September 14

“I.D. vegetation” green exhibition by YellowOffice @ Vivaio Riva, Milan

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Location: Vivaio Riva – via Arena 7, Milano

Friday September 18, 2009 H.6-9pm press preview & opening party
Saturday September 19, 2009 H.10am-6pm open day

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YellowOffice’s new exhibition I.D.vegetation. Identità vegetali da svelare will take place on September 18 and 19 at Vivaio delle Sorelle Riva in Milano. You probably remember this Milan-based landscape design and urbanism studio, founded by Dong Sung Bertin and Francesca Benedetto, because of our old post from the 12xMilano series. Read more

August 27

The 12xMilano series
Nàbito Dreaming Milano by Nàbito Arquitectura

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(Here’s the last video from 12xMilano, the exhibition currently on show at Milan’s Urban Center. Today we’re presenting you the project Nàbito Dreaming Milano by Nàbito Arquitectura)

The city dreams about itself, making fun of all the icons that helped making Milan a european metropolis with a renowned worldwide identity…

…Dreaming about a future which is already gone…

(Drawings: blackboard and stained chalks, cm 200 x 120)

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August 25

The 12xMilano series
Milan Section Week by MARC

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[Read the Italian version of this post, with an interview to Subhash Mukerjee]

(Here’s the eleventh video from 12xMilano, the exhibition currently on show at Milan’s Urban Center. Today we’re presenting you the project Milan Section Week by MARC)

In a recent issue Corriere della Sera featured a statistic according to which the world’s 5 most visited museums are all in New York and Tokyo. They are the most attractive cities in the world.

But in both cities few buildings are really recognizable for their image.

Architectural languages give the illusion of an identity. But if we strip buildings of their image, we discover that the section of a city, made of horizontal slabs, is almost indifferent.
If we think carefully, we remember cities for their intensity much more than for their buildings.

Milano Section Week proposes:

- to take Milano’s “clothes” off, focusing urban politics on section indifference;
- to forget its façades, taking advantage of its horizontal surfaces’s vitality;
- to look for its identity through compact public spaces, instead of architectural images or through big spaces, impossible to “activate”.

Milano: identity and indifference. Read more

August 20

The 12xMilano series
Green Tube – an ecological compressed city by Lorenzo Capobianco

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(Here’s the tenth video from 12xMilano, the exhibition currently on show at Milan’s Urban Center. Today we’re presenting you the project Green Tube – an ecological compressed city by Lorenzo Capobianco)

How will Milan change?

The Milan of the future will be a polycentric city, the real first italian city-region.
The Milan of the future will be a fast city: moving and working dynamically.
The Milan of the future will be a slow city: human being dimension life.
The Milan of the future will be a green city: green rays will connect the center to suburban areas.
The Milan of the future will be a city-region: high speed train Milan-Brescia in 30 minutes.
The Milan of the future will be the capital of glamour: MODAM draws new skyline. Read more

August 18

The 12xMilano series
Public spaces, homeopathy and test cases on wheels by ExternalReference Architects

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[Read the Italian version of this post, with an interview to Massimo Tepedino]

(Here’s the ninth video from 12xMilano, the exhibition currently on show at Milan’s Urban Center. Today we’re presenting you the project Public spaces, homeopathy and test cases on wheels by ExternalReference Architects)

BUTTERFLY VERSUS ELEPHANT

Butterflies are lightweight insects with powerful large wings, if compared to the size of their bodies. Their sense organs range over a wide number of items, including eyes for vision and antennae for smell. Butterflies are prompt in responding to the stimuli coming from the environment and have a short lifecycle. On the contrary, elephants last for decades but are not lightweight. If their environment changes, it takes some time for them to change as well.
Our proposal is to work on butterfly buildings, light and movable pavilions which may activate temporary public space within the city of Milan. Read more

August 13

The 12xMilano series
Urban Presents, by Ghigos Ideas

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[Read the Italian version of this post, with an interview to Ghigos Ideas]

(Here’s the eighth video from 12xMilano, the exhibition currently on show at Milan’s Urban Center. Today we’re presenting you the project URBAN PRESENTS by Davide Crippa, Barbara Di Prete, Francesco Tosi [Ghigos Ideas])

Buildings can be unexpected presents to public space: unexpected outgrowths, unforeseen functions, furnishings that are still domestic yet urban, because they extend from the houses onto the streets and intersect with the flow of passers-by.
Each building opens up to the city in its own way: it’s an urban planning which, literally, “blooms from the inside” to later reflect itself onto the urban field, in the territory between public and private, so rich in project opportunities yet to seize. Read more

August 11

The 12xMilano series
FLOWER TOWER, by Luca Poncellini + Michele Calzavara

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[Read the Italian version of this post, with an interview to Luca Poncellini]

(Here’s the seventh video from 12xMilano, the exhibition currently on show at Milan’s Urban Center. Today we’re presenting you the project FLOWER TOWER by Luca Poncellini and Michele Calzavara)

PARADOX
It’s paradoxical: while dozens of brand new high-rise buildings are under construction in Milano these days, one of the tallest towers of the city is left empty and abandoned. The GALFA Tower: 30 floors, 110 metres, designed by Melchiorre Bega in 1959 and located two blocks away from Central Station, between GALvani st. and FAra st. (after which it was named). Can a barely 50 year-old building be already completely obsolete? Out of order like a broken toy, to be thrown away in the rubbish bin? Is there a chance for its functional refurbishment? Read more

August 6

The 12xMilano series
Private enterprise VS current masterplans by Librizzi, Cassani, Gangemi

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[Read the Italian version of this post, with an interview to Francesco Librizzi]

(Here’s the sixth video from 12xMilano, the exhibition currently on show at Milan’s Urban Center. Today we’re presenting you the project Private enterprise VS current masterplans: A catalogue of strategies by Francesco Librizzi, Matilde Cassani, Sara Gangemi)

In 2009 a great economic depression and the collapse of the stock market due to financial wild policies, are having tremendous consequences worldwide.

Every government of every country has asked citizens to help reducing the huge debt by extra taxes and contributions.
The Italian government has proposed a highly enticing economic device to allure the citizens by addressing their secret little desire.
Government has appealed to the low sense of public interest and the hyper-trophic sense of private property the Italian citizens have.
85% of Italians own the house they live in.
100% of Italians would like to enlarge their house very much.
Then: what about allowing people to add extra volumes to their houses, totally overstepping the existing city plans and rules?
‘Pay only a little fee, and you can make your home one room bigger’.
The power of the Made in Italy ideas.
According to the Italian president, if only 10% of Italians would decide to renew and enlarge their houses, that would trigger a 70 billion euros business, which means 4% of GDP. Read more

August 4

The 12xMilano series
50,000 houses for Milan by baukuh

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[Read the Italian version of this post, with an interview to Pier Paolo Tamburelli]

(Here’s the fifth video from 12xMilano, the exhibition currently on show at Milan’s Urban Center. Today we’re presenting you baukuh’s 50,000 houses for Milan project)

Task: research
Place: Milan, Italy
Program: 50,000 social housing units
Client: XI Venice Architecture Biennale
Sponsored by: City of Milan, Assessorato allo Sviluppo del Territorio; Fondazione Housing Sociale
Period: 2008
Exhibition: 2008, L’italia cerca casa, Italian Pavilion, Arsenale, Venice
Publication: L’Italia cerca casa (Milan: Electa, 2008)

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Milan does not lack houses. From 2000 to 2004 31,000,000 cubic metres of dwellings have been realized. These would be enough to house 200,000 inhabitants. Only houses for the poorest part of the population are lacking. Social houses in Milan were 100,000 at the end of the ’70s, now they are no more than 40,000.
The residential demand we can estimate for the territory of the municipality is roughly 50,000 dwellings. Considering an average composition (1/3 social housing, 1/3 social lease, 1/3 free market sale) able to provide the desirable economical solidity and social mixture, in order to realize the needed 50,000 units, it is necessary to produce 75,000 dwellings.
We do not address the (crucial) questions involving the economical promoters, the financial tools, the contracts that regulate leases and assignations. We reduce the problem to a sheer matter of quantities and places: where to build such dwellings? And what will be the consequences for the city? Read more

August 3

This week + 12xMilano interviews

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This week we’re not going to be updating our website much, but we’ll keep posting our 12xMilano series. And we have good news about it: the next videos from the exihibition will be enriched by some interviews our own Luca Molinari made to the designers at the Urban Center. Unluckily the videos are in Italian and there are no subtitles, so I’ll only post them in the Italian version of each post, starting from tomorrow. As of today, you might want to check back the Salottobuono+YellowOffice post for the video-interview with YellowOffice’s Dong Sub Bertin and Francesca Benedetto.

Questa settimana purtroppo non ci saranno molti aggiornamenti al sito, ma in compenso continueremo con la nostra serie di post su 12xMilano. E come bonus, oltre ai video ed ai testi soliti pubblicheremo anche delle interviste realizzate da Luca Molinari con alcuni membri degli studi che hanno partecipato alla mostra. Per iniziare andatevi un po’ a rivedere il post Salottobuono+YellowOffice, con la nuova intervista a Dong Sub Bertin and Francesca Benedetto di YellowOffice.

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