Over more than 5 years, more than 300,000 square meters of surface along the western edge of the municipality of Milan, heve been transformed into a new urban centrality, a new neighborhood built around a public green area integrated with the existing urban fabric. The new park will be born in what is today a key strategic infrastructural junction and is outlined as a big experiment of urban regeneration which has brought together a consortium of partners gathering the Real Estate developer Borio Mangiarotti SpA, the US fund Värde Partners and the Solidarnosc Cooperative, professionals such as the architect Mario Cucinella and the landscape architect Michel Desvigne as well as international companies such as Arup, Microsoft and Easydom in dialogue with the public actors and the realities of the territory.

The area, which is currently going through a process of radical transformation, has been abandoned for years and was previously used as a quarry, and is now expected to become an urban park. A new green area which establishes a dialogue with both the countryside of the Po Valley, and the rich system of green lands, mending the pattern of this portion of the city and bringing it back to the metropolitan system of Milan. A transformation that not only aims to create a new green and multi-functional neighborhood, but an opportunity to trigger urban regeneration through new collective spaces and services for a sustainable and resilient community.

In this context, photography becomes a tool to explore the urban change, to develop knowledge and provide a documentary research of the transformations while in progress: from the first stages up to the final phases of completion of this new portion of the city.


Alessandro Guida, 2020