reStage

CITY

INTERIORSCAPE SCALO FARINI #temporary urbantactics

Group n. 08 Landscape and Spatial design.

Temporary uses in urban areas.

POLITECNICO DI MILANO | SCUOLA DEL DESIGN CORSO DI LAUREA MAGISTRALE IN INTERIOR AND SPATIAL DESIGN LANDSCAPE DESIGN STUDIO | A.Y. 2018-19 | SEZ.I3 Professors: Giovanna Piccinno, Cristina Morbi, Marco Barsottini, Osvaldo Pogliani Assistants: Daniele Mazzinghi, Alice Zingales

CITY

INTERIORSCAPE SCALO FARINI #temporary urbantactics

Urja Jhaveri 917995 Yui Kawahara 918038 Elisabetta Tonoli 915315 Sara Valassina 915595 Erika Yamamoto 918667

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1_READING

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0.1_FRAME SELECTION 0.2_SPACE ANALYSIS

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5_PROJECT DEVELOPMENT 5.1_SPATIAL CONFIGURATION 5.2_SPACE AND FUNCTIONS 5.2_ACTIVITIES’ CALENDAR

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Scalo Farini: a huge flat surface in the middle of Milan. A deep crack that divides the city center, rich of opportunities, attractions and activities, from the neighborhoods around,neglected and poor in chances. An actual void with a strong identity inherited from the past.

Today something is changing. A big opportunity to relieve the place is in progress and a temporary solution has the aim to start to reconnect the space with the city, making it well connected.

ReStage is a concept that gives birth to a project of reconnection and rivitalization.

Taking into consideration the strong identities of the neighborhood around, trying to satisfy all needs and giving value to already exhisting strenghts of the sorrounding, ReStage makes the Scalo as a Urban Teather, able to get users’ attention, to become a meeting point, an incredible scenography for all, a space in wich spontaneous movement become spectacles and different performances happen at the same time thanks to several stages.

Everything thought to be temporary and flexible, manteining the strong industrial mood that the Scalo preserves.

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There are currently seven disused ports in Milan : Farini, Porta Romana, Porta Genova, Greco-Breda, Lambrate, Rogoredo, San Cristoforo. Together they cover an area of 1 million 250 thousand square meters. Scalo Farini is, of the seven Milanese railway stations, by far the largest. It carried out a fundamental service for mobility: line, station, interchange, storage or maintenance in the past.

It has a particular shape, sometimes integrating into the city, sometimes remaining a bit ‘separate. It is located in strategic positions within an urban fabric that is constantly evolving. The Circonvallazioni of Milan is the Milan ring road system that consists of three concentric ring roads that revolve around the city’s historic center .Farini is in the Circolare interna ,within the Circonvallazioni of Milan.

Farini is part of the urban renewal program of the seven railway stations sponsored by the city of Milan and the Italian Ferrovie dello Stato SpA. Some of the spaces within Scalo are still occupied by the Guardia di Finanza and the Customs Agency. In 2017, the Municipality of Milan, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane and Savills approved a Program Agreement that defines the regeneration rules for the portion of the Scalo Farini, with the creation of green areas for a substantial part of the land area. 37,900 square meters of surface that will be developed with projects of coliving and student housing in the future. During the same year, a consultation called “From the Rail Yards the New City” , sponsored by FS Urban System was launched. The consultation involved Stefano Boeri (SBA Office), Francine Marie Jeanne Houben (Mecanoo), Benedetta Tagliabue (EMBT), Ma Yansong (MAD Architects) and Cino Zucchi (CZA). These architectural Studios elaborated new scenarios for the future of these areas, in an exhibition organized during the Milan Design Week 2017.

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STRATEGY

SCALO FARINI

MILANO BOVISA DERGANO LANCETTI

SIMONETTA

ISOLA

SORROUNDING AREA

ENTRANCE

SCALO FARINI

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SCALO FARINI 0.2_SPACE ANALYSIS

The Scalo Farini is located in the north-west quadrant of Milan in a strategic position - adjacent to two metro lines and the high-speed railway station of Porta Garibaldi. The Farini railway yard is a strategic area that can represent a pilot project in the development of a new cultural, urban, architectural and methodological paradigm in the planning of the cities of the future.

Scalo Farini is surrounded by five neighbourhoods. In the northern section, from north-west (clockwise): Bovisa, Derganino, Lancetti. While in the south: Isola and Simonetta.

Bovisa houses the two campuses of Italy’s largest technical university, the Polytechnic University of Milan. The first is the School of Design, while the second is dedicated to Industrial, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Energy Engineering faculties. The area is now popularly referred to, as a design and art “melting pot”. This trend was confirmed in 2006, when a new headquarters of the renowned Triennale design and art museum, dedicated to modern art, was established in this area. The neighbourhood residents are mostly students living in student housings around the university.

The former Bassi , which all Milanese called “the Derganino “, was the silent protagonist of some of the most important and tragic pages in the history of Milan. It housed the former Bassi hospital in the 18th century, and was a district specially designed for the separation of the sick. It was surrounded by a high wall, still visible, which guaranteed separation from the city. It underwent major transformations when the Farini rail yard was constructed and with Milan’s growing population in the early 19th centruy.In present times, Derganino is mainly a residential area catering to immigrant families, and middle-income families with children.

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STRATEGY

Lancetti is a commercial neighbourhood, with several corporate offices. It also has station Milano Lancetti that is used during the weekdays, but is mostly deserted during the weekends. One of the neighbourhood’s main attraction is “Alcatraz” , a popular disco club in Milan hosting large events, music concerts, fashion shows, conferences & busy club nights. Hence the neighbourhood regularly recieves an influx of youth in nightime.

Isola means ‘island’ in Italian. This Milan neighborhood that goes by the name of ‘Isola’ is exactly that; an urban island, hemmed in on two sides by Garibaldi station and the rail tracks. It is a neighborhood with a strong local heart and a sense of community, a working class district where small shops and local trattorie still survive – albeit, nowadays, side by side with some of Milan’s coolest hangout spots.

On the contrary, Simonetta is one of the oldest districts in Milan, with an old population occupying the neighbouhood as residents. Villa Simonetta, one of the major landmarks is a popular Music School Academy.

MILAN TOP VIEW

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SPORT FIELDS SPORT CENTERS

PUBLIC GREEN PRIVATE GARDENS

RESIDENCIAL AREA COMMERCIAL AREAS

SPORT FIELDS SPORT CENTERS

BARS RESTAURANTS

ART THEATER MUSIC

SPACE ANALYSIS Marking focal points in the sorrounding area to find strenghts and weaknesses.

OPPORTUNITIES

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VIA GOVONE VILLA SIMONETTA

P. EUGENIO GARDEN

STRATEGY SIMONETTA

SIMONETTA MOOD

ANTONIO CEDERNA GARDEN

Residencial neighborhood with a lot of cultural places and green areas.

CULTURAL ATTRACTIONS Civic Music School Claudio Abbadovv Rrguitars (instrument shop) ARTS CENTRES Spazio Scimmie Nude: Theatre School Piccola Scuola di Circo Teatro Out Off Accademia del Comico Teatro della Memoria Teatro Guanella relax stages teather stage

CULTURAL SPACES

OFFICES

SPORT CHILDREN ADULTS EMPLOYEES

RESTAURANTS

GREEN

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OPPORTUNITIES

18 BIBLIOTECA DEGLI ALBERI PARK

UNI CREDIT PAVILLION

GAE AULENTI

STRATEGY ISOLA

ISOLA MOOD Residencial neighborhood with a lot of cultural and meeting places in wich there is also an active night life.

BOSCO VERTICALE BUILDING

CULTURAL ATTRACTIONS Punto Flamenco (Flamenco School) Blue Note (Jazz and Blues) Il Cortile Studio ARTS CENTRES OUTIS - Centro Nazionale di Drammaturgia Contemporanea

VIA PASTRENGO

Teatro Fontana

CULTURAL SPACES

OFFICES

SPORT CHILDREN ADULTS EMPLOYEES

RESTAURANTS

GREEN

ELDERLIES 19

OPPORTUNITIES

20 VIA VALTELLINA OFFICE

MACIACHINI

VIALE JENNER

LANCETTI PLAZA

STRATEGY LANCETTI

LANCETTI MOOD Residencial and commercial neighborhood full of offices and other small commercial activities.

CULTURAL ATTRACTIONS Centro Culturale Shaolin di Milano

NEW BUILDING VALTELLINA

Alcatraz ARTS CENTRES Spazio Scimmie Nude: Theatre School Nilufar Depot Art Gallery Museo Fernet Branca

CULTURAL SPACES

OFFICES

SPORT CHILDREN ADULTS EMPLOYEES

RESTAURANTS

GREEN

ELDERLIES 21

OPPORTUNITIES

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NIGRA PLAZA

VIA LUIGI BODIO

STRATEGY DERGANO

DERGANO MOOD Residencial neighborhood that hosts a lot of foreigners.

CULTURAL ATTRACTIONS Serpenti Music Studio “Sguardo al futuro” opera di Manu Invisible ARTS CENTRES

DERGANO PLAZA

Jam Session Music Studios Recording Studio

CULTURAL SPACES

OFFICES

SPORT CHILDREN ADULTS EMPLOYEES

RESTAURANTS

GREEN

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OPPORTUNITIES

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STRATEGY BOVISA

DERGANO MOOD Residencial neighborhood that hosts a lot of foreigners.

LUGANO PLAZA

CULTURAL ATTRACTIONS La Scighera Cultural center Gens D’Ys - Accademia Danze Irlandesi; ARTS CENTRES

VIA DEGLI IMBRIANI

Politecnico School of Design Standars Studio

CULTURAL SPACES

OFFICES

SPORT CHILDREN ADULTS EMPLOYEES

RESTAURANTS

GREEN

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CULTURAL SPACES

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OFFICES

STRATEGY SUMMARY

FREE-TIME SPACES

SPORT

LEGEND Simonetta Isola Lancetti Dergano Bovisa 27

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READING

After studying the neighbourhoods around Scalo Farini, we realized that the neighbourhoods had contrastingly different identities and residents. On one hand, Isola is a bustling working class district populated by young crowds, Simonetta was home to elderly aging individuals. Similiarly, on one hand Bovisa is an active student district, while on the other hand, Lancetti is mainly a commercial area occupied by working corporate individuals. Scalo played a fundamental role for Milan in the past: a station, for loading and offloading goods. Today it’s a non-permeable space that clearly separates the surrounding communities.

Hence, Scalo Farini needed to become a permeable space, a space that integrated the unique identities of its surrounding neighbourhoods amongst which it is located. Scalo required to be reimagined, rebranded, and revamped.

Our vision for Scalo is - Scalo as a stage for the amalgamation of “fast” and “slow” activities, the young and the old, a thriving softscape and a relatively flat hardscape; a center for uplifting the talents of individuals across different age groups, and consequently acting as a platform for showcasing them. Scalo as a stage, where people inhabiting within its walls are actors, each with a role in the space, contributing to the space.

However the biggest challenge was the scale of the project. Scalo expanses over an area of 530,000 sq.m ie; to put it into human context an area that can encompass 83 soccer fields, 2’037 tennis courts, 15’142 one-bedroom apartments or 44’166 industrial shipping containers. Scalo Farini has an identity of its own, largely categorised by materials found on-site and further emphasised by its rusty industrial nature after years of abandonment. Iron fences, cobblestones, industrial containers, railtracks, iron brackets and large yellow concrete boulders are among a few that contribute to Scalo’s current atmosphere.

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HISTORICAL GRAPH Showing the difference between the past (Scalo as a central interxchange station) and present (abandoned space).

STRATEGY

The rail yard has an interesting combination of scapes. The area is an perceptively an expansive flat ‘blackhole’ on plan. Within its walls, Scalo presumes a relatively dull and monotonous perception owing to its horizontal landscape in vision .

The ‘flat’ perception of the rail yard is further emphasized by its flat hardscape.

A short building expansing across 500 metres in the middle of Scalo. At the end of the other spectrum, 60 % of the yard’s area is covered by spontaneous green.

There are various form of nature’s infiltration through artificial elements:on rail tracks, in concrete’s cracks, enveloping structures. This rugged and unique softscape provides Scalo Farini with a distinguished identity.

SCALO ENTRANCE Only one entrance for the huge space in Via Valtellina.

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RAIL TRACKS

PUBLIC TRANSPORT

ABANDONED PATHS

WELL LOCATED

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STRATEGY

CONNECTION_SCAPE MOOD Residencial neighborhood that hosts a lot of foreigners.

In the past, Scalo Farini was one of the bigger stations of Milan. Today it is situated between the two stations of Bovisa and Garibaldi but it isn’t use even though it is in a central zone of the city.

LEGEND tram lines bus lines metro lines train line

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STEEL ELEMENTS

MILAN YELLOW

UNUSED TRUCKS

CONCRETE BOWLS

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HARD_SCAPE MOOD Residencial neighborhood that hosts a lot of foreigners.

The Scalo Farini’s area includes some buildings of different dimensions that were particularly used when the Scalo had his original function of rail yard. This because it has a strategic position in Milan and years ago, it was a central point for the trading of goods. However, today they are almost dismissed.

Only the biggest building is still used as a storage for the post office.

It is about 6 meters tall and 60 meters long with a particular form that host a green area between the its two long arms.

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SEMIFLUID SHAPES

SPONTANEOUS TREES

LOW VEGETATION

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GREEN FISSURES

STRATEGY

SOFT_SCAPE MOOD Residencial neighborhood that hosts a lot of foreigners.

The 60 % of the Scalo’s area is covered by spontaneous green. Different kind of low vegetation raise all around the site more in some areas than in others.

There are various form of nature’s infiltration through artificial elements: on rail tracks, in concrete’s cracks, enveloping structures.

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STONE BRICKS

GREEN INFILTRATION

PARKING MARKS

COBBLESTONE

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STRATEGY

SENSITIVE_SCAPE MOOD Residencial neighborhood that hosts a lot of foreigners.

The Scalo Farini’s area includs some buildings that are particularly used when the Scalo had his original function.

Nowadays the biggest buiding is used as a storage of post office.

It is about 6 meters tall and 60 meters long.

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TIME_SPACE STRATEGY 2.1_TIME-SPACE LAYERS

The proposal spans over a three year period. The spaces will evolve during this timespan.Starting from the present day, Scalo’s spaces are isolated, dirty and covered with unmanaged, wild ‘green’. The transformation at the base level for a period of 6 months, would involve creating new spaces and introducing in them, ‘slow’ activities, like gardening that not only activates the area, but also activates the people living in the surrounding neighbourhood, transforming them along with Saclo farini, from passive-bystanders, to active- contributors. These ‘slow’ activities allows the residents from other neighbourhoods to grow familarity with this unknown enclosed area. Thereby, resulting in the mental development of Scalo Farini as a truly ‘open’ space in the minds of its potential users while the physical development of ‘open’ spaces will take place across the deserted rail yard.

After establishing familarity in the first year, the space will host more activities, exhibitions, spectacles and performaces. While the trees implanted to add verticality to the space grow, the low vegetation will be groomed and mantained.

In the second year, with growing activity and usage of the space, the soundscape will grow with the coming of more people. More people means more elements that contribute to the ‘scenography’ of the space, therby adding shadows and lights, and life to the space.

By third year, Scalo will have three established ‘stages’, consisting of an entertainment square, a sports centre, and a Performance centre capable of hosting musical events to support the activities that take place in Villa Simonetta.

It will have established food hall spaces to cater the needs of the workers working in the Lancetti commercial areas. Even though spectacles will start in the initial phase of the project, the scale of it will increase with passing time with the development of other areas that are passively co-dependent with each other.

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HARD_SCAPE ACTIVITIES

EXHIBITION SPECTACLES

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INTO 2 YEARS

INTO 3 YEARS

LOW VEGETATION

TREES INTO 1 YEAR

INTO 2 YEARS

INTO 3 YEARS

SENSITIVE_SCAPE SHADOWS ACTIVITY/REACTIVITY SOUND INTO 1 YEAR

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STAGES’ ATTRACTIONS-DAY

There are three different typology of stages: the main ones, offering different events with a short temporality; the rest offering different activities, programmed or not and others being flexible spaces.

SPONTANEOUS_MOVEMENTS-DAY

Pocket spaces, and sub-spaces, get activated during the daytime with the participation of Scalo’s users, creating ‘Improv’ spaces throughout the landscape.

CONSEQUENCES-DAY

The consequences’ level is a reflection of all the upper levels. During the day is almost visible as a game of shadows depending from users’ movements interacting with the space, distributed within the different stages across Scalo

SCALO’S_THEATER-DAY

The site attract people all day long as a big never stopping theater. Inside it, people become more than just spectators , becoming actors.

During the day the most used entrances are - Simonetta, Lancetti and Valtellina.

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STRATEGY

STAGES’ ATTRACTIONS-NIGHT

During the night, main stages become more active and attractive, being the primary stages of focus and centres of attraction.

SPONTANEOUS_MOVEMENTS-NIGHT

In the night-time the staging changes and users can organise staged performances, cultural events, and other programmed events, creating different but unique scenographies, all year round.

CONSEQUENCES-NIGHT

The natural shadows disappear after the sunset but, in the darkness, some lighting and interactive elementscan continue to reflect the scenography composed by other stage’s levels.

SCALO’S_THEATER-NIGHT

During the night - time, the ‘stages’ transorm into active zones with more people coming from Isola than from the other entrances.

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TEMPORARY URBAN TACTICS

There are several associations with the word ‘Stage’, the most prominent ones being, platforms, podiums, spotlight, scenography, and centre of attraction.

Several of these outline the characteristics of what role should Scalo as a space, perform. One of the first perceptions of Scalo, connected with its flatness, and lack of exciting visuals, or structures in elevation. The proposal creates ‘stages’ of three different heights that act as elevated platforms, that visually hints its purpose. These spaces invite the surrounding users to enter a space different from the rest of Scalo, hosting activities different from other platforms. The ‘stages’ allow to play with the perception of the users of the space by playing with different elevation.

The stages will host different types of activities within its modular structures, that change through the differenet hours of the day. The layouts of these stages can be modified just like sets can be changed on stage in a theatre. Some small and flexible structures can offer a comfortable atmosphere. The ‘stage’ layouts will be temporary, (i) changing every season (ii) changing every year and (iii) changing according to special events and festivities.

In this proposal, there are three main typologies of spaces involved, all contributing to the concept of ‘Scalo as a Theater’. The three main stages strategically placed in Scalo Farini, would be the primary ‘stages’, centres of attraction where the ‘performance’ or ‘displays’ will take place. Located around them, would be the secondary spaces, the ‘backstage’, assuming the roles similar to production houses and areas of creativity in threatre houses; where programmed activities will take place that change according to the needs of its ‘actors’. The third typology of tertiary spaces, exist and work together to complement ‘mainstages’ and ‘backstages’, acting as the frivolous but essential elements of a theatre: ‘scenography’. Spaces in this category would be independent of management, 44

ONE STEP

TWO STEPS

THREE STEPS ELEVATION HIERARCHY Podiums with different heights to uplift the Scalo’ flat perception.

ACTIONS // RE ACTIONS

where the users can organise self-managed activities. Of course, this will develop gradually after the initial year, once the users grow familiarity with Scalo.

To combine these three typologies of spaces, transitional spaces are also placed within the rail yard, where possibilities of ‘Improv’ ie; spontaneous activities, exists further complemented by a varied scape of natural infiltrations of low vegetation and new media light projections, that constitute the ‘sensitive set’.

In present times, Scalo Farini is an abandoned area dividing the sourrounding area in two parts, the north an the south. With this intervention, year by year Scalo Farini will develop into a community centre, becoming a ‘centre of attraction’ completely dedicated to users that are not passive-visitors but active spectators. playing an important role in the development of the project.

STAGE HIERARCHY Function and activities are linked with a project’s hierarchy of spaces.

SCENOGRAPHY

PERMANENT

self-menaged activities

FLEXIBLE / TEMPORARY FLEXIBLE / TEMPORARY

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TIVE NSI SE

Spontaneous movements / free space’s expertise

ROV

SUBORDINATED

SET

SCALO THEATER

STAGE Strong attractions / frequent changing / short temporality

BACKSTAGE Programmed activities / users’ possibilities

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PROJECT BRIEF 4.1_ACTIONS // RE ACTIONS

FIRST YEAR SPRING

SUMMER

AUTUMN

WINTER

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ACTIONS // RE ACTIONS

AFTER THREE YEARS SPRING

SUMMER

AUTUMN

WINTER

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ZIG ZAG GARDEN Joost Emmerik Anverse, 2017

ZHONGSHAN SHIPYARD PARK Turenscape Zhongshan, 2001

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ACTIONS // RE ACTIONS

The existing rail tracks guide users inside the space, putting in evidence the history and the identity of the space and crossing new paths.

People are guided to a central meeting points and the Scalo’s theater become an attractive, never stopping machine for three years.

HIGH LINE James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio, Renfro New York, 2001-04

CONNECTION_SCAPE RE ACTIONS Convergent guided lines for new meeting points inside the Scalo.

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HURBAN BLOOM AIM Architecture, Urban Matters Shangai, 2018

SKY GARDEN SO? Architecture and Ideas Instanbul, 2016

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ACTIONS // RE ACTIONS

ARCHIFEST PAVILLION DP Architects Singapore, 2016

Flexible areas, with modular and light structures on, changing through seasons and years always offer new prospectives and possibilities to add dimensions to the space.

Podiums situated strategically, to give a strong first impressions from all the six entrances, playing with different heights and occupying the space.

HARD_SCAPE RE ACTIONS Different heights of podiums and structures on them wich change the perception of the space.

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KEIKO UNIVERSITY ROOFGARDEN Michel Desvigne Tokyo, 2013

CORO PROJECT Integrated field Thailandia, 2015

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ACTIONS // RE ACTIONS

One of the goals of the project is improving the green that already exists; and futher developing it to offer a comfortable space to experience.

If the actual situation of the site is not cured and, the green has a big potentiality to grow and transform the site itself.

NOVARTIS PHYSIC GARDEN Thorbjörn Andersson Basilea, 2012

SOFT_SCAPE RE ACTIONS Vegetation’s growth through years considering the exhisting one and new green on podiums.

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COLOSSEO Hellowood Studio Budapest, 2012

FIVE MINUTES OF PURE SCULPTURE Anthony McCall Berlin, 2012

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ACTIONS // RE ACTIONS

Taking advantages from the several installations, the project offers different interactive experience, allowing people to play with light, shadow and sounds.

All day long, a noise pervades the space as a reflection of its users’ presence, but this noise, combines with the stages creating a new dynamic of sounds, shadows and lights.

FIELD OF LIGHT Bruce Munro Waddesdon, UK, 2013 SENSITIVE_SCAPE RE ACTION Shadows Lights Sounds

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PROJECT DEVELOPMENT 5.1_SPATIAL CONFIGURATION

The different layouts change through different hours of the day. In the morning the activities involve almost children and elderly. Hour by hour activities increase,bringing in more and more people until late at time, when people return home. In spite of being an open space that captivate more people during the hot seasons, different kind of organized activities envolve users during all the year.

Some small and flexible structures can offer a confortable athmosphere.

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ACTIONS // RE ACTIONS

PERPENDICULAR PATHS

Following the existing rail tracks and creating new perpendicular paths in a different material, the connections mark the two main directions that spread across Scalo. They connect all the stages emphasising the nature of the inhabited space itself.

STAGES

A hierarchy of stages is created by different heights. Infact, like real stages, some platforms are lifted from the ground, changing the perception of the flat space that the Scalo is.

STAGES

BACKSTAGE

SCENOGRAPHY

IMPROVE ZONE

The space around the stages is available to any spontaneous activity that the users deem fit. The aim is offering a place in which people can feel comfortable, and can be actors of improv performances.

SENSITIVE SET

Different materials are used to mark the different identities of the surrounding areas and their meeting points.

CONCRETE

WOOD_1

CAST RUBBER

WOOD_2

WOOD_3

GRAVEL

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PROJECT DEVELOPMENT 5.2_SPACE AND FUNCTIONS

BOVISA

BOVISA ENTRANCE_STUDENT AREA coworking stages relax stages basket fields skateboard arena fitness trail DERGANO ENTRANCE_FAMILIES AREA jungle gim children games relax stages meeting points SIMONETTA ENTRANCE_ELDERLIES AREA gardening stage flowers stage organized activities’ stage relax stages

MASTERPLAN North-West part of Scalo Farini.

DERGANO

SIMONETTA

LANCETTI

LANCETTI ENTRANCE_SPECTACLE AREA coworking stages relax stages teather stage dance lessons stage circus stage VALTELLINA ENTRANCE_FOOD AREA food courts eating stages relax stages coworking stages ISOLA ENTRANCE_EXHIBITIONS AREA exhibitions stages entertainment stages

ISOLA

MASTERPLAN South-East part of Scalo Farini.

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PROJECT DEVELOPMENT 5.3_ACTIVITIES’ CALENDAR

The activities calendar is planned for two different squares with different activities. One catering to the elderly, while the other catering to people of other ages.

The calendar is thought out in a weekly format within the month as well, taking into consideration the work patterns of its potential users depending on the season and daylight hours. It also considers the celebrations in those particular months.

The calendar is also set for which activities take place during the different hours of the day, after paying attention to the routine of different typologies of the users.

For example, activities for workers (so adults) is organized during the evening hours or during the weekends. Similarly, activities for children are organized in the after-school hours.

The activities also cater to a different tastes and interest of the different users.

For example, Illustration workshops, Street art workshops are planned keeping young students from Bovisa in mind, while activities like knitting, serigraphy, making a soap, appeal a different range of audiences like house-makers, or grandparents.

There are educational activities incorporated in the calendar as well, that imparts knowledge about recycling and sustainability, while others revolve around imparting a specific type of knowledge on a famous personality, renowned designer or an interesting word that can act as a trigger to provoking different ideas for the month.

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ACTIONS // RE ACTIONS

The table below shows the activities that are planned for the secondary typology of spaces hosting planned/organised activities in the first year. The activities are a combination of ‘slow’ and ‘dynamic’ activities with a shuffle in the type of activities programmed.

Some activities focus on the development of a particular skill, while some activties focus on creativity. There are special ‘fests’ organised as well, that acknowledge the diversity of Milan’s population. Some events are added to the calendar to encourage proper cultural exchange too while some centre around festivities that strengthen family relationships. There is also a possibility of organising activities for personal milestones or important dates like birthdays, and anniversaries.

FIRST YEAR ACTIVITIES’ CALENDAR

APRIL

MAY

JUNE

JULY

dried flowers

serigraphy

serigraphy

illustration

photography

photography

bookbinding

origami

make a soap

make your tea

origami lamps

glass recycle

paper recycle

EASTER

MOTHER’S DAY

JAPAN FESTIVAL

ELI’S BIRTHDAY

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

illustration

watercolors

clay modeling

knitting

bubbles

street art

sommelier

candle

dreamcatcher

incense

calligraphy packages recycle

FERRAGOSTO

INDIA FESTIVAL

HALLOWEEN

RUSSIA FESTIVAL

DECEMBER

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH

knitting

painting

painting

photography

muppets

wood

interwave wiker

interwave leather

Christmas’ bells CHRISTMAS

macrame EPIPHANY

VALENTINE’S DAY

FATHER’S DAY

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COWORKING STAGE

BOVISA

GAMES STAGE

FLOWERS STAGE

TEATHER STAGE

DERGANO

SIMONETTA

MASTERPLAN North-West part of Scalo Farini.

LANCETTI

MASTERPLAN South-East part of Scalo Farini.

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EATING STAGE

ENTERTAINMENT STAGE

ISOLA

RELAX STAGE

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MASTERPLAN 6.1_PROJECT ASPECTS

RAIL PATHS

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ELEVATED PODIUMS

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MODULAR STRUCTURES

SATISFY NEEDS

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COWORKING STAGE A flexible space protected by soft curtain on top of the structure.

Central space as a meeting point.

FLOWERS STAGE

TEATHER STAGE

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GAMES STAGE Taking advantages from the cast rubber of floor, they are recreated some holes covering by net that children can use to jump and play.

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FLOWERS’ STAGE A podium fullfill of different flowers depending on seasons.

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TEATHER STAGE Anphiteather of pallets to whatch spectacles or meet people

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FOOD COURT Closed structure that host cooking spaces offering different kind of cuisine.

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EXHIBITIONS’ STAGE Long table for sharing lunch time with friends or new meetings.

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EXHIBITIONS’ STAGE Steel structure and threads: moirè effect and games of shadows.

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MASTERPLAN 6.2_FLOORS’ MATERIALS

WHITE COMPOSITE WOOD

CONCRETE TILES

LUMINESCENT GRAVEL

BLACK COMPOSITE WOOD

BROWN COMPOSITE WOOD

CAST RUBBER

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COMBINATION #1

COMBINATION #2

MAIN STAGES’ FLOORS Floor represents the interaction of different identities in the main meeting stages.

DOTTED GREEN INFILTRATION

TIMBER GREEN INFILTRATION

GREEN ON PODIUMS Green fluid shape following the interchange lines of rail trucks.

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OVERLAP 7.1_ACTIONS // RE ACTIONS HARD_SCAPE RE ACTIONS In the same stage, structures can be changed season by season thanks their modularity.

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CONNECTION_SCAPE RE ACTIONS Some paths are defined to cross the space, but users can also move spontaneously creating their own way.

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SENSITIVE_SCAPE RE ACTIONS Structure create particular shadows both during day and during night and they become a interactive attraction.

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SOFT_SCAPE RE ACTIONS Different ways to menage the green that increases year by year: free areas to experience and some gardening stages that users can grow.

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PROJECT ZOOM-IN 8.1_ZOOM-IN #1

The image on the following page is an artistic rendition of the stage in plan and section, showing one of the set ups of one of the ‘coworking’ stages. The material of the stage floor is concrete. The material of the stage floor is a subtle indication of the zone in which the stage is located, thereby subconscoiusly hinting the user their location to the nearest neighbourhood. The stage has a modern urban garden, as seen by the design created on the stage flooring using the softscape.

The green constitutes and adds the element of ‘rest’ in ‘reSTAGE’. This stage layout combines two of the proposed structures. The wooden pallets and the semi-enclosed tall structures. Therefore there is a further play with elevations within the stage as well due to the level of the pallets. The coworking stage, like the rest of the stages across Scalo, is accessible by ramps.

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DAY / NIGHT Coworking space during day time, meeting point during night time.

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SUMMER / WINTER Configuration of the space can change between seasons thanks light structures on the stage..

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PROJECT ZOOM-IN 8.1_ZOOM-IN #2

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DAY / NIGHT day time: background for exhibitions; night time: structures become the main attractions thanks lights and colors.

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SUMMER / WINTER Exhibitions inside the structures change season by season.

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SYSTEMIC DEVELOPMENT 9.1_STRUCTURES

In retrospect, although the project is layered with several layers of structures, elevations, materials, sensations and atmospheres. Some design choices clearly distinguishes the proposal from the rest.

Flooring, one of the most commonly forgotten elements of space in architecture, plays a crucial role in the project. The project proposes a new way of integrating the hardscape and the softscape together. The flooring being the key to striking the perfect balance between the man-made and natural elements, the hardscape and the softscape. The green infiltrations in the rail yard, was one of the most strikingly unique features of Scalo Farini. The addition of small panels of greens in some parts of the newly constructed stage floorings, helps retain that unique characteristic of Scalo.

One of a major concerns of the project was the vast expanse of this large area, since it could be one of the major challenges in creating different subspaces within this large ‘blackhole’ that Scalo is. Since the surrounding neighbourhoods have very different personal identities, each of them had a unique set of desires that needed to be catered. While Scalo, is meant to act as a medium of integration, it was important to fulfill the needs of the surrounding neighbourhoods within the walls of Scalo. The categorisation of this vast void space into six macroareas defined their proximity to the nearest surrounding neighbourhood. This categorisation is further complemented by the selection of six different materials , all sustainable, and recyclable, as flooring for all stages in each of the different macroareas. The unique flooring in each area, helps the users locate themselves within the area.

The proposed structures on the stage are all modular, derived from wireframes.

One of the advantages of these structures are that they can be assembled and deassembled very easily, thereby allowing a little flexibility and endless opporunities to change the configuration of the stages.

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In this projects, users do more than just experience the space they inhabit. The users are given the freedom to tweak the elements in the space to their likeability, thereby choosing the type of experience they desire from the space. The project envisions Scalo as a community centre; enhancing the quality of lifestyle of people across all ages.

“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.” - William Shakespeare Transitioning from a playground area for children, to a street art zone for young design students, to a gardening area for the elderly to nurture, to being a food court for the daily requirements of the working class. The ‘Scalo Theatre’ is more than a space; it is an entity.

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MODULAR STRUCTURE

METAL NET AND FABRIC NODES

CUBE STRUCTURE

FABRIC SEAT

ROTATING PANELS

MOIRÈ EFFECT

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THREADS’ ARC

NET AND GREEN

METAL NET AND FABRIC NODES

CIRCOLAR HOLE FOR GAMING

GAMES OF HOLES

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SYSTEMIC DEVELOPMENT 9.2_MATERIALS AND TEXTURES

METAL NET

METAL NET AND PLASTIC CUPS

METAL NET AND FABRIC NODES

SQUARED METAL NET

SQUARED METAL NET AND POLYESTER STRIPS

POLYESTER CURTAIN

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The material choices for the project are inspired from the Scalo’s existing material palette that consisted of cobblestone, green infiltrations, iron fences, metal net. The design choice taken was to retain the industrial nature of these materials and further add a contrasting element to strike a balance in aesthetics.

The panels and other structure systems will be covered with soft materials, like polyester net, durable fabric meant for outdoor use and a veriety of strings and threads of different diameter and materials. The material choice of threads adds to the ‘sensitive set’, as it would be used to create various patterns and illusions consequently adding to the scenography of the area.

The natural light also plays an essential role in complementing the sensations produced by these materials. The changing shadows created by the interaction of light with the selected materials will create ever changing scenographies in combination with the ever changing configration of the stage from dawn to dusk.

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NET AND PLANTS

ROPE

THREADS

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SINGLE PALLET

GROUP OF PALLETS

LIGHTING PALLETS

TABLE AND SEAT

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The Pallets open a veriety of possibilities of spatial arrangements within the square, thereby consequently evoking a range f reactions that very with the nature of the arrangement.

For example, in the theatre stage, the pallets become a unit in creating an amphitheatre where the audiences could sit and be viewers, or be actors in an interactive theatre drama performance. While, the same pallets, become pieces of furniture when arranged in a different manner, like in the coworking stage as shown in one of the project zoom-ins.

SINGLE INDOOR STRUCTURE

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DESIGN DETAILS

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GAMES STRUCTURES Scale 1:50 116

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MODULAR STRUCTURE Scale 1:50 117

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PANELS Scale 1:50 118

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INDOOR STRUCTURE Scale 1:50 119

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EXHIBITION’S STRUCTURES Scale 1:50 122

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