Represent "the beauty that does not exist": are the suburbs, according to Renzo Piano. As the sculptor sees in the stone statue that'll do you, that the life senator sees places of possible rebirth in the city edges usually associated with the idea of abandonment. The idea that gave birth is called "G124": the office code assigned to the Senate, which has turned into the design workshop, with maps, graphs and drawings on the walls and, in the middle, a large round table of raw plywood . If the suburbs "have always been combined with denigrating adjectives - explains -renderli happy places and fruitful is the design I have in mind. (...)
(...) This is the challenge of the coming decades will become part of the city or not? ".The aim is to "patch up" the frayed urban fabric on the edge: a big project consisting of micro interventions not only of architectural character. It is, he insists Plan, the "trigger regeneration through new jobs, micro-enterprises, start-ups, light construction sites and widespread, thus creating new jobs."
The work started in 2014 and is intended to be repeated for about ten years, each time with different groups and in different places: young architects, paid with the salary of a senator Plan and coordinated by experienced professionals, studying the neighborhood and process proposals together with the residents. The first year, three groups have been working in some remote areas of Turin, Rome and Catania. In 2015 other young people and other experts have devoted themselves to the neighborhood Giambellino in Milan, where several blocks are aligned buildings of popular type of 3 floors the plaster invariably chipped and desolate air. Built in the prewar period, they are exemplary of a certain type of public affairs management: green spaces not valued and dozens of empty apartments because their surface area less than 28 square meters, the minimum because in Lombardy accommodation is classified "habitable".
"A paradoxical situation - explains Ottavio di Blasi, who coordinated the team along with Mark Ermentini - based on an anachronistic rule. There are many young, divorced, immigrants who could live there very well. Moreover the walls are solid brick, thick and solid. It takes little to make them energy efficient. " The projects developed by the "conducted architects' team, as they call themselves, provide for restructuring systems at minimal cost. But the focus is primarily on public spaces, and is based on the involvement of the people. "As has already been done in Turin, Rome and Catania, first of all we started listening: the needs and suggestions of those who live in the neighborhood - refers Di Blasi - something they do not teach in undergraduate programs, but it is essential. The architect is called upon to perform a service for the people, not to present himself as an artist who configures spaces according to his inspiration. " And so everywhere intervened, groups of G124 dialogued, sniffed the atmosphere, urban fragments observed that a casual glance would seem to be scrapped. But they are rich in potential, why are not locked nell'inamovibilità monumental areas to be preserved as a relic of the past. As claimed by Franco Lorenzoni, a primary school teacher in Rome that he would take his students borgatari to visit the artistic values of the historic center: the suburban kids the idea of living in the center seemed a nightmare, because, as one of them said: "We are old and ugly buildings, with narrow streets where there is no space to play. " While in the village you can rush in uncultivated meadows and along the banks of the Tiber, where among orchards and illegal dumping is a world to discover, imagine and build. Herein lies the wealth of the periphery: in its dynamism, in its openness to change. And even adults who live there, stimulated by the boys of the G124 soon discover the taste of appropriating spaces that are not museums to be shown on distracted tourists in selfie vein. This is exactly the process that the initiative launched by Plan has set in motion.
Wherever they have identified places where trace new pedestrian paths and open spaces designed to grow plants and friendships. In Rome in the Hall III, the one that was built decades ago as a viaduct for urban transport but was quickly abandoned, has been revisited by the group coordinated by Massimo Alvisi as a new avenue to spend on foot or by bike - the new queen of sustainable urban transport and "human scale" - and as a cover under which they are arranged containers niceness, rearranged, rearranged for games, exhibitions, meetings. And new paving of recycled materials have opened new public squares. In Turin, the group coordinated by Maurizio Milan has revitalized the Borgata Vittoria neighborhood "with small wooden structures, found objects, textiles, information panels that form a route with meeting points", a work that has seen one of the protagonists Don Angelo Zucchi, pastor and director of the local school complex, elected element barycentric intervention. In Catania in Librino, which was to be a "New Town" but remained devoid of services and a concept of public spaces, the group coordinated by Mario Cucinella worked with some local enthusiasts to "teach the art of the sport, of loyalty, of friendship "and find places to go and other places to stay: gardens, porches, orchards, outdoor BBQ areas, green spaces ... As Renzo Piano says:" This is just sparks, but stimulate the 'pride of those who live there. Because, as Italo Calvino wrote "there are framnenti happy city that constantly take shape and disappear, hidden in the unhappy city." These fragments are found and exploited. It takes love, not even in the form of anger. It takes the identity, it takes the outskirts of pride. "
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