hybrid territories/ free call for ideas

What Destiny?

HYBRID TERRITORIES - A4 MotorwayBetween Dalmine to Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy

“Around - Below - Above the Infrastructure”

Free Call for Ideas & On-line Workshop

Urban Hybridization

http://www.urbanybridization.net

By Fabrizio Zanni © Dipartimento di architettura e pianificazione - www.diap.polimi.it

On-line Call for Ideas & Workshop: Rules

On-line Call for Ideas Rules

1. This Call is Open for Architects, professionals, Researchers and Students in: Architectural - Landscape - Urban Design, Building Engineering, Urban Geography, Artists and Specialists in other relevant fields of learning around the World;

2. Work Teams are accepted; 3. the official language are English.4. Candidates should submit their Ideas only by e-mail5. The Call does not include any kind of Prize, outside of the publication

of selected materials on www;6. We will make some on-line meeting with the Candidates, using Skype

application

On-line Workshop (Call for Ideas) Rules

7. The Aim of this Call is to highlight and publish remarkable project Ideas about Urban and Architectural Hybridization applied to a case-study of the infrastructural spaces, that have the potential to inspire exciting questions about contemporary architectural discourse;

8.- Subscription Deadline (e-mail): May 30th, 2010- Subscription acceptance notification: June 21th, 2010- Entries Deadline (Files): July 30th, 2010- On-line Publication of Ideas September 30th, 2010- on-line workshop (colloquia): from September

to November 2010- Publication of selected works: February, 2011

Key Dates:

On-line Workshop (Call for Ideas) Rules

9. candidates should submit their ideas in:- a .pdf or .ppt file or a podcast (videoclip) .mov or quicktime

10. The document will contain:- a short description of the concept (in text or in voice);- Images, graphics, renderings, photos of maquettes, sketches, notes, tales, etc. showing the Idea;- a Legend showing functions etc.

Call for Ideas- Base materials

Download Base materials:1. Orthophotos scale meters 1/10.000:http://www.fabriziozanni.net/A4/10000_1.jpghttp://www.fabriziozanni.net/A4/10000_2.jpghttp://www.fabriziozanni.net/A4/10000_3.jpghttp://www.fabriziozanni.net/A4/10000_4.jpg

2. Orthophotos scale meters 1/5.000:http://www.fabriziozanni.net/A4/5000_1.jpghttp://www.fabriziozanni.net/A4/5000_2.jpghttp://www.fabriziozanni.net/A4/5000_3.jpghttp://www.fabriziozanni.net/A4/5000_4.jpghttp://www.fabriziozanni.net/A4/5000_5.jpg

Source: “Portale cartografico Nazionale”: http://www.pcn.minambiente.it/mdSearch/

3. Aerial Views In Google Earth or Maps: Search: “Dalmine, Italy” or “Dalmine BG” and look surrounding along the A4 Motorway

4. “Standard” Aerial Views (Sequence 1 to 6):http://www.fabriziozanni.net/A4/seq1.tiff

http://www.fabriziozanni.net/A4/seq2.tiffhttp://www.fabriziozanni.net/A4/seq3.tiffhttp://www.fabriziozanni.net/A4/seq4.tiffhttp://www.fabriziozanni.net/A4/seq5.tiffhttp://www.fabriziozanni.net/A4/seq6.tiff

Submission and Informations

Only 2 Steps:

1. Please send an e-mail with:

TO:…………………………………

2. Send your files to:…………..

- Name(s) - Surname(s)- Current Position(s)- University or Company- E-mail address & website- A few words about your idea- Interested in an on-line workshop? Y - N- If it is “yes”: your Skype name (ID)

fabrizio.zanni@gmail.com

fabrizio.zanni@polimi.it

http://www.fabrizio.zanni.nethttp://www.diap.polimi.it/didattica/scheda_docente.php?k_docente=13247http://www.linkedin.com/in/fabriziozanni

Prof. Fabrizio ZanniArchitectural and Urban Design

Politecnico di Milano

dipartimento di architettura e pianificazione

Via bonardi 3 milano

Italy

Politecnico di Milano

dipartimento di architettura e pianificazione Via bonardi 3 milano

Italy

http://www.diap.polimi.it/

http://www.polimi.it/

The local Context

“Around - Below - Above the Infrastructure”

Where? (Word - Europe - Northern Italy - Lombardy)

Where? A4 Motorway between Milan and Bergamo

Milan

Bergamo

Como

Where? Google Earth Coordinates

Google Earth Coordinates:

45 38 23.82 N9 36 46.63 E

Where? A4 Motorway near Dalmine - Bergamo

A4 Motorway Milan BGY International AirportTown of Bergamo

Aerial View

A4 Motorway and his Edge AreasMilan BGY International Airport

Town of Bergamo

Dalmine A4: Urban Sprawl

Diffused Residential Areas

Agricultural Areas

Industrial Areas

A4 Motorway - Sequence (from West to North-East): 1(Dalmine)

Dalmine A4: Diffused Textures and Agricultural Landscape

Motorway Service Area(Parking, Bar, Restaurant, Gasoline)

A4 Motorway - Sequence: 2 (“Dalmine” Service Area)

Industrial Areas

Industrial Areas

Agricultural Areas

Dalmine A4: Infrastructural Nodes and Fragmented Landscape

A4 Motorway - Sequence: 3 (“Dalmine” Gate)

“Dalmine” A4 Gate

Agricultural Areas

Industrial Areas

Old Residential Areas

Dalmine A4: Infrastructural Nodes and Fragmented Landscape

A4 Motorway - Sequence: 4 (“Semeraro” Store etc..)

Industrial Area

Dalmine A4: Infrastructural Nodes and Fragmented Landscape

Old shopping Center

Agricultural Area

Agricultural Area

Hotel

A4 Motorway - Sequence: 5 (Stezzano railway Station)

Agricultural Areas

Agricultural Park

“Stezzano” Railway Station

(no connections with A4 Motorway)

Town of Bergamo - urban Edges

Dalmine A4: Infrastructural Nodes and Fragmented Landscape

“Kilometrorosso” Scientific -Technologic Parkwww.kilometrorosso.com

Agricultural Park (protected Area)

A4 Motorway - Sequence: 6 (near Bergamo)

A4 Motorway - Sequence: 7 (“Bergamo” Gate)

Bergamo - A4 Gate

City of Bergamo

Milan BGY Airport

Large Scale Context

Dalmine - Bergamo in the European Chrono Map*

*Data by sacbo

Wihtin 1,5 Hours

Within 2 Hours

Within 3 Hours

Within1 Hour

Dalmine - A4 in The Paneuropean Corridors Network

The Paneuropean Corridor n. 5

Dalmine A4: connected to the 2 principal corridors N-S W-EDalmine A4: connected to the 2 principal

Dalmine - A4 in the European Motorways Network

Dalmine A4: Connected to European Motorways Network

Highway as a Resource

France

AustriaSwitzerland

Local Scale Context

Milan BGY Int’ Airport

Dalmine Industrial Area

University of Bergamo Dalmine Campus

“Kilometrorosso” Techno Park

River Brembo Park

Stezzano Railway Station

Dalmine A4: Many Development “Cores” along the A4 Highway

Dalmine - A4 Existing Development “Cores”

River Serio Park

A district with a strong productive and technological experimentation vocation

Dalmine - A4: Brands of Bergamo Area

Dalmine A4: a potential district for the production and the research

“ Pedemontana” new Highway : Possible connection with Milan MPX Int. AIrport

stezzano Station:Connection with Highspeed Train Torino trieste

“Pedemontana”:A new railway linePossible connection with Milan MPX

Closeness to Milan BGY

Airport

Dalmine - A4: Potentialities around of A4 Area

“Barrier” Effect along the A4 accentuated by noise barriers

Absence of rapid connections to the airport

Lack of quick connections to the center and the station of Bergamo

Absence of a local “Core” for the development and interconnection

Dalmine: A4 Weakness in the Urban Context

Dalmine A4: a potential district for the production and the research

A4- Motorway as a chance for the Diffused Territory

Facilitate network connections at all scales

1. New Metro LineFom Dalmine to Airport to City of bergamo?

2. A new Pole of research and development alonge the A4? Redefinition of the fringe areas around the A4?

Enhancing the use of A4 Edges?

3. Stezzano Station as an inter-change Node?

4. A core for "Development and exchange" that break down the barrier of the highway?

5. A New Business Area& Meeting Area along the A4?

The Call for Ideas

What Destiny?

The Area of the Call for Ideas

All the Areas around, above and below the axis of the A4 MotorwayBetween Osio Sopra and “Bergamo” A4 Gate

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What Destiny?

The Possible Goals of the Call for Ideas

What Destiny?

“Around - Below - Above the Infrastructure”

Motorway as a parkway?

What Destiny?

“Around - Below - Above the Infrastructure”

Motorway as a Sequence of Connecting spaces?

What Destiny?

“Around - Below - Above the Infrastructure”

Motorway as a Sequence of Public spaces, pedestrian ways and cycle paths connecting the Villages around A4?

What Destiny?

Existing Bicycle Paths around A4

“Around - Below - Above the Infrastructure”

Motorway as a Sequence new Poles of research and scientific development around A4?

What Destiny?

“Around - Below - Above the Infrastructure”

All of that?

What Destiny?

“Around - Below - Above the Infrastructure”

………………. Or what else?

What Destiny?

??

“Around - Below - Above the Infrastructure”

Motorway as a Sequence of Hibrid spaces “above”?

What Destiny?

“Around - Below - Above the Infrastructure”

Motorway as a Sequence of Hibrid spaces “Below”?

“Around - Below - Above the Infrastructure”

“Hybrid” Renewal of old commercial centers?

“Around - Below - Above the Infrastructure”

Or what else?

??

“Around - Below - Above the Infrastructure”

What we want:

Design concepts, ideas to trigger locally processes of hybridization of the relationship between highway and territory at one of all scales possible (,S M, L, XL, and also XS…).

You can express an idea to transform this urban space in a few sketches or using a small model, or using what you want.

What Destiny?

Submission Informations

Only 2 Steps:

1. Please send an e-mail with:

TO:…………………………………

2. Send your files to:…………..

- Name(s) - Surname(s)- Current Position(s)- University or Company- E-mail address & website- A few words about your idea- Interested in an on-line workshop? Y - N- If it is “yes”: your Skype name (ID)

fabrizio.zanni@gmail.com

fabrizio.zanni@polimi.it

- Subscription Deadline (e-mail):

- Subscription acceptance notification:

- Entries Deadline (Files):

- Publication of Ideas*

Remember Key Dates:

June 15th, 2010

May 30th, 2010

July 30th, 2010

September 30th, 2010

* on www.urbanhybridization.net

http://www.fabrizio.zanni.nethttp://www.urbanhybridization.net

fabrizio.zanni@polimi.itfabrizio.zanni@gmail.com

Prof. Fabrizio ZanniArchitectural and Urban Design

Politecnico di Milano

dipartimento di architettura e pianificazione

Via bonardi 3 milano

Italy