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T3 Parco Romana and Symbiosis
T5 Porta Nuova district
Thursday 29 May
09:00 - 12:00 & 14:00 - 17:00
Thursday 29 May
09:00 - 12:30 & 14:00 - 17:00
The Parco Romana Coima masterplan is a regeneration project to the south
of Milan focused on a disused railway yard. The tracks in this area have long
severed two important districts of the city.
The Porta Nuova district is a large urban regeneration area to the north
of the historic centre of Milan. The area extends from Garibaldi station
in the west through to Piazza República, Lombardia and Via Melchiori
Gioia. The 34-hectare district now contains many office buildings
(57,000m2) including several of height. In addition, there are retail
zones, cultural spaces and apartments. To enable the development
there was also very considerable infrastructure investment
to provide road tunnels, metro connectivity, cycle paths and
other landscaping. At the centre is a very large new park
named Biblioteca degli Alberi. During the decade of its main
construction (2005 – 2015) it was the largest construction
site in Europe.
The heart of the masterplan is the Olympic athlete village which will serve the
Milano – Cortina winter games of 2026.
Following the games, the buildings will become student residences with
over 1,000 places. The principal buildings are of modular construction
and will be surrounded by green spaces. The active rail track will be
decked over and landscaped to provide an improved visual outlook as
well as an acoustic screen. Delegates will continue past Lorenzini 8
which will provide 32,000m2 of office space in the form of two L
shaped interlocking blocks, incorporating roof top amenity space.
After passing the Prada Foundation campus, delegates will arrive
at Symbiosis, developed by Covivio. This collection of buildings
has transformed a previous industrial site into a new mixeduse facility comprising 130,000m2 of office, retail, education,
showrooms and research space. Delegates will see the
public realm, water features, offices and amenities in the
principal building. The combination of this site with Parco
Romana will lead to a full regeneration of the Porta
Romana district.
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Leading Milan developer Coima will commence this
tour from their own offices on the campus. They will
present the masterplan, and delegates will then see
two current buildings including Pirelli 35 and Gioia
20 twin towers which have extremely strong
sustainability and energy characteristics based
upon PV’s incorporated in the cladding and the
adaptive re-use of existing buildings. Gioia 20
uses no fossil fuels and 65% of its electricity
will come from renewables.
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