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A. Del Bo et al.
1 Introduction
The project presented here, carried out within a research framework on abandoned
railway areas in Milano, faces the issue of building an urban part by looking at the
future city with particular attention to the themes of living and to the relationship
with nature.
An important point concerns the identification of an urban structure made up by
blocks not entirely surrounded by roads (located on three sides with the terminals
as cul-de-sac) and directly connected to a large park located in a central position as
an element of organization and order of the whole plan.
1 The structure behaves with
a significant internal traffic reduction and the possibility to reach the park and the
public buildings without crossing roads. The structure of the settlement proposed is
directly referred to the city idea drawn by Ludwig Hilberseimer, of which the project
also offers the characteristic mixed housing typologies (in particular high-rise and
low-rise buildings) able to achieve the required density.
The second element concerns the deep research content of building typological
nature experiments (about which the next interventions deal) and the character of
originality achieved by further examination carried out on the plan and housing
design, with attention also to solutions based on 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 north-west.
In this context, the assumption of the railroad direction as the main reference of
the project guidelines in the north is a relief matter: indeed, the directions expressed
by the dialectic of the different positions constitute a very important point of the
urban project because through them, we tend to express an evaluation on the city and
its constituent parts.
In the northern part of the Dergano–Bovisa area, the high level of disorder represents an element of uncertainty that is difficult to use as a reference, while in the south
(beyond the railways), the confirmation to the Corso Sempione direction constitutes
a substantial adhesion to the prevailing layout of the historical city (Fig. 1).
1 Adalberto Del Bo, La costruzione di un’idea di piano. La nuova città oltre l’isolato, in La Casa,
Milano 2013, a cura di G: Malacarne.
A. Del Bo et al.
1 Introduction
The project presented here, carried out within a research framework on abandoned
railway areas in Milano, faces the issue of building an urban part by looking at the
future city with particular attention to the themes of living and to the relationship
with nature.
An important point concerns the identification of an urban structure made up by
blocks not entirely surrounded by roads (located on three sides with the terminals
as cul-de-sac) and directly connected to a large park located in a central position as
an element of organization and order of the whole plan.
1 The structure behaves with
a significant internal traffic reduction and the possibility to reach the park and the
public buildings without crossing roads. The structure of the settlement proposed is
directly referred to the city idea drawn by Ludwig Hilberseimer, of which the project
also offers the characteristic mixed housing typologies (in particular high-rise and
low-rise buildings) able to achieve the required density.
The second element concerns the deep research content of building typological
nature experiments (about which the next interventions deal) and the character of
originality achieved by further examination carried out on the plan and housing
design, with attention also to solutions based on 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 north-west.
In this context, the assumption of the railroad direction as the main reference of
the project guidelines in the north is a relief matter: indeed, the directions expressed
by the dialectic of the different positions constitute a very important point of the
urban project because through them, we tend to express an evaluation on the city and
its constituent parts.
In the northern part of the Dergano–Bovisa area, the high level of disorder represents an element of uncertainty that is difficult to use as a reference, while in the south
(beyond the railways), the confirmation to the Corso Sempione direction constitutes
a substantial adhesion to the prevailing layout of the historical city (Fig. 1).
1 Adalberto Del Bo, La costruzione di un’idea di piano. La nuova città oltre l’isolato, in La Casa,
Milano 2013, a cura di G: Malacarne.