Over the centuries, Milan has experienced an inexhaustible and continuous succession of transformative processes, that have shaped its image as a city in frenetic change. The renewed international dimension, linked to multifaceted economic and cultural phenomena, is one of the factors behind the current vertiginous growth in demand for real estate and especially housing, with a consequent rise in property values. This scenario has led to a radical transformation of the social composition and architectural heritage of entire neighbourhoods, with the incessant and capillary construction of residences for the upper middle class on areas where until yesterday there were only urban voids or industrial artefacts. Taking up a definition by Vittorio Gregotti who, in reference to the possibilities that open up in redesigning marginal areas, invites us to propose new centralities, which he call the historic centres of the suburbs, this thesis aims, through the instrument of the project, to investigate the theoretical and formal ways in which a peripheral area can assume or reassume a local identity, not in opposition to, but in close dialogue with the city palimpsest. Crescenzago, an ancient village in the Milan area that has been incorporated for a century by the city expansion that has made it one of its districts, represents an emblematic case of an area for which there is no overall planning, but which is experiencing an infinite series of transformations that, when added together, are causing a radical mutation. The large-scale planning strategy aims, through the selection and design of certain areas, to graft a connective element that, without denying the logic of the market, puts space for the community back at the centre where it has been forgotten, recalling the virtuous model of the historical cores still present within a fragmented fabric. On an architectural scale, we are experimenting with a design breakthrough around the theme of the courtyard building, characteristic of Milan but typologically linked to a global context, considered capable of establishing links with the city and at the same time, thanks to the duplicity of its fronts, external and internal, representing a break from it, another place, the centre of a community of citizens and workers rooted in the territory and open to the world.
Milano ha sperimentato, nel corso dei secoli, una successione inesauribile e continua di processi trasformativi che ne hanno plasmato l’immagine di città in frenetico mutamento. La rinnovata dimensione internazionale, legata a fenomeni economici e culturali sfaccettati è tra i fattori alla base dell’attuale vertiginoso aumento della domanda immobiliare e in particolar modo abitativa, con conseguente incremento dei valori immobiliari. Questa realtà ha portato a trasformare radicalmente la composizione sociale ed il patrimonio architettonico di interi quartieri, con l’incessante e capillare realizzazione di residenze per il ceto medio alto laddove fino a ieri vi erano vuoti urbani o manufatti industriali. Riprendendo una definizione di Vittorio Gregotti che, in riferimento alle possibilità che si aprono nel riprogettare aree marginali, invita a proporre nuove centralità1, i centri storici delle periferie, la presente tesi vuole, attraverso lo strumento del progetto, indagare le modalità, teoriche e formali, attraverso le quali un territorio periferico può assumere o riassumere un’identità locale, non in opposizione, ma in stretto dialogo con il palinsesto cittadino. Crescenzago, antico borgo del milanese inglobato da un secolo dall’espansione cittadina che ne ha fatto un quartiere, rappresenta un caso emblematico di un territorio per il quale non esiste una pianificazione complessiva ragionata, ma che sperimenta una serie infinita di trasformazioni che assommate ne stanno provocando una mutazione radicale. La strategia progettuale su ampia scala vuole, attraverso la selezione ed il disegno di piano di alcune aree, innestare un elemento connettivo che, senza rinnegare le logiche di mercato, rimetta al centro lo spazio per la comunità laddove esso è stato dimenticato, richiamandosi al modello virtuoso dei nuclei storici ancora presenti all’interno di un tessuto frammentario. Su scala architettonica si sperimenta un affondo progettuale attorno al tema dell’edificio a corte, caratteristico di Milano ma tipologicamente legato ad un contesto globale, ritenuto capace di instaurare legami con la città ed al contempo, grazie alla duplicità dei suoi fronti, esterni ed interni, rappresentare una pausa da essa, un luogo altro, centro di una comunità di cittadini e lavoratori radicata al territorio e aperta al mondo.
Centralità periferica : progetto per un edificio a corte a Crescenzago
Zadra, Alberto;Viale, Mario Edoardo
2023/2024
Abstract
Over the centuries, Milan has experienced an inexhaustible and continuous succession of transformative processes, that have shaped its image as a city in frenetic change. The renewed international dimension, linked to multifaceted economic and cultural phenomena, is one of the factors behind the current vertiginous growth in demand for real estate and especially housing, with a consequent rise in property values. This scenario has led to a radical transformation of the social composition and architectural heritage of entire neighbourhoods, with the incessant and capillary construction of residences for the upper middle class on areas where until yesterday there were only urban voids or industrial artefacts. Taking up a definition by Vittorio Gregotti who, in reference to the possibilities that open up in redesigning marginal areas, invites us to propose new centralities, which he call the historic centres of the suburbs, this thesis aims, through the instrument of the project, to investigate the theoretical and formal ways in which a peripheral area can assume or reassume a local identity, not in opposition to, but in close dialogue with the city palimpsest. Crescenzago, an ancient village in the Milan area that has been incorporated for a century by the city expansion that has made it one of its districts, represents an emblematic case of an area for which there is no overall planning, but which is experiencing an infinite series of transformations that, when added together, are causing a radical mutation. The large-scale planning strategy aims, through the selection and design of certain areas, to graft a connective element that, without denying the logic of the market, puts space for the community back at the centre where it has been forgotten, recalling the virtuous model of the historical cores still present within a fragmented fabric. On an architectural scale, we are experimenting with a design breakthrough around the theme of the courtyard building, characteristic of Milan but typologically linked to a global context, considered capable of establishing links with the city and at the same time, thanks to the duplicity of its fronts, external and internal, representing a break from it, another place, the centre of a community of citizens and workers rooted in the territory and open to the world.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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https://hdl.handle.net/10589/218396