ENHANCING PUBLIC SPACE IN TICINO SCHOOL SYSTEMS
Urban and Territorial Design Studio, M.Sc. in Architecture-Building Architecture, I year, Politecnico di Milano, A.Y. 2013-2014
Profs Martina Orsini, Domenico Lungo, Francesca Di Maria
Tutors Beatrice Galimberti, Anna B.Rossi, Maria Zaghi
The studio worked on five school plots located in four different cities (Lugano, Mendrisio, Bellinzona, and Locarno) of Canton Ticino, Switzerland.
Students have been asked to break the fences of the school plots, so to share the open spaces of the school with the city. The projects infiltrate into the urban tissues through new configurations where social engagement and physical permeability can become design tools.
The projects recombined and rethought the existing soils and experiment hybridisations, overlaps, and intersections between spaces, buildings, peoples, temporalities, and uses.
