The idea of building a Congress center for Milan and the macroregion of the North-West must be perceived as a great opportunity for the polycentric character of Lombardy. Such an opportunity may be lost by an intervention conceived in a sectoral approach, that’s composed of an “infrastructure” of global-relevance in a local situation, simply by superimposing it by itself. Taking this presumption as a starting-point, the project is aimed at verifying the effectiveness of a methodological, multi-disciplinary manner in order to redefine the problem of techno-economic feasibility by considering the typological-functional reasons and needs of the area.
For this reason, the activity was developed by linking specific territorial-logistic questions and by defining the qualitative and quantitative management of the architectural organisms that may either concern questions regarding nature, environment and landscape caused by different decisions on location or may concern, as usual, conflictual problems of the many subjects involved.
The most significant results obtained consisted in the construction of an insightful sample of relative examples of projecting congress centers, together with project-related hypothesis for locating and defining the characteristics of congress centers in the North-West of Milan, which may constitute important instruments to accompany the complex decision-making process.
Principal Academic Tutors
Marco Prusicki
Architecture, Politecnico di Milano
Academic Tutors
Fabrizio Astrua
Building technology, Politecnico di Torino
Stefano Corgnati
Environmental sustainability, Politecnico di Torino
Marco Filippi
Environmental sustainability, Politecnico di Torino
Francesco Infussi
Urban and territorial planning, Politecnico di Milano
Riccardo Nelva
Politecnico di Torino
Francesco Prizzon
Management and economic evaluation, Politecnico di Torino
External institutions
Fondazione Fiera
Milan Chamber of Commerce
External Tutors
Claudia Bugno
Milan Chamber of Commerce
Team members
TEAM A
Ilaria Menolascina [Team controller], Architecture for restoration and preservation of architectural and environmental heritage, Politecnico di Torino
Chiara Alfieri, Architecture, Politecnico di Milano
Luiz Augustin Fochi Golin, Telecommunication Engineering, Politecnico di Torino
Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi, Architecture, Politecnico di Milano
TEAM B
Michal Laube[Team controller], Management, economics and industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
Clelia Pozzi [Project Communication Coordinator], Architecture, Politecnico di Milano
Francesco Goia, Architecture, Politecnico di Torino
Federica Tron, Architectural projects and management of constructive processes, Politecnico di Torino
Ali Ustun, Urban regional and environmental planning, Politecnico di Milano
TEAM C
Francesca Guidetti [Team controller], Architecture, Politecnico di Torino
Julien Aimonino, Building engineering, Politecnico di Milano
Michela Penna, Architectural projects and management of constructive processes, Politecnico di Torino
Francesca Pozzoli, Architecture, Politecnico di Milano
Vitaliano Tosoni, Architecture, Politecnico di Milano