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A New Masterplan

Morbegno, Italy, 2016

The competition conceived the opportunity of the urban rethinking of the city of Morbegno. The design proposal particularly involved a specific artery of the city, Via Stelvio, which today represents the horizontal axis of greatest flow but which at the same time divides the territory in half. The strategy adopted is to strengthen the connections and the practicability of the river branch that intersects the historic center, as a new element of attraction for practices related to ecotourism. At the two horizontal extremes of the city, two strategic islands have been hypothesized, the cultural island and the didactic-naturalistic park. In relation to this new image of the city, Via Stelvio creates a gate that from the historic center dissolves into the park, is lightened by its load, which will in turn be channeled into new secondary branches. In its place, a large cycle-pedestrian artery, called Metro-bici.

Project awarded the sixth place.

Supernova Stelvio

The design hypothesis from which our reflection started emerges from a basic question: is it possible to rethink via Stelvio as a specific place of living characterized by the figure of slowing down? And secondly, can we imagine its path as a vector capable of activating a series of cross relationships?

The goal is to imagine this road, on the one hand, not in terms of line, but of surface; on the other hand, to think of it as an opportunity to reconfigure transversal relationships in an orthogonal direction with respect to that of the bundle of infrastructures territorial. In this sense, the relationship with the historic center appears crucial.

Strategic map

From an interpretative and design reading, Morbegno shows some recognizable parts within three main urban figures, in relation to which specific project strategies have been defined. The Bitto system constitutes an ecological vector of biodiversity which places the island of culture and the natural island on the Adda in tension to the extremes. The proposed strategy aims to strengthen the practicability of the river branch; to build an access system to the historic city and a new place for culture and sport; an educational-naturalistic park and an agricultural park with educational farms.

The transversal urban frame system with respect to the large valley mobility infrastructures aims to build a new access to the center through the implementation of three certification projects with intermodal parking; a new urban epicenter that defines a large square on via Stelvio; the strengthening of transversal pathways.

The space of agricultural and industrial production to the east of the residential center is redesigned as a large plain production park within which via Stelvio dissolves into a green parkway.

A longitudinal view of the Valley Large mobility infrastructures and local and territorial centralities

A transversal look at the Valley

The two alpine sides and the paths of relationship

Masterplan

The island of culture.

Inside the island of culture, near the historic centre, a small project building signals the presence of a new underground car park and houses, on the ground floor, a cycle-workshop and, on the upper floor, an info.point and a tourism promotion centre. Outside, a skate-park that folds into the facade as a climbing surface builds a physical connection with the sports hall opposite. this building-parking device represents a place of modal interchange that allows you to park and move on foot or by bicycle along the Bitto or towards the historic centre.

The urban epicenter, a permeable space above via Stelvio.

The idea of transformation alongside the Iperal supermarket is rethought in its urban characteristics to allow for greater transversal permeability. The configuration and presence on the ground floor of service and commercial activities guarantee a central role and at the same time a high traversability character. the buildings articulate their heights according to a grammar that aims to orientate the movement and build a recognizable urban front.

A new entrance to the Auditorium.

The project for Piazza Sant’Antonio envisages the construction of a tree-lined front which serves as a new facade for the Auditorium. within this tree-lined strip, a pavilion signals access to the building and the underlying parking lot. The project transforms the square into a new entrance device towards the historical centre.

A plain production park.

The first strip of containers houses new functions serving the park and production and is colonized by a series of service equipment at the center of a new parking system to improve accessibility inside the park.

The proposed strategies are implemented through a series of transformation actions that refer to specific physical projects and urban policies. All of these actions build a widespread geography of modification contexts that produce new passages of living and new ways of moving. Via Stelvio enters into a direct relationship with these projects, through actions that aim to transform neighboring contexts, or in a mediated way as a field of resonance with respect to transformations that are not immediately forthcoming.

The Museum

Saragoza, Spain, 2016

The project saw the creation of a museum dedicated to the cinema of Luis Bunuel in the historic center of the city of Zaragoza. The lot is an empty space immersed in the urban fabric of the city, below which the ancient walls of the Spanish city from the Roman era have been found. The area today represents a large urban void that overlooks two squares: a first small square that is currently unused, and the second large ancient square that extends along the cathedral.

The purpose of the design was to give identity to such an uncertain space, creating an introspective museum with strong symbolic connotations, typical of Luis Bunuel’s cinema.

The project had as main references the Danteum of Terragni and the architecture of Peter Zumthor. The project presents itself as a new urban nucleus, which can be used not only as a museum but as a renewed square, the threshold of the museum itself.

The Cultural Center

The project saw the reconstruction of a self-managed multifunctional center for the Approdo dei Calimali, in Fagnano Olona (VA). The purpose of the design was the construction of a multifunctional building dedicated to the members of the association and external users, creating a new aggregation pole accessible throughout the year, providing permanent, safe, comfortable buildings, using sustainable technologies and guaranteeing performance elevated energy. The lot is characterized by a strong reinforced concrete element, a wall that wraps around the entire perimeter in order to protect the site from the frequent flooding of the river that flows a few meters away, the Olona. Therefore the course was divided into three fundamental modules: a photogrammetry module for the analysis of the territory, a structural calculation module and a design module. The project therefore proposed a solution with a steel structure, perimeter walls in sandwich panels, facade cladding in larch wood slats and a green solution on the roof to increase the thermal comfort of the building.

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The course required the rethinking of the Lombard infrastructure system, posing a basic question: what will it be like to move in Lombardy in 2050?

The elaboration of the design vision started from further new necessary questions: what are the roles of the current infrastructures on the territory? What are the weaknesses?

Is the use of highways decreasing? In the future, will this decrease be progressive until it is completely abandoned? And what about rail transport?

Starting from these and other questions, the project saw the abandonment of motorway infrastructures, in a utopian/ dystopian future, in favor of the increased use of the railways. The highways, new elements abandoned on the territory, will be reused as new connection infrastructures between the different cities, using fewer lanes for cars and exploiting the remaining space as cycle paths, green corridors, communication areas, creating new nodes for the activity public and cooperation (shared vegetable gardens, spaces for sport, places for culture).

Can a highway be a habitable space?

Can the highway system become an active cultural circuit?

Can infrastructures be energy collectors?