*Stefano is the kind of cultured, inventive guy who makes you feel proud to be Italian... If you are, in fact, Italian.
http://strelkainstitute.com/en/blog
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"This Wednesday Stefano Boeri — architect and editor in chief at Abitare magazine, director of Design research theme at Strelka, gave a talk on as many as six of his projects, connected to one common topic — turning Milan green (literally, turning it to a buried in verdure) city.
"Six different solutions, which the architect brought together under the tag BioMilano, are currently being on display in British School at Rome. This show happened to be the fourth event in Three Cities in Flux program, dedicated to renovation of London, Rome and Milan. (...)
"Stefano Boeri projects showed in Rome, which he told Strelka students about, are devoted to a different thing — to solutions, which organically connect the city with lived-in but nonfunctional countryside and nature. Boeri suggests six solutions:
"Vertical Forest — skyscrapers with trees growing on each floor;
"Wood House — cheap social housing in Ticino river valley woods. Buildings made of local wood are pulled down and recycled after a while to give birth to new trees;
"Courtyard Farms — renovation of sixty abandoned farms on the outskirts of Milan (not only these grounds can be used for fruit and vegetables gardens, but also for biofuel production and school kids lessons);
"Metrobosco — green belt around Milan;
"Industrial areas renovation program — turning them into social green and semi-agricultural territories;
"And finally the most celebrated project — architectural program for Expo 2015, to be hosted in Milan. Topic is already announced: Feeding the planet, Energy for Life, and Stefano Boeri suggested giant kitchen garden to be built as exhibition space (you can find many pictures with descriptions here and a video of presentation in Expos headquarters on Boeris’ website).
"All these projects were created at different time and on different occasions — for example, idea of Metrobosco, green belt around Milan, was developed four years ago under direction of Boeri in multiplivity.lab laboratory in Politecnico di Milano.
"But now these solutions were not only brought together in one show — Boeri program article in Abitare June issue, entitled Arguments for a Planetary Garden (written as an introduction to Expo 2015 kitchen garden), gives theoretical reasons and suggests holistic approach to city and nature collaboration...."
Stefano Boeri presentation at BIE - 01.07.2010 from Stefano Boeri Architetti on Vimeo.
