Settimo Milanese, Nicola Braghieri competition winner

The architecture competition for a site in Villaggio Cavour (near Milan) set by the Comune di Settimo Milanese together with the Fondazione dell’Ordine degli Architetti in Milan, now has a winner. The team lead by Nicola Brughieri, according to the jury, achieved the objectives set – an outline scheme for new low cost council housing, redesign of public space and the integration of environmental and landscape aspects – with a solution that resolves well the relationship between the new and existing. The design’s strong point is in the avoidance of an excessive expansion of building volume leaving open spaces which extend in such a way as to accommodate the existing buildings. A fundamental aspect for a site surrounded by a residential area which developed mainly in the years which following the second world war and an area in a period of transition from agricultural to craft based.

In second place was the team lead by Luisa Olgiati who put forward a wide internal pedestrian route, a kind of elongated piazza open towards the lake and the park. Concentrating instead on the integration of different modular dwellings, avoiding the traditional and dispersed separation between low level and high level housing, single family houses and blocks of housing was the team of architects lead by Maria Grazia Folli who came third.
The Comune di Settimo is now set to start building soon and will be commissioning the development of the overall plan to the winners.

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