Nature and Mixed Types Architecture
for Milano Farini
Adalberto Del Bo, Maria Vittoria Cardinale, Martina Landsberger,
Stefano Perego, Giampaolo Turini and Daniele Beacco
Abstract The project presented here, carried out within a research framework on
abandoned railways areas in Milano, faces the issues of building an urban part by
looking at the future city with particular attention to the themes of living into the
relationship with nature. The project, starting from the analysis of the urban role of
the area, gives relevance to the main directions built by the city construction and
to the north-west direction of the city expansion. A central importance is given to
the park as primary element of the urban structure made up by blocks not entirely
surrounded by roads fostering a significant internal traffic reduction. The second element concerns the deep research content of building typological natural experiments
and the character of originality achieved by further examination carried out on the
plan and housing design, with attention also to the solution based on the typological
contamination. The park displacement in the plan central area is the decisive event of
the project in relation to the urban reference scheme of which persist the main lines
and the urban step rhythm, considered the most significant architectural elements
along with the twin towers located in north-west. The studies on the patio-houses
settlement and on the multi-storey linear building enrich the variety of building forms
and characters together with the design of the mosque as element of a multicultural
and open new city.
Keywords Nature · Mixed types · Urban composition · Continuity · Tradition
A. Del Bo (B) · M. Landsberger · D. Beacco
Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering—ABC Department, Politecnico di
Milano, Milan, Italy
e-mail: Adalberto.delbo@polimi.it
M. V. Cardinale · S. Perego · G. Turini
Milan, Italy
© The Author(s) 2020
S. Della Torre et al. (eds.), Regeneration of the Built Environment
from a Circular Economy Perspective, Research for Development,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33256-3_16
159
for Milano Farini
Adalberto Del Bo, Maria Vittoria Cardinale, Martina Landsberger,
Stefano Perego, Giampaolo Turini and Daniele Beacco
Abstract The project presented here, carried out within a research framework on
abandoned railways areas in Milano, faces the issues of building an urban part by
looking at the future city with particular attention to the themes of living into the
relationship with nature. The project, starting from the analysis of the urban role of
the area, gives relevance to the main directions built by the city construction and
to the north-west direction of the city expansion. A central importance is given to
the park as primary element of the urban structure made up by blocks not entirely
surrounded by roads fostering a significant internal traffic reduction. The second element concerns the deep research content of building typological natural experiments
and the character of originality achieved by further examination carried out on the
plan and housing design, with attention also to the solution based on the typological
contamination. The park displacement in the plan central area is the decisive event of
the project in relation to the urban reference scheme of which persist the main lines
and the urban step rhythm, considered the most significant architectural elements
along with the twin towers located in north-west. The studies on the patio-houses
settlement and on the multi-storey linear building enrich the variety of building forms
and characters together with the design of the mosque as element of a multicultural
and open new city.
Keywords Nature · Mixed types · Urban composition · Continuity · Tradition
A. Del Bo (B) · M. Landsberger · D. Beacco
Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering—ABC Department, Politecnico di
Milano, Milan, Italy
e-mail: Adalberto.delbo@polimi.it
M. V. Cardinale · S. Perego · G. Turini
Milan, Italy
© The Author(s) 2020
S. Della Torre et al. (eds.), Regeneration of the Built Environment
from a Circular Economy Perspective, Research for Development,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33256-3_16
159