MILAN GALLERIA MANZONI

The Galleria Manzoni, designed by Alziro Bergonzo and built in the late 1940’s, was a hub of primary importance within the city’s film and theater system. In recent years its original urban function has become obsolete. Parallel to the logical and necessary restoration of such a legacy, concerning both material and cultural conservation, there is the urgent need to reestablish the functionality of the Galleria facilities. The design proposal is both respectful of the existing material structures and revolutionary in completely redefining the spatial hierarchies of the building. Through the restoration process, the building becomes an openly inclusive space,…

CITYLIFE URBAN PARK AND TRE TORRI PIAZZA

Citylife is a redevelopment project in the heart of Milan where up until 2005 the City’s Trade Fair operated. After having participated with the team headed by Gustafson Porter, and acclaimed winners, in the 2010 international design competition for the site’s 168,000sqm urban park, One Works was assigned the designing of the Piazza Tre Torri and the adjacent lower level shopping area. The plaza is located in the center of the three tertiary towers along the pedestrian pathway which links Largo Domodossola with the new city park. The double story plaza reveals itself at the two principle levels of…

The CRT Foundation and the OGR of Turin

The dismissed factory Officine Grandi Riparazioni of Turin are a wonderful example of industrial archeology located in a strategic area of the City. Opened in 1878 as a factory for the production and maintenance of locomotives and train compartments, it has remained operative until the 1970s, providing work for thousands of workers and artisans of great ability, holders of a complex and articulate knowledge. It has been dismissed at the beginning of the 1990s, and from 2011 it has held different cultural events. In 2013 the building have been acquired by the syndicated join stock society OGR-CRT, instrumental part…

URBAN PLAN OF MUNICIPALITY OF SARNO

The strategies, defined by structural and pragmatic aspects, that the municipal administration of Sarno wants to employ with the “Piano Urbanistico Comunale” (Urbanistic Municipal Plan), mainly pursue a sustenaible development of the territory and the social community, foreseeing a serie of measures to achieve goals at the same time, like the protection and contextual development of the historical and identity heritage, the mitigation and prevention of natural and anthropic risk factors, the recover and reorganisation of the settlement structure, the definition of a mobility system to be sustainable and intermodal.

The Plan, as landscape-environmental strategic project, offers, for the areas…

CENTRAL AREAS LUINO

“…In Luino there is something inexpressible and spiritual that can not be clothed in words; is something more than the local color, is the mystery of attraction that makes you fall in love with a place that no one can give their reason”

Piero Chiara, Luino, “L’Avvenire del Verbano”, November 30, 1934

After the illusion of infinite growth in the construction industry today, every step, phase and episode involves asking why: the answer, generally, can not come from a single project, but by a system of projects, ideas and policies.

Coming from the north,…

STRATEGIES FOR URBAN REGENERATION

In line with the Action Plan for Sustainable Energy (Paes), the new PRG takes on the containment of land consumption as the driving force for upgrading the energy efficiency and environmental impact of cities.
3 are the strategies for regeneration, defined as a function of the degree of modifiability of different urban areas.

1 Areas of the great transformation
Vast brownfields represent an opportunity to rethink large sections of the city. Here public direction plays an important role in respect of private entrepreneurship: the Plan sets out the objectives of the transformation, together with the equipment required in the public interest as…

THE PROJECT FINANCING OF CORSO DEL POPOLO IN TERNI

Municipality of Terni chose the Project Financing as the most appropriate way to realize the Master plan of the area named “ex Ospedale” along Nera riverside and Corso del Popolo street, projected by Wolfgang Frankl Architect. The site of “Project”, public spaces mostly used as parking and urban viability, is a portion of the historical center of town.

This operation, interesting an area approximately 4 acres large, complete the regeneration of the ancient part of the town, started with the “Piano di ricostruzione” designed by Mario Ridolfi Architect and closely linked with the Corso del Popolo axis, projected by the…

USEAct PROJECT| URBAN SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIONS

The themes of protection of empty land and the reuse and re-functionalization of inner urban areas are among the European key strategies for the cities’ sustainable development and their growth.

Particularly, the link between land consumption and models for land-use management both in cities and in metropolitan areas, with special attention to the Urban Growth Management, started becoming a high matter.

In this context the USEAct project aims at exploring the urban development interventions and new or improved settlement opportunities for people and businesses, taking up residence in existing locations without consumption of further land. Each partner is engaged to develop integrated…