POLIMI

PIACENZA

CAMPUS

29th August

14th September

OC2 0 1 89th EDITION

FREESPACE

DISCUSSION

VENEZIA

01.09.2018

PROGRAM

1ST STEP

AN IDEA FOR LANDSCAPE 4.0

PROJECT AS STORY

Focusing on the key words each of the three groups has

to define an idea of CITY – MANIFESTO, referred to the

Landscape 4.0 (Piacenza 2050), that has to

communicate principles, paradigms, concepts, ideas.

This MANIFESTO will be the platform where the project

will test the idea.

City Idea …..in form of narration

PRESENTATION

To communicate Landscape 4.0 vision

through 6 images able to transmit the

interpretative model.

The images are called to discuss the

complexity level of the urban dimension.

It’s an approach stage where the team

groups can propose Landscape 4.0

main figures through a digital drawing

and modelling.

The design technique is up to each

group (collage, rendering, video).

STEP 1VIRTUAL DIMENSION

IDEA/CONCEPT

The project for north Piacenza andregeneration of 3 military assets through asequence of cracks is a shaping sign of a newurban nature, linking the transition betweenlocal and global scale, also linking thetransition between historical urban city coreand abandoned river banks. With this visionPiacenza can undertake a deeper and widerprocess, especially with regards to its relevantrelationship with the Po river, that contributedto Piacenza’s history, and its economic andcultural development. The set of proposedactions and interventions aims at becominglocal landmarks, while working holistically atboth landscape and territorial level so topropose best practices that will reshape thearea in a safe and permanent cultural andeducational productive space.The strategic program’s objective is twofold:

1. providing Piacenza with a new visibility withrespect to territorial flows, foster andstrengthen a new city brand, create a water

approaching point that could connect thelocal territory to others along Po river;

2. provide the community with new urbanspaces, bring the community closer to riverPo landscape and environment, that havealways been part of Piacenza and itsidentity. The overall strategy comprises a setof specific actions that delineate scenariosalong urban river-to-city links.

More in detail, the location of the threebarracks, aligned with the old via Emilia route,is due to an internal growth plan. Theirposition, once external, nowadays within city’surban edges, is surrounded by a tight andconsolidated urban fabric, poses the challengeof how to regenerate such barracks onceexternal to make them central in Piacenza’scontext. And to use them as active factors of are-direction of the city itself along the ViaEmilia Pavese (west) axis.

PIACENZA: THRESHOLDS IN SEQUENCE

FOCUS MILITARY AREAS

LOCAL SCALE PIACENZA CITY AND ITS NORTHERN LIMIT

THE RIVER AND THE CITY

VISION FOR A REGENERATION OF NORTHERN INTERNAL LIMIT

MILITARY ASSETS AXIS AS REFERENCES OF NORTH-SOUTH

ENVIRONMENTAL INTERFERENCES AND ECOLOGICAL CORRIDORS

Graphic by: OC INTERNATIONAL SUMMER

SCHOOL LABORATORY

Coordination: prof. Guya Bertelli

Consequently, there are some potentialadvantages: firstly, the presence of connectionssuch as links with riversides, freeway and railwaynetwork, that despite their current role ofseparators could become joints of the strip ofland between the river Po and the city. It is clear,then, that challenges are as complex (what to dowith abandoned military areas) as suggestive(presence of old buildings and traces of oldconstructed patrimony). Such preamble is usefulto deal with some problems that currently thoseareas are facing. Their restoration to a stage thatmilitary areas are integrated in the urban fabriccould potentially facilitate the promotion ofmixed functionalities (culture, research,university, commerce, business, social services)for a wide range of users (students, workers,researchers, professors, artists, designers).All these users are the foundation for whatRichard Florida called creative class, a complexgroup of human beings that producing shapesand designs for the contemporary cities, is a new

economic engine. As other citizens, this groupdemands high quality urban spaces, livelyenclaves, that allow for interactions. These arethe objectives of OC proposal for military areasin Piacenza: to learn from mistakes of the pastand to change following contemporary cityprinciples, so to pave the way towards a newmodel of ecologically sustainable city, sociallysensitive and with roots in urban places.From a spatial-dwelling standpoint, thepreserved availability of military areas allows fora wide reflection on the extended meaning ofthe urban designer. If systemic characters arerecognized for the city, it is necessary to criticallyevaluate how many and what elementcontributed to nowadays city’s shape.Historical city modified in recognizable stages,slowly, so that the physical pattern could adaptand stabilize even as a consequence of radicalchanges (the same can be seen in other Italianand European cities).

TOWARDS AN INNOVATIVE LANDSCAPE

The OC 2018 edition, in continuity with thethemes dealt during the previous editions,focuses the attention on the multiple andcomplementary forms of integration betweenlandscape and society. Sharing is proposed as akey word for the transformative processes ofcontemporary landscapes and territories. Onlya careful research for identities of places,where local communities can be recognizedand rediscovered, allows us to reach a qualitythat integrates spatiality with the sense ofsociality. Along this background, the directionand the coordination of the workshopidentifies some paradigmatic places in theenlarged territory of the city of Piacenza, takenas an exemplary case-studies of contemporaryconditions. Deeply, the landscapes the Schoolis proposing to students as a basis fordiscussion and comparison - complex andinterdisciplinary - and as object of the designexperimentation, correspond with someabandoned military areas of the city that buildan interacting and multi-scale sequence along

the axis of Via Emilia Pavese: PontieriLaboratory, Pertite Barracks, LusignaniBarracks. Because of their location on thenorthern edge of the city and at the same timein contact with the fluvial areas of the futurePo River Park, the regeneration (physical-spatial, socio-economic, technical-infrastructural) of these 3 urban places can beintended as an opportunity for a widerethinking and re-interpretation of therelationships among architecture-city-landscape in the contemporary reality. Thedesign work for visions that joins spatiality andsociality is in many ways one of the moststressed frontier of current disciplinaryresearch at international level and will beaddressed here without limits of scale in arenewed and continually fluctuatingrelationships among the local and the globalscale, without a priori functional definitions.

LANDSCAPE 4.0

G-LOCAL SCENARIO

SMART-URBAN-HUBHOUSING-ECO-CLUSTER ENERGY-NATURE-PARK

Housing & Sustainability Energy & Agriculture Innovation & Culture

LANDSCAPE 4.0

SHARING SPACES FOR THE FUTURE PIACENZA

#8

LAB PONTIERI

#28

CASERMA PERTITE

#30

CASERMA LUSIGNANI

AREA 1

GROUP 1

AREA 2

GROUP 2

AREA 3

GROUP 3

DESIGN TEAMSGROUP 1

Supervisors

Giovanni Carli, Luciana Macaluso, Roy Nash

Tutors

Giulia Cazzaniga, Giulia Garbarini, Laura Parrivecchio,

Isabella Spagnolo

GROUP 2

Supervisors

Chiara Locardi, Mario Morrica, Francesca Schepis

Tutors

Michele Bagnato, Federica Marchetti, Sara Sapone,

Doaa Salaheldin

GROUP 3

Supervisors

Kiana Jalali, Laura Pujia, Martina Sogni

Tutors

Andrea Cappelli, Mina Ghorbani, Ester Rachele

Mussari, Nicola Petaccia, Hassan Moataz Samir

PROJECT TITLE

I

DESIGN TEAMSGROUP 1

Supervisors

Giovanni Carli, Luciana Macaluso, Roy Nash

Tutors

Giulia Cazzaniga, Giulia Garbarini, Laura Parrivecchio,

Isabella Spagnolo

GROUP 2

Supervisors

Chiara Locardi, Mario Morrica, Francesca Schepis

Tutors

Michele Bagnato, Federica Marchetti, Sara Sapone,

Doaa Salaheldin

GROUP 3

Supervisors

Kiana Jalali, Laura Pujia, Martina Sogni

Tutors

Andrea Cappelli, Ester Rachele Mussari,

Nicola Petaccia, Hassan Moataz Samir

PROJECT TITLE

explosion

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DESIGN TEAMSGROUP 1

Supervisors

Giovanni Carli, Luciana Macaluso, Roy Nash

Tutors

Giulia Cazzaniga, Giulia Garbarini, Laura Parrivecchio,

Isabella Spagnolo

GROUP 2

Supervisors

Chiara Locardi, Mario Morrica, Francesca Schepis

Tutors

Michele Bagnato, Federica Marchetti, Sara Sapone,

Doaa Salaheldin

GROUP 3

Supervisors

Kiana Jalali, Laura Pujia, Martina Sogni

Tutors

Andrea Cappelli, Ester Rachele Mussari,

Nicola Petaccia, Hassan Moataz Samir

PROJECT TITLE

infinity-

scapes

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