Porto di Mare is historically known for its strong identity, heritage, agricultural landscape, and its chronological change throughout the years, in terms of neglection, social and environmental degradation. Core-Verges aims to resolve these criticalities and to explore new potentialities, in a specific site, tangented by Autostrada del Sole and two main roads: via Fabio Massimo & St.Dionigi.

The design process includes multi-dimensional analysis including historical, territorial, perceptual, swot, stakeholders & role playing, and shifts from social point of views, ecological aspects, tangible/intangible heritage to sustainable architectural design. The new design tends to re-create an ecological corridor that enhances and influences new ecological connections, intersecting green and blue networks; develops new buildings and functions for cultural, social, economical, environmental and technological aspects; recalls intangible elements of agricultural activity in southern part of Milan, by creating contemporary public spaces to co-exist with agriculture and landscape itself; and empathizes existing road systems by designing new soft infrastructural elements and by promoting soft mobility. All these in scope of the delicate heritage values of the area in terms of landscape and architecture itself.

Collaborators: Edera Kana, Jiatong Xu, Yijin Wang & Xiaoxuan Zhang