Research Group by Biagio Cofini
_ Research Field: A phenomenological interpretation of the redesign of existing architecture should start from the recognition that the interior space has to be re-considered, according to Bruno Zevi’s idea of architecture, as “art of spatial hollows”. The focus on the interior part of buildings is particularly significant, looking at the specific design features characterising the intervention on the built environment in a complex cultural and morphological context such as the European one. In a historical-economic reality that certainly lacks in new contributions, designers still draw on the relationship with the past for new conditions. European culture, and especially Italian culture, is in fact the result of a long-time period stratification which has seen a diffuse integration of old and new buildings, new developments in otherwise consolidated urban fabrics, but which has also been marked by breaks, additions, and reconstructions within the same structure, dictated by the necessary changes made at different historical times. The final result is a metahistorical continuum that, looked at in a future perspective, often ends up merging differences and making the discourse between the old and the new dialogic, as if it were the effect of a single understanding, time, and no longer the sum of different contributions. Furthermore the dialogue with the existing structure is increasingly complex when it takes place in an intervention within the construction. If on the one hand, in fact, the regulations actually set a limit to the building “shell” design, on the other hand, they allow the contemporary intervention a wider margin in its “hollow”. Through critical interpretations borrowed from studies about the visual form of architectural space (Rudolph Arnheim), that unveil in design the use of previous traces, this research looks for the most significant trends of contemporary design in existing architecture.
_ Since 2006 the Interior Reuse Lab has been working on architectural interior and its adaptive reuse through Research by design, Teaching and Writings.
See also:
https://polimi.academia.edu/ImmaForino
https://polimi.academia.edu/MichelaBassanelli
https://polimi.academia.edu/JacopoLeveratto
https://polimi.academia.edu/francescalanz
https://polimi.academia.edu/francescarapisarda
https://polimi.academia.edu/IrenePasina
_ Research Group: Imma Forino, Francesca Lanz, Francesca Rapisarda, with Michela Bassanelli, Biagio Cofini, Jacopo Leveratto, Irene Pasina.
_ Research Field: A phenomenological interpretation of the redesign of existing architecture should start from the recognition that the interior space has to be re-considered, according to Bruno Zevi’s idea of architecture, as “art of spatial hollows”. The focus on the interior part of buildings is particularly significant, looking at the specific design features characterising the intervention on the built environment in a complex cultural and morphological context such as the European one. In a historical-economic reality that certainly lacks in new contributions, designers still draw on the relationship with the past for new conditions. European culture, and especially Italian culture, is in fact the result of a long-time period stratification which has seen a diffuse integration of old and new buildings, new developments in otherwise consolidated urban fabrics, but which has also been marked by breaks, additions, and reconstructions within the same structure, dictated by the necessary changes made at different historical times. The final result is a metahistorical continuum that, looked at in a future perspective, often ends up merging differences and making the discourse between the old and the new dialogic, as if it were the effect of a single understanding, time, and no longer the sum of different contributions. Furthermore the dialogue with the existing structure is increasingly complex when it takes place in an intervention within the construction. If on the one hand, in fact, the regulations actually set a limit to the building “shell” design, on the other hand, they allow the contemporary intervention a wider margin in its “hollow”. Through critical interpretations borrowed from studies about the visual form of architectural space (Rudolph Arnheim), that unveil in design the use of previous traces, this research looks for the most significant trends of contemporary design in existing architecture.
_ Since 2006 the Interior Reuse Research Group has been working on architectural interior and its adaptive reuse through Research by Design, Teaching and Writings.
DAStU Department
Interior Architecture Section
Politecnico di Milano
See also:
https://polimi.academia.edu/ImmaForino
https://polimi.academia.edu/francescalanz
https://polimi.academia.edu/francescarapisarda
https://polimi.academia.edu/MichelaBassanelli
https://polimi.academia.edu/JacopoLeveratto
https://polimi.academia.edu/IrenePasina
Teaching Documents by Biagio Cofini
In the past years I condivided my teaching experience with Yuri Mastromattei and Claudio Camponogara, and the tutors: dr Alessandra Chalmers, arch Marcello Felicori"
Sono stati progettati luoghi individuali e altri collettivi per la produzione e l’esposizione del design e per l’ospitalità temporanea di designer e artisti, con la premessa essenziale che là dove via iterazione, questa possa essere proficua allo sviluppo di idee in modo significativamente differente.
_ Research and Lab Group: Imma Forino, Francesca Lanz, Francesca Rapisarda, with Michela Bassanelli, Biagio Cofini, Jacopo Leveratto, Irene Pasina.
_ Research Field: A phenomenological interpretation of the redesign of existing architecture should start from the recognition that the interior space has to be re-considered, according to Bruno Zevi’s idea of architecture, as “art of spatial hollows”. The focus on the interior part of buildings is particularly significant, looking at the specific design features characterising the intervention on the built environment in a complex cultural and morphological context such as the European one. In a historical-economic reality that certainly lacks in new contributions, designers still draw on the relationship with the past for new conditions. European culture, and especially Italian culture, is in fact the result of a long-time period stratification which has seen a diffuse integration of old and new buildings, new developments in otherwise consolidated urban fabrics, but which has also been marked by breaks, additions, and reconstructions within the same structure, dictated by the necessary changes made at different historical times. The final result is a metahistorical continuum that, looked at in a future perspective, often ends up merging differences and making the discourse between the old and the new dialogic, as if it were the effect of a single understanding, time, and no longer the sum of different contributions. Furthermore the dialogue with the existing structure is increasingly complex when it takes place in an intervention within the construction. If on the one hand, in fact, the regulations actually set a limit to the building “shell” design, on the other hand, they allow the contemporary intervention a wider margin in its “hollow”. Through critical interpretations borrowed from studies about the visual form of architectural space (Rudolph Arnheim), that unveil in design the use of previous traces, this research looks for the most significant trends of contemporary design in existing architecture.
_ Since 2006 the Interior Reuse Research Group has been working on architectural interior and its adaptive reuse through Research by Design, Teaching and Writings.
DAStU Department
Interior Architecture Section
Politecnico di Milano
See also:
https://polimi.academia.edu/ImmaForino
https://polimi.academia.edu/francescalanz
https://polimi.academia.edu/francescarapisarda
https://polimi.academia.edu/MichelaBassanelli
https://polimi.academia.edu/JacopoLeveratto
https://polimi.academia.edu/IrenePasina
Thesis Chapters by Biagio Cofini
Arte e architettura sorridono a Totò: Altri monumenti al Rione Sanità (Napoli)
Supervisor: Marisa Galbiati; Co-supervisor: Beppe Finessi; Politecnico di Milano, 1998-1999
Teaching Exhibitions by Biagio Cofini
L’ex scuola elementare Mazzini è stata individuata come caso-studio di un processo rigenerativo che, a partire da edifici desueti, crea una relazione virtuosa fra abitanti, memoria dei luoghi e cultura.
A Paullo la vocazione all’incontro e all’apprendimento dei suoi cittadini è ribadita con il progetto dell’ex scuola: riqualificazione architettonica, organizzazione di spazi interni e aree esterne, maggiore connessione percettiva e d’uso con il paesaggio urbano.
Biblioteca comunale, sale studio, spazio bambini, salette per corsi d’istruzione o aggiornamento per adulti, aree di start up e co-working per giovani, spazio espositivo, caffetteria e bookshop sono alcune fra le richieste della città, a cui gli studenti hanno risposto con diversificate proposte. Un centro culturale intergenerazionale è il risultato a cui tutti sono pervenuti senza demolire l’edificio storico – così caro nel ricordo di tanti paullesi –, bensì riconvertendolo a desideri e necessità di stringente attualità per una città che riconosce nella cultura il ruolo propulsivo della propria crescita.
The exhibition presents a selection of proposals for the reconversion of the industrial complex that was previously a printing plant, and current is the headquarters of the association, into an “Art Center” for the city of Milan, dedicated to the creative activity of artists and performers. The projects include the construction of studios and workshops, guesthouses, exhibition spaces, cafes, bookshops, reiterating the call for experimentation and diffusion of art of this extraordinary place through its architectural upgrading, the organization of interiors, the connections and the opening to neighborhood.
Curated by: Laboratorio di Progettazione Architettonica 3J,
CdS in Scienze dell’Architettura,
Scuola di Architettura e Società, Politecnico di Milano.
Professors: Imma Forino, Francesca Lanz and Francesca Rapisarda.
Tutors: interior designer Irene Pasina; Architects Michela Bassanelli, Biagio Cofini and Jacopo Leveratto.
Projects by: G.M. Paolo Albiero, Armando Albuquerque, Giulia Aleotti, Valeria Bernasconi, Chiara Binda, Beatrice Borsetti, Mariagrazia Bosio, Alice Bramati, Francesca Brotini, Ilenia Cabinio, Federica Caccia, Francesco Caliò, Sefano Calzone, Veronica Caoduro, Valentina Chiesa, Francisca Ana Castro, Elisa Corbellini, Arianna Di Giacinto, A.M. Samah Eman, Josefin Fischer, Roberto Ghepardi, Dalila Giacomella, Chiara Girolami, Giuseppe Giuliano, Chiara Giussani, Ilgaz Kayaalp, Matteo Leone, Katia Logiudice, Susanna Masci, Antonio Mirabile, Roberta Musumeci, Livia Olivucci, Silvia Ottaviano, Edoardo Perdetti, Maria Premarini, Barbara Rettore Lolla, Silvia Rolla, Francesca Sardo, Elisa Schilirò, Clausia Solarino, Chiara Spinelli, Chiara Stanga, Yi Sun, Giulia Tosi, Joana Varajao, Mattea Vinco Da Sesso, Maria Viola Zangheri"
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Progetti del Laboratorio di Progettazione dell’Architettura degli Interni
CdL in Progettazione dell’Architettura | Scuola AUIC | Politecnico di Milano | proff Imma Forino e Francesca Rapisarda (Interior Reuse Lab) | archtti Marcella Camponogara Biagio Cofini Jacopo Leveratto Eleonora Riccioni
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Mostra a cura di Marcella Camponogara e Jacopo Leveratto
Allestimento di Francesca Rapisarda
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Progettata dall’architetto Piero Portaluppi fra il 1924 e il 1926, la Società Ceramica Italiana a Laveno Mombello rappresenta un notevole esempio di architettura industriale italiana, simbolo di una collettività produttiva quanto sensibile all’estetica del manufatto ceramico. Non più in uso da tempo, il complesso rappresentato dalla palazzina uffici e gli edifici di ingresso e servizio si presenta in stato di forte degrado. Necessita non solo di riqualificazione edilizia e di opere di restauro, ma di un nuovo destino: attende di essere riconvertito in un polo culturalmente attrattivo e proficuo per la città e il suo territorio. Tre le ipotesi progettuali proposte: Creative Hub (per startup e coworking per giovani professionisti e fab lab per piccole produzioni ceramiche), Cultural Basin (aperto a eventi culturali, congressuali ed espositivi) e Kid Learning Center (destinato al tempo libero e ad attività formative dei bambini nel doposcuola). A partire da questi spunti e da quelli offerti dalla Municipalità – che da tempo prospetta un Museo del Sanitario che fu prodotto in loco –, quaranta giovani progettisti hanno sviluppato un programma funzionale per l’insieme portaluppiano, riprogettato gli interni degli edifici, gli arredi, i sistemi allestitivi, i servizi al pubblico e, al contempo, riqualificato l’area esterna nell’ottica di valorizzare un importante simbolo della città. Nel rispetto e nella valorizzazione delle strutture e delle decorazioni originari sono emersi nuovi habitat contemporanei, affinché lo straordinario progetto di Piero Portaluppi non sia abbandonato a una sorte fatale, ma ritorni a essere un espressivo landmark per Laveno Mombello.
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Progetti di: Miriam Aisa | Giorgio Andreoni | Alessia Arcolaci | Susanna Berra | Isacco Francesco Boffi | Margherita Bolgiani | Mattia Bosisio | Martina Brasca | Daniela Bucchi | Elena Busoni | Alice Cajelli | Silvia Caldi | Giulia Camardo | Fiamma Shihari Costa Dehiwalage | Claudia Cuccaro | Silvia Dadda | Simone Dalben | Camilla Maria De Capitani | Stefano Di Zazzo | Alessandra Claudia Ferrari | Sara Fuga | Lucia Giordano | Fabrizio Salvatore Greco | Marco Lenzi | Mattia Manelli | Martina Chiara Nardini | Chiara Ponti | Mihaela Pricopi | Lisa Regazzoni | Martina Riso | Greta Romani | Nicolò Sciolti | Lisa Secreti | Alessio Socci | Diego Suardi | Celeste Tellarini | Greta Varani | Paola Vescovi | Vittoria Zammitti | Erica Zoccarato
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Inaugurazione: Sabato 17 giugno 2017, MIDeC Museo Internazionale Design Ceramico _ Ore 17:30 _ via Lungolago Perabò 5, Cerro di Laveno Mombello
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Mostra: 18 giugno | 2 luglio 2017
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Si ringraziano: Ercole Ielmini, Sindaco di Laveno Mombello | Unipol Sai | prof Roberto Dulio, Politecnico di Milano | dott Ferruccio Luppi, Fondazione Piero Portaluppi | dottssa Maria Grazia Spirito, MIDeC | arch Silvia Tommaselli, Unipol Sai SpA | dott Gioele Giudici
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Evento promosso da: Comune di Laveno Mombello _ DASTU Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani, Politecnico di Milano _ Interior Reuse Lab _ MIDeC Museo Internazionale Design Ceramico, Cerro di Laveno Mombello _ Scuola di Architettura Urbanistica Ingegneria delle Costruzioni, Politecnico di Milano
INTERIOR REUSE Lab by Biagio Cofini
2016 No Profit Convention between prof. Imma Forino (with the Interior Reuse Lab) - DAStU Department, Comune di Laveno Mombello (VA) and UNIPOL-SAI about a Research by Design on an Office Building by P. Portaluppi to reuse as Cultural Center, Kid Learning Center or Creative Hub.
Project and 2017 exhibition at MIDeC Museum, Cerro di Laveno Mombello (VA).
2017 No Profit Convention between prof. Imma Forino (with the Interior Reuse Lab) - DAStU Department and Croce Rossa Italiana Verona (CRI VE) about a Research by Design on an Old Building to reuse as Help Center for Disadvantaged and Migrant People and Cultural Center, Educational Center or Hostel.
2014 No Profit Convention between prof. Imma Forino (with the Interior Reuse Lab) - DAStU Department, and Comune di Paullo (MI) about a Research by Design on the ex-primary school Mazzini to reuse as Learning Center.
Projects and 2015 design exhibition, ex Scuola Mazzini, Paullo.