Laboratory abstract

Over recent years our design studio titled "Open Neighborhoodsseeks" seeks to read, interpret and rethink a specific value of “Interior and Spatial Design”, exploring the vast “open” field of design research related to the deepest and most erratic characters of inhabiting spaces. A wide field, understood in all its extensions, which are probably in the origins of city and territory changings. Such research process has had, during the time, a constant matrix developing (by different shapes, prospects and places), a concept of interior spaces “refunctionalization”, in a contest that we defined of “genetic evolution of the urban metabolism”. Specifically, the NEW INTERIORS 2 Studio (A.A. 208/19) dealt with the complex issue of reunificating through temporary bridges (dry prefabricated structures), those districts "split" by the immense areas of the abandoned Milanese railway yards (specifically Scalo Farini, Porta Romana and Porta Genova) and currently under recovery. From this point of view "TO BRIDGE" emerged as a synonym of "connection", where the theme of the “crossing” was declined by the students in many ways of living and telling the bridge. In fact, the projects deal with different themes: from the urban cultivation to the suspended park, from the synesthetic experience to the narrative space of a neighborhood.

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Project Description

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YoUtopia

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Course: Contest Design Studio (Section I1)

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Academic Year: 2019/2020

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Professors: Giampiero Bosoni, Chiara Lecce, Ico Migliore

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Tutors: Marta Elisa Cecchi, Rossella Forioli, Lucia Frescaroli

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Partner: Direzione urbanistica del comune di Milano

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Students: Mariam Chigvinadze, Daniela Cisotto, Deborah Guerini, Giordana Lucia Pulvirenti

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Scalo Farini, the largest railway yard in Milan, looks like an abandoned place, a black hole, which lives only thanks to the frequent passage of trains to the Porta Garibaldi station. The objective of the “YoUtopia” bridge is to bring the area back to life creating a great machine capable of creating energy. Through a system of towers with impressive shapes, each of them equipped with renewable energy technologies able to store the energy and transform it into electricity. The energy produced during the day can be monitored through an application, which will show in real time the number of watts produced. Energy can be used to recharge mobile phones in the appropriate areas, or electric cars and especially to illuminate the bridge at night. In fact, from the early evening hours, thanks to LEDs placed on the structure, it will be possible to see the lights gradually switching on the central square and along the entire bridge.

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