s e l e c t e d p r o j e c t s

from Portfolio architecture | urban planning

by carola fagnani

PAST EXPERIENCES

1 PALLADIO FACTORY

Exhibition of Palladian buildings and drawings

Exhibition in the Palladian Basilica

2 The first milestone for San Siro District in Milan

Re - framed Inhabitance

3 Green Blue Strategy in Milan

Landscape project for Ring Park

4 Supernova of Stelvio / Sondrio Mentioned Project of ideas

A masterplan for Morbegno SO

5 Variant of Milan P.G.T. Municipality of Cornaredo

Variant of the government plan

1 Team project

Palladian Basilica

Redesigned by Andrea Palladio

1549 - 1614

UNESCO heritage since 1994

The exhibition takes place inside the Palladian Basilica: The collection begins with fragments of Palladio’s architecture, such as Doric columns, Roman capitals, and parts taken from the drawings of the Palladian facades. Each highlight is placed on thick dark marble slabs, which bring out the restitution of the white 3D model.

Continuing the exhibition both in the structure itself and on the exhibits, we come across models of historical villas and religious buildings, expertly designed by Palladio. In the spaces most hidden by the composition of the marble plates, there are the designs that influenced the Renaissance architecture, they are illuminated by the spotlights embedded in the ceiling of the slabs. The path ends admiring the Church of Redentore as the final piece of the exhibition.

PALLADIO FACTORY | Palladian Basilica | Vicenza | IT

Exhibition of Palladian buildings and drawings

Team project

San Siro district

892 occupied apartaments over 4742

Project based on Mapping San Siro

Initially, the project’s intervention stems out from the need to increase the quality of interior space, and thus the urban one, to improve the common quality of living. San Siro, as much neglected it may seem, represents a great potential in residential terms and conditions. That’s why Re-Framed Inhabitance proposes improved interior quality, aiming to become a pilot for other proposals to come. The improvement of space quality starts with redimensioning the apartments always in affordable terms, providing adequate and comfortable environments for the residents with different kinds of living space extensions and energy improvements. The internal extension is a grid-framed steel structure that follows the alignment of apartments and can act as an extension to the interior space for the inhabitants.

THE FIRST MILESTONE X SAN SIRO | In Milan | IT

Re-framed Inhabitance - Social Residences

Retrofitting Interventions

Typology A: 61 sqm

Living (38)

Connection (2.1)

Services (5.1) = B(4.5)+K(1.8)

Typology C: 70.5 sqm

Living (46.6)

Services (9.25) = B1(3)+B2(2.7)+K(3.55)

Connections (3.3)

Balcony(11.3) = (4.1)+(7.2)

• Study of the neighborhood

• Urban analysis

• Understanding of stakeholders

• SWOT analysis

• Overshadow analysis

• Use of solar shading and solar panels on the roof

• Renewing the old building with:

- new sizes and loggias

- new masonry package

- new distribution

- new steel structure

Typology E: 133.4 sqm

Living (92.5)

Services (14.2) = B(3.2)+B(3.2)+K(7.8)

Connections (3.2)

Balcony (23.45) = (11.75)+(11.7)

Team project

Chiesa Rossa + Gratosoglio

6.581 + 9.388

Inhabitants

Project presented to the communities

The “Ring” is an existing and public green field which is currently running by an NGO called “Associazione Compagnia dell’anello”. The new “Ring” is a greenfield connected to a stormwater management system, using different hills that would harvest surface runoff water that could then be used for natural irrigation purposes and excessive water can be returned to the Lambro River as clean water. The west side of the park ends at the riverside opening to a green outdoor amphitheater, while on the other hand also leading down to access to the riverwalk. The park represents a green heart between a traffic road on the right and the river on the left, moreover, it’s a space of fusion for the surroundings, composed of streets, walkways, and neighborhoods.

GREEN BLUE STRATEGY | In Milan | IT

Landscape project for the Ring park

Team

12.319

Inhabitants

Mentioned Project of Ideas

The need to rethink the character and role of via Stelvio within this extended context, as a consequence of the downgrading due to the forthcoming construction of the new section of the valley highway, can be an opportunity to redefine the hierarchies of movement within the territory. This involves a project capable of traversing the stairs. Via Stelvio can become a device capable on the one hand of constructing specific spaces, concerning the different contexts crossed, and at the same time represent a territorial sign capable of building wider connections within a complex system of geographical or thematic relationships and links. Via Stelvio, about the environments, it crosses, resonates with an extended system of points, lines, surfaces, and landscapes.

Masterplan for the city of Morbegno

Team project - General Variant 2018

Cornaredo / Tulips’ town

20.499

Inhabitants

Project approved by the Municipality

The project involved the new Variation to the Plan of Government of the Territory in force (PGT 2014). The Plan document was constructed using the documents, the Knowledge Framework plans and the Strategic Document plans. Subsequently, the indication of the new zoning changes regarding the drafting of the Service Plan and part of the Rules Plan, also in the PdR are the “New perimeter and old perimeter of the historic center (PdR 02) and the “New historic center: classification of buildings in the historical center”. The new DdP has defined strategies (Third Part “Designing Cornaredo”) starting with the construction of the updated knowledge framework (First Part “Knowing Cornaredo”) and oriented towards the main characteristics of Cornaredo (Second Part “Rethinking the city”).