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The Master in Urban Management and Architectural Design in Domus Academy has started, during the academic year 2007/2008, the research program "Milan. New opportunities for the public space".
In this context, students have been invited to reflect on new forms and strategies for the re- production of the public side of the city around conditions which are not necessarily physical – for instance the energetic issues, the natural elements and immaterial flows like culture or fashion.

Three workshops have been activated within this research field: Water City, which proposed new collective infrastructures based on the aquatic element; Green Ring City, that re-designed the open spaces in correspondence of the old Spanish walls (presented with a public conference at Triennale di Milano, on April the 3rd, 2008);
and Gate City, that re-organized the external areas close to four Milanese railway stations.

Together with this main topic, the students had the opportunity to work on a town planning exercise in the Chinese context – the design of a village for 5000 workers near Shanghai, coordinated by Aldo Cibic – and on an architectural design experience in the Mediterranean Area – the development of the headquarters for one of the main Italian building companies.

WORKSHOPS

ws1WATER CITY

ws2GREEN RING CITY

ws5GATE CITY

ws3RESTLESS DISLOCATION

ws4RAVENNA DEVELOPMENT


FOCUS

ws4ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

ws4DESCRIBING THE CITY


Have a look to our A.A. 2007/2008 NEWSLETTER