Piazza Tirana | This is not a conventional square anymore.
To keep continue developing our project in the period, we contacted the Nuova Acropoli association and the other Municipality officers. First of all, for the redevelopment of the neighborhood, three total projects are planned. They introduced us the three projects of public competition, and helped us to find the specific information about their projects. Besides of these we also keep continuing to improve our spatial and community analysis.
With the support of the Miro* online platform, we enhance our concept map regarding to our various ‘brainstorm charts’ . All the group members put their own key words and in the process we developed our chart and finalize with the successive schemes to explain the idea of our visions . Also still keeping the mind of tactical urbanism and add a value to the community. Physical change often come from the local ideas. So the needs and ideas allows for efficient projects and at the end of our plans come straight from the source and to transform spaces into community parts . Because the tactical urbanism is not just the small changes this is the participation of residents. So the important point is to create a connected community and for adding value with the way of short term action and long term change. With a low cost and scalable interventions. At final the main aim is to create a content community with the way of tactical urbanism.
With our brain storming process, we started with the improving ideas with Piazza Tirana sticky notes which we created in Miro and also at the same time thinking the survey results of the participants. What we need and what are the connotations of that words. In the second step we can see the needs like security, safety, activities, meeting points, seating places, green and parking areas. We focused on the well-being of Piazza Tirana, so we think on the space, free time, events and more in detail about the games for free time and for events such as musical and cultural events, performances.
We also focused on what we need more detailed for these spaces: barrier elements, surface treatments, street furniture, landscaping elements, signs, and programming pedestrian crossings intersections, bike ways and the other public spaces. With this way we also think on the types of that elements and in which way we can use them for our visions and how can we use them “ _what we want to feel at the piazza for creating these visions.”
The proponent’s (Nuova Acropoli) project aims to give the square back to the inhabitants with mainly focusing on the elderly in the area. The areas which are dedicated to the elderly will diagnosable, in some part of self-managed. They wanted to reduce the existing dog area on the station side and re-design for elder people. The parts of the square which are dedicated to the eldlerly, they want to define very clearly with signs and colors on the ground. And more with giving other functions to square like games area: chessboard on the ground and a small bowls court, space poetry, reading with book — crossing, exercise bike benches, free area for stretching, yoga, gymnastics. They also would like to change the name of the square from ‘Piazza Tirana’ to ‘Piazza Gaber’. The name of Gaber is coming from a famous artist ‘Giorgio Gaber’ who is loved by everyone but particularly by the inhabitants of area.
Regarding to our spatial and community analysis, the main difficulties of this area can be outlined in four main title which are: civil cohabilitation and communication problems, dirtyness, safe problems and degration. However piazza also accommodate positive situations which gives potential to the are such as its existing central transportation network, surrounded by many different services, the divisions of the green areas and the other flows. So we comprehend the general aspects of our area and in the 1st concept proposal, our aim is to achieve the difficulties and taking this unwelcoming place, transform and regain to public life.
In the first proposal concept, you can follow our new layout. The differences between the existing layout and the new layout. If we go deeper to major to minor key, we regard the collaboration of Comune di Milano so regarding to this fact we keep all the trees as their same places because we do not esteem to remove them or moving them because is also expensive and not a feasible reaction in our opinion. So the only change in the green area is in the soft landscaping which involves generally the grass area. This need is coming from the reorganise of the areas and the need of ground colorization which will provide to make pedestran road connection between the areas like: free relaxation area, secondary gathering area and gathering/event area.
Rethinking the square and its surrounds, our aim is revive the square so with possible solutions such as interactive gardens, multifunctinal vertical walls and gathering areas.
About the second concept, we wanted to development and implement of the Nuova Acropoli association’s proposal.
A new place of social interaction, vitality and meeting, restoring the urban space to public life and residents. Particular attention was paid to the elderly, who live in the neighborhood, proposing a completely new way of experiencing the square.
In fact, there are several activities proposed in order to give the square its hypothetical function as a typical “square”, that is, a place for social gathering and full of cultural activities. “Wellness” is surely the key word.
Team 07 — Cansu Aran, Davide Intravaia, Cagla Irem Karol, Mevce Nalcaci, Nuo Xu
