BOVISA POROSA

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BOVISA POROSA/ INHABITED BRIDGE OVER RAIL TRACKS IN BOVISA

The Bovisa station presents a large barrier in connectivity between two parts of Bovisa. It was built in the 1990ies as an enclosed shed above the tracks, with a difficult access, blind walls towards the surroundings and too large waiting area. With a wrongly positioned above the rail station entrance platform, which is connected with tiny stairs and ramps down to large parking areas adjacent to it, the station area embodies a heavy physical obstacle.
Can this barrier and obstacle become a catalyst for transformation of the Bovisa district?
The studio identifies and concentrates interventions to the most crucial point in the area: the station and the parking areas on the east and the west side. The studio proposes a dense hybrid structure, an inhabited bridge which spans over the tracks and on multi levels connects both sides of the Politecnico Bovisa campus, houses the train station, adjacent public facilities, offices and student dormitories.
The new inhabited bridge above the rail tracks is porous structure which enables a smooth transition of residences, students and visitors from both sides of Bovisa to the station. A mixture of different activities inside and outside will attract both residents and stoppers by on the way from Malpensa to Milano central.

The studio develops the new Bovisa inhabited bridge as a series of porous spatial sequences which can be appropriated for different activities and usage. These spatial sequences will generate publicness, a public character of the BOVISA POROSA.

These spatial sequences will enrich LIVING IN THE PERIPHERIA.

The studio’s work is process based, organized in 4 steps. Each step presents a concluded work. At the same time, it informs the following step.

The studio work was processed in seven groups of 3 to 4 students. Instructions to each of 4 steps were given.

STEP 1: MAPPING/IMAGE BANK REFERENCES

Step 1 has two phases: mapping of the site and building up image bank of the references

The entire Bovisa site around two Politecnico campuses was divided into seven areas. Each group photographed 50-100 m sequences of their specific areas, without defining hierarchies of photographed objects.

The image bank of seven typological categories was built up to facilitate a connection between the studio task and spatial prototype of the step 2.
The seven categories are:
– transportation hub
– inhabited bridges
– elevated plazas
– inhabited infrastructure
– passages/gallerias
– entry ways

A description of particular spatial situations of each reference category was conducted in order to connect them to spatial issues on the site in Bovisa.

STEP 2: PROTOTYPES

The studio took architectural porosity as a guiding spatial principle to develop interventions on the Bovisa station area. Why? For the time being, this area has no porosity and therefore movement and experience is interrupted and broken.

Based on principles of architectural porosity 7 different prototypes were defined as a tool to develop new spatial situations on the site of Bovisa.

A series of working models were produced which explore spatial potential of porosity of each prototype.

The seven prototypes are:
TRAJECTORIES

PERFORATED SLABS

FRAMES

DEEP WALL

SHELLS

FOLDED SURFACE

STACKED BARS

STEP 3: PROTOTYPES/SITE/USE

The seven prototypes were than tested on the Bovisa station site.
A new series of working models were produced, taking into account specificity of the site: size, dimension and accesses, orientation…

Implemented on the site, the testing provides a ground to link the spatial prototypes to the actual issues on the Bovisa site.
Activities and use were appropriated to testing models.

TRAJECTORIES

PERFORATED SLABS

FRAMES

DEEP WALL

SHELLS

FOLDED SURFACE

STACKED BARS

STEP 4: BOVISA SLICED

First, a big diagram model in 1:250 demonstrates a structure of the BOVISA POROSA INHABITED BRIDGE over the tracks.
It consists of three volumes: a new rail station concourse volume, turned perpendicular to the existing rail station, the office volume which spans above in the same direction as rail tracks are. A proposed campus dormitory follows direction of the station volume and creates a strong visual connection of both sides of Bovisa.

Second, the diagram model was sliced into 6 sections of the same width. (E1, E2, R1, R2, W1, W2). The six slices were developed into 6 sectional models in 1:100, merging different spatial prototypes.

The six slices present new spatial and usage potential of the Bovisa station site. There are six different architectural objects which can either smoothly transition to the adjacent section or be coherently developed through entire station site.

Additionally, a big model in 1:250 was built. Its massing present connectivity between the east and the west part of Bovisa.

 

PAULO DAVID_build in time | exhibition day

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THURSDAY_25.01.2018

until the end_PANEL PREPARATION

‘It was our exhibition day and we were really excited to show what we have done during these 10 days. As a group we had a really fine time together. The class worked all together to make just 1 project and ours is the one that had all of the layouts finished.’
We thank you much for gathering us together and being with us in this journey. It was a pleasure working with professor and also with you.’

thanks to şiir duygu şir and zeynep albas for the eachday feedbacks

 

until the end_EXHIBITION space 15.30

   

until the end_EXHIBITION AND PRESENTATION 16.00

 

the end_EXHIBITION AND PRESENTATION 18.00

 

‘We would like to thank all the students for the strong participation and contribution, It was a pleasure to work together for a common project’                              Paulo, Giulia, Angela

 

PAULO DAVID_build in time | second week

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MONDAY_22.01.2018

until the end_BRAINSTORMING -3

‘ The day started with a big revision and we printed everything we had for that day. We discussed about the recent design ideas and there was some disconnection about the ideas because we were too much people to decide on one project. Everyone told their ideas and with the help of the professor we came up with some new ideas. We drew some sketches and tried to combine the different opinions. Since it is the final day for concluding the design according to the schedule, we immediately started drawings.’

 

TUESDAY_23.01.2018

until the end_GRAPHIC TESTS -2

‘This is the deadline of our project for our masterplan. After all the groups checked the plan again, we started coloring the masterplan and checking the surrounding buildings with their shadows. We had 2 3 different coloring techniques and different types of textures to select one of them.’

 

WEDNESDAY_24.01.2018

until the end_MUNICIPALITY AND DEAN’S VISIT -1

‘We started coloring the masterplan according to our group discussions and it took our whole day. At the end of the day we had our final layout with the final printings and we started to discuss about how to hang them for the exhibition.’

 

thanks to şiir duygu şir and zeynep albas for the eachday feedbacks

PAULO DAVID_build in time | weekend

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SATURDAY_20.01.2018

ON WORKING

‘It was Saturday so some of the groups were in the class. During the morning we took a revision from the professor and after that we worked whole day.’

SUNDAY_21.01.2018

MODEL

‘We took the day of and worked from home. We combine the analysis of the photo group with our diagrams to mention all green areas around the site. Also we tried to figure out the boarders of the areas in order to help the design of the project.’

 

PAULO DAVID_build in time | first week

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SECOND DAY_16.01.2018

SITE SURVEY _ SCUDERIE DI MONTEL

A SPEED TALK_PAULO DAVID + GEI BRENDELAND + GENNARO POSTIGLIONE

‘The day started with the field trip. We took photos and videos of the Scuderie and the  surrounding area. The professor gave us some information about the site, relations of the buildings and how to think through the project. In the afternoon we discuss about the photos that we took and what we think important about the site in urban context. It was really helpful to understand what people think, in order to have one project at the end of the workshop.’

 

THIRD DAY_17.01.2018

A PROCESS STUDIO_WHAT THE PLACE ASKS FOR

‘We divided into three groups as model making, photos and video, drawings. It was a helpful choice to have this kind of grouping for the improvement of the project and finish it in the expected time. We were in the drawing group and we were responsible for the schemes and diagrams. We found the chance to work on something that we enjoy. After dividing into groups and figure out what to do, all teams came together and discussed about the general ideas and which information to collect. We worked on it through the day.’

FOURTH DAY_18.01.2018

A PROCESS STUDIO_TOPICS/QUESTIONS

‘We all decided about the boundaries of the project area and then we worked on the model of the site. We used different programs to have a clean base to see all connections of the green and problems of the San Siro area. After modeling we had a clean base to work on the diagrams. We had a group meeting about what to include in the analysis of the site. Through the day while we were working on the Photoshop, our group found some references and examples about the project.’

 

FIFTH DAY_19.01.2018

PLAN PROJECT GROUP

VIDEO EDITING GROUP

MODEL GROUP

‘We started the day with a discussion and give a break to join the design team. After deciding on some ideas, on the whole day we finished the urban diagrams of the existing project area. It was really exciting to have the ideas together with 25 people and interacting with the other groups for the diagrams.’

 

 

 

 

Luis Basabe Montalvo_Making Process Public

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A COLLABORATIVE PLANNING PROCESS FOR SCALO GRECO’S URBAN REDEVELOPMENT

MIAW 2018 – MAKING PROCESS PUBLIC

THE CITY IS A PROCESS, and not a mere product. The city is furthermore a mesh of divergent processes, led by a big range of actors, which follow different directions, interests and values. It can be understood as an intense battlefield, in which different factions of capital, politics and institutions try to spatialize their concurrent power projects, but in which also disempowered citizenship and democracy have a chance to flourish.

In that sense, the city is too complicated to be “designed” as a result. Authorship does not seem to be the proper tool for the definition of large and complex urban environments, and architects, urban designers and planners have to rethink their role in the production of urbanity, in order to allow A BIG RANGE OF STAKEHOLDERS – public body, real estate developers and investors with different scales, co-ops and communities, and also citizens- into the urban negotiation. Only a city, which can be produced by all, can be really democratic.

The conventional apparatus of architecture and planning appears as highly inadequate to deal with such a complex system as the contemporary city has become. Product and object oriented, it fails to describe a reality, which has much more to do with processes and relations than with results. We need NEW TOOLS, able to describe and transform the production rather than the products, and the processes rather than the objects. We need new models, able to represent the different actors’ visions and interests, and to manage their intense negotiations on this new urban arena. Continue reading →

Sebastian Adamo_Living Market

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Material culture, consumption and  indeterminacy in the contemporary city

  1. Hypothesis.

We are quite clear about what kinf of food, supplies or clothing will go along with us the rest of our days, but we can not determine with certainty where or how we will reach them… The indeterminacy, precisely, has been slowly advancing on everything we had learned about the commercial exchange space. The speed with which our object system undergoes format changes without physical presence forces us to imagine new scenarios. The image associated with the market or its typological correlate has lost weight at the same time as the activities it contains have diversified. Its organization has stopped responding to a functional program -now overflowing and unstable- and its projection over time has been relativized until to the moment that having a market for a single type of consumption is no longer as reassuring as it used to be.

  1. Objectives.

The workshop “Living Market.” will be the ambit where these transformations will boost the construction of a new agenda for the trade space, thus obliging us to review the extent to which our project tools are still valid. The city -understood as the ideal laboratory where to test this notion of habitat- will be the area of ​​essay that will dialogue with these transformations.

  1. Exercise.

A building will be projected on the site where today the Gorla Market resides, a neighborhood in Milan that begins a process of incorporating new programs by opening up to the possibility of modifying its identity. It will not work as a building with a single programmatic purpose, it can be a market and -at the same time- much more. We will only project a property: a construction that is denominated in its notarial terms and not through its programs or functions. This kind of zero degree imposed as a starting point will aim to facilitate the appearance of unexpected uses and social groupings.