Green Between

Awards

C40 - Reinventing Cities 2020
Winner Project

Green Between

Competition theme: reinventing the city. Utilizing existing urban materials to transform the current marginal character into one of qualitative and identity-driven urbanity, redefining the physical/social dimension of the entire neighborhood. This process involves defining a built space that creates measured and identifiable places and assigning a role to public/private open space to regulate relationships between the built environment, specifying new urban hierarchies, and achieving permeability of space to the ground. The settlement concept thus involves the extension of the "Green Rambla" from Parco Lambro to Crescenzago station, featuring squares, gardens, embankments, hills, patios, arcades, and diverse spaces. The built environment is characterized by a system of four "L-shaped" elements, linear structures (40-45 x 14 m) six stories high, integrated with a "tower" structure (27 x 14 m) twelve stories high. Measured and well-calibrated spaces in relation to building height provide a welcoming and urban social living dimension.

The permeable ground floor creates a “Green Rambla” connecting Parco Lambro with Crescenzago station, organising the built volumes into a sequence of spaces that relate coherently to the surrounding context

The intervention overcomes the site’s marginal condition, transforming anonymous spaces into recognisable and high-quality environments

The apartments are organised around habitable loggias that extend the living areas. Staggered across the different floors, they introduce greenery to the façades and enhance the quality of domestic space