• VIVERE INSIEME, ABITARE DIVERSAMENTE

    VIVERE INSIEME, ABITARE DIVERSAMENTE
    Intergenerational Collaborative Housing come nuova prospettiva progettuale
    [di Marta Mattioli, Camilla Mauri, 2024]

    Ci siamo mai chiesti se le nostre abitazioni rispecchino davvero il nostro modo di vivere? La tesi inizia esplorando la dicotomia tra abitazioni individualiste e collaborative, per poi focalizzarsi su quest’ultime. L’analisi rivela come la configurazione delle abitazioni si sia trasformata costantemente, privilegiando al giorno d’oggi quelle ‘individualiste’, caratterizzate da spazi accessori interni destinati esclusivamente alla nuclear family. Tuttavia, attraverso l’analisi di diversi casi studio, si dimostra che le abitazioni collaborative possono rappresentare una risposta efficace per le diverse pratiche abitative che caratterizzano la società contemporanea. La tesi propone un ripensamento dell’abitare con l’obiettivo di sviluppare un progetto abitativo intergenerazionale, accessibile, flessibile ed inclusivo.

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  • City and Aging_2023

    CITY and AGING, PEOPLE PLACE and PRACTICES
    [Final Design Workshop, Prof. Gennaro Postiglione, Prof. Petri Giovanni Hanninen Andolina, Prof. Agim Kercuku, A.A. 2023-2024]

    Through photography, interiors and urban design practice, the studio will address contexts on an aging society. It will explore how the progressive aging of society affects private and public spaces. The exercise aims to investigate the relationship between living and aging in ten in Milan through the spatial project. In particular, it will focus on the transformation and adaption of housing neighbourhoods and public space, taking into account both the strengths and vulnerabilities of the elderly population.
    The challenge will be to integrate multiple investigation tools to obtain knowledge on the subject that will guide the design exploration; the studio intends to reconstruct the taxonomy of living in the elderly population and define possible transformation scenarios.

  • MCCM_2023

    MCCM | 23-24 – Mercati Comunali Coperti Milano
    [Laboratorio di Progettazione dell’Architettura degli Interni; Proff. Gennaro Postiglione, Roberto Rizzi; A.A. 2023-2024]

    Gli obbiettivi del laboratorio sono: la riqualificazione di un contesto consolidato che presenta situazioni di criticità, fragilità o potenzialità inespresse, in ascolto dei suoi caratteri spaziali, morfologici, costruttivi, figurativi e delle pratiche d’uso che in esso si sono strutturate; in secondo luogo, la ricerca di un nuovo assetto che attraverso la sua definizione materico-formale esprima il carattere e il senso delle azioni e dei gesti che in esso di svolgono.

    (Politecnico di Milano | Facoltà di architettura | 2023-2024)

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  • SCUDERIE DE MONTEL

    SCUDERIE DE MONTEL
    [by Tobias Hirtler, 2024]

    This thesis revolves around an architectural project that seeks to repurpose the historic “Scuderie de Montel“ in Milan into a collective housing complex. Against the backdrop of Europe‘s shifting demographic landscape and evolving societal dynamics, this transformation aims to provide a solution aligned with the advantages of collective housing. The aging population and changing family structures in Europe underscore the urgent need for innovative housing models. The design integrates shared spaces and communal facilities, reflecting the ethos of collective living. This thesis offers a comprehensive analysis of the potential of Scuderie de Montel as a collective housing space, examining how the proposed design challenges traditional housing norms and provides a sustainable alternative to conventional living arrangements.

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  • Architectural Affordances_2023

    Affordances of Architectural Typology – Architecture beyond function
    [Elective Course at TU Berlin, Study MSc Programme Architecture Typology; Professors Andreas Lechner (TU Graz), Gennaro Postiglione (Politecnico di Milano), Dr. Jörg H. Gleiter (TU Berlin); A.A. 2023]

    Affordances of Architectural Typology is a design and drawing-based research activity that seeks to explore and further define strategies that target resilient buildings that are nonetheless thoroughly architectural in nature. Borrowing the key term of James J. Gibson’s ecological psychology: “affordance is equally a fact of the environment and behaviour. It is both physical and psychical, yet neither. An affordance points both ways, to the environment and the observer. “In Architecture, we understand Affordances as the composition and layout of a building that directly impacts what it can afford. The correlation of Architectural Typologies with Affordances is thus an index of longevity, as it illustrates how a building adapts to or enables different uses and habitation over time. The central thesis (and architectural ambition) of the course is thus to show that the degree of typological spatial determination of a building is directly related to its degree of affordances and, therefore, of resilience.

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  • RE-SHARING

    RE-SHARING
    Palazzo Aiuto Materno, vivere e condividere in un ecosistema multigenerazionale
    [di Fiorella Longo, Enrica Mirra, Diana Murolo, 2023]

    La presente tesi si concentra sull’affrontare le sfide della rivoluzione abitativa, caratterizzata dal sorgere di molteplici tipologie di famiglie, l’instabilità economica e lavorativa e la delocalizzazione dei posti di lavoro. Lo studio esamina il caso di Palazzo Aiuto Materno, un edificio storico dismesso di proprietà pubblica nella città di Bologna. L’obiettivo di questo lavoro è proporre una risposta progettuale in grado di affrontare le diverse esigenze abitative e promuovere un nuovo approccio all’abitare, attraverso il riuso dell’edificio al fine di creare un modello integrato di alloggi e servizi per la città. Un aspetto chiave del progetto è l’attivazione del piano terra dell’edificio, che ospiterà una varietà di servizi sostenibili per la comunità. Questa tesi si conclude con l’auspicio che il caso studio in questione diventi un simbolo tangibile di un nuovo modo di concepire l’abitare.

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  • CO-LIVING COMMUNITIES

    CO-LIVING COMMUNITIES
    Designing the relationship of collectivity and individuality
    [by Katarina Mišovic, 2023]

    This research draws its inspiration from investigations conducted at the Architecture and Urban Studies department of Politecnico di Milano. It focuses on transformative trends in dwelling practices and the demand for new spatial solutions within the modern housing landscape of Italy. Focusing on diverse households within an urban context like Milan, it becomes evident that traditional housing typologies inherited from the past fail to adequately address the complexities of contemporary living arrangements. To address these challenges, this thesis adopts a “bottom-up” design approach that considers the unique requirements of dwellers, leveraging the existing urban fabric of Milan. The chosen site is a former abandoned building owned by the Chamber of Commerce in the central area of Milan, offering an opportunity for adaptive reuse and revitalization into a residential complex.

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  • UAH!_2023

    UAH!2023 – Unconventional Affordable Housing in Palazzo Aiuto Materno (Bologna)
    [Interior Architecture Design Studio, Proff. Gennaro Postiglione (Interiors), Paola Briata (Urban Analysis and Policy), academic year 2022-2023]

    With a coordinated ethnographic and design approach, the studio stimulated to move beyond the paradigm of a nuclear family structure that coincides with the corresponding housing project. Starting from an existing building in Bologna students developed design solutions for a new Affordable Housing Typology.

    (Politecnico di Milano | MSc Architecture-Built Environment-Interiors | 2022-2023)

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  • BUILDING ON THE BUILT

    BUILDING ON THE BUILT
    a view on typological affordances
    [by Virginia Capone, 2023]

    The design project deals with the transformation of a 1990ies semi-public mixed-use building in the industrial suburb of Gratkorn in the northern Greater Graz area. The main purpose of the design is to unfold the complexity of an urban object through the analysis and work on the typology, so as to demonstrate the flexibility that comes precisely from its strong typological matrix and therefore its relevance today. The theme of typology, understood as the permanence of essential elements in a series of architectural artifacts, represents the key to analyzing a posteriori the existing architectural artifact on which the design process focuses. Building on the built, according to what has been stated, is not only a necessity to which today’s architecture is inevitably obliged to respond, but above all, it aims at putting back together the pieces of a larger complex historical, social and cultural context of an architectural artifact and its physical context, to delineate its extraordinary uniqueness.

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