ARW Associates - Botticini + Facchinelli

Reinventing the city, is the theme of the competition. The objective is to take existing urban materials and turn their marginal character into one of qualitative urbanity and identity, creating a substantial "city effect" that changes the physical and social dimension of the entire neighbourhood. Two components are central:
The first refers to the definition of the new built space that realises measured and recognisable places.
Open places are proposed in opposition to the homologating and segregating seriality of the existing ones. Here, the built environment becomes an articulation of differentiated spaces that relate to the existing one, overturning its peripheral characteristics, that are capable of achieving a qualitative coherence between the parts, that are connected to the surrounding conditions, transforming anonymous places into characterised spaces.
The second component is the role of open space, both public and private, which regulates the relationships between the built-up area, differentiating and specifying new urban hierarchies and achieving permeability and sharing of ground space.
There are two founding elements on which the settlement concept is grafted, which are:
- the extension of the 'green rambla' towards Crescenzago station: this is the element that constitutes the relationship between the station and Parco Lambro, becoming its 'gateway'. The rambla becomes the structuring and generative element of the new settlement of the conformation related to open space.
- the element perpendicular to the Green Rambla and forming its 'head' towards the metro line, generating two new public spaces:
Green Between declines the generic term "green" into squares, gardens, embankments, hills, patios, arcades, articulated and diverse spaces that stand between the built things and enhance them and are enhanced by them.