Urban Restauration, Prof. Alberta Cazzani

GALLARATE: Analysis and photographic survey

Daniele Del Grosso 835076Claudio Livetti 834721Luca Luini 841132

Politecnico di MilanoScuola di Architettura CivileArchitectural Design A.A. 2014/15

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RELEVANT BUILDINGS

GEOMORPHOLOGICAL ELEMENTS

Rivers

Municipal Boundaries

BUILDED AREAS

Rural Buildings

Religious Buildings

Public Buildings

School Buildings

Preserved Residential Buildings

Industrial Buildings

Sports Centers

Churches

Relevant Rural Buildings

Relevant PublicBuildings

Relevant IndustrialBuildings

Preserved residential Buildings

INFRASTRUCTURES

Railways

Highways

Intercommunal Roads

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RURAL BUILDINGS

1. Bozzetta.

2. Gunel

4. Celsi

5. Boschina

6. Monte

7. Brianzola

8. Gesuita

9. Buscetta

3. Bozza

10. Bonomi

11. Buffoni

12. Valletta

13. Costa

14. Buongiorno

15. Moriggia

16. Borrini

17. Buffoni II

18. Spazzaquatrina

19. Calcaterra

20. Nuova

21. Buonasera

22. Cedra

23. Cascinetta

24. Colombo

25. Brugo

26. Gaggini

LOST RURAL BUILDING appears in

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Today, some extinct rural buildings, give their name to entire neighborho-ods or streets. Cascinetta and Moriggia are contemporary districts once in the country, Via Celsi is named by the presence of the Cascine Celsi.

RELEVANT BUILDINGS

RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS

1. San Pietro XII/XIII 2. Ex Convento S. Francesco XIII 3. Chiesa di San Rocco XVI 4. S. Maria del Bettolino XVII 5. Sant’Antonio Abate XVIII

6. Madonna dei Ronchi XVIII 7. Madonna in Campagna XIX 8. Santa Maria Assunta 1856/71 9. Gallarate Cemetery (arch.Boito) 1864 10. San Nazaro e Celso 1892

11. San Zenone (Crenna) 1899 12. S. Francesco (arch. Moretti) 1910 13. S. Alessandro (Cascinetta) 1932 14. Aloisianum Curch 1936 15. San Paolo Apostolo 1973

16. Evangelic Curch 1980 17. Madonna della Speranza 1982 18. Divin Gesù Lavoratore 2007

RELEVANT BUILDINGS

INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE

1. Candeggio Gallaratese 2. Cotonificio Macchi1914

1/2. industry

3. offices / supermarket

4. offices

5. industry

7. stores / industry

8. commerce

9. abandoned

10. abandoned (A.T. U.)

11. commerce

CURRENT SITUATION

1899 3. Cotonificio Majno 1904-11

4. Tessitura Pietro Costa 1904 5. Tessitura F.lli Puricelli 1901 6. Officine Meccaniche Gallaratesi 1907

6. store

7. Cotonificio Bellora 1933

8. Manifattura Borgomaneri 1904 10. Tessitura Cantoni 1907

12. Società anonima Carlo Bassetti 1908

8. Manifattura gallaratese 1914

RELEVANT BUILDINGS

PRESERVED RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS

1. Visconti Castle / House XVIII 2. Villa Montebello 1888 3. Villa Glorietta 1888

4. Villa Sacconago 1888 5. Villa Rosa ( Bassetti) 1888 6. Quartiere Liberty 1900-10

7. Ca de Matt 1933 8. Quartiere INA (BBPR) 1962

RELEVANT BUILDINGS

PUBLIC BUILDINGS

1. Società Ginnastica Gallaratese 1857 2. Ospedale Gallarate (Arch. Boito) 1883 3. Teatro Condominio 1862 4. Casa del Fascio (arch. Minoletti) 1939-40

5. Broletto 1861 6. Casa dei Balilla (arch. Mezzanotte) 1930 7. MAGA Museum 2010 8. Train Station 1963

9. Liceo Da Vinci 1975 10. ISIS Gadda-Rosselli 1981

RELEVANT BUILDINGS

11. ITIS Ponti 12. Majno School 1914

GREEN SYSTEM

New green areas

Green lines

Wood

Cultivations

Existing park

Parco del Ticino Limits

Tree lines

High landscape impact buildings

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GREEN AREAS

PARKS

PUBLIC PARKS TO PRESERVEIn the historic center of the city there are some impor-tant public parks whose conservation is crucial, such as Bassetti Park and Via Trombini Park. They play a signi-ficant role in the public life of the city, used by different categories of users, thanks to the many facilities within them, which, however, should be often better preser-ved. Despite their importance, they are presented as individual episodes within the urban fabric, are not in fact included in a bigger system that links them to other green spaces in the city.

PUBLIC PARKS TO CREATEWithin the latest urban fabric of Gallarate, often fragmented and uneven are many urban voids, remnant of an agricultural past or arising from the demolition of abandoned industrial buildings, generally due to the uneven growth of the city. The logic of intervention for these areas aims to create a system of green that colleagues, in-cluding through the use of bike paths and tree-lined streets, the many new green spaces now developed without an overview. This is especially true for areas straddling Crenna’s hill, the starting point for the creation of a green corridor linking ecological agricultural areas still present and the historical center.

HISTORIC GREEN ROADS These ancient tree-lined avenues are important exam-ples to preserve and take into consideration for the cre-ation of new roads, inserted within the larger project to create a green belt. It would also be useful to increase the presence of bicycle paths along important street as Viale dei Tigli, that is now a buolevard perfectly integrated into the dynamics of the contemporary city, or as along Viale Don Piloni, still now in an agricultural context.

1. Parco Bassetti 2. Parco via Trombini

3. Ex Cantoni Area 4. Gadda Rosselli School 5. Ex Aviation Barracks (via Milano) 6. Crenna Hill

7. Via Pradisera 8. Via Roma

9. Via Don Piloni (Crenna Cemetery) 10. Via Cervino 11. Viale dei Tigli

GREEN SYSTEM

LANDSCAPE

AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE TO PRESERVEIn the north-west of Gallarate, along the axis of Via Monte San Martino is still present today an important agricultural and forest, home to many farms and historical starting point for many nature trails already present that are attracting many pe-ople. These areas, although these are protected, should be better preserved and integrated with the surroundings neighborhoods. In many cases in fact there are high impact buildings not far from them.

WATER SYSTEMThe rivers in the city are partly underground and partly flowing between the residential proper-ties. For these reasons it is difficult to think to create a place of linear paths along the rivers, but it is nevertheless important to decontaminate and clean, especially the traits mostly exposed to view, such as those visible from bridges like the one on Via Volta. The only linear system should be planned along Via Sorgiorile and should includes cycle and pedestrian paths.

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE TO REDISGNThese examples show that there is often the pre-sence, within an agriculture and natural protected area, of many manufactured high-impact land-scaping, such as factories or industrial buildings, whose relation with the surrounding should be im-proved for example thanks to the creation of line threes. Furthermore, the organization within the lot of the many farms that are located in the area is often chaotic and random and lumberyards or various materials are poorly organized and exploited and often create a greater fragmentation of the fabric. As a part of the appearance tourist exploitation these farms must be reorganized and think about the possible creation of new buildings for the or-ganized storage of products well harmonized in the context. Moreover should be planned the re-covering of the diversity of agricultural production once present in the city.

12. Via Monte San Martino Farm 13. Boschina Agricultural Park 14. Cascina Boschina and surroundings

17. High paesistic impact buildings (Boschina)

20. Woods with timber storage. (via Assisi)19. Semiabandoned Vineyard (via Cervino)18. Countryside fragmented front (via S. Martino)

16. Chaotic Farms (Via Don Piloni)15. Bad example of agricultural storage

21. Sorgiorile along Cotonificio Macchi 22. Sorgiorile along contemporary industry 23. Arnetta River from Via Volta Bridge

GREEN SYSTEM

URBAN FABRIC INTERVENTIONS

N.A.F. Preservation

Historical changed fabricPreservation

Contemporary fragmented fabric Rearrangement

Contemporary homogeneous fabric Preservation

Fronts Conservation and Rearrangement

Improve of compact Fronts

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URBAN FABRIC

INTERVENTIONS

HISTORICAL FABRIC

CONSOLIDATED The ancient historical nuclei of the city (Crenna and Gallarate) have a compact and homoge-neous urban fabric that should be entirely pre-served and constrained such as for example the old buildings along Via Donatello but also the neoclassical ones in Piazza Garibaldi. A protection plan for lots of buildings with a unique historical, artistic and architectural value should be provided for Gallarate, some exam-ple of them, which are listed in the first pages, are Casa del Fascio by Minoletti, the former San Francesco convent, now civic museum, and many churches such as San Pietro and Santa Maria Assunta.

ALTEREDIn the period of the biggest expansion of the city, starting from 50s are registered the interven-tions related to new constructions in which are not respected the necessary parameters for bu-ildings located close to the old historical urban fabric. It isn’t possible to change this situation now but should be proposed, in case of even-tual reconstructions or changes the imposition of maximum level of a building volume and number of floors and the alignment of the new building along the road. In this type of fabric are often located many historical industrial buildings, such as Cotonificio Macchi or Cotonificio Bellora to be preserved as an historic industrial heritage. In addiction many industries which are now di-sused should be reused, by entering into new strategic functions, such as the case regarding the Manufacture Borgomanero that could beco-me the home of the new museum of industrial memories, on the model of the textile museum of Busto Arsizio.

1. Via Mazzini porticos and Piazza Libertà

3. Piazza Garibaldi XVII fabric

2. Via Donatello (Crenna main street)

4. Piazza Repubblica (Crenna) 5. Via Volta

7. Via Battisti 8. Via Duprè (Crenna)

6. Via Turati (NAF)

URBAN FABRIC

CONTEMPORARY FABRIC

HOMOGENOUSWithin the city are present building interventions made in the recent past that tried to create an ordered urban fabric and consequently a better space management. They,as in the case of the village INA by BBPR, are interventions to preser-ve and protect.

FRAGMENTEDFor this type of fabric that forms the majority of the city of Gallarate is a field still in the completion phase, that has many urban voids and, as in the cases of Via Aosta and Via Covetta, buildings which do not have a relationship with the front road. You have to program the completion of urban voids through the construction of buildings that will relate with the street front in the respect of functional standards menwhile thinking of a new organization of public parks in the broader logic of a new system of parks.

9. Via Covetta (Ronchi) 10. Via Malpensa 10. Via Ronna

11. Via Aosta 12. Via Carlo Noè

13. Social Housing Cascinetta 14. Social Housing Crenna 15. Moriggia Ina Neighborhoos (BBPR)

16. Terrace Houses in Crenna

URBAN FABRIC

SPECIFIC INTERVENTIONS

Conservative restoration of disused buildings

Conservative restoration of disused buildings with change of intended use

Change of intended use

New Landmarks

Existing railway crossings

New railway crossings

Chimneys to preserve

P.G.T. A.T.U.

BIKE TRACKS SYSTEM

Existing tracks

New P.G.T. tracks

New tracks

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SPECIFICELEMENTS

INTERVENTIONS

DECAYS

DISUSED INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGSRegarding disused industrial buildings, should, after a careful analysis, develop a restoration through these episodes, in order to preserve the best quality and value that they assume within the city. Where possible should also rethink the perspective of a change of intended use that, giving the building a life and a natural longest maintenance, ensure these disused buildings a new role in the city.

DETERIORATED BUILDINGSWe reported some examples of blighted buildin-gs with the intention to place them in a logic of conservation of the buildings which today repor-ted problems both structural and maintenance of the facade. In this way we try to improve their value within the urban fabric, especially because often these buildings occupy an important role in the system of urban fronts.

3. Via Pacinotti Railway Storehouses2. Via II Giugno Fabric1. Ex Tessitura Cantoni

4. Ex Osteria della Stella (Sempione) 5. Palace in Piazza Garibaldi 6. Ex Railway electric station

7. Housing in Crenna 8. Cascina Bozza 9. Buildings in via Volta

7. Casa Porro in Crenna 8. Housing in via Cervino 9. Ex Gerolamo Cardano School

SPECIFIC ELEMENTS

CHIMNEYSWe marked all the chimneys today in the city to put them in a logic of conservation of the in-dustrial heritage of the urban fabric. These ele-ments in particular feature some specific visual within the city and they point to what has been an important period of an productive urban de-velopment .

LANDMARKSLandmarks analysis allowed us to understand which buildings arise within the city as the focal point of a neighborhood, a zone or access to the city. Aware of their importance, we placed some new landmarks on some major urban axes, such as the Sempione axis, the most important road artery of the city.

SPECIFIC CRITICALITIES

A. T. U. Bringing the A.T.U. (areas of urban transforma-tion) we became aware of such lots the Galla-rate P.G.T. had already taken into account and considered as areas to be reorganized in order to revitalization within the urban fabric.

RAILWAY CROSSINGSThe analysis of railway crossings is important to understand how the city, divided entirely by the main railway line, behaves to bridge this split. We intervened by inserting a new crossing on Viale Milano, to improve ties with neighboring districts Sciarè.

10. Via Lombardia 11. Via Rusnati (now a parking lot) 12. Hospital Chimney

13. Piazza S. Lorenzo (Library and Botta’s building) 14. Piazza Risorgimento (Monument) 15. Torre del Seprio (Shopping Mall)

16. Station square (degradated parking) 17. Ex freight yard (railtracks and storehouses) 18. Aviation Barracks (offices, storehouses, parking)

19. Via 5 Giornate 20. Via Pegoraro

SPECIFIC ELEMENTS