Architetti Senza Frontiere per un giorno
Venerdì 5 Marzo 2010
ore 19.00
Ordine degli Architetti di Milano
via Solferino 19
A seguito di alcune richieste, il Concorso il concorso di idee “Una scuola per Tintareni” è esteso anche ai neo laureati del Poli che hanno conseguito la Laurea tra il 1° Settembre 2009 e il 30 Marzo 2010.
Per tutti i dettagli del Bando: Una scuola per Tintareni
details for Locating the site:
latitudine 44°37′44.85″N
longitudine 23°34′0.16″E
Returned from two really interesting and productive months in Benin. Now I am stable in Italy not yet begun design any plans, I am looking around for some projects that can be inspiring. Surfing on the net I have found two cooperation works in developing countries build for collative and public use, made by young architects.
Polimi-Cooperation indice il concorso di idee “Una scuola per Tintareni” per la progettazione dell’ampliamento di una piccola scuola già esistente nel villaggio rurale di Tintareni, nel distretto di Gorj, a nord-ovest di Bucarest. Il concorso è aperto a TUTTI gli STUDENTI delle facoltà di Architettura, Design e Ingegneria del Politecnico di Milano.
Tra gli elaborati presentati verranno selezionati un progetto vincitore e quattro segnalati.
Scarica il Bando per partecipare
Per info: tintareni@polimi-cooperation.org
Di seguito altre informazioni utili
Mattia is back from his two months long stay in Benin and we haven’t yet met for discussing all documents he collected and produced during his stage in Cotonou and in the center for young girls ‘Claudia and Sonagon’.
While waiting to meet him, Italian newspapers published the follwing artile: Benin children
This is to remember even our ‘actions’ deal with the built environment, we area aware of centrality of human dimension of any intervention.
My Name is Mattia Calore, I am an architecture student at the Faculty of Architettura e Società of Politecnico di Milano.
Following there is the text I wrote a few days before leaving Italy. I hope it will help to understand the whole thing.
Here you can have a look at a short movie
My name is Matteo Perin, M.sc graduating in architecture at the Faculty of “Architettura e società” of Politecnico di Milano. This summer, thanks to the support of my tutors (Gennaro Postiglione, Salvatore Porcaro) and the help of Stefano Marras, Ph.d researcher at the Department of Sociology of “Università degli Studi di Milano”, i had the opportunity to spend two months in Nairobi, Kenya, to explore “on field” the complexity and the dynamics running in one of the 200 informal settlements spread within the metropolitan area: Kibera, worldwide known to be the biggest slum of the Sub-Sahara African region, with a population ranging from 300.000 up to 1.000.000 people (depending on the source) packed into 2,25 sqkm, located in the south-west outskirt of the city.
About 1.3 million people live in more than 900 “favelas” in Rio de Janeiro.
Rich neighbourhoods co-exist next to the poorest slums, with a continuous visual relation, but without a social interaction. Favelas in the middle of the formal city are the best expression of the duality that is a peculiarity of Rio: heaven and hell, luxury and poverty. Rio is an emblematic example of a city that is the representation of spacial and social segregation inside the city itself.
Many social programs are promoted by local government (as Favela-Bairro Program, or PAC Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento) to improve the integration between this informal parts and the formal city, but a lot of critics and considerations to improve the reality of favelas can be done.
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My name is Livia Minoja and I arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, three months ago, to make an internship about urban projects developing Rio de Janeiro’s communities. I got a scholarship – Poli-no-profit – from my school in Milan (Politecnico di Milano), where I study architecture at the Faculty of Architettura e Società, to come here. Thanks also the help of two tutors (Salvatore Porcaro > www.cityrom.it and Gennaro Postiglione > www.lablog.org.uk).
I took part to the urban design team directed by Jorge Mario Jauregui, that is involved in the projects promoted by local government (Prefeitura do Rio), in order to improve an integration between “favelas” and the rest of the city.
Polimi-cooperation is an operative group started in January 2009 at Politecnico di Milano that wishes to put the resources of Architecture in the service of Public Interest. The challenge is to propose to architecture students experiences of sustainable partnership to design & build for collective and public use.
The group works on development issues either identifying and proposing solutions for practical problems either answering to specific requests.
The preferred working format are on-site workshops and summer schools.
Kibera: TRAIN (skyfoto by JR, from: http://jr-art.net)