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RETHINK_The aim of the project is to rethink Monastero Area as a touristic infrastructure, giving a new life to ruins. The idea is to create A NEW WAY of living this part of territory, usually forgot and without any active cultural and social reference.

Monastero Area is located nearby the Lagastrello Gap, on a route connecting Parma to Massa and La Spezia. For this strategic position it was once considered an important custom point and a social outpost. Therefore Matilde di Canossa stated the construction of a mon-astery whose ruins are still visible and play a fundamental role in the project.

For its position, Lagastrello Gap, connecting Emilia to Lunigiana, is a possible flywheel for the regeneration of both areas. The aim is to make local communities and tourists revalu-ate and rediscover this part of territory that has never really been considered as much as it should be. Meanwhile, it is possible to dictate a number of guidelines to make the intervention less invasive, and to individuate possible stakeholders for this project. It is thought to be a strongly community based project in order to involve nearby living people to embrace a new way to think sociality.

Projectual approach starts from people and emphatises on living the landscape in a more human modality: for example, we move at 4 km/h, view from an height of more or less 1.5 m and continuously receive extern stimula via our senses, and we feel temperature changes. All these are men peculiarities, and they seem to be forgotten by city inhabitants. An aim of the project is to resuscitate these qualities by providing a less automatic and more sensational experience of the landscape.

The design process is reversed: as a first stage, lifestyle and social regulations guidelines are stated, then public and extern space is projected, and, at last, buildings are thought. This is because the main role in attracting and mantaining active the interven-tion is made by life and vitality, and not by the buildings themselves.

politecnico di milano | a.a. 2014-2015corso di progettazione architettonica IIAntonia Chiesa | Daniele Villa

modulo di progettazioneAntonia Chiesalandscape as ground for innovation

Carlo MazzeriIlaria MazzolaLuca Toscani T1

12.1.14Concept Review

PROJECT GUIDELINES

LANDSLIDE RISK CONTAINING; WOOD EXPANSION CONTROL

PHASE 01 MAJOR PROGRAM

PROJECT EVOLUTION PROGRAM

It is fundamental to decide clear PROJECTUAL GUIDELINES, not only for a formal approach, but also considering major issues such as environment protection, historic heritage and social partecipation.

REDUCE_Smart CHOICES IN MATERIALS AND FORM will be operated, in order to most reduce the impact of the intervention on the natural environment, while respecting program guide-lines.

REUSE_Monastero ruins will be reused and will work as a base for a LIGHT BUILT DEVELOPMENT. Infrastructures such as roads or paths around the lake will be enhanced and reinforced.

RESPECT_Natural and historical landmarks will be respected both philologically and formally. Landscape will be heritaged while giving NEW APPROACHES to the experience. Phase 01 program is based on SLOW TURISM FACILITIES. It is studied both to host events and to have a regular use during other periods. The main facility is a hostel-type

recovery, that will host tourists coming for events, hikers who find themselves to stop there or groups using Monastero area as a location for their activity. This facility is predicted the most invasive in the plan. Nearby it is programmed a restaurant (hosting a retail area), which will be the showcase for local products. A multipuropose pavillion is thought to develop from the biggest abandoned building. Offices and small services will be present. The mostly plain area behind ruins is a crucial point for the project, as it is meant to be the main social gathering area; it will host facilities to enhance community life. All the program is studied to protect landscape and emphatize views, while providing a NEW WAY OF EXPERIENCE. Car parking will find its place on top of the hostel facility, and many other “bigamic” solutions are to be defined in a further phase of the project.

Monastero is thought as a gathering point not only for community but also for bigger realities. Both are meant to BECOME PROJECT STAKEHOLDERS, giving shares and asking need fulfillings of different type. Nearby-living communities play a fundamental role in keeping alive the com-plex, as local microeconomy will be the key for a healthy development of the project. Different types of economy are encouraged to coexist, to mix and therefore to generate social stimula.

In order to PREVENT UNCONTROLLED SPREAD of nearby woods, the project locates itself in strategic positions. Building working with their roofings will act as a buffer, being alternatively permeable or

artificil soil.

An aim of the project is to REDUCE LAND-SLIDING RISK in Monastero area. Buildings are projected to reinforce critical borders and to contain eventual landslides, positioning themselves against ground

moving.

The Monastero project represents only the first part of a POSSIBLE REGENERATION FOR LAGAS-TRELLO GAP AREA. Lake Paduli and the new touristic structures developed in phase 01 will work one for the other, being linked by paths, serving a major number of users when both active. Sport and hiking facilities are meant to attract different and new people to the area. The third develop-ment phase will work mainly for the nearby communities, who will find in the northen part of the lake a motivation to return to these nearly forgotten high lands. This third part of development will conclude the project, making Lagastrello Gap a new community centre capable of attracting

tourists.

CONCEPT EVOLUTIONDuring the decisional process for the concept many choices have been made, and many ideas have been discharged. We believe the strenght of the final concept comes from this SERIES OF CHOICES and from the continuous flow of ideas coming both from us and from studio staff.

STRATEGIES ANALYSISIn order to decide which approch shuld we use to create a DIALOGUE WITH RUINS, it has been useful to generate design strategies both for ruins, for new buildings and, most important for the social areas and

their distribution in the project area.

REPRESENT_Program will be studied in order to make Monastero a COOPERATIVE SHOWCASE for a number of productive realities of the area, acting as an attractor for tourism.

STAKEHOLDERS’ EXPECTATIONS AND NEEDS

A LONG TERM PROGRAM FOR A SLOW TOURISM FACILITY IN MONASTERO: NEW WAYS TO LIVE THE TERRITORY_Vision

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