3/27/2016The ethical principle of Bicocca Aero bicycle: During Milan Design Week three architects show a wooden and carbon fiber bicycle that explores the possibilities of materials Italiano Sign up / Log in Since 1928 Search Domus... Like You, Jibrail AlAhmar and 589,291 others like this. Architecture / Design / Art / Products / Domus Archive / Shop / Domus1000 Contents News / Interviews / Op-ed / Photo-essays / Reviews / Video / Green / Smart City / School Magazine Editorial / Current issue / Local editions / From the archive The ethical principle of Bicocca Among the many "city concepts" that are being realised in Milan's empty urban spaces, the Bicocca area is the only one with its well-defined identity. Architecture / Fulvio Irace Author Fulvio Irace Sections Architecture Photography Donato Di Bello, Pino Musi Keywords city concepts, Domus 940, Gregotti, Milan's Bicocca district, The ethical principle of Bicocca Published 16 October 2010 Network Like on Facebook Share on Twitter Pin to Pinterest Location Milan Launched in 1985 with the first stage of an international competition by invitation, the redevelopment of the Pirelli site in http://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/2010/10/16/theethicalprincipleofbicocca.html 1/13 it/en/architecture/2010/10/16/theethicalprincipleofbicocca. architects. From this point of view. completion of the last voids and landscaping of the Collina dei Ciliegi. which avoid belonging to any historical context. therefore. the redevelopment of the ex-Pirelli tyre production plant is not only the most significant operation among the albeit numerous examples of converted disused industrial sites. This compares decisively with the explosion of new districts that – from the Bovisa to the former trade fair zone and the GaribaldiRepubblica area – are rapidly transforming Milan's skyline and radiocentric structure. where the notion of design as a "modification" rejects the expectations of definitive utopias as well as the devotion to liberating acts. It is also the one that has most forcefully identified the theme of urban projects with a strategic vision of the contemporary city and with the role which architecture is expected to perform in it. by translating it into a gratuitous variety of patterns founded on iconic abuse and artistic invention. Covering 700. A quarter of a century after work began in 1989. together with the Vila Olímpica in Barcelona. despite a substantial collection of future-oriented images. Thus. for example. the whole Bicocca operation can be considered the most radical and coherent expression of a position which. by applying to architecture the well-known historical theories of Fernand Braudel. claims its revenge both on the theory of "junk space" and on acceptance of "sprawl" as a model of "spontaneous" urban planning from the lowest level. These provocatively go against the claims of instant architecture. the theme of the contemporary city has not yet received convincing answers despite a plethora of proposals.3/27/2016 The ethical principle of Bicocca Milan's Bicocca district is one of the last major urban projects undertaken in the 20th century. artists.domusweb. or Canary Wharf in the London Docklands. Or they have adapted the metaphor of social fluidity to the laissez-faire of financial capitalism. which has established itself as a dominant practice in the logic of the master plan. Although it has been the subject of discussion among urban planners. green areas have substantially ferried the redevelopment principles of its original programme into a new image of the city. Substituted by http://www. the issue of urban design has basically been eluded.000 square metres (comparable to the Défense in Paris and larger than the cases of London and Barcelona). compared to the dismal failure of the past decade's planning euphoria. sociologists.html 2/13 . These have mistaken the ecological perspective for a highly imaginative shortcut to a future with more fabulous than real prospects. "long-lasting" project. artists. Gregotti calls it a "slow". it has thus let everybody in and reduced social responsibility to a choice of aesthetic options. With one or two isolated exceptions. but its critical reconsideration beyond all ideological screens and all claims to innovation for its own sake. on the other hand. possible service andsearch display advertising centred on your preferences. With time. not by chance considered to be one of the contemporary capital's most liveable areas.domusweb. This is the essence of Vittorio Gregotti's stance when he maintains that "the design of a new city requires a development principle together with its comparison to the empirical state of things. to this day demonstrated by the exemplariness of many "new towns" built under the Fascist regime.3/27/2016 The ethical principle of Bicocca the case-bycase practice. and by Rome's EUR quarter. Famagosta – the Bicocca quarter is the only one that has its own defined identity.html 3/13 . Continued browsing means you accept the use of cookies. erased the awareness (indeed it has made it more dramatically topical) of the need for a development principle that considers the "new" as a dialectic interrelation with context. as also to the historical interrelations between radiocentric Milan and its suburbs. however. From the end of the 19th century. the trump card played by theExtended Cookie Policy X Close best Italian architecture. and not a submission to gratuitous decorative morphologies. Piazzale Maciacchini. This does not mean praise of the past. It has not. ex-trade fair zone. Our extended basic policy explains how to disable third party cookies. Gardella. It is not the invention of an abstract model to be applied to the land. in the awareness that the advent of mechanisation called for radical approaches to the prefiguration of contemporary society. modern tradition grew out of a reflection on the new city. In the case of the Bicocca quarter. It also seems to be keeping its promise to become the historic centre of a new suburb. produced its most convincing results: from the rationalist ensembles of Pagano and Albini to the "revisionist" ensembles of the INA-Casa public housing season by Ponti. in terms of districts and of the city. Figini The for new This site uses technicalcreated cookies. But one must also consider the legacy of an intellectual tradition which. this means relating to the site's industrial past (to the memory of the factory enclosure). compared to the many ideas of a city being realised in the urban voids of Milan – Porta Vittoria. third party cookies are sent to provide you with and the bestPollini. it is a proposal to start development from the complexity of the existent. http://www. but organises them so as to make them visible and comparable. Santa Giulia. this has become steadily sharper in its relations to the city's edges. and from the attainment of an order which does not erase or simplify a place's existing tensions. The passage from an industrial to a postindustrial and global society has by now made those patterns irremediably impracticable.it/en/architecture/2010/10/16/theethicalprincipleofbicocca. rules was. Rather. of necessities and of the site". 1186124 Capitale sociale versato € 5.3/27/2016 The ethical principle of Bicocca Concept plan for the new city of Pujiang.000. partita IVA e iscrizione al Registro delle Imprese di Milano n.Codice fiscale.A.Cookie policy .E. 2001 – 2009 Your profile / Facebook / Twitter / Instagram / Pinterest / RSS / LOVES Editoriale Domus Spa Via G.All rights reserved . 07835550158 R.domusweb. Mazzocchi.CONTACTS http://www. Shanghai. 1/3 20089 Rozzano (Mi) .000.it/en/architecture/2010/10/16/theethicalprincipleofbicocca.00 .html 4/13 . di Milano n. Three firms were promoted to the final selection: Gabetti and Isola. designed by Gino Valle. Gregotti Associates and Gino Valle.it/en/architecture/2010/10/16/theethicalprincipleofbicocca. In 1988 Vittorio Gregotti was declared the winner. in an area of the master plan http://www.domusweb.3/27/2016 The ethical principle of Bicocca In 1985 Pirelli invited 20 studios to participate in an international competition calling for the conversion of its former factories in Milan into a “new technological and multifunctional centre”. 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The cooling tower in the centre of the building’s courtyard is an imposing pre-existing structure that represents the memory of the site’s industrial past http://www.domusweb.3/27/2016 The ethical principle of Bicocca Views of the Pirelli & C.html 10/13 . Real Estate headquarters. html 11/13 .it/en/architecture/2010/10/16/theethicalprincipleofbicocca.3/27/2016 The ethical principle of Bicocca http://www.domusweb. it/en/architecture/2010/10/16/theethicalprincipleofbicocca.3/27/2016 The ethical principle of Bicocca Author Fulvio Irace Sections Architecture Photography Keywords Donato Di Bello. The ethical principle of Bicocca Network Like on Facebook Share on Twitter Pin to Pinterest Location Milan Your comments 0 commenti Tweets by @DomusWeb Ordina per Meno recenti Domus @DomusWeb Aggiungi un commento.it/en/design/2016… Facebook Comments Plugin Embed 1h View on Twitter http://www. Domus 940.twitter. Pino Musi city concepts. 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