ECOWEEK 2011 - Projects in Milano, Italy
WORKSHOP Assignment: The workshop aimed to create a fragment related to the public imaginary, a symbolic object in the Boscoincitta Urban Park, using reclaimed/recycled wood salvaged from the dismantling of an earlier structure.
WORKSHOP Leaders: Prof. Paolo Mestriner (Architect, Italy) and Massimiliano Spadoni (Architect, Italy). Tutor: Erica Rodolfi (Italy), Guglielmo Comini (Italy), Michele Corno (Italy).
WORKSHOP Team: Stefano Zagni, Giuseppe Vilardi, Stefan Andelkovic, Bogdan Stojanovic, Marco Carbonai, Matteo Pietrogrande, Valentina Longo, and Aleksa, Korolija.
The workshop set out to achieve the realization of a fragment related to the public imaginary, a symbolic object able to recall the terms pointed out in the title ‘Landscape Interior’. The site chosen for the symbolic object was the urban public park Boscoincitta, built in Milano in 1974 as a first experience of urban forest in Italy. The park was born of an area of 30 hectares and today covers over 120. The workshop chose to place the object in one of the entrances to the park. The team used reclaimed/recycled wood originating from the dismantling of an older structure, and later put to storage for future use. The team also based the design on the principle of self-construction, meaning that the team had to both design, detail and construct the object within the time-span of the ECOWEEK workshop.
The organization of the workshop was based on the following structure: Day 1: The Workshops Leaders explained the main theme/ concept, and lectured about similar experiences done by the workshop leaders in the last years. The first day also included dimensioning of the project and detailed drawings. The team then visited the storage and evaluated the materials at their disposal – the reclaimed wood in storage. Day 2, 3 , 4 were spent by the team building in the object at the site. Day 5: presentation of the work.
The ‘Interior Landscape’ pavilion can be visited at the Boscoincitta park in Milano.
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