS THAT DON’T CONCERN US YET, I TAKE A BATH.

IT WOULD BE NICE IF WE COULD REBUILD FROM SCRATCH WHAT THE LAST GENERATION IS DESTROYNG... LIKE THIS RIVER.

don’t you think that leaving YOU will make the situation worse? if anyone starts to leave nothing will remain to build something ON.

SOONER OR LATER EVERY CHOICE WILL MAKE SENSE, TRUST ME.

2020 MASTER DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

POLITECNICO DI TORINO

A.A. 2019

maybe he was right. perhaps, in part, if this city has deteriorated, it is also my fault.

we LEFT this discussion on the surface of the river.

now. this is what I learned that midsummer afternoon.

a deer? i didn’t notice it before.

ATELIER URBAN DESIGN D / PROF. MICHELE CERRUTI BUT _ PROF.SSA DANIELA CIAFFI

AYDIN 274178 / CERRA 275209 / INSINNA 269200 _ PRODUCTION

uhM?!

It’s time to hit the road again. they are waiting for me, i won’t leave them again. i’m goING TO stay.

this river has always been a symbol of biella.

how can a man waste all of this? we should DEFINETELY do something.

GROUPA

TEAM10

TAV2

TEAM 11

Mina Mohammadzadeh Shahriari, Hamidreza Noroozi, Mehmet Ali Kurt

GOLDEN GROWTH In phase one and based on the research we did on Biella territory especially on its society for solving climate change we analyzed the movement of people and according to the movement and population growth in cities, we found the democracy issue and separated cities into three different areas( super golden, golden and silver). The idea of golden growth formed and created based on two factors which are the connection between cities to have systematic territory and distribution of democracy about social services. finally, it will solve climate change and level up the condition of living in the territory. Connection: Connection plays a crucial role in golden growth. according to the existing connection between these golden polarities, we tried to improve the situation between these goldens and choose some areas that can be improved (In between). Democracy: Based on the research we did in phase one and phase two and according to the geography of cities, we found that the social services have not been separated equally so, we tried to improve the social services especially public services in golden cities and improve the social services and Kevin Lynch elements and associations in silver cities in cities that can be improved. To sum up, golden growth gives a chance to the territory to decrease the democracy issue as well as a systematic territory with a good connection between cities and forget the bordered lines.

Biella has been become one of the best social example in all around the world, I should find out why?!! Hello Ali, finally I am here I want to know every thing about Biella and why it is so good in terms of it society.

Hello Tintin, welcome to Biella oh do not worry we will show you why. lets gooo!!! Hamid is waiting in car...

Biella-cerrione airport 2050 Oh Oh, songs good so every thing started from your course with Pro.Cerruti But and Pro.Ciaffi.

We started to analysis about Biella when we were student in the Urban Planning course and the aim was to solve the democracy issue

WOW It is very good so prople can take thier own decision and prticipate in the future of the city

OK Tin Tin as you can see one of the improvments in all cities of territory was creating more public spaces for people to level up the intraction between them. For creating these public spaces we just use the abandoned factoris or have more place to share their idea by the events and participation process in every thing related to thier town. Also they can easyly talk to the stakeholders.

Also according to Kevin Lynch analysis we improved the paths and edges in main street.

Can someone help me!!!!

Now they can enjoy riding bycicles and skating.

Oh!!!!! you really improved the situation here!!!!

Oh also I can see the process of producing the wine in Sostengno.

Here they hold exabitions come use the facilities and some associations.

Here is another public space which works as a open common goods mostly in rural areas. For Biella and Golden Growth

TEAM 11

Urban Design Atelier D Prof. Michele Cerruti But Prof. Daniela CiafďŹ Mina Mohammadzadeh Shahriari Mehmet Ali Kurt

Hamidreza Noroozi

TEAM 16

TOLUNAY KARAKAS, HAOCHENG SUN, LIRONG ZHU, LIUSHI XUE

CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION In the next five years, considering climate change, we will be committed to sustainable and environmentally friendly green development. We will re-plan and design three types of transportation systems: slow mobility: sidewalk bicycle lanes, medium mobility : bus lanes, private lanes, fast mobility: train,high- way. For these three mobility systems, we will have the following scheme 1 to increase the design of sidewalks and bicycle lanes to solve the current problem of insufficient bicycle lanes and sidewalks, and to encourage low-carbon driving. 2 Develop Park + Ride and bicycle + ride system And its complementary functions. By reusing abandoned areas and empty buildings, the micro-or- ganization of bicycles and pedestrians is achieved-maintaining a certain degree of social and functional mixing in different communities. 3 Expand the electric vehicle network at the city and regional leve lsuch as designing urban and suburban ring bus routes to increase the connection between urban areas and destinations. 4 Concentrate on the functions of railways and railways. Design new railway station points in the suburbs, develop surrounding traffic, and better connection with high-speed. Finally, we will combine these three systems to form a sustainable green development path.

2019-2020 / SPRING

RESPONSIBILITY AGAINST THE AGE.

ONE DAY, THERE WAS A CAOS IN OUR PLANET AND EVERYBODY WAS SLEEPING EXCEPT THE EARTH... Have you heard the news? There is an enemy againts the world. And they say that he wants to be the one in our world!

I am coming to get what is mine, ha ha ha! said Corona Virus

Hey guys! Wake up now!

What is happening?

Honey, come here! It is not safe out there!

I heard something, did you all hear it? Something is happening with me... I am hurted.

Don’t worry mom, I will be very good boy and won’t go out!

We are very sad about what is happening... I am very concern for my family!

He is right. Earth is very tired also because of all the pullition and Climate Change that people are doing. We should all be isolated during this situation.

Sometimes I can not breath.

No! We will never let you to go further, because you make people cry!

I am coming with you too!

Yes! That’s my people!!

GROUP A / TEAM 16 - ATELIER URBAN DESIGN

I think toys are trying to say something. Lets listen them, guys!

Come with me, I am going to kick him out! Wait, we should be in our homes to protect the earth! This virus is very dangerous!

I am with you, my friend!

I wish we could help each other, stay at home and be more aware of using the things to help the earth...

New System

Old System We can do this, because I also remember how the transportation was. Very long road full with cars which got stuck during the way...

Exactly, but we should work on the other things as well... I wish somebody come and help us...

You are right! With the new system of the city, we have pedestrian paths which are much safer while you are moving in the city! For people and also for the other living beings!

2019-2020 / SPRING

PG. I

But now the system is much better then the old situation. There are directions with the bicycle/pedestrian paths with developped version of the city!

Guys, look up! Its Batman! Maybe... Maybe he fighted with Corona Virus and save our earth!

Do not forget, we are one and we are strong together! You can tell your friends that earth will get well soon...

Now we are all isolated and safe!

GROUP A / TEAM 16 - ATELIER URBAN DESIGN

Yes my people, Corona Virus is no longer make us sad. As we stay at our homes and be careful about our habits, he can not come back.

Yay, we can live happy again!

And more healty! Thank you to be more aware about to our friend, earth!

Thank you all to make me feel better!

AND AGAIN, EARTH GOT BETTER WITH PLEASURE IN HIS HEART...

PG. II

GROUPBB GROUP

NATUREVOLUTION NATUREVOLUTION Nature models the territory: while changing, it shapes everything. It is re-appropriating of its own space, to rebalance the relationship between the natural and the man-made world. The artificial environment answers rethinking itself, it is flexible: new hierarchies, new types of connections and smart technologies are created, to regenerate the systems and who lives inside. Nature is healing the territory with its self-creative power: it is time for naturevolution. Team 7: NATURE-INTEGRATION Sepehr Arzjani, Chiara Bitonto Carlucci, Oyku Kildan, Gizem Veral Team 12: NATURE-CONTINUITY&NATURE CONNECTION Ahmet Can Aktolug, Sevval Alp, Yagmur Danis, Berke Gundogdu, Carla Maina Team 18: NATURE-CURE SYSTEM Chao Wang, Feng Zhang, Xiaoxiao Zhu Team 17: NATURE-ATTRACTION Armin Shamseddini, Dario Ruotolo, Abishek Vijayan Team 19: NATURE-COMMUNITY Sara Moradi

ZONE 1 flood/fire/landslide

ZONE 2 flood/heat/air pollution

ZONE 3 water pollution/air pollution/fire

FLOOD pervious surfaces urban forest/lamination park FIRE agroforestry system LANDSLIDE urban forest TEMPERATURE water blades agroforestry system AIR POLLUTION urban forest green production systems WATER POLLUTION phytodepuration systems water pollution low water pollution medium water pollution severe settlements abandoned lands

TEAM 07

Chiara Bitonto Carlucci, Gizem Veral, Oyku Kildan, Sepehr Arzjani

BIG.little NATURAL FUSION Integration with nature happens on all scales. An efficient union that considers all the aspects of the territory. A set of connections that not only affects the districts and infrastructures but includes all the individual buildings. A system that involves all parts of nature from the single piece of rock to a multi-acre park to create a natural vision for all the people and elements of the territory.

74 This is the story of how, in 2020, a normal and b o r i n g day , (or at least it was for my sister) C H A N G E D the destiny of Biella...

Here there’s nothing to do. Let’s go to play in the S T R E E T !

br u u u u m

I am bored, bored... BORED

2 MINUTES LATER...

T H I S is a MAGICAL TOOL that we can use to plant something A M A Z I N G !!!

AHAH! Yo u a r e r e a l l y funny You know really well that we can’t go because there are a lot of cars in the streets...

BUT we can go in the garden, I will show you something!

THE UNCLE WAS WELL KNOWN IN THE FAMILY FOR HIS ACTIVISM IN THE COMMUNITY AND HIS AMAZING IDEAS...

Hi guys! What are you doing?

Hi! We want to plant a fruit seed to let grow an amazing TREE! LET’S BRING BAC K THE NATURE IN THE CITY!!!

This idea of the children really I N S P I R E D M E . . . What will happen if all the citizens will participate in this project of bringing back the nature into the city?

GROUP 7

ATELIER URBAN DESIGN B

Hi uncle!

PROF.MICHELE CERRUTI BUT / PROF. DANIELA CIAFFI

SEPEHR ARZJANI - CHIARA BITONTO CARLUCCI - GIZEM VERAL - OYKU KILDAN

From that moment, that was the mission of the life of the uncle, which collaborated with all the city to reach this result. This idea was used into a project to solve the main problems of the city and the nature was used as a tool. Now, in 2050, we live in a better city.

My sister has a child, and they are really happy to have a place under their house that is well equipped for the children

I wish I had a place like that when I was a child

(no more B O R I N G D A Y S for them)

This park is really funny!

And I work into a bazaar in which we can sell the products of our gardens!

Imagine if I haven’t said that sentence...

We will continue to spread these seeds in the territory and watch the nature grow stronger than ever... THE END PROF.MICHELE CERRUTI BUT / PROF. DANIELA CIAFFI

GROUP 7

ATELIER URBAN DESIGN B

Imagine if I wasn’t boring that day...

SEPEHR ARZJANI - CHIARA BITONTO CARLUCCI - GIZEM VERAL - OYKU KILDAN

TEAM 12

Ahmet Can Aktolug, Ĺ&#x17E;evval Alp, Yagmur Danis, Berke GĂźndoÄ&#x;du, Carla Maina

APERION We are a single member of living species that have lived for 4 billion years. Although we are only 200 thousand years old, we started to change the environment of our home. that is, the world. Relying on muscle strength for centuries, human beings discovered natural energy sources (fossil fuels) and learned how to process them. Living conditions, which became easier with the use of energy, increased the migration from the village to the city .In 60 years, the world population has tripled. More than 2 million people moved to the cities. Increasing population, uncontrolled growth and migration, use of fossil fuels, destruction of forests, pollution of waters, caused climate change. Shipping, industrial activity and destruction of agricultural areas; increased the rate of greenhouse gas and carbon dioxide. The whole ecosystem has changed. Today, 1 billion people do not have access to clean water. 1 in 4 mammals, 1 in 8 birds and 1 in 3 amphibians are in danger of extinction.1 3 million hectares of forest disappear every year. More than half of the fishing grounds are gone. 1 in 10 rivers do not mix in the sea in a few months of the year. Half of the marshes were dried. Despite all this, it is in our hands to change the future and write the next scene. We have to prepare for the next centuries. We must start acting again as part of this nature, not like its owner. In addition, we must keep up with the developing and changing technological and scientific advances. We should review our fue and vehicle technology. Rather than focusing on a single scenario, we prefer to learn to move with nature and to keep up with technology in mobility. By not using fossil fuel, we can produce hydrogen fuel powered vehicles, the cleanest, simplest and most abundant element in the world. The water and hydrogen cycle takes us to an endless renewable cycle. Considering the wrong decisions and settlements we made about nature in time, we aim to take nature into solution and act as if it is alone. We believe that we will overcome the possible epidemics, disasters, food and hunger problems of the coming years by acting with nature. It is up to us to write the next scene

NO HE DY

INI S

ET 77

BACK 78 We are only 200 thousand years old in the world of 4 billion years. As every living creature has a different and special role, we have it.

Relying on muscle strength, mankind has found the use of energy in nature. But we did this only by considering our own interest.

The use of energy resources made life easier and brought about population growth. Migration has increased. Cities became more crowded, agricultural lands were destroyed, forests disappeared, fossil fuel consumption increased.

Greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere have increased the world temperature. The water level has been rising faster than ever before for the past few decades. Glaciers are melting and the diversity of life is gradually decreasing.

FORTH

But we broke the balance. We have done that no living thing in the world has succeeded before; we have ruled the world as a single species.

1 billion people do not have access to clean water. 1 in 4 mammals, 1 in 8 birds and 1 in 3 amphibians are in danger of extinction.1 3 million hectares of forest disappear every year. More than half of the fishing grounds are gone. 1 in 10 rivers do not mix in the sea in a few months of the year. Half of the marshes were dried.

Now we realize our house, which is very close to disappearing from our hands, we must notice.

Thanks to the developing technology and digitalization, we can learn what is happening at one end of the world and react to it.

Without using fossil fuel, we can develop Vehicles that are beneficial to ourselves and the environment with renewable energy sources.

Now we can organize anti-global warming movements and fight against all kinds of pressures of capitalism.

At the end of this, we will see that nature will heal itself and try to reach us again.

‘’ IT’S UP TO US TO WRITE THE NEXT SCENE. ‘’

We can build and encourage vehicles that take up less space, touch less soil and water.

We can bring cities to human scale and become one with nature. We can bring back our ties with nature, again.

BERKE

CARLA

CAN

SEVVAL

YAGMUR

TEAM 18

Feng Zhang, Xiaoxiao Zhu, Chao Wang

Nature-Cure City A natural internal circulation city that adapts to nature and fights against natural hazards through natural strategies. The ultimate goal is to increase the abundance and yield of Biella products and regenerate green. We try to design certain human interventions. The purpose is to restore nature. We chose five macro strategies to build Nature-Cure city. They are Green production, Agroforestry, Phytodepuration, Sponge park and Green roof/balcony/garden. And defined two special areas to visually show our urban strategy Scenario: Neo-industry Forest, Urban Jungle. These two scenarios show how the five strategies work on the city, and each scenario has unique additional strategies to solve practical problems. Biella's next five, ten, twenty, thirty years will be a process of gradual optimization of green production. In the end he will become the Nature-Cure City.

Armin Shamseddini, Abishek Vijayan, Dario Ruotolo

Today, people in fact with climate change problem, the issue create economy and sociology problem. Biella province is the one that area in fact with climate change therefore, in the future some people will immigrate from the small cities to big cities. The Biella Province has three big cities called Biella, Biellese and Cossato that are developing and getting bigger. Some job opportunities should be created for residents in that area also, they need some area as entertainment. Natural and agriculture food park is one of that area which is the need for residents to spend their time, earn money and learning about agriculture and livestock. The park starts from the Biella, to extend under the Biellese border until getting to the Cossato that can be turning point connection for these three big cities with each other by the park in the province. Besides, the park from the south part can be developed in the future with the cities developing. The most important aim in this idea is the maintain all the nature part even the side road, without ruin the forest and farmland areas and with the save all the parts can create some functions like Agriculture and livestock educational institute for teenagers and the farmer can share their experience with them even with each other and the others important parts are agriculture park and campus for students and tourists that can encourage the people to use as a good way from nature.

N AT U R E A N D AG R I C U LT U R E F O O D PA R K Adaptation of Human and Nature: The project shows how we can protect nature and create some opportunities in our life without ruin that.

Agriculture Educational Institute: School of agriculture for the new generation to learn about nature. They learn how can growing plant and maintain then how can use and sale their crops. In this way children learn how can protect their nature, earn money and work. In this institute, farmers share their experience to improve their knowledge of agriculture.

GROUP C GROUP C

CONSCIOUS CITY CONSCIOUS CITY Living in a conscious city is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. The freedom to, as a society, make and remake our cities and ourselves is one of the most precious human rights. Taking this into account, we got inspired by the levels of the human mind, considering the conscious part of the human mind as the one that stores our thoughts and perceptions of the surroundings. Right under that, we have the preconscious (which holds our memories and stored knowledge) and subconscious (which holds our deep fears, selfish needs and immoral urges) layers. Our challenge was to refer to this approach in means of understanding a city and creating a future scenario for the city of Biella. Our future scenario for Biella is that of it becoming a conscious city. TEAM 13: CYCLING TERRITORY Gabriel Paul Cotrau, Thanh Hai Tran, Francisco Javier Ramírez Estrada TEAM 14: EDU-TOURISTIC TERITORY Melis Turkan Ozalp, Catalina Godoy Mesa, Leonardo Narváez Martin TEAM 1: WELL-BEING TERRITORY Aswanuddin Syed, Mahmoud Elsayed, Mobina Motiei, Nehal Mehdi Khan TEAM 15: ECO-TOURISTIC TERRITORY Aynur Baghirova, Jana Tosheva, Fulya Tanyel, Iva Lazareska TEAM 4: REFRESHING TERRITORY Faezeh Sadeghi, Yasemin Usta, Arsalan Chabok, Parinaz Sadoughi

TEAM 13

Gabriel Paul Cotrau, Francisco Javier RamĂrez, Tran Thanh Hai

CYCLING EMBASSY OF BIELLA The territory of Biella through our proposal, exploits its historical identity in benefit of the inhabitants and their capacity to move inside the province. We began standing on the holistic concept of conscious city from which we evaluated social and environmental aspects of the city. We observed as cases of study northern Europe and Italy before the popularization of individual cars, this is how we reached our own scenario, a proposal of a new implementation of the bicycle as practical vehicle and leisure activity that promotes tourism in this region. Our intervention would provide new bicycle ways interacting as two different kind of paths, a practical one between housing and places of work and a recreational one. We spotted specific situations in the city, the neighborhoods and the country side in order to generate a catalogue of technical solutions to be adapted. The network will be furnished with bicycle stops strategically placed, whether is in the city at the main urban nods or in the rural roads. We aim to link the existing mobility infrastructure to this new system of paths technically and socially, for we suggest as well a strategy for policy generation that will promote benefits for bicycle users. We propose to use cycling as a joining element between the different landscapes of Biella: the city, the industrial, the river, the valley, the mountain.

00.Preface

team 13

We are team 13 – mobility topic, part of group C working on A CONSCIOUS TERRITORY as main scenario. Th e following pages offer the work on th e sub scenario of CYCLING TERRITORY.

Table of content

The future is the new present. Depends on how we deliver it.

Our main spatial ambition in terms of urban planning is to provide an infrastructure of bicycle paths that could help communic ation from houses to places of work and the interaction between urban and natural landscape.

00.Preface 01.Memory exercise 02.Comparison case 03.Premises 04.Cycling territory in the big picture of Conscious territory scenario 05.Concept – the project 06.Zooming in 07.Strategy | policies 08.Link to eco-touristical scenario (team15) 09.Conclusion

In terms of environment sociology, w e aim to reduce th e noic e and air pollution impact of motorized mobility by proposin g local strategies and policies that help cultivate and implement the culture of cycling. We believe that, th e cycling territory subsc enario could be a strong path link between all the subtopics of group C: edutouristical territor y, ecotouristical territor y, refreshing territory, well- being territory.

CYCLING TERRITORY Team 13 Francisco Javier Ramirez Gabriel Paul Cotrau Tran Thanh Hai

Professors: Daniela Ciaffi Michele Cerutti But

01. memory exercise

the lost religion Cicli Fiat, 1911

Bianchi, 1895

The evidences tell us ther e is a big legacy of th e past in terms of cycling in Italy. Th e h istory says th e first 2 pedals bic ycle appeared in Italy around 1867 and only 1 year later a variety of bic ycles could be seen on th e streets. Most of th em made in the North ern region of Italy: Turin, Monza, Verona, Padua, Milan, Flor ence, Novara. By then italians had fallen in love w ith bicycles. Their creativity and the skills of th e factories gave rise to what we can call ''the art of cycling'' in Italy.

02. case comparison

learning from the North

It is well known all over the world that, Denmark c onsistently ranks at the top of global happiness, well-being and quality of life scales. With these premises, the financial status shouldn't be an issue wh en it comes to buy / use a car. It is clear that, these people use the bicycle ever y day as primary source of transp ortation ( no matter th e weather condition ), because they have cultivated and implemented a strong culture of cycling in ter ms of city's population h ealth , reducing air and noise pollution, environment frien dly an d joy of simple things.

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04. cycling territory in the big picture

03. premises

cycling territory in the big picture of conscious territory scenario

Premises | Biella 1. Terrestrial premise The area of action r efers to 4 strategically village – points all around Biella. The measured points proves the existing of short distances. 2. Social premise Decreasin g number of population in the whole area. Lack of communication and marketing Lack of new identity

04. cycling territory in the big picture

THE WORK FLOW DIAGRAM

Specific conscious map - in order to visualize how th e subtopic of cycling territory har monize and in th e same time intersect all the oth er subscenarios . Th e legend clearly describes all the intersected topics on th e horizontal of each level of human ( city ) mind. Our concept uses th e vertical connections of all the levels as key points of the proposal. As a conclusion of the previous pages we can definitly name as startin g point: th e memory of cycling.

3. Premises of success Diversity in ter ms of cultural and industrial values Geographical position Unique resources: air and water, landscape Low price of properties Global approach of the entire area.

4. The memory exercise The histor ical legacy in terms of art of cycling and skills of designin g and producing bicycles.

We understand that, the behavior is the first aspect that must be educated. The attitude, th e mentality towards cycling must be changed.

Due to its location, Danish w eath er consists of rain as regular basis year-round, win d blowing ,short summers an d temperatures from – 10 to maximum + 21-22 degrees. The weather situation in Italy is totally the opposite. Why shouldn't c ycling become a real part of citizens' life ?

2. Political leadership and commitment The main barrier was the rise of car culture from 1945 to the 80's. Th e challenge was to address this and turn it around. Promoting a culture of cycling and supporting that with significant resourcing and planning commitments has been central to the success of the pro-cycling.

02. case comparison

a matter of behaviour poverty symbol

Copenhagen 88.25 km2 Our zone of action 63 km2

1. Governance A key success factor has been the organisation of urban and transport planning in an integrated and coherent way under a single Technical and Environmental Administration in the city government.

We assume transferable.

cycling cycling

the paradox

2 lessons to be learnt

Sustainable cities or regions of the future w ill be ones wh ere transport options oth er than fossil-fuel pow ered private vehicles are the norm. Bike-frien dly Copenhagen is leading the way. Copenhagen has set itself th e goal of becoming 'the world's best bic ycle city by 2025'. Achieving this goal is also viewed as integral to the city's health plan, to the environ mental goal of making the city CO2 neutral by 2025, and to enhancing the ''liveability'' of the city. More than 250,000 people cycle each day to work or educational institutions in th e City of Copenhagen , r epr esentin g a modal share of 38% of all trips. Copenhagen’s plan for achievin g a greater modal share for bicycles includes increasing th e capacity of the cycle tracks to th e city c entre, in order to accommodate an additional 60,000 cyclists by 2025. The number of the bikes in Copenhagen is already higher than the number of th e cars: 265.700 bikes versus 252.600 cars.

02. case comparison

Tourism diversity Sense of belongings The weather Industrial areas Healthy life Short distances Potential to cultivate new culture

05. concept

06. zooming in

how it works?

concept – global

The project proposes a diversity of solutions in terms of policies, traffic reglementations, design an d technical approaches. A specific path from Biella to Verrone is chosen in order to visualize the coherence of the p roposal. Th e complexity of this specific route consists of flat segments n ext to agricultural area, differ ent types of intersections in ter ms of size an d proposed solutions, crowded segments, bus stops, segments n ext to important industrial and residential areas.

Global approach on the whole area is th e perspective that provides n ew possibilities to improve and create coherence an d relations between the different existing districts, villages and actors. Lynch elements point of view. Beside th e fact that, th e whole concept is part of on e of the 5 elements of Lynch ( paths ), it also generates th e link between the other 4: edges, districts, nodes, landmarks.

06. zooming in

1. NODE bridge | importance

BICYCLE PATHS (RECREATIONAL) BICYCLE PATHS (FUNCTIONAL)

1. NODE bridge | technical overview

This solution facilitates the connection between th e 2 type of paths ( recreational and home to plac es of work ) in a crowded zone. In th e same time, th e bridge solution proposes an in-exit ramp on the parkin g spot of an industrial area, which facilitates workers access.

Numbered segments are tak en 1 by 1 in the following slides in order to visualize the approaches.

The project proposes an infrastructure consisting of 2 type of paths: 1.pink path (40km): from home to places of work - providing the fastest routes towards all the industrial areas. 2.yellow path (90km): recreational and tourism path providin g the routes through nature and along the river. Important mention: th e bike stops follow the bus stops – in order to link th e proposed infrastructure to public transportation system.

06. zooming in

1. NODE bridge | section

06. zooming in

2. CROWDED segment | suspended platform| visualization | technical overview

1. NODE bridge | visualization

06. zooming in

3. CROWDED residential area | underground passage Crowded residential area located next to the main street. In order to offer safety to the bik ers and in or der to streamline car traffic, the solution c onsists in underground passage.

BIKE STOP

3D OVERVIEW

06. zooming in

3. CROWDED residential area | underground passages

06. zooming in

4. VISUALIZATION | underground passage

4. INDUSTRIAL AREA | underground passage

5. BETWEEN VILLAGES | next to agricultural area

The exits will be covered with natural plants and vegetation – they will act as natural smoke filters from cars.

The path w ill include 2 cycling lanes + on e lane for walking, joggin g etc. Also, the bik e stops will offer the possibility of buyin g refreshments.

06. zooming in

06. zooming in 06. zooming in

6. RESIDENTIAL AREA | underground passage Extra attention to this intersection because 2 big and important residential ar eas are located on both sides of STR.TROSSI ( SP230). Due to safety r easons, w e propose underground passages crossing the intersection. Due to the fact that, next to th e intersectiona bus station is located, we use th is spot in order to vizualize the link of the proposed bike infrastructure to public transp ortation system.

6. RESIDENTIAL AREA | link to public transportation system | BUS

link to public transportation | train Accessing PASSERELLA towards th e platfor ms of Biella train station ar e proposed. Also, in order to have a complete system, dedicated wag ons must be included in train set.

link to public transportation | train | visualizations

GROUP C

CONSCIOUS CITY

TEAM 1

Aswanuddin Syed, Mahmoud Elsayed, Mobina Motiei, Nehal Mehdi Khan

WELL-BEING TERRITORY Welfare Communities based on the capital produced in their cities, as a pillar of economic life .Cities generate “CAPITAL” as by-Product of successes with new goods and services, Normally much of its finds use in cities themselves because cities require capital continually if their enterprises are to keep up to date , are to innovate , and to multiply in number and kinds. In this tackling, the wool industry considered as the representative of the economic life of Biella. But Also, the cities are the locale of injustice for the same reason they are location of capital accumulation! Urban ills, maximizing CC effect, degraded air quality, therefore, emerge within the sphere of capital circulation! We have attempt to balancing the both meanings by support the commons and represent a product of the required institutional structure , hence the government is a regulator and responsible of achieving the social justice and protecting the natural resources from exhaustion and pollution ,and most importantly, to support and protects community capital from human greed itself. As a conscious city and since the observation of Biella’s society shows high potentials and different responses from its sectors , also with stakeholders’ interviews, we shaped our vision towards the city in 2050 to deliver a well-being territory , by activate democratic systems and PP , providing urban meanings in city spaces to achieve solidarity among its members, who’s capable of making decisions and financially empowered. This leads to better urban environment that consider deeply the community needs.

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TEAM 15 Aynur Baghirova, Iva Lazareska, Fulya Tanyel, Jana Tosheva

ECO-TOURISTIC TERRITORY By definition ecotourism is travel that makes a positive impact on both the ECOlogy and ECOnomy of a given destination. We consider this as a concept needing a conscious host society, but also conscious tourists. This is a way to introduce a sort of rejuvenation of Biella both through tourism more directed towards young tourists, and through providing jobs to the local youth with the goal of decreasing emigration. Exploring the way architecture can respond to, and take advantage of nature, while simultaneously preserving and using the natural environment we propose designing “campsites” in different points within Biella’s territory. Any constructions will be MODULAR, TEMPORARY and made in a way that they can be easily prefabricated by local producers

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TEAM 4

Arsalan Chabok, Faezeh Sadeghi, Parinaz Sadoughi, Yasemin Usta

REFRESHING TERRITORY The consciousness derived from responsibility, refunctioning, sense of belonging and creativity is our first step toward the “refreshing territory”. Giving back the strength of the territory through its industrial “zones”, taking the advantage of their important locations for the city to “refresh” that area with refunctioned uses directed to the local public and local tourists will create a territorial scale of connection. This means that we are refreshing the territory through “areas” not buildings because the future is not starting from buildings, but from areas. The areas selected for the study, which have different characters and possibilities, are partly or totally abandoned and detached from the city in general besides their importance for Biella. The in deep study and the strategies are applied for the two extreme cases: Valle Cervo and Strada Trossi, due to their different natural and social characters. In Valle Cervo we have the upper part which is more problematic in topography but is strong spot in means of local tourism, then we have the lower valley, which is strong in industrial history and better in topography but still faces a mobility problem, so since it is unrealistic to have a connection between two separate parts directly, we thought of a strategy of “joints and elbows” for a gradual connection which meets in the middle valley (which is the most active). For Strada Trossi, we worked with system of relations between buildings, agriculture and nature by removing the boundaries between them and have more balanced connections.

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IT HAS BECOME CLEAR THAT HUMANS HAVE CAUSED MOST OF THE PAST CENTURY'S WARMING BY RELEASING HEAT-TRAPPING GASES AS WE POWER OUR MODERN LIVE.

STOP BEING HUMAN I CAN‛T BREATH ANYMORE. I WILL BE MELT VERY SOON.

FINALLY,

IT‛S A TIME TO LIVE

FREELY

WITHOUT HUMAN CONSEQUENCES.

WHAT KIND OF INCIDENCE WILL BE HEAD OF HUMANITY??? HOW MANY ECONOMICAL SYSTEM WILL BE COLLAPSE? NOBODY WILL HAVE A GOOD LIFE DUE TO THIS VIRUS.THE PLANET EARTH WILL NOT HAVE ANY PERSONALITY WITHOUT US….

LOOK IT SO MARVELOUS BUT WE COULDN‛T ENJOY IT. IF THE SITUATION CONTINUE WE ALL GONNA GET CRAZY.

THESE CHANGES, MADE PLANET EARTH MUCH BETTER PLACES TO LIVE AND TEACH

US HOW TO BEHAVE WIT OUR PLANET.

I WISH THE HUMAN STAY MORE INSIDE SO I HAVE MORE TIME TO HEAL MYSELF.

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GROUP D GROUP D

KNITTING THE KNITTING THECITY CITY The scenario proposes a new tissue for the city of Biella, in which the functions and uses of spaces are harmonically interlaced, while revitalizing abandonment as main functional elements. It can also generate a chain reaction for new centralities, capable of adapting as a net not only for 2050, but also for new needs; allowing a continuous city regeneration.

TEAM 2: ENTANGLED PRODUCTION Juan Pablo Benavides Soto, Yuan Chang, Jinxuan Tang, Brenda Melissa Torres Varón TEAM 3: SOCIAL COHESION Hassan Hijiazi, Sena Sagiroglu, Merve Tatli, Valentina Trujillo TEAM 5: INTERTWINING SPACES Francois Cayla, Esma Dolgun, Antonia Ballesteros Rodriguez, Maria Alejandra Mora Rivera TEAM 6: INTERLACED MOBILITY Katherine Lucena, Andrés Panza, Hebatallah Nassar, Naydis Ochoa TEAM 8: THE LIVING PATH Alejandro Rossetti, Ceren Kocaslan, Ivo Casadio, María Alejandra Sánchez

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Juan Pablo Benavides, Yuan Chang, Jinxuan Tang, Brenda Torres

ENTANGLED PRODUCTION The knitting city has an entangled production as it functions as a cohesive element, creating new connections in the city, through a system composed by industrial buildings in use and abandoned, this buildings are re thought and adapted to create spaces for the construction of community, culture and innovation, it is through this network, that the productive system is transformed into a unit constituted by the link between culture and production to reinforce the identity and heritage of the citizens to then build a conscience about our living space. The industrial sites open up to the city and create a new perspective of the production activities by generating services for the community that complements the industrial use with cultural functions turning these sites into places of public space, creation and learning spaces. Each of these sites has their own identity and approach determined by the characteristics and in respond to the issues of their location. The system is integrated by a green grid and the recovered ecological corridor of the river, complemented with pedestrian and sustainable mobility paths, connecting the new productive sites, turning the city into a connected network for the people. Rethinking the production in the city as an open system of spaces for living, learning and creating is the starting point for tackling climate change as this is what composes the identity of the people in Biella and is by peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actions that the transition to a different way of living our planet is made.

ENTANGLED PRODUCTION

112 strategies for the city of Biella Urban

Green Grid

Community Services - Education - Culture

Enviromental services Wetlands - Food production Aquaponics farming - Water plants

Connected Systems Environmental education

Levee

Fitodepuration / Wetlands

Industrial park

Industry

Green corridor

Adapted industry/ Support functions Adapted industry/ Cultural and educational Adapted abandoned industry/ Cultural and educational

Public space

Green corridor

Enviromental services

Bike / pedestrians path

Comerce / market

Fashion exhibitions

In the river -Proximity to the ecological corridor -Interruption of the systems (housing, ecological, productive)

Ecological system Infrastructure to generate clean resources, disaster risponse and educational uses.

In the middle of the city

In the periphery

- Unrelated use in the context where is located - Land miss-use

- Lack of support and complementary spaces and functions - Divided systems

Complementary services Adapting industrial infrastructure in order to supply necessesities on perphery zones.

Cultural and educational services Transforming old industrial buildings into places for the spread of knowledge and cultural activites, related with the wool industry in biella.

Increase of the green area

Complementary uses/ Agricultural market

Complementary uses/ Agricultural activities

Co-working

Factory

Agricultural land

Knniting the City: Entangled Production Politecnico di Torino

Atelier Urban Design

Juan Pablo Benavides - Yuan Chang - Jinxuan Tang - Brenda Torres

Professors: Michele cerruti But - Daniela CiafďŹ

2020

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Urban strategies for the city of Biella

System connections

Open corridor

Production Education Bioswel

Event space Workshop

Food Court

Urban devices A list of buildings and interventions that would activate the public spaces, conect the comunity, support the textile industry and resist the climate change effects. River

Middle of the city

Periphery

Art gallery

Public market

Coworking

Water barrier

Bike parking

Art corridor

Industry in the middle of the city - Cultural and educational services Revitalized spaces, streets and abandonned buildings would form a network of places for everyday gathering, big events and social relations. Together, they could make the industry zones more livable and confortable for the people. Tranforming this spaces into cultural places would support the productive system in Biella and suply the lack of public space in the city.

Learning Infrastructure

Pedestrian paths

Mobility infrastructure

Cultural complex

Living the industrial site

Open Fahion festival on the public space

Industrial corridor - open industries

Cultural events on public space

Knniting the City: Entangled Production Politecnico di Torino

Atelier Urban Design

Juan Pablo Benavides - Yuan Chang - Jinxuan Tang - Brenda Torres

Professors: Michele cerruti But - Daniela CiafďŹ

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I am a retired worker now. I just can read some books at home. I feel so bored.But it seems like that the TRADITIONAL SKILL which I hold is not useful now.And I also remember that factory I worked in destroyed by A FLOOD

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Ecological system

The factories along the river have built a new resilient water collector, no longer have to worry about the disaster caused by the flood. Now I can also go for a walk in the ecological corridor by the river

Green path

The factory blocked my way to the river! Green path

Park”mountain”

Grenn path

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Interruption of system

Connect the river park by green street

FACTORY in the city

Culture and education

I just came from the river park

The online participation platform can also share my traditional skills to everyone. There are still so many people who are interested in traditional textile.

Since there are some education center in the city center, I can learn a lot of interesting things here.I can join workshop with my friends.

Open corridor

I cann‛t go in! Bioswel

Production Educatiom

Event Space Food Court

Workshop

My grandma and dad both work on the textile industry. Ummmm...... I really have no interest in it.I want to GO OUT

I enjogy in the textile culture

There are also a lot of exhibition activities in the public space, which can drive me to have a new interest in the textile industry.

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More public to the neighbour

FACTORY in the periphery

Complementary functions Services

I‛m a worker of a factory.The production processes are not so good neither for my healthy nor for the environment.

There are lots of farmlands but no shop to buy daily necessities!

Nowadays, major factories are responding to the call of “green textiles” and “intelligent factories”.I can use the network platform to handle work without entering the factory operation room.

“Green textile”factory

Urban Farm

Not only can I buy fresh food in the city farm, but I can also enjoy the fun of it..

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COLLECTIVE DISCUSS

Representatives hold conference to talk about their needs

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INTERVIEW

Make interview to kown more about what people concern in this project

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Get the feedbacks from people about the design

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Propose strategies to built a resilent city.

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The factory where I work is far away from the city centre, but now the surrounding facilities are perfect, and my life has become very convenient

Supply necessity on periphery zone

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SOCIAL COHESION

The scenario proposes a union between the community and Biella, that is, we want to intervene in different areas of the city with the intention of improving the quality of life in Biella, this through a participatory process, in which both the municipality is involved, as to the beneficiary community itself. It is proposed to use Tactial Urbanism as a strategy, low-cost interventions but with an impact on the environment and the community. These interventions are proposed in specific places in order to reactivate and restore public spaces, thereby strengthening the urban acupuncture. In each of these interventions, priority is given to the participatory and inclusive process, achieving a framework for the different axes that define the area of intervention, with the intention of neighbourhood improvement. These interventions are proposed with a short-term action, but with a longterm impact on the intervention.

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LEGEND Areas of Intevention

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Proposal Areas of Intevention

WHAT TO DO ? between new areas

involve nature lines + midpoints

welcoming

new consruction

sports

fun & socialism balange between areas

crazy ideas

transportation

answering

kids & imagination

HOW IT WORKS ? Hybird Tactics

Unsanctioned Tactics

Intersection Repairs

Build a Better Block

Bike Parking

Parking Day

Chairbombing-Gardening

Food Trucks

Pop-up Shops

Sanctioned Tactics

Pavement to Plazas

Temporary Retail

Site Pre-Vitalization

Open Streets

Street Fairs

Play Streets

Pop-up Caffes

Tacticians -City Agenties

-Mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office

-Nonprofits

-Entrepreuners

-Developers

-Local Activists

-Comunity Groups

-Artists

-Architects

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FUNCTIONS AND PURPOSES

Open Streets : Play Streets : To create safe spaces for people of all To temporarily provide safe spaces for walking, bicycling, skating and social acages to be social and active. tivities; promote local economic development; and raise awareness about the detrimental effects of the automobile on urban living.

Chairbombing : To improve the social well-being of neighborhoods by salvaging waste materials and activating the public realm.

Food Carts : To provide low cost food, incubate small businesses, and activate undertutilized sites.

Build a Better Block : To promote livable streets and neighborhood vitality.

Gardening : To introduce more greenery and gardening into the urban environment.

Site Pre-Vitalization : To temporarily activate a (re)development site. Site pre-vitalization uses often include public markets, art exhibitions and studios, community festivals, beer gardens, micro-retail opportunities, flea markets, and other temporary programs capable of â&#x20AC;&#x153;pre-vitalizingâ&#x20AC;? a site before more permanent building is possible.

Park(ing) Day : To reclaim space devoted to automobiles, and to increase the vitality of street life.

Pop-up Cafes : To promote outdoor public seating in the parking lane (during the warm months) and to promote local businesses.

Quarantine Day

Team #3: Valentina 118 Trujillo -S275489/Hassan Hijazi -S278622 Merve Tatli -S269957/Sena Sagiroglu -S274082

After been l�v�ng �n �e�rut

the cap�tal, I moved to my v�llage �n the south w�th my fam�ly, perhaps we could spend the lock �down �n better way. He I e�per�enced the l�fe �n Here, d�fferent way, wh�ch changed my �nteract�on w�th my env�ronment.

Here, I w�ll tell you some of my da�ly l�fe �n �uarant�ne these days. �ell �t starts w�th my moms *smooth sound*

Hassaan!

Yess mom?!

Come here i need ur help Can’t u call a maid or some thin

�he always ask me for help �n several chores, although I have always homeworks to do, but I often go to help her. almost done .. wish she dont ask for more .

Hassan , could u help me cooking please .

Ohh my god !!

Hassan could u give me a hand just 30m n� much

�ons�der�ng that my mother �s the ma�n respons�ble of the house �ns�de �t, and the restr�ct�ons of �ov�d��, I e�per�enced a var�ety of th�ngs such as clean�ng, k�tchen chores, cook�ng... All of that made me understand the �mportance of some serv�ces �n sav�ng man�s t�me. �h�s made me not�ce more the needs of the humans to each others �n the�r env�ronment

Could it wait dad?

Yes, I will call her she is called covid-19

Finally I can complete my home works now.

Social cohesion ... we absulutly need to be a caring society then , heh ... whats be�er than my life as an example for the biellese people ...

1 After �e� hours of �ork�ng on computer, my dad’s turn comes. �e �nterrupt me to help h�m �n the backyard. �o�e�er, I feel some �oy �n plant�ng and f�eld stuff.

heh , you think water is every Are thing really... the Biellese planting their balconies nowadays?!

Don’t worry my baby tomato, ur dad is here

At the end of the day, I come to my laptop and complete �ork�ng, recogn��ng the pos�t��e energy I got from my en��ronment en�� espec�ally �n these t�mes of co��d��..

Handi works are easy.. all Biella people could recreate their areas by their hands, it ’ll be really nice �uarant�ne ga�e me the opportun�ty to �nr�ch my agr�cultural background, but the more emportant �s my relat�on to the ground, �h�ch �ncreased, �n my en��ronment� s�nce �hene�er you put effort �n the greenbe�ngs �t g��es �t back. Thank God I’m here

Tactical urbanism is the solution for recreating the areas in Biella. Although forming a Social Cohesion .

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Antonia Ballesteros Rodriguez, Francois Cayla, Esma Dolgun, Maria Alejandra Mora Rivera

INTERTWINING SPACES Taking into account the general scenario and the collective vision of the group for Biella 2050, this sub-scenario proposes an eclectic urban vision planning, referring to a framework of both micro and macro interventions that seek, through the fluctuation of scales, give a complete dynamic to the city. As a fundamental argument, the project aims to revitalize the constructions that are currently abandoned in order to convert them into symbiotic pieces, where the mix of programmes will allow the creation of spaces to foster the learning and entrepreneurship of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural traditions, such as the textile industry, to support the productive sector, to promote the stay of young talents and in turn to link, in a coherent and complementary manner, the constructions recycled to the current equipment network, taking into account the deficiencies and needs of each sector. In order to intertwine these places and move from a purely virtual connection to a physical one, the project presents the design of a main street, consolidated on an important axis of the city, which serves as a communication route for the intervening spaces, and that is born from the transformation that they generate on their environment and the adjacent public space, with this in turn comes the greening of the roads, the development of parks between the different points, the generation of public space in the required areas and the integration of the infrastructure necessary for cycling on the track. In short the project is developed with the revitalization of dots, the endowment of them and the interlinking of these that allow the final objective of knitting the city.

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She is Anna , she wants to study in Biella

He is Gabriel worked in a factory of textil in Biella.

He Is Francesco and he works in a cultural equipment of Biella. She is Lucia , she worked also in a textil industry.

Hello guys , I'm calling you because with all this that happened from COVID-19 I want to discuss some ideas I have to improve this cit

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Hi Luci! I was thinking the same!

YES ! ME TOO we need a change

With that mentioned of the road I had planned a master plan which was to be developed through a main road from Biella which would bring together many factors.

This is the best café, let's sit down and talk

I will really like to have publics shared gardens in via Antonio Gramsci!

Yes! it could be nice, but we need to improve cycle paths in the street and we need to develop a green urbanism along the via Gramsci. What do you think?

and could be combined with an education system because there is a good low education system in biella but not so much high education system. I think that the creation of an artistic university can develop a lot Biella. I really like art and photography. I want that old abandoned ﬁrm became area of artistic expression.

I really want that Biella create a local networks of vegetables production and with what you're talking about education, we could link it.

We can use the abandoned places that Biella has to make strategic points that activate this main road and supply Biella with the missing equipment.

You are a genius, take case studies, study each equipment in the area and its coverage radius to see what equipment is missing and ﬁnally study this main street generating more public space, green areas...

Places like this, which have great potential and no one uses them.

Or like this one that has a huge space that could become the best public space in the city.

I can imagine it...

Let's meet at a cafe to discuss it.

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TEAM 6

Andrés Panza, Katherine Lucena, Naydis Ochoa, Hiba Nassar

INTERLACED MOBILITY In Biella, a city of many abandoned buildings, some problems were identified in terms of mobility, too many facilities for cars, very few for other systems and pedestrians, making of transport a really hard task for the population. The idea is to include new alternatives and increase facilities for other systems using the abandoned infrastructure and also some forgotten strategies such as trains and trams used many years ago, that were really efficient before “the boom of cars”; taking from the memories the strategies for the future of this city. The project idea is to create two tram circuits, the first, an urban ring for the center of Biella, and the second, a paired linear route in order to connect Biella to Cossato; besides, one mountain railway developed towards the northern part of the province. All of them, interlaced by internal and external bus lines, and bike paths in order to mix massive transportations systems with local ones and particular alternatives, adapting each one to specific topographic and use requirements for each area, “divide in pieces to connect them”, so is possible to attend different scales and populations; all of them joined in strategic points by exchange centers, placed in abandoned buildings to reuse them and help the people pass from one system to another one, creating public space and giving services to the city, increasing the urban dynamics and interest on this particular places, producing a revitalization of this piedmont Italian city.

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You know Luisa, 126 I still remember

interlaced mobility

2020_Luisa is 8 years old Hahhh… those were good days, where we thought maybe a lot of things were coming up, and it certainly happened!

when trains worked all around town; you could go from Biella to Oropa in a few

After the war, Italy swimmed right away with the boom of the cars back in the 60’s; I got a fiat 500 myself actually

What happened to these trains? Trains were slowly forgotten, the stations were closed, and cars took place, but look where it has brought us, now we have this pollution legacy... I mean, look at the window, sometimes it’s impossible to breath with all of this smog; but I hope one day they’ll be opened again...

I don’t know, things seem pretty ugly nowadays in quarantine

The poor neighbor Marco’s all sick because of that

pfff, maybe we won’t make it to the future grandpa

I don’t even know If want to live in Biella when I grow up, looks like’s nothing here for me

TEAM 6

Atelier Urban Design D

Michele Cerruti But Daniela Ciaffi

Katherine Lucena

Andrés Panza

Hebatallah Nassar

Naydis Ochoa

Luisa is now a teenager

interlaced mobility

thanks to social distance I can go by bike anyway, no problem at all, I actually like it! more

Less cars, more bikes, more buses, more trains…

A lot of changes going on mobility BEFORE people driving cars

AFTER people on bikes

AFTER people on a bus towards sustainable mobility

2050_Luisa is 38 years old, and a climate change activist It feels almost unreal that I am living the opening of this exchange center, just as my grandfather told me so many years ago

With an stronger mobility system, it’s easier to arrive everywhere in Biella! Now I can take a bus, tram, train to the mountains, or even bike around the city!

TEAM 6

Atelier Urban Design D

Michele Cerruti But Daniela Ciaffi

Katherine Lucena

Andrés Panza

Hebatallah Nassar

Naydis Ochoa

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TEAM 8 Alejandro Rossetti, Ceren Koçaslan, Ivo Casadio, María Alejandra Sánchez.

LIVING PATH To reach this final point, we went through a process that is basically divided into three stages: in the first one, we carried out a mapping which helped us to identify and classify the types of green areas in Biella. So in order to have a better understanding of the project, it´s important to know the meaning of the colors present in both sheets. In a general view, in the colors legend we have two types of green, that mean private green areas and forest, two types of brown, which are the uncultive lands and agriculture, and the grey, which basically refers to the entire built surface. Going on with the second stage, we synthesize Biella´s nature structure in three main actors: the nature reserve on flat land, the River and finally the mountains. Once these actors were identified, and following the main strategy proposed in the general scenario called "Knitting the city", we established certain strategic points in Biella´s green zones, in order to give them different identities according to their location and at the same time use them as articulator points with the goal of having a strong axis passing across the city with different dynamics. Finally, we arrived to the final intentions of the project, having as a result a strong concept that is based on using the path of the river as a guide line to connect principally The Baragge with The alps, creating a route composed some important natural spots within the territory, making the city live inwards, reinforcing its core with what we call “the living path”. In this way, we consider that this project will be a key piece to recover the identity of Biella with the natural environment as a premise.

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Articles inside

Climate Urbanism FINAL REPORT a.y.2019-2020

THE LIVING PATH

INTERTWINING SPACES

SCENARIO D: KNITTING THE CITY

WELL-BEING TERRITORY

NATURBAN

SCENARIO C: THE CONSCIOUS CITY

NATURE CONTINUITY

INTRODUCTION

SYMBIOTIC REGENERATION

SCENARIO A: AN EMERGENT METROPOLIS

NATURE-CURE CITY