Thematic studio workshop. Requirements professors

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THEMATIC STUDIO
workshop
REQUIREMENTS
PROFESSORS
Guya Bertelli
Marco Facchinetti

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MILANO
PORTA ROMANA
DESIGN AREA

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Workshop – METHODOLOGY:
The workshop is a route between
technical and artistic fields.
It stresses:
Categories
Forms
Methods
Strategies
Tools
Languages

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THE ROUTE IS NECESSARY TO MANAGE
THE INTERNAL PROCESS OF THE PROJECT
STEPS
It shows the relevance of the steps
and of sequence that links them
1 - Reading the site
DESCRIPTION – space/time lecture
“The architect’s view is centred on the
shapes of space....”
Knowledge data
2 - Writing the text
“The language of architecture is ‘plural’
because it adopts of a lot of different
languages. Each one belonging to a
different field (design, planning, policy,
economy.....)”
3 - Composing the design
“The project of architecture is a
relational site”
VALUATION - diagnosis/ Interpretation
Concept + strategic plan
TRANSFORMATION: architectural and
urban choices
master plan

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METHODOLOGY:
TACTICAL /STRATEGIC
PROCESS:
AIMS:
Designing a new urban
layout for Porta
Romana railway yard
area in Milano,
focusing on a new idea
for the city
EXPECTED RESULT:
New Masterplan with
the main connections
with the surrounding
context
STEP 1 SHEETS
90
reading
120
writing
90
AN INNOVATIVE
VISION FORTHE
URBAN
LANDSCAPE
from goals to panels
120
URBAN
DIAGRAMS+
Synthesis of the main
elementsofthespace:
connections,
monuments, open
spaces,landmarks
NEWINNOVATIVE
PARKVISION
General strategyand
main urbansections,
skyline and general
view
composing
90
STEP 1 GOALS
120
model1
(1:2.000)
GENERAL
MASTER-PLAN
FOR THEAREA
sheets
scales
1:10.000
1:5.000
1:2.000

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Set of instructions
to follow up

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Panel #1:
Betweengeographyandgeometry
Urban Diagrams+
Synthesisof themainelementsof the space:
connections,monuments,openspaces,landmarks
The glanceand
thelandscape:
astrategic vision
Recognizing the main urban
relations: linear corridors, strings,
and sortedattractors
Highlighting empty spaces,
internal rooms andspaceintervals
Identifying the polarizations,
junctions and nuclear attractors
MAP
SCALE1:10.000
Synthesisof themain
elementsofthespace:
limits,voidsandtraces
120cm
KEY– WORDS:
Limit
Void
trace
90
Guide-lines:
referredtothepast,present
and futureofthecity
(OUTOFSCALE)
URBANDIAGRAMSANDSKECTHES
STEP 1.1
READING

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Panel #2:
Newinnovativeparkvision
Generalstrategyandmainurbansections,
skylineand general view
Strategy and
interpretative
diagrams
Keywords:
Urbanstrategies:
Engraving,Carving,Superimposing,
Overlapping,Stratifying,
Densifying,Accosting,
Justaposing,Dividing,Unifying
MAP
SCALE1:5.000
(OUT OFSCALE)
URBANDIAGRAMSANDSKECTHES
(sections,skylinesandgenralviews
STEP 1.2
WRITING
STRATEGIES:
interpretative
diagram
120cm
MEASURES
PRINCIPLES
RULES
‘Traditionandinnovation’:interpretatingthe
linesofthestratifiedspace
‘Resiliencyandfragilities’:adoptingan
elementaryglanceonthefabrics
‘Densificationand rarefaction’:
Recognizingsteadyfabricsandweak
fragments
90
cm
Guide-lines: ‘looking for clues’

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STEP 1.3
COMPOSING
Panel #3
MASTERPLAN
SCALE1:2.000
Masterplan:betweencityandlandscape
Themasterplan
120cm
MainGuidelines:
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
create relationships with the soil
modelling the land
operate in sections
create green and blue corridors
retrieve relationship with water
improving the system of slow
mobility
6. proposing a brand and meaning for
the twenty first century public park
90
cm
1.

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STEP 1.4:
MODELING
Model
SCALE 1:2.000
Model #1

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1° CRITIC
MATERIALS TO BE SUBMITTED
1. Ppt presentation
2. Graphic panels (3 sheets)
3. Physical model
4. Booklet