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CIÖNDÒL
A Public Space for Mobile Residents in Borno
[by Irene Comini, July 2019]

Borno is an isolated alpine village where many inhabitants commute long hours every day for work or study. Interviews and daily-life reconstructions reveal how this mobile lifestyle reduces their participation in the social life of the village. The project reactivates the abandoned Cinema Pineta, once a central community space, and transforms it into a new public place designed to support the needs of mobile residents. The name “Cìöndöl”, from the local dialect, expresses both moving back and forth and lingering to chat, capturing the dual spirit of the proposal.

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CO-LIVING
A strategy for the future city housing
[by Laura Vanazzi, July 2019]

This research is inspired by the studies in Politecnico di Milano at the department of Architecture and Urban Studies about the evolution of dwellings practices and the need of new spaces, policies and processes, in the contemporary housing scene in Italy. What emerges is a widespread of co-living practices, which do not regard only Italy but the entire world. Stimulated by these previous analysis, the thesis explores the topic of the co-habitation in order to construct a solid panoramic view and propose a design strategy for a co-living apartment.

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RIPENSARE GLI SPAZI DELL’INFRASTRUTTURA
Strategies for reprogramming the interchanges of Milan’s eastern ring road
[by Antonio Lento, April 2019]

The thesis examines how the unused voids within Milan’s eastern ring-road interchanges can be reclaimed as new collective spaces. Through the analysis of mobility, open-space systems and the urban fabric, the project highlights the strategic role of these infrastructural gaps and explores how the city can reintegrate them. The proposed scenarios for 2030 reinterpret the interchanges as places where infrastructure, landscape and architecture generate new social and spatial opportunities.

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IL TEMPO CHE SFUGGE ALLA STORIA
A strategy for reactivating the Marchiondi complex
[by Tinto Miriam, 2017–2018]

This thesis investigates the long-abandoned Marchiondi Spagliardi Institute in Baggio, a masterpiece of Italian brutalism now trapped between administrative conflict, failed restoration attempts and the absence of a clear cultural stance on modern heritage. Through critical and historical analysis, the research interprets the building not as a ruin of the past but as a condition produced by contemporary neglect. The project explores “architectural thinking” as a tool for repairing places marked by social, spatial and symbolic fragmentation, proposing new ways for the Marchiondi to re-enter the life of the city.

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YOUTH COMMUNE
Re-Thinking modernist architecture according to contemporary conditions
[by Vigan Zika, April 2019]

The “Rilindja” Media House building, was one of the victims of this process, its architecture, program and history were altered, it lost its importance, and as a result, a huge part of the architectural and historical heritage of Kosovo was erased.
These aspects introduced two key questions for the project: how a disfigured building in the city of Pristina can be transformed into an active social intersection between the city and its citizens? and how does the present situation affect the memory of the past?

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OPPORTUNITIES
A strategy for the adaptive reuse of churches
[by Lorenzo Sizzi, April 2019]

Opportunities arises from the desire to conceive a strategy capable of preventing the practice of uncontrolled and unconscious reuse of churches. The strategy is organized in two phases. The first is based on the study of the work of two architects and is aimed at understanding the church building, which culminates in the definition of four fundamental properties. The second concerns re-use and, thanks to the theoretical support of the documents of a workshop and three conferences on the subject, the aim is to analyze a selection of case studies by experimenting a qualitative evaluation method that works by dividing the intervention into two themes: program and spatiality.

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FROM WASTELAND TO WETLAND
The cityscape as green transition toward Ecological Civilization
[by Riccardo Mameli, April 2019]

The east Bund of Huangpu River is now required to include public space quality enhancement, ecological environment optimization and cultural function clustering. It is the perfect occasion for a re ection of the redevelopment of brown-fields in green elds. e purpose of the present thesis is to analyze and understand the current social, economic and political situation, in order to propose a suitable model capable to actively reinterpret the Chinese landscape.

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RE-ACTIVATION-THROUGH INTEGRATION
The case of Campo Marzio in Vicenza
[by Federico Riva, July 2018]

The research aims to explore the relation between individuals and places in the contemporary city and to investigate the way the social dynamics can foster the process of integration in a more and more diverse and multi-ethnic society, taking as starting point the case of Campo Marzio in Vicenza.

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Former industrial buildings where, through some very simple objects, many religions are practised; gardens where, through an old carpet, an extension of a sitting room is created; a name-less square where, through bottle-caps or ropes, kids can play all together beyond any cultural background. The main square used for car washing; material fences and mental boundaries as an answer to urban fears related to ‘otherness’: migrants, teenagers going to a professional school, political activists.

This is the link to browse through students’ work and this the link to a video summary of the semester.

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