Navigli + Milano

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The project is located in an undeveloped area but shows evident signs of previous activities. The existing buildings adjacent to the intervention area are heterogeneous, composed of various building fabrics that have settled over different periods. The proposed project, which meets the requirements of the technical standards and the forecasts of the PGT (Territorial Governance Plan), involves the construction of two buildings (hereinafter referred to as Building 1 and Building 2) of different shapes and planimetric sizes. Building 1 is tasked with creating a continuous front along the Naviglio; this elongated rectangular building occupies almost 100% of the side of the lot on which it stands. Building 2, attached to the narrow front of Building 1, is responsible for reconstructing over 50% of the curtain wall on the street perpendicular to the canal. The new building volumes, contained in height and land occupation, serve as a backdrop and crown for the small private park that occupies the remaining area of the lot. Here, for the landscaping of the green area, only natural materials with a high permeability coefficient, such as grass, wood, trees, gravel, etc., are used. The green and built project, in essence, fits into the cultural trend that today finds in the design of private space and the use of natural and eco-sustainable materials, ways to avoid being trapped in essentially outdated construction typologies. The starting point of the architectural project is a reference to Milanese rationalist architecture, from which to define a new contemporary language characterized by linear and essential elements.

PROJECT DATA

CLIENT:   Private
TYPOLOGY:   residential
STATUS:   In progress
PLACE:   Milano
SUP:   2855 Mq
VOL:   — Mc
APPART. NUMB.:   60
PARKING PLACES:   30

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Rigenerazione Urbana + Milano

The project area is included in the Urban Renewal Sector – ARU. The ARU are parts of cities undergoing transformation, consisting mainly of productive areas with adjoining tertiary parts linked to small production, interspersed with sporadic presence of residential buildings. The aggregation of these types generates an uneven and disaggregated building fabric, devoid of urban references, in which it is difficult to intervene with a "regulatory" project of reference for the surrounding spaces. In this specific case, the small border public park was considered as a reference element and "regulator". We intervene on a particularly frayed building fabric without particular architectural references, in an area of small size that does not allow to significantly affect the context. For this reason, we said, it was decided to enhance the existing public space through the "visual" expansion of the green space, creating a wide strip of private green as an expansion of the park itself, a minimal fence without solid masonry parts and an open ground floor with large full-height windows that expands and gives depth to the space itself. At the planimetric level, as already mentioned, the building is located parallel to the major axis of the urban public garden, leaving the latter the role of catalyst of the whole intervention. In its vertical development the building reveals all its particularity. A volume made visually light by the sinuous lines of the balconies, which enhance the best perspective views on each floor and shape each house differently. Each floor is designed according to its orientation and reserves maximum comfort for its inhabitants. The sinuous balconies, between transparencies and opaque parts offer important outdoor spaces. The pre-painted iron parapets interrupt the gentle curves of the concrete at various points to allow the user to appreciate the private green and the park. Each apartment in the scheme, therefore, has access to an outdoor terrace that generally borders the living room and which acts as a multiplier of space and comfort of the housing unit. These generous outdoor spaces, real outdoor living rooms, connect private areas in search of harmony between the urban world and the natural environment.Great attention has been paid to the continuous LED lighting of the facades, recessed in the false ceiling of the balconies, follows their own sinuous course, reinforcing the role of urban landmark, even at night, of the intervention. PROJECT DATA CLIENT:   Private TYPOLOGY:   residential STATUS:   In progress PLACE:   Milano SUP:   --- Mq VOL:   --- Mc APPART. NUMB.:   25 PARKING PLACES:   25