RENEWAL PROCESSES ON EXISTING BUILDINGS AND OPEN SPACES: ACTIONS, PRACTICES AND DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR REGENERATION IN MILAN

The research involves abandoned areas and buildings, it aims to the urgent care of the soil and of these anonymous buildings as a considerable heritage. They inspire a reflection that stimulates regeneration processes of the physical spaces. At the same time they help us to think about new rules to facilitate reorganization, reuse and renewal processes. The potentialities of abandoned spaces are investigated through interdisciplinary design explorations at the different scales. The goal of Re-forming Milan is perfectly matching with the intention of encouraging a multi-scale and interdisciplinary approach to the architectural design. The research is based on idea to build on the existing, helping in decreasing or at least boundaring the soil consumption, assuming the existing building and areas as resources to be improved. At the same time the research wants to raise real problems, that are more and more going to define a future challenge of our work as architects to the attention of citizens and teachers working in different courses/workshops of the School. The project, as a social product, has to gain the ability to face the future and to explore new mental and imaginative paradigms. It is a research that aims to rediscover those areas of collective discussion, that can feed a comparison of merit and content and to power on the discussion toward a multidisciplinary approach.