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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To be Continuum

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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: Serena Bucchi, Carlotta del Prato, Federica Andrea Ferrari

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The project “To be Continuum” draws its origins from the theme of the archaeology of the modern by examining the theme of the set up horizon. The project, through collaborations with foundations and art galleries, is aimed at the creation of semi-open spaces to accommodate exhibition systems and museum works. The main purpose of the project is in fact to offer the world of culture new spaces where they can express themselves and discover the Marchiondi building through the coexistence of other activities. “To be continuum” integrates into the pre-existing vegetation without altering too much the balance through a temporary design intervention.

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