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Daniele Del Grosso

Claudio Livetti
Luca Luini

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Politecnico di Milano
Scuola di Architettura Civile
Architectural Design
A.A. 2014/15

Urban Restauration, Prof. Alberta Cazzani

GALLARATE: Analysis and photographic survey

RELEVANT BUILDINGS
GEOMORPHOLOGICAL
ELEMENTS

C5

Rivers
Municipal Boundaries
C6

BUILDED AREAS
Rural Buildings
Religious Buildings
Public Buildings

I2

H8

School Buildings

R11

C2

C9

H1

R13

Preserved Residential
Buildings

R18

P8

H7

H2

Industrial Buildings

R16

I8

Sports Centers

I1

R4
I6
P1

C1
R12

Relevant Rural
Buildings

P1

Relevant Public
Buildings

I1

Relevant Industrial
Buildings

H1

Preserved residential
Buildings

H4

R3

H5

C1

C7

H6

R6

Churches

I3
I4

H3

R1

I9
P3

R17

P4

R15

R8

R1

P7

P11

C8

R5

C3

R14

P12

P5

P10
I11

P6

P2

I10

INFRASTRUCTURES
R9

Railways
Highways

P9

R7
C4

I5

I7

R10

CASCINE

Intercommunal Roads

1. Bozzetta.

2. Gunel

6. Monte

7. Brianzola

LOST RURAL BUILDING

10. Bonomi

igm 1933

11. Buffoni

igm 1883,1933

12. Valletta

igm 1933

13. Costa

igm 1933,1958,1980

14. Buongiorno

igm 1883,1933,1958
igm 1883,1933

15. Moriggia

igm 1883,1933,1958

16. Borrini
3. Bozza

8. Gesuita

igm 1883

17. Buffoni II
18. Spazzaquatrina
19. Calcaterra
20. Nuova
21. Buonasera

4. Celsi

9. Buscetta

appears in

igm 1883,1933,1958,1980
igm 1883,1933
igm 1883,1933,1958
igm 1883,1933

22. Cedra

igm 1883,1933,1958,1980

23. Cascinetta

igm 1883,1933,1958,1980

24. Colombo

igm 1883

25. Brugo

igm 1883

26. Gaggini

igm 1883

27. Buffoni III

igm 1883

5. Boschina
Today, some extinct rural buildings, give their name to entire neighborhoods or streets. Cascinetta and Moriggia are contemporary districts once
in the country, Via Celsi is named by the presence of the Cascine Celsi.

RELEVANT BUILDINGS

RURAL BUILDINGS

1. San Pietro XII/XIII

2. Ex Convento S. Francesco XIII

3. Chiesa di San Rocco XVI

4. S. Maria del Bettolino XVII

5. SantAntonio Abate XVIII

6. Madonna dei Ronchi XVIII

7. Madonna in Campagna XIX

8. Santa Maria Assunta 1856/71

9. Gallarate Cemetery (arch.Boito) 1864

10. San Nazaro e Celso 1892

11. San Zenone (Crenna) 1899

12. S. Francesco (arch. Moretti) 1910

13. S. Alessandro (Cascinetta) 1932

14. Aloisianum Curch 1936

15. San Paolo Apostolo 1973

16. Evangelic Curch 1980

17. Madonna della Speranza 1982

18. Divin Ges Lavoratore 2007

RELEVANT BUILDINGS

RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS

3. Cotonificio Majno

1. Candeggio Gallaratese

1914

2. Cotonificio Macchi

1899

4. Tessitura Pietro Costa

1904

5. Tessitura F.lli Puricelli

1901

6. Officine Meccaniche Gallaratesi

8. Manifattura Borgomaneri

1904

8. Manifattura gallaratese

1914

10. Tessitura Cantoni

12. Societ anonima Carlo Bassetti

RELEVANT BUILDINGS

1908

1904-11

1907

7. Cotonificio Bellora

1933

1907

CURRENT SITUATION

1/2. industry

7. stores / industry

3. offices / supermarket

8. commerce

4. offices

9. abandoned

5. industry

10. abandoned (A.T. U.)

6. store

11. commerce

INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE

1. Visconti Castle / House

XVIII

2. Villa Montebello

6. Quartiere Liberty

4. Villa Sacconago

1888

5. Villa Rosa ( Bassetti)

1888

7. Ca de Matt

1933

8. Quartiere INA (BBPR)

1962

RELEVANT BUILDINGS

1888

3. Villa Glorietta

1888

1900-10

PRESERVED RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS

1. Societ Ginnastica Gallaratese

1857

2. Ospedale Gallarate (Arch. Boito)

1883

3. Teatro Condominio

1862

4. Casa del Fascio (arch. Minoletti)

5. Broletto

1861

6. Casa dei Balilla (arch. Mezzanotte)

1930

7. MAGA Museum

2010

8. Train Station

1963

9. Liceo Da Vinci

1975

10. ISIS Gadda-Rosselli

1981

11. ITIS Ponti

12. Majno School

1914

RELEVANT BUILDINGS

1939-40

PUBLIC BUILDINGS

GREEN SYSTEM

New green areas


14

Green lines

18

13

Wood

20

Cultivations

22

Existing park

17

Parco del Ticino Limits


Tree lines

15
16

High landscape impact


buildings

21

12
9

11

19
10

23

1
8

4
2
3

GREEN
AREAS

2. Parco via Trombini

1. Parco Bassetti

PUBLIC PARKS TO PRESERVE

In the historic center of the city there are some important public parks whose conservation is crucial, such as
Bassetti Park and Via Trombini Park. They play a significant role in the public life of the city, used by different
categories of users, thanks to the many facilities within
them, which, however, should be often better preserved. Despite their importance, they are presented as
individual episodes within the urban fabric, are not in
fact included in a bigger system that links them to other
green spaces in the city.

3. Ex Cantoni Area

4. Gadda Rosselli School

7. Via Pradisera

8. Via Roma

5. Ex Aviation Barracks (via Milano)

6. Crenna Hill

PUBLIC PARKS TO CREATE

Within the latest urban fabric of Gallarate, often fragmented and uneven are many urban voids, remnant of an
agricultural past or arising from the demolition of abandoned industrial buildings, generally due to the uneven
growth of the city. The logic of intervention for these areas aims to create a system of green that colleagues, including through the use of bike paths and tree-lined streets, the many new green spaces now developed without
an overview. This is especially true for areas straddling Crennas hill, the starting point for the creation of a green
corridor linking ecological agricultural areas still present and the historical center.

9. Via Don Piloni (Crenna Cemetery)

10. Via Cervino

11. Viale dei Tigli

HISTORIC GREEN ROADS

These ancient tree-lined avenues are important examples to preserve and take into consideration for the creation of new roads, inserted within the larger project to
create a green belt. It would also be useful to increase
the presence of bicycle paths along important street
as Viale dei Tigli, that is now a buolevard perfectly
integrated into the dynamics of the contemporary city,
or as along Viale Don Piloni, still now in an agricultural
context.

GREEN SYSTEM

PARKS

12. Via Monte San Martino Farm

13. Boschina Agricultural Park

14. Cascina Boschina and surroundings

AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE
TO PRESERVE

In the north-west of Gallarate, along the axis of


Via Monte San Martino is still present today an
important agricultural and forest, home to many
farms and historical starting point for many nature
trails already present that are attracting many people. These areas, although these are protected,
should be better preserved and integrated with
the surroundings neighborhoods. In many cases
in fact there are high impact buildings not far
from them.

15. Bad example of agricultural storage

16. Chaotic Farms (Via Don Piloni)

17. High paesistic impact buildings (Boschina)

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE
TO REDISGN

18. Countryside fragmented front (via S. Martino)

19. Semiabandoned Vineyard (via Cervino)

20. Woods with timber storage. (via Assisi)

21. Sorgiorile along Cotonificio Macchi

22. Sorgiorile along contemporary industry

23. Arnetta River from Via Volta Bridge

These examples show that there is often the presence, within an agriculture and natural protected
area, of many manufactured high-impact landscaping, such as factories or industrial buildings,
whose relation with the surrounding should be improved for example thanks to the creation of line
threes.
Furthermore, the organization within the lot of the
many farms that are located in the area is often
chaotic and random and lumberyards or various
materials are poorly organized and exploited and
often create a greater fragmentation of the fabric.
As a part of the appearance tourist exploitation
these farms must be reorganized and think about
the possible creation of new buildings for the organized storage of products well harmonized in
the context. Moreover should be planned the recovering of the diversity of agricultural production
once present in the city.

WATER SYSTEM

The rivers in the city are partly underground and


partly flowing between the residential properties. For these reasons it is difficult to think to
create a place of linear paths along the rivers,
but it is nevertheless important to decontaminate
and clean, especially the traits mostly exposed
to view, such as those visible from bridges like
the one on Via Volta. The only linear system
should be planned along Via Sorgiorile and
should includes cycle and pedestrian paths.

GREEN SYSTEM

LANDSCAPE

URBAN FABRIC INTERVENTIONS

INTERVENTIONS
N.A.F. Preservation
Historical changed fabric
Preservation
Contemporary fragmented
fabric Rearrangement
Contemporary homogeneous
fabric Preservation

14

Fronts Conservation and

Rearrangement
Improve of compact Fronts
16

4
17

2
8

15

11
5
7

12

3
6

13
9

10

URBAN
FABRIC

1. Via Mazzini porticos and Piazza Libert

2. Via Donatello (Crenna main street)

The ancient historical nuclei of the city (Crenna


and Gallarate) have a compact and homogeneous urban fabric that should be entirely preserved and constrained such as for example the
old buildings along Via Donatello but also the
neoclassical ones in Piazza Garibaldi.
A protection plan for lots of buildings with a
unique historical, artistic and architectural value
should be provided for Gallarate, some example of them, which are listed in the first pages,
are Casa del Fascio by Minoletti, the former
San Francesco convent, now civic museum, and
many churches such as San Pietro and Santa
Maria Assunta.

3. Piazza Garibaldi XVII fabric

4. Piazza Repubblica (Crenna)

7. Via Battisti

URBAN FABRIC

CONSOLIDATED

5. Via Volta

8. Via Dupr (Crenna)

6. Via Turati (NAF)

ALTERED

In the period of the biggest expansion of the


city, starting from 50s are registered the interventions related to new constructions in which are
not respected the necessary parameters for buildings located close to the old historical urban
fabric. It isnt possible to change this situation
now but should be proposed, in case of eventual reconstructions or changes the imposition of
maximum level of a building volume and number
of floors and the alignment of the new building
along the road. In this type of fabric are often
located many historical industrial buildings, such
as Cotonificio Macchi or Cotonificio Bellora to
be preserved as an historic industrial heritage.
In addiction many industries which are now disused should be reused, by entering into new
strategic functions, such as the case regarding
the Manufacture Borgomanero that could become the home of the new museum of industrial
memories, on the model of the textile museum of
Busto Arsizio.

HISTORICAL FABRIC

9. Via Covetta (Ronchi)

10. Via Malpensa

11. Via Aosta

12. Via Carlo No

13. Social Housing Cascinetta

14. Social Housing Crenna

10. Via Ronna

FRAGMENTED

For this type of fabric that forms the majority of the


city of Gallarate is a field still in the completion
phase, that has many urban voids and, as in the
cases of Via Aosta and Via Covetta, buildings
which do not have a relationship with the front
road. You have to program the completion of
urban voids through the construction of buildings
that will relate with the street front in the respect
of functional standards menwhile thinking of a
new organization of public parks in the broader
logic of a new system of parks.

15. Moriggia Ina Neighborhoos (BBPR)

HOMOGENOUS

Within the city are present building interventions


made in the recent past that tried to create an
ordered urban fabric and consequently a better
space management. They,as in the case of the
village INA by BBPR, are interventions to preserve and protect.

16. Terrace Houses in Crenna

URBAN FABRIC

CONTEMPORARY FABRIC

SPECIFIC INTERVENTIONS

INTERVENTIONS

Conservative restoration of
disused buildings
Conservative restoration of
disused buildings with
change of intended use
Change of intended use
New Landmarks
Existing railway crossings
New railway crossings
Chimneys to preserve
P.G.T. A.T.U.

BIKE TRACKS SYSTEM

Existing tracks
11

New P.G.T. tracks

New tracks

18
22
10

13

23
9
17

19

14

3
12

16

1
15
20

21

SPECIFIC
ELEMENTS

1. Ex Tessitura Cantoni

2. Via II Giugno Fabric

3. Via Pacinotti Railway Storehouses

DISUSED INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS

Regarding disused industrial buildings, should,


after a careful analysis, develop a restoration
through these episodes, in order to preserve the
best quality and value that they assume within
the city. Where possible should also rethink the
perspective of a change of intended use that,
giving the building a life and a natural longest
maintenance, ensure these disused buildings a
new role in the city.

4. Ex Osteria della Stella (Sempione)

5. Palace in Piazza Garibaldi

6. Ex Railway electric station

DETERIORATED BUILDINGS

We reported some examples of blighted buildings with the intention to place them in a logic of
conservation of the buildings which today reported problems both structural and maintenance of
the facade. In this way we try to improve their
value within the urban fabric, especially because
often these buildings occupy an important role in
the system of urban fronts.

7. Housing in Crenna

8. Cascina Bozza

9. Buildings in via Volta

7. Casa Porro in Crenna

8. Housing in via Cervino

9. Ex Gerolamo Cardano School

SPECIFIC ELEMENTS

DECAYS

10. Via Lombardia

11. Via Rusnati (now a parking lot)

CHIMNEYS

12. Hospital Chimney

We marked all the chimneys today in the city


to put them in a logic of conservation of the industrial heritage of the urban fabric. These elements in particular feature some specific visual
within the city and they point to what has been
an important period of an productive urban development .

13. Piazza S. Lorenzo (Library and Bottas building)

14. Piazza Risorgimento (Monument)

15. Torre del Seprio (Shopping Mall)

LANDMARKS

Landmarks analysis allowed us to understand


which buildings arise within the city as the focal
point of a neighborhood, a zone or access to
the city. Aware of their importance, we placed
some new landmarks on some major urban
axes, such as the Sempione axis, the most
important road artery of the city.

16. Station square (degradated parking)

17. Ex freight yard (railtracks and storehouses)

18. Aviation Barracks (offices, storehouses, parking)

A. T. U.

Bringing the A.T.U. (areas of urban transformation) we became aware of such lots the Gallarate P.G.T. had already taken into account and
considered as areas to be reorganized in order
to revitalization within the urban fabric.

19. Via 5 Giornate

20. Via Pegoraro

RAILWAY CROSSINGS

The analysis of railway crossings is important to understand how the city, divided entirely by the main
railway line, behaves to bridge this split. We intervened by inserting a new crossing on Viale Milano, to
improve ties with neighboring districts Sciar.

SPECIFIC ELEMENTS

SPECIFIC CRITICALITIES

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