Leisure / Hospitality / Exhibition_Three mixed-use projects for Milan, Olbia, Sanya, at the frontier of teaching, researching and professional design.

The poster presented and discussed at the RCA 2018 at Kaiserslautern TU introduces the comparative study of the generative process of three architectural and landscape projects (located in Milan, Olbia, Italy and Sanya, China) which share compositional logics, technological choices and morphological approaches.The three projects also share their condition of activation or re-activation of existing marginal of fragile sites, configuring a radical transformation of the given spatial and economic data. This contribution is aimed at investigating and making explicit, through diagrams and schemes, the mutual relations of necessity between construction systems, topographic context and its manipulation, morphogenesis of the builidngs, as elaborated on the frontier between academic research and professional practice.