Politecnico di Milano
Scuola di Architettura Civile
P44 | Milano Scalo Farini. The construction of an empty space.
by Giorgia Menozzi / Chiara Oltrasi / Elena Porcari
The architectural concept for the area of Scalo Farini is the urban regeneration of a large area situated in Milan affected by artifacts of the disused railway. The goal of the project was to define a new identity through landscape design following ancient archeological traces. It is located in a strategic position on the Expo-Garibaldi axis and has a high level of infrastructure. The project demonstrates how it is possible to address the issue of urban design from the issue of the residential settlement, made from sustainable equitable distribution of the builders’ indices. Typological elements of the urban tradition -street, square, block, building- in a process of critical review of these same elements, reinterpreted in new functions and changing urban conditions, civil and functional. Lo Scalo is a large gap in the geometric pattern of Beruto city plan. The project declines the theme to live on the boundary line, where the city confronts the countryside. Two large structures insist on the central void of the park. A continuous fence defines the shape of the block between Via Valtellina and Via Aprica. Inside,villas develop according to the arrangement of the soil of the park. On the opposite side a neighborhood connects the blocks that insist on both sides of the Scalo. The buildings are set on the slopes of a filler that allows the railroad to overpass. At the center of the architectural concept there is the park, built in continuity with the field of the Monumental Cemetery. The soil is divided into inclined planes that slope down towards the center to get a point of view that is far from the city.
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Giorgia Menozzi lived in a small city in the north of Italy where she was born in 1986 until she was 19 years-old, when she moved to Milan to study Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. In the October 2011 she graduated with full marks (110 cum laude). Her thesis project won the First Prize at the Mantero Award. After the University, she started to work as a freelancer, preferring interior design projects. At the moment she works with an architecture office linked to a construction company, developing residential projects and supervising the construction works up to handing over the keys to the clients. This activity gave her the possibility to understand the clients' wishes and figure our the way to improve their live in a home. Her best reward is to see them satisfied.
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Chiara Oltrasi was born in Lodi on June 24th, 1985. Her basic studies focused on arts so she graduated from an artistic High-School in 2004. Passion and love about architecture led her to pursue studies in this field, so she received a master’s degree in Architecture with top grade from the Politecnico di Milano. It was 2011. Her thesis focused on the urban regeneration of a brownfield site, called Scalo Farini, situated in Milan. The goal was to define a new identity through landscape design following ancient archeological traces. This project won the “Premio Mantero” award as the best thesis of that academic year. After graduating, she begun to collaborate with some Italian architects focusing mainly on residential themes’ recovering into historical context.
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Elena Porcari was born in Genoa on August 4th, 1986. She graduated from a scientific High-School in 2005, but her passion for art, painting, drawing and, most of all, architecture led her to pursue studies in this field. In 2011 she graduated with a master’s degree in Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano with full marks (110 cum laude). Her thesis focused on the urban regeneration of a big area in Milan, Scalo Farini. This project won the “Premio Mantero” award as the best thesis of the academic year. After graduating, she begun to collaborate with a studio in Milan where they focus on interior architectural concepts, but also on design and design management projects for very important companies in Italy. This experience gives her the possibility to deeper understanding various fields of art.
Scuola di Architettura Civile
P44 | Milano Scalo Farini. The construction of an empty space.
by Giorgia Menozzi / Chiara Oltrasi / Elena Porcari
The architectural concept for the area of Scalo Farini is the urban regeneration of a large area situated in Milan affected by artifacts of the disused railway. The goal of the project was to define a new identity through landscape design following ancient archeological traces. It is located in a strategic position on the Expo-Garibaldi axis and has a high level of infrastructure. The project demonstrates how it is possible to address the issue of urban design from the issue of the residential settlement, made from sustainable equitable distribution of the builders’ indices. Typological elements of the urban tradition -street, square, block, building- in a process of critical review of these same elements, reinterpreted in new functions and changing urban conditions, civil and functional. Lo Scalo is a large gap in the geometric pattern of Beruto city plan. The project declines the theme to live on the boundary line, where the city confronts the countryside. Two large structures insist on the central void of the park. A continuous fence defines the shape of the block between Via Valtellina and Via Aprica. Inside,villas develop according to the arrangement of the soil of the park. On the opposite side a neighborhood connects the blocks that insist on both sides of the Scalo. The buildings are set on the slopes of a filler that allows the railroad to overpass. At the center of the architectural concept there is the park, built in continuity with the field of the Monumental Cemetery. The soil is divided into inclined planes that slope down towards the center to get a point of view that is far from the city.
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