EXISTING CONTEXT OF SANTA GIULIA PREVIOUS AND CURRENT RELATION WITH THE CITY

Santa Giulia area is located in the south-east of Milan. The Integrated Intervention Plan that concerns it is aimed at redeveloping a former industrial area of 120 hectares with the aim of making it the “New South Gate” of Milan. In this way it would become part of the system of large poles of public services and functions that allow for a decongestion of the city center.

Originally, Milano Santa Giulia was an agriculture village, then starting the early decades of 1900s, it witnessed the rise of industrial steel mills, in which Rogoredo’s name, apart for being a railway station, was linked to that of various Milanese industries such as Redaelli and Montecatini. Since the 1920s, the life of the neighborhood revolved around the industrial plants that largely affected the spatial, residential, and social aspect of the neighborhood. The residences were strictly inhabited by the workers of the nearby factories. Difficulty to access the area, Rogoredo remained, in part, an isolated neighborhood, away from the city and its interests. The history of Milano Santa Giulia begins with the closure of the Montedison plant, in the current northern area of the P.I.I. and the Acciaierie Redaelli, in the south-west area, adjacent to the railway. Thus, a real void was created in the urban fabric which they tried to remedy urban redevelopment plans of the territory, which considered separate interventions for the two areas.

The inverted T model is a new spatial reorganization model for the supporting urban structure proposed by the Framework Document “Rebuilding the Greater Milan” and takes shape practically from the placement of the most important urban transformations of private initiatives.

The model, which has absolutely no prescriptive value, in theory, proposes to enhance the connection of the most important urban areas at an economic/commercial/directional level, directing a large part of interests and resources (public/private) along the two development backbones. The most developed axis, the northern one of Milan-Monza, involves current realities, projecting itself towards the next business center and the City of Fashion of Garibaldi/Republica.

The most recent axis, the north-west / south-east one of Malpensa-Linate, is intended to be a new axis of international economic development, which is capable of to quickly connect the two Milanese airports.