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(pedestrian, cycling, driveways, etc.) and levels of roads (highway, crossing, local,
zone 30 km/h, etc.), to realize an effective connection with the public urban mobility
systems, and thus to reduce the use of cars in favor of slow mobility systems designed
as greenways. Furthermore, slow mobility and greenways aim at ensuring the interconnection of both urban and local services in order to avoid peripheral conditions
and guarantee the presence of green and collective urban spaces.
The intervention at district scale is also decisive in ensuring the economic sustainability of existing buildings’ energy retrofit interventions. On the other hand, the
district scale is also appropriate to explore interventions that reaffirm the urban identity of peri-urban places. The need to ensure the optimization of the existing buildings
thus involves the relationship with the city, taking into account both functional integrations (the complementarity between housing and facilities, schools, leisure and
commercial activities), urban-scale facilities, and accessibility.
A city is ‘smart’ if the sustainable renewal of the whole promotes a vision of urban,
architectural, and environmental quality that impacts positively on the life quality of
its inhabitants, their sense of belonging, and the resulting urban and civil behaviors
(ISPRA 2015; XI Rapporto ISPRA 2013; UNHS 2009; RETICULA 2013).
2 The Demonstration Areas and Their Historical
Transformation
The demonstration areas of EU-GUGLE belong to a wide urban–rural system in the
southeastern region of Milan, between two strategic areas for urban transformation
(ATU), Porto di Mare and Rogoredo. The areas are endowed with mixed features
ranging from high environmental, heritage and landscape quality, to a segregated
district near a new development area.
The municipality of Milan has identified three buildings on which to apply
retrofitting initiatives with regard to the research project. These are two residential buildings and a school located in two neighboring but clearly distinct areas: a
residential building and a kindergarten in the Rogoredo area, near the transformation
site of the Santa Giulia District and two residential buildings belonging to a single
unit in the Chiaravalle area.
Although the two areas are relatively close, their characteristics and history show
almost opposite developments, transformations, and conditions. The two sites are
now separated by several major infrastructures, such as the southern railway that
also includes the high-speed line and the junction to the east expressway. They are
almost insurmountable infrastructures that highlight the historical division and the
factor of isolation from the center and ‘consolidated city.’ They have developed
according to different logics: Chiaravalle preserved its agricultural characteristics,
while Rogoredo-Santa Giulia became an industrial site.
The historical transformations of the site explain the present characteristics while
providing valuable indications concerning the main criticalities and the possible
points of intervention.
R. Neri and L. A. Pezzetti
(pedestrian, cycling, driveways, etc.) and levels of roads (highway, crossing, local,
zone 30 km/h, etc.), to realize an effective connection with the public urban mobility
systems, and thus to reduce the use of cars in favor of slow mobility systems designed
as greenways. Furthermore, slow mobility and greenways aim at ensuring the interconnection of both urban and local services in order to avoid peripheral conditions
and guarantee the presence of green and collective urban spaces.
The intervention at district scale is also decisive in ensuring the economic sustainability of existing buildings’ energy retrofit interventions. On the other hand, the
district scale is also appropriate to explore interventions that reaffirm the urban identity of peri-urban places. The need to ensure the optimization of the existing buildings
thus involves the relationship with the city, taking into account both functional integrations (the complementarity between housing and facilities, schools, leisure and
commercial activities), urban-scale facilities, and accessibility.
A city is ‘smart’ if the sustainable renewal of the whole promotes a vision of urban,
architectural, and environmental quality that impacts positively on the life quality of
its inhabitants, their sense of belonging, and the resulting urban and civil behaviors
(ISPRA 2015; XI Rapporto ISPRA 2013; UNHS 2009; RETICULA 2013).
2 The Demonstration Areas and Their Historical
Transformation
The demonstration areas of EU-GUGLE belong to a wide urban–rural system in the
southeastern region of Milan, between two strategic areas for urban transformation
(ATU), Porto di Mare and Rogoredo. The areas are endowed with mixed features
ranging from high environmental, heritage and landscape quality, to a segregated
district near a new development area.
The municipality of Milan has identified three buildings on which to apply
retrofitting initiatives with regard to the research project. These are two residential buildings and a school located in two neighboring but clearly distinct areas: a
residential building and a kindergarten in the Rogoredo area, near the transformation
site of the Santa Giulia District and two residential buildings belonging to a single
unit in the Chiaravalle area.
Although the two areas are relatively close, their characteristics and history show
almost opposite developments, transformations, and conditions. The two sites are
now separated by several major infrastructures, such as the southern railway that
also includes the high-speed line and the junction to the east expressway. They are
almost insurmountable infrastructures that highlight the historical division and the
factor of isolation from the center and ‘consolidated city.’ They have developed
according to different logics: Chiaravalle preserved its agricultural characteristics,
while Rogoredo-Santa Giulia became an industrial site.
The historical transformations of the site explain the present characteristics while
providing valuable indications concerning the main criticalities and the possible
points of intervention.