Cherry on the Cake
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Particular attention to the evolving, interstitial, residual (and often neglected spaces) giving value to the hospitality aspects of cities and public spaces using diverse landscape and spatial-interior design tools such as: natural elements, environmental, functional, and aesthetic characteristics, the performance, adaptability, and variability of spatial interventions.
The team project decided to keep the Scalo Farini site’s pre-existing structures to better them with effective temporary design interventions.
The analysis started with people living in the area, asking them to describe what activities, spaces, and atmospheres they would like to see in the surrounding area. This was the main focus of the project concept: the project team wanted that every user feels like the protagonist, director, and artist of the area. Everything depends on the movement and interaction of the guest with space. The project intends to be a collective space that reinvents the rules with which citizens experience a public place. To reach this aim, it was underlined the importance of the visitors’ contribution in every part of the project, to make them feel "the cherry on the cake."
#Flexibility and connection scape
The design followed the city’s existing pattern while creating a new trend to meet the needs from the past to the future, the flexibility, the contemporary places, and how those structures could support the main functions with each particular language and attractive characteristics. This is a unique pattern isolated from the perimeter; however, combining the city with this pattern, reshaping the moving border, and creating a new pattern with flexibility, is the project’s goal.
The importance of #Greenery
Some of the problems we wanted to solve are the “erosion” from the city, the sense of isolation, the lack of balance between lonely and too crowded, and the imbalance from the familiar scale to the spacious nature sense. For this reason, great importance was given to the greenery. The area’s density provides a thought for another way to consider and imagine people’s expectations. In general, vegetation plays a fundamental role in safeguarding physical and mental well-being, also producing benefits on the source of atmospheric and acoustic pollution, on the climate, and biodiversity. The project wanted to extend these benefits by making them the focal points of the territory: vast green areas in which to breathe clean air away from smog and cars; a bookshop where attention is paid to the noise pollution often not considered within the city; and a greenhouse in which the watchword is biodiversity.
#Overlap of main action spaces
outdoor sport area, sound control building, sharing economy temporary shops, and other interactive areas
#Focus on Structures and Materials
Main structure for #Acoustic Pollution Awareness
The area dedicated to the awareness of acoustic pollution issue is placed above the main building to provide a first sound barrier between the street and the “sound control zone.” The variation in sound is emphasized by dividing the space into five environments dedicated to activities with different noise levels. This level decreases from the convivial area to the quiet area. A careful material study was used to recreate the environment’s right atmosphere.
#External Modules for outdoor activities
Committee: Laboratory of Landscape and Interior - Spatial Design
Professors: Giovanna Piccinno, Marco Barsottini, Cristina Morbi, Osvaldo Pogliani
Project Team: E. Brusamolin, Yu Thong, Tong Zhao, Kang Zhou, Yingying Zhou
