A NEW LIVING DOORSTEP PROJECT OF URBAN SHARING FOR CITTÀ STUDI

Abstract

The Campus of Politecnico di Milano is divided into various "sections" that convey thisuniversity's different identity, which plays an active role in Città Studi. This thesis project investigates the space relationships resulting from the instauration of anew system acting as a multifunctional node. Through an analysis of the area and itsproblems, the project seeks to address them standing in continuity with the Campus andthe current previsions by Renzo Piano project; and yet wants to be an alternative to theplanned project by Politecnico for the new laboratories of Chemical Departments. Theproject explores the boundaries that would be developed through an "open-space andconstructed-space" system, organized according to road alignment, present, and pastones, and the possible doorsteps between them, making this area looking like a knotamong the "poles" of the Campus (Ampère-Leonardo-Golgi). We propose to createpooling places through a new Student House dedicated to different users and workplacesand the placement of a cultural complex, the Museo del Politecnico. Concerning leisuretime, a sports complex has been organized, intended in relationship with the Giurati area,accessible and enjoyable by a mixed variety of users. The primary purpose of this project isto create new places of identity and share them with society by using a series of livablethresholds placed on different levels, open spaces, and semi-open ones with other usages,which are put as an urban background fact.