Laboratory abstract

Over recent years our design laboratory, under the common title “OPEN NEIGHBORHOODS. For a genetic evolution of the urban metabolism”, seeks to read, interpret and rethink the contemporary value of the “Interior Design” discipline exploring the vast “open” field of design research related to the deepest and most erratic characters of inhabiting spaces. The subject of the NEW INTERIORS 1 Studio (A.A. 2020/2021), titled “Marchiodi Proximity”, was the historic complex of the Istituto Marchiondi, designed by Vittoriano Viganò in 1953-57. A masterpiece of 20th century architectural history, placed under the protection of the Superintendence of Monumental Heritage, but which has been in a state of total abandonment for decades. The theme of the project starts from the idea of “regenerating” - and thus revalorizing and re-functionalizing - the Marchiondi, accepting its fascinating state of “archaeological ruin” and working around this monument, creating original and stimulating spaces of proximity between art and social fruition, with the aim of activating a new cultural pole of international level in the Baggio milanese district.

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Project Description

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MCC | MARCHIONDI COMMUNITY CIRCUIT

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Course: New Interiors 1 (Section A)

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Academic Year: 2020/2021

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Professors: Giampiero Bosoni, Chiara Lecce, Giovanni Levanti

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Tutors: Antonio Aiello, Mara Elisa Cecchi, Lucia Frescaroli

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Partners: Archivio Vittoriano Viganò

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Students: Irene Bassi, Giorgia Zin

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The project focuses on reconnecting the ruins of the former Marchiondi Institute, a famous work by Architect Vittoriano Viganò, to the urban fabric of Milan, involving the Baggio district, where it resides. Thanks to an operation of reclamation of the surrounding area, the Marchiondi comes back to life. The aim of the project is to create a new fulcrum of interest, where the fusion of ruins, contemporary art and nature finds space, in a single element, that attracts curiosity, guides observation and induces discovery. The project emerges thanks to the red color, which becomes strongly characterizing, outlining a graphic sign that stands out among the vegetation. The operation is designed to integrate with the aging process of the architecture; the vegetation, with the passage of time, will appropriate the design elements, designed specifically for this to happen.

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