University Campus for the Polytechnic of Milan
The project of the new campus of architecture and engineering for the Politecnico di Milano in Città Studi arise from the concrete need to provide the polytechnic institution with new spaces for teaching and study, new solutions for student accommodation and collective services able to establish a relationship of reciprocity between the university settlement and the urban context in which it is located. The choice of the place of the project is in fact justified in the will to place itself in continuity with the university vocation of this part of the city, inaugurated by the historical project of Città Studi at the beginning of the last century. The project achieves its own internal coherence by working on the boundary conditions at different scales and proposing a reflection on the potential of an urban design based on principles of openness and inclusion. The ideality of the project consists in connecting the reality of the historical city to that of the fertile Lombard countryside, going beyond the urban plans and the infrastructural limits inherited from the nineteenth-century Milan present in Città Studi. From this interpretation comes the mainly linear composition of the project: a long building for teaching raised from the ground becomes an expression of this ideality and, like a large infrastructure, connects all the parts of the project. The library with lecture spaces on the tower in front of the theatre, on the great green square, constitute the collective services necessary to integrate the Campus with the new student residences and the pre-existing urban fabric and are located along via Bassini, the main axis that takes up the old layout of the highway. The ateliers for the faculty of architecture instead compare themselves with the nineteenth-century pavilions of the Polytechnic, along the Via Ponzio, and constitute the direct reinterpretation.
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project by Matteo Morelli, Riccardo Stermieri, Leonardo Falascone
with prof. Massimo Ferrari e prof. Claudia Tinazzi
