Architecture urban design landscape

architecture urban design landscape
the core of the studio is the PROJECT intended as a
THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL PATH oriented to a specific theme of DESIGN in the
CONTEMPORARY FRAGILE LANDSCAPES
CULTURAL BACKGROUND
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Within a complex urban reality and its large landscape and territorial potentials, «using» the occasion of 2026 Olympic Games, the Studio will work on the main goals consisting in the
construction of an architectural and urban resilient system,
able to react at the fragile and critic contemporary conditions
The project is intended as a multifunctional organism;
Focused on the relationship between construction (structure) and composition (figure);
It is Interpreted according to the different frameworks of forms, materials, uses and connections;
It is Integrated among open, relational and built-up spaces.
The project area: Milano, Porta Romana
[ 45°26’38’’ N, 09°12’20’’]
RESILIENT LANDSCAPES INFRASTRUCTURES
AND PUBLIC SPACES

2026 Olympic Games

THE SITE OF THE OLIMPYC GAMES IN MILAN:
PORTA ROMANA RAILWAY YARD

PORTA ROMANA IN THE URBAN CONTEXT AND
THE RING OF THE RAILWAYSYARDS SYSTEM

Milan: General Map of rail yards system

MILANO: PLAN OF RELATIONSHIPS
SEQUENCE O F THRESHOLDS AND PROJECT AREAS
Milan PROJECT AREA: Porta Romana railway yard
A RELATIONAL APPROACH

Milan PROJECT AREA:
Porta Romana railway yard
The site of the intervention is defined by the Porta Romana railway station, an urban ‘gap' that today we can read simultaneously in two ways:
1. As an extended void recognizable in relationship with the surroundings, which we can interpret, as a ‘place' in a state of abandonment and awaiting new transformation;
2. An 'internal’ limit between the most consolidated part of the city to the north and the peri-urban part to the south, corresponding to what was once the first suburbs.
Both of these conditions make us recognize this place as a significant 'threshold' of the city, no longer as punctual as the ancient ‘gate', but as an 'extended threshold', a dilated limit capable of expressing itself as a potential place for future modification .
Background: Milan today – 1/25000

STRUCTURE
Railway
Road
Water system
Green belt
Built area

The figure and the Background: the project area in Milan– 1/10000
Project Area: railway yard at the Porta Romana (Roman gate)
As it appears in the image, the intervention area is located in a strategic point of the city, at the crossroad between the radial Corso di Porta Romana, the ancient ‘decuman’, and the external ring way, one of the main roads of the city's structural system.
It is a place of interference and encounter between the dense and consolidated fabric of the 'central' city and the more heterogeneous and rarefied settlement of the Modern city (20th century). Here the 'resistant' axes of the urban structure meet with the traces of the surviving agricultural systems, which in the south appear again as an integral part of the settlement system

The rail yard of Porta Romana in the system of the main urban connections
Bird's-eye view: the image shows the relationship between the project area and the city's radiocentric structural system and highlights, according to the south-east / north-west axis, the sequence of recognizable and remarkable places: the railway yard , the Porta Romana gate, the Cathedral, the Sforzesco Castle, the Sempione arch and City life.

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The image shows the system of the three large implants existing in the quadrant taken into consideration:
1- The yard of Porta Romana, 20th century, crossed by the route of the railway line, with a passing station
2- The Porta Vittoria yard at Noth/east sector, 20th century, with 'head' station
3- The basin of Darsena and the Navigli, XIII century, landing in the city of the Milanese canal system

PLAN OF the main RELATIONSHIPS
Sequences of sections:
intervals, measures and rhythms
The project area therefore presents itself as an extended longitudinal interval, on which different transversal urban 'sections' interfere in sequence, working on specific intervention scales, from the territorial one to the more urban and local one. These sections rhythm the void crossing the railway yard by defining as many intervals and settlement measures, which become important matrices for the configuration of the project system

MILANO PROJECT AREAS AND URBAN A ND INFRASTRUCTURAL CONNECTIONS
Strategies and Settlement Principles

MILANO: PLAN OF RELATIONSHIPS
SEQUENCE O F THRESHOLDS AND PROJECT AREAS
Milan PROJECT AREA: Porta Romana railway yard
Map of recent interventions: 1.Prada Museum, Rem Koolhaas / 2.Fastweb building, Citterio&Viel and partners /
3. Magazzini Generali/ 4. Ex OM Towers, Fuksas /5. Bocconi Building, Sejima/ 6. Bocconi Building,Grafton Architects /
7. Rolex Building, M. Albini
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2b-Olivetti Square, Citterio/Viel, with Carlo Masera, Milano. 2018
1 -Prada Foundation, OMA, Largo Isarco, 2, Milano. 2015
5- Campus Bocconi, SANAA, Via Roberto Sarfatti, Milano. 2020
2a -SYMBIOSIS, Citterio&Viel, Via Adamello, 11, Milano. 2016-18

A look to the past

Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916)
Officine a Porta Romana (1907) /Manufacturing at Porta Romana Gallerie d'Italia. Gallerie d'Italia di Piazza della Scala
In this painting the city, with its commercial and industrial growth, with its evolution in a modern metropolis and with its suburbs, represents a determining factor that preludes to the subsequent futurist poetics.

Porta Romana Gate in the 16th century

HISTORY OF MILAN
Roman walls
Medieval walls
Spanish walls
Outer ring road
Railway system

Milan general map

Roman water system - Ing. Poggi
Milan city water system

III sec. a.C. - XIII secolo d.C
Urban development of the city of Milan

1158
Urban development of the city of Milan

Marco Antonio Baratieri, 1629
The defensive system of the city walls of Milan

1801-Pinchetti
The defensive system of the city walls of Milan and the new castle

1888-Beruto
Urban development of the city of Milan

1911-Pavia, Masera
Urban development of the city of Milan

Milan in the 20th century

Milan in the 20th century

Milan in the 20th century

Green Belt
Green Rays
Abandoned yards
CURRENT POLICY

Green Belt
Green Rays
Abandoned yards
CURRENT POLICY

Green Belt
Green Rays
Abandoned yards
CURRENT POLICY

Urban development of the city of Milan: the railway and the stations in the XXI century

Urban development of the city of Milan: the railway yardsand the administrative boundaries

Milan today – 1/25000

Milan today

Milan today – 1/2000