Periferie d'autore. Il quartiere Feltre a Milano 1961-2019

Over the past two years the City of Milan has demonstrated an increasing interest as regards the suburbs, reaching in 2017 the definition of a specific plan, Piano Periferie, located in five areas within the City, then become ambiti prioritari PP of the latest and wider Piano Quartieri, developed in 2018. Given the presence of multiple diverse factors, we assumed as necessary to explore these delicate sites, going over the concept of suburbs through time and afterwards pointing out 20th century author architecture and neighborhoods, making the intersection of these examples with the boundaries defined by the urban planning. This phase led to the creation of the Periferie d’autore map, using a geographic information system GIS, that enabled to gather and classify data and documentary materials concerning each of the indicated architecture and neighborhoods. The outcomes of this large-scale study proved to be useful for identifying the specific case study, Quartiere Ina-Casa in via Feltre, designed between 1957 and 1961 thanks to the cooperation of many teamworks featuring famous architects such as Gino Pollini (coordinator) and Luigi Figini, Ignazio Gardella, Luciano Baldessari, Giancarlo De Carlo, Vittorio Gregotti, Mario Terzaghi and Augusto Magnaghi, Mario Bacciocchi, Angelo Mangiarotti and Bruno Morassutti, Tito Varisco Bassanesi, Gianluigi Giordani and Pier Italo Trolli. The residential complex analysis was structured into several way, starting from the examination of the unique achitecture features, the techniques and materials used in the construction phase, considering published and unpublished sources. Meanwhile we proceeded to on-site research, facing with the population through qualitative interviews, showing the current conservation status and retracing the visible transformations referred to the elevations of the buildings. We decided ideed to bring attention to the outside areas since the existing environmental constraint doesn’t seem to have accomplished the intended effects, according to the multiple modifications that have been occurred despite the activation of the protection measure in 2008. In order to enhance the effectiveness of the constraint and reactivate the neighborhood context, we proposed several guidelines referring to a multidisciplinary and different scale based method, which brought to the development of an integrated project. This approach, focused on the interaction of an integrated logic and a uniform direction, that involves citizens and the local authority, could be proposed as a model for future operations within author suburbs areas.