Cities are complex structures that have forcefully shaped our built environment, the way we configure and inhabit them has drastically changed during this last century. From agricultural heartlands to industrial landscapes, European cities are one of the best examples of quick urban configuration changes in short time. Sesto San Giovanni is the example of this shift in urban morphology, the so called “City of Factories” was once a rural parish on the outskirts of Milan, later becoming the industrial core of Italy, concluding in a distortion of land uses and functions, from extraction areas, to service economy districts and residential zones that creates a dormitory city. Here, its citizens coexist with a strong historical background of rural and industrial identity that is juxtaposed with open air quarries and brownfields left by its former glorious days. Since the 21st century, the city has searched a way in which it can recover abandoned areas with new urban interventions, most of them developed individually without an urban plan and not having a clear view for the future of Sesto, therefore, failing to recover the urban cohesion and social dynamics it once had. For this project, our scope is to find a model that Sesto and other cities can look into, with the goal of stitching the fractured urban tissue left by former industrial | extraction areas. The project proposes the development of Melzi Quarry into a new resilient urban district. The design goal is to bridge the gap between urban and rural tissues and merge them into a new typology of environment, with the aim of improving the connection between city and rural landscapes. Melzi Quarry will be regenerated to stay as a hinge between the Lambro Environment and the city of Sesto San Giovanni.
Le città sono strutture complesse che hanno modellato con forza il nostro ambiente costruito, il modo in cui le configuriamo e le abitiamo è cambiato drasticamente durante questo secolo. Dal cuore agricolo ai paesaggi industriali, le città europee sono uno dei migliori esempi di cambiamenti nella configurazione urbana in breve tempo. Sesto San Giovanni è l'esempio di questo cambiamento, la cosiddetta "Città delle fabbriche" era un vilaggio rurale alla periferia di Milano, divenendo poi il nucleo industriale d'Italia, concludendosi in uno stravolgimento degli usi e delle funzioni del suolo, dalle zone di estrazione, all'economia dei servizi e alle zone residenziali che creano una città dormitorio. Qui, i suoi cittadini convivono con un forte background storico di identità rurale e industriale che sono giustapposti a cave a cielo aperto e aree dismesse ricordati dai suioi glorioso pasato. A partire dal XXI secolo, la città ha cercato un modo per recuperare aree abbandonate con nuovi interventi urbani, la maggior parte sviluppati senza un piano urbanistico e non avendo una visione chiara per il futuro di Sesto, non riuscendo a recuperare la coesione urbana e le dinamiche sociali che aveva una volta. Per questo progetto, lo scopo è trovare un modello che Sesto e altre città possano esaminare, con l'obiettivo di ricucire il tessuto urbano fratturato lasciato dall'ex industriale | aree di estrazione. Il progetto propone la valorizzazione della Cava Melzi in un nuovo quartiere urbano resiliente. L'obiettivo del progetto è colmare il divario tra tessuti urbani e rurali e fonderli in una nuova tipologia di ambiente, con l'obiettivo di migliorare la connessione tra città e paesaggi rurali.
Re-morphing landscapes. The urban transformation of the Melzi quarry in Sesto San Giovanni
Argenzio, Giancarlo;Shen, Zhilin
2019/2020
Abstract
Cities are complex structures that have forcefully shaped our built environment, the way we configure and inhabit them has drastically changed during this last century. From agricultural heartlands to industrial landscapes, European cities are one of the best examples of quick urban configuration changes in short time. Sesto San Giovanni is the example of this shift in urban morphology, the so called “City of Factories” was once a rural parish on the outskirts of Milan, later becoming the industrial core of Italy, concluding in a distortion of land uses and functions, from extraction areas, to service economy districts and residential zones that creates a dormitory city. Here, its citizens coexist with a strong historical background of rural and industrial identity that is juxtaposed with open air quarries and brownfields left by its former glorious days. Since the 21st century, the city has searched a way in which it can recover abandoned areas with new urban interventions, most of them developed individually without an urban plan and not having a clear view for the future of Sesto, therefore, failing to recover the urban cohesion and social dynamics it once had. For this project, our scope is to find a model that Sesto and other cities can look into, with the goal of stitching the fractured urban tissue left by former industrial | extraction areas. The project proposes the development of Melzi Quarry into a new resilient urban district. The design goal is to bridge the gap between urban and rural tissues and merge them into a new typology of environment, with the aim of improving the connection between city and rural landscapes. Melzi Quarry will be regenerated to stay as a hinge between the Lambro Environment and the city of Sesto San Giovanni.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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