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Social Housing

study on vertical grardens

  • Type: Masterplan, Residential
  • Location: Ponte Lambro, Milan, Italy
  • Year: July 2009
  • Other: Academic project
  • Collaboration: Fabrizio Casiraghi

About

The concept idea is to create a urban fabric able to join the future linear park situated along the east tangential and the existing inhabited nucleus of Ponte Lambro. The procedure consists in proposing an inhabited linear mesh, which recalls that of Ponte Lambro itself, but which can be transformed, at the same time, into something different, due to the presence of the park. The green space has in fact the force to enter inside the project, bending and shaping the buildings; going on towards the denser part of the project, the green persists, but it is transformed in a more urban green, constructed and functional to the pedestrian paths. The project turns out perceptively divided in two zones, separated from a large central boulevard, twisting along the whole site. It assumes crucial importance in its central part, where the curve is increased to create a peculiar urban space of connection with the central public square. Buildings are also divided in two different types: the longitudinal system, constituted by a very long building that forms a continuous curtain along the entire boulevard, and the transversal system, constituted by terraced buildings, reconstructing a continuous urban mesh, placed side by side to the lines of the green spaces.