PROGRAM

The studio will focus on the zone 2.1 “Ex-Piazza d’Armi, Caserma Santa Barbara” as one of the “Ambiti di trasformazione urbana” in the program “Ripensare Milano“.

During the work, students have to focus on the place features and its relationship to the city of Milan, and its urban structure, ad different scales in order to create new urban strategies to improving the existing city. For this reason, they have to take in account all those elements (constraints and suitability of transformation; urban catalysis, land uses, connectivity; nature in the city (Parks?); urban mobility; mixed uses and architecture; urban interactions and livability, public life and planning tools) that influence contemporary regeneration programs. On the first week and in parallel with common and group sessions, discussions and forum, some brief lessons will provide to students conceptual bases of Urban Design (How to increase urban sustainability by design?, Which is the relationship between city planning and nature?) and some debates about specific aspects (public space treatment, urban density or hybrid typologies, etc.).