Shameless and indeed with great pride, we present these three or four episodes in our project (and my group of friends) to the square of Garbatola (the village where I live). Study for many years that a square, a square for which I wrote articles and publications, a square which was the subject of university studies, both in the restoration laboratories that design to which I have participated over the years, a square in the middle of a very special story that we hope will soon see the light in a book, the story of the ancient church of S. Biagio you and Francesco.
Without shame though because we think it has come third last project is a good project. Certainly a project with many limitations and attacked from many points of view (even though we had an old expert and technical issues of red tape among us, in addition to being a connoisseur of reality where you put the project), but also undoubtedly serious project, a project with a strong foundation, sinking its roots in research and hope that one day this research is actually used, a real project and frank, not a fiction. Last night, Walter Veltroni, by Santoro, said that "this government considers culture a nuisance," Well, dear Walter, not just this government but all governments, whether right or left side by a ruling class that you in a corner to study, then, when you're done and it's time of reckoning, he will not listen and can not appreciate all this research!
Can 'be the first real project for a fascist country since only a matter of taste?
can but judge you, my research and our project, take the minimum points "know the place?
short, ricriminazioni the merits aside, I, and architects with my friends with whom I worked, but not only architects, but other friends of civil society, the technicians and all those who have given us a hand, and are many, we believe that our show is a good project, but also a serious project for serious urban renewal. A project that is not limited to a few actions, but trying to understand the reality and try to change it together! A project that could be the engine for a true renewal and never will be. Thank you all, hope you enjoy your time to follow, comments, etc.. I think not always happen that an architect is available to this I rather like to play around. Thank you all.
1. The countryside and the urban center
There is a great, great, the difference between Piazza Italia Tuscan Emilian, or those of the Renaissance towns of Lombardy, which is right at the first reference and a good relationship with them, and those villages dell'altomilanese rural, and not just a difference of composition, or architectural, but it is a profound difference, a structural difference and if we are culturally.
These villages were not and are composed of large single-family homes, or multi-family lodges, mansions or palaces juxtaposed to each other and organized around a square, but by a set of rural courts, which aggregate together form what is called Cassine. Le Cascine were a number of residences for farmers that are constructed around a threshing floor and opposing the other side of the yard, the stables and barns for livestock. These were often put together one or two villas, consisting of a more complex system of short, short, rustic noble courts and private gardens. Just adjacent to these, or in the middle of regular aid, in any case usually the center of the village, there was usually a small church that serves the residents of the community. They are perfect examples of the system of farm-villa Castellazzo of the bubble, or Arconati Villa, Villa Borromeo Litta- Lainate, the Castellazzo of Rho, and so on. In these villages there was the square, the square was the threshing floor.
Then there is a reason and as social and economic culture that has hindered the formation of the "Italian Piazza" in the rural villages of north of Milan: Cassina was in fact a complex system made up of labor, farming and made a few families and so much humanity, much of the life of the people who lived in Cassine took place at work in the fields, or in the great private and public together, the court, which represented the center of daily life. "The Lombard farmhouse is the first unit in Lombardy court imposed a" necessity "intrinsic people: work. A farm itself apart from each other in a reasonable measure, implies that when the power of labor as it can fulfill a working farm family, or group of family gathered into the expanse of the bottom. "
And so it is easier to try to find a similarity between the courts, including the large farms and farmyards of the squares Central Italy, made of rich palaces of loggias and porches that surround the space of the square, rather than between them and the squares , or should I say the spaces that have formed over time, almost cut between the various courts and rustic nobles who formed the Cassina. Spaces severe, unadorned spaces closed spaces, often random. So we could say that the real places, understood as the Renaissance and humanist, in rural villages of northern Milan are the interiors of the courts, regular spaces, often square, built and structured with an iron logic, with long walkways, stairs in the corners and large internal arcades.
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