Ospedale Bassini, Cinisello Balsamo (MI) [wds id="9"] The conceptual idea has been the Hortus conclusus, consisting of 3 areas thought to help the Social relationships, (Big Tree and Green Rooms), Interpersonal relationships (Pergolas), and Privacy relationships (Little Wood). The concept concerns an unused terrace of 430 m2, open on 3 sides, that enters the Hospice Department on the 7th floor of Bassini Hospital. The space was created as a meeting place, recreation, and rest for patients in the ward, and also for their families, and for healthcare professionals. The green space is set up as: a of the senses (smell, space, view) with colorful and aromatic species; a space of to Do (touch and taste) with the practice of horticulture in the vegetable garden, orchard, or greenhouse; a sleeping space with shade and water, (trees, comfortable seating, a fountain and waterfall); a connective space (turf and paths). The department's inner hallway is a winter garden, with green, seats and a big fountain.

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. Progetto: Garden in the sky Where: Ospedale Bassini a Cinisello Balsamo (MI) Client: Direzione Generale Azienda Ospedaliera San Gerardo di Monza (MB) Timeline: 2004 definitive project Area: sqms 430 terrace + sqms 160 department space

Parco Villa Erba Cernobbio (CO) [wds id="1"] Inside the Orticolario Event 2014, at the Villa Erba’s Park in Cernobbio, the project “A time thought to dream” has been selected among 53 proposals for the International Competition of Creative Gardens. The proposal was born with the intention to realize a magical place in which we can feel welcomed and pampered. It is a feeling we all have lived, especially when we were children when we were laying down on the wildflowers with our noses up to look at the sky, without being watched, to come back to live, as in the past time, our thoughts and dreams. The project was to make a little wildflowers hill, a green oasis that links biodiversity and sustainability, beauty and wellness, usage and low cost, adding landscape and educational value to urban and residential green to test a sustainable green idea which is always more necessary.

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. Project: International Competition of Creative Gardens. Where: Parco Villa Erba Cernobbio (CO) Client: Orticolario for a developed garden Partners: Mariagrazia Rocchetti art director, De Beni Camillo botanical consultant, suppliers: Vivai Valfredda, Oltregreen, Il Guardiano delle Acque, Impresa Costruzioni Edili Bianchi Umberto srl, Christian Cammareri Timeline: 2014 Area: sqms 200 Awards: Special mention for the quality of the plants and the strong social function of the installation  

Val Masino [wds id="12"] "All travelers, who stay in Morbegno, should spend some hours in the Val Masino valley. A clean creek rich in trout sounds along the rocky bottom of the valley; traces of ice age are evident on the rounded surface of the rocks… we were all in agreement that there isn’t any known valley, that exceeds the Val Masino in natural variety and beauty.” S.E. Kennedy First Disgrazia’s climber Val Masino is a land of legends and big hiking events. An old beech forest, a hot spring dating back to 400 ', and the creek Masino are the ingredients of this project marked by the rhythm of a chant written for the occasion, "The Lady of the Source." Steps, stone, and sounds: three words, simple and 'sound' of a journey in stages made from stone and woodworks from corten artists who represented the fundamental themes of the valley. For example geology with Menir, vegetation with tree Beech wise, reptiles with the bench - salamander, or the source with the sculpture of the Lady of the Fountain.

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. Project: La Val Masino: the game of silences and sounds - PATHS STONES SOUNDS wHERE: Località bagni di Masino, Comune Val Masino, (SO), area SIC CLIENT: Ente Regionale per i Servizi all'Agricoltura e alle Foreste (ERSAF) Partners: Monica Brenga environmental designer, Mariagrazia Rocchetti communication, iron works Lorenzo Martinoli, musical instruments Carlo Morelli Timeline: 2011 definitive- executive project Area: sqms 20.000

Mortara (PV) [wds id="11"] “…Sometimes it happens… that nothingness will turn into a crystal clear landscape… this happens especially in Spring when the sky is as blue as the water of paddy fields which reflect it…” “ La chimera of Sebastiano Vassalli   The theme is the project of recovery of outdoor spaces of Moro's Palace as well as of communication of the rice as landscape, color, and sign of Lomellina. This logo tells the dynamism of the activities of an ancient civilization full of history, art, and economy of which Moro’s Palace is the memory. The square is the pulse center, adaptation, spread, basic stability, and milestone. In the courtyard area, we want to remember the rice landscape as the focus of the communication of the whole building. Little lights in the flooring sign the traces of the fields, which start from a main central canal made of led light that finishes on the cobbled stone (rice grains). The row of trees is made of a flowerpot coated in an aluminum colored with a wood bench having inside 5 Carpinus betulus pyramidalis, the number 5, because in line with the Celtic thought, it represents the magic square, while for the Latin people it represents the following phrases: “Sator arepo tenent opera rotas” (the farmer leads the works with the plow). An outdoor on the south side is covered by a painted iron pergola, covered with curtains and Rhyncospermum jasminoides in yellow enameled pots, whereas on the opposite side, some panels of curtains with written and landscapes close the cloister giving privacy to the activities of internal conferences at the Palazzo.

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. Project: Design of outdoor spaces and communication project Water and Rice Museum Where: Mortara (PV) Client: Associazione non profit "Leonardo" Partners: Mariagrazia Rocchetti art director comunication Timeline: 2009 definitive-executive project Area: sqms 300

Milan [wds id="6"] Aida How Green You Are is the Social Housing Project selected by the housing Contest List advertised by the Municipality of Milan. The team was made up of professionals engaged in design and research in the field of sustainable architecture and green architecture. For the first time, green has played an important role not only in the detection of polluting substances, noise reduction, or for bio-climatic regulation, but is getting become a social politic and a therapy against anxiety and depression for those who live in urban places. 3 were the types of green studied with various species of bushes, shrubs, and trees to an "ecological" house: public green, (sharing with the city) town green (sociability among the condos), and private green (privacy). For example for a town the green bush for the equipped spaces is the Laurus nobilis, while the privacy gardens fences are the Ligustrum ovalifolium. The building oriented east-west has got at the Ground Floor some private gardens whereas on the other floors there is some green roof. All species belong to the Milan environmental heritage, are resistant to the temperatures and the climatic changes, are selected for the shadow or sun areas, and need low maintenance.

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. Project: Aida How Green You Are Where: Milan Client:Notice of competition Social Housing Municipality of Milan, ANCE Partners: Wolf, Vitali SpA, Goldmann & Partners, Bioerre, Europroject, Cervellieri, Crozza Timeline: 2011 Area: sqms 5.611 Class A building + green area sqms 3.000 Awards: project selected + special mention National Competition 'Sustainable Energy in Cities' 2011 Ministry of the Environment and INU

Guastalla [wds id="3"] The Guastalla Nursery project is an open and flexible space for 120 children aged 0-3 years old, rebuilding the destroyed area by the earthquake of 6th May 2012. . The symbol goes to the nest of a wood inhabited by a small animal which is represented in a sensory teaching path planimetry. The path starts from the main entrance and goes through several classrooms. “Butterflies Garden” (SIGHT), goes beyond the “ Sound Garden” (HEARING), meets the “Perfumes Garden” (SMELL), arrives at the “Corner of Wolverine” (TASTE) until it reaches from inside the “Pollicino’s Path” (TOUCH). The green indicates the alternation of full/empty with the different species and the tree's largeness. The building is made of 50 laminated wood frames Picea Abies, recalling an open wood. The bearing structures are made of a safe material ideal for keeping the thermal insulation of the building. The high insulation, the optimal distribution of transparent surfaces, the use of state-of-the-art systems for the recovery of rainwater, and the insertion in the cover of a photovoltaic system, will allow reducing to a minimum the use of mechanical systems to meet the energy needs of the building.

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. Project: Nursery in Guastalla, public tender integrated- tender winning project Where: Guastalla Client: Comune di Guastalla (MO) Partners: MC A (Mario Cucinella Architects s.r.l.) architecture design and interior design, Geoequipe Studio Tecnico Associato + Rubner Holzbau SpA structures Timeline: 2015 inauguration Area: sqms 1.500    

Ca’ Granda Niguarda Hospital, Milano (MI) [wds id="2"] This project was born from the realization of Spazio Vita Multi-Center, to support about 140 patients per year and 400 outpatients of the Unipolar Spinal Unit Ca’ Granda Hospital in Milan. The whole project has been realized with the sole support of sponsors. There are many activities such as art, music, informatics, sport, and horticulture to help people to work on their remaining abilities. The Garden life is collocated in an abandoned area close to the Center “Spazio Vita”. It is a place open to the local community of the Hospital and to the outside community of the Niguarda District, for Hospitality, Rehabilitation, Socialization and Well-Being. The Life Garden is made of 2 areas: a garden with 8 beautiful Celtis australis, where the guests can walk, meditate, meet, and rest; there also is an area for social activities with a big white pergola for the events and also a space for the cultivation of flowers/vegetables. The planters high for adults and kids paraplegics and quadriplegics have been planned with the help of patients. The path has been realized with a pavement in i.idro DRAIN, while the bushes have different shapes, colors, and perfumes cultivated on big surfaces to help the orientation. The project “Cultivate health” financed by Regione Lombardia and Fondazione Cariplo, has helped the first group of 15 patients to make an experience in horticulture, making them expert gardeners, and trainers for other patients inside the Unipolar Spinal Unit.

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. Project: Garden Life Where: Ca’ Granda Niguarda Hospital (MI) Client: Associazione Unità Spinale Niguarda e ASBIN Associazione Spina Bifida Niguarda Partners: President Multifunctional Centre Spazio Vita dott. Giovanna Oliva, social assistant Franca Tagliabue Timeline: 2015 June, inauguration Area: sqms 2.000

Abbiategrasso (MI) [wds id="13"] Abbiategrasso former Citadel of Health: the recovery of two historic cloisters of 1900 and 1920 to accommodate 84 beds for elderly long-term patients, suffering from Alzheimer's has been an opportunity to make two gardens The Garden of Activities' and The Garden of Tranquility, an object of clinical trials with the Quality of Life Index (WHO) in 2010-2011. The result was published in the American magazine "No pharmacological Therapies in Dementia". The method was based on working, using both the Therapeutic Gardens and the most modern theories of Caregivers. The two gardens are an example of SOLE in Europe where the tracked route follows the various stages of the host's disease leaving him the freedom to choose in which of the two gardens to spend time without any interference from operators. The GARDEN OF ACTIVITY 'and GARDEN OF QUIET/TRANQUILITY have some common characteristics such as hardy plants, color contrast, no thorns, no-toxic, native, with herbal and aromatic properties. The path of the plot is flat and free of barriers and has a sinuous shape wondering ring to facilitate and stimulate the hypo-visual field of the patient. The furniture is from natural materials, comfortable and easy to clean as the garden of their home. Diversity on the contrary is the choice of tree and shrub species to help improve the condition (agitation and apathy) and the type of business you want to play (relax, horticultural, or other).

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. Project: Renovation of courtyards A and B of building lot A Golgi Redaelli Institute Luogo: Abbiategrasso (MI) Client:Personal Services Company GOLGI-REDAELLI Partners: Nicola Gallinaro forester, Virgilio Piatti botanist, Alessandro Bertoletti environmental engineer, Emilio Minelli medical ethologist, Gabriella Crescini biologist Timeline: 2007 inauguration Area: sqms 1.060 garden of activity + sqms 760 garden of tranquility Observational study: 2012 Giovanni Andreoli head of the NA2 department of the Golgi Redaelli Institute, Erminia Gadler psychologist

Brignano Gera D’Adda (MB) [wds id="5"] The Childhood Center takes place in an urban and architectural contest, full of preexistences spectacular at the south of the historic area in the Brignano Gera d’Adda. The project is an urban, architectonic, and landscape development and is made by 2 areas: Childhood Center and Park. The Childhood Center is not only a Nursery School but is the FULCRUM which articulates the public and private green spaces. Its green area of 4.000 sqms is divided into 4 zones: 1) Hospitality, 2) Training, 3) Leisure, 4) Nursery. The Snakes and Ladders is the file rouge that with its boxes tells you where you are and what you must do. It crosses the 5 training gardens: lost paths, perfumes, butterflies, sounds and fruits. It ends in the Maze of Thoughts, made in Acer campestre. The Park was founded from the modern re-interpretation of Palazzo Visconti’s historic eighteenth-century garden of Bregnano Gera D’Adda. The focus is to create a contemporary park discovering the park as the “Theatre of Memory” and using some species typical of the Garden of Wonders of Delight Villas, forests of Quercus species of trees, shrubs and ground cover.

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. Project: New Childhood center Where: Brignano Gera D'Adda (MB) Client: Brignano Gera d'Adda Municipality Partners: Studio Antonio Gonella architetto Timeline: 2010 Area: sqms 6.500 Awards: Special mention landscape section

Loutraki, Corinto (GR) [wds id="10"] The Water Park is located in the town of Loutraki, known nearby the Greek spa town of Corinth, a place of rehabilitation and relaxation for patients of two young Greek doctors. Here they have recovered a private area of 12 hectares through an initiatory path of care and regeneration with spring water and salt water and with the green as aesthetic, curative, and productive value. The species of trees and shrubs have been chosen to ensure safe, environmental protection, and resistance to the climate and micro-clime of the Mediterranean marquis of this Greek area and they are selected in accordance with their own cultural and symbolic meaning. The green areas are divided in: 1) 1) monumental trees like architectonic columns; 2) 2) hedges/bushes pruned and not pruned to hide some views and to fence the whole area; 3) aromatic and curative bushes planted like a Land Art Landscape;4) ancient fruit trees to locate the principal entrance of the area; 5) resistant and recovered olive trees for oil production. The Well-being area are different zones with: 1) swimming pool, Jacuzzi, bath salt and solarium; 2) relax on the hill, with massage rooms and showers of hot and cold vapors, covered by scented climbing plants; 3) food with glulam, straw, and stone gazebo. Some species: Stachis lanata, Punica granatum, Lavandula angustifolia e Lavandula stoechas, Passiflora caerulea, Foeniculum vulgare for the spa area, while for the representation area were: Jasminum sambac, Pistacia lentiscus, Poncirus, Plumbago capensis.

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. Project:The Water Park Where: Loutraki, Corinto (GR) Client: Private Partners: Nicola Gallinaro forester, Virgilio Piatti botanist, Alessandro Bertoletti environmental engineer Timeline: 2008 definitive-executive project Area: sqms 12.000

Triuggio (MB) [wds id="7"] Chignolo’s Wood is a forested area of ​​12 hectares in the public perimeter of the Regional Park of the Lambro Valley (MB) and is classified as a site of Community Bio-Italy. The recovered area with the Pinus strobus is an ecological path designed as a Therapeutical Landscape, an outdoor laboratory to learn the secrets of nature with a footpath, partly made for people with mobility difficulties. The Chignolo is a place of social well-being, relaxation, and discovery of the historical-cultural and botanical value-symbolic nature, structured guidance on the idea of ​​the "Legend of Bard, Knight of the Wood of Chignolo". Combining the silvicultural needs with the narration of the story you chose to project on the artificial surface of the wood the 12 positions of the Constellation of the Great Bear, called Houses of the Zodiac, to remind how the ancient man learned to orientate himself by observing stars and entrusting his fate to heaven. According to the theory of medieval Signature, each Zodiac sign is reportedly a plant and animal element that has a precise meaning and role in the story and in the area. The species depend on the different Houses of Zodiac and some are: Taxus baccata, Pinus sylvestris, Agrifolium, Ligustrum vulgare, Euonymus europaeus or Salix viminalis, then Betula alba, Acer campestre, Carpinus betulus, Prunus avium, Cornus mas, Buxus sempervirens and more…

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. Project: Requalification of municipal public wooded area Bio-Italy site Where: Triuggio (MB) Client: Municipality of Triuggio, financed by the Ministry for the Environment, Lombardy Region, Cariplo Foundation and Lambro Valley Regional Park Partners: Nicola Gallinaro forester,Virgilio Piatti botanist, Emilio Minelli physician psychotherapist (writer of the legendary tale 'The Bard Knight'), Davide Casiraghi illustrator, Arianna Beretta Editing Timeline: 2005 inauguration Area: sqms 12.000 Awards: 2nd place Critics' Award for the best forestry project EFUF 16th European Forum on Urban Forestry, Milan May 2013

Seveso (MI) [wds id="8"]

Colored chalk dwarfs, broken branches of thuja, black and white little stones, historical plane trees, and thuja are the incipit for the garden requalification of the Seveso Nursery School. The path starts from the Snow White Little House, loosens in the Magic Wood enters into the Labyrinth of creepers, and at the end arrives at the classrooms. The garden becomes a real learning experience that in the beautiful season can have a place in the open air. It has been used the method of planning together involving the teachers' staff to create, volunteers for the management, and their parents or Nursery School friends for the execution. With the event “Adopt a Tree” it was possible to finance the project because recovering these open spaces as well-being sites has educational as well as social and environmental value.

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. Project: Requalification of a Nursery garden Where: Seveso (MB) Client: Asilo per l' Infanzia di Seveso Partners: Fabio Rivolta, Elisabetta Buzio Timeline: 2001 inauguration Area: sqms 2.000

Bellusco (MB) [wds id="14"] The school complex is situated in Milan Hinterland in Bellusco town. The project is an urban redesign giving to the whole compartment its central role of educational, sport and leisure time service closed to the historical centre. The scholastic, leisure, and sports activities are organized around the new AGORA, which becomes a safe, alive place for every day and week The sports hall has been designed to minimize the impact with usable green coverage.

The challenge has been to rebuild an urban ecosystem just like the reinterpretation of Lombard countryside with its spins, little woods, levees with canal, and a water collection basin, but also with open spaces where the eye hugs all around and increases the biodiversity inside an urban area.

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. Project: Requalification of Campus Scolastico Sportivo di Via Giovanni Pascoli Where: Bellusco (MB) Client: Comune di Bellusco Partners: Studio Antonio Gonella (architecture design), Virgilio Piatti agronomist Timeline: 2010 competition, selected project n . 11 Area: sqms 17.380

Milan

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Ciaopeople’s Headquarters (Fanpage +The Jackal) opens in the urban and historical area of Corso Sempione in Milan. The renovated loft is a place of a virtual physical space where the communication focus has been given with some simple keynotes: simply, pleasure, young working place in Milan. The objectives are to create a comfortable green office, like a nest for many young employees. The company colors dominate with vintage design in the meeting room as well as in the small rooms. A particular attention is given to a relax food room, with recycled reused materials. The green indoor is a curtain between areas helping to oxygenate the indoor space. With the contribution of Ruggero’s murals, a metropolitan Milan artist, the space reminds the videogames world of a virtual link between Milan and Naples, the principal Headquarters, and at the same time, it is a cultural internal urban landscape.

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. Project: Sede Ciaopeople Media Group (Fanpage The Jackal) in Milan Where: Milan Client: Ciaopeople Media Group Partners: Mariagrazia Rocchetti art director, Ruggero artist Timeline: 2015 inauguration Area: sqms 250    

Segrate (MI) [wds id="26"] The new IRCCS Urgency Surgery Center will be built inside the San Raffaele Hospital, on a presently neglected central spot. In this private and special urban environment, the reclamation of a green area becomes utterly strategic, not only to ensure greater welfare for both operators and patients, but also to make the user perceive green as an instrument of communication and orientation, at different internal /external levels of the building, and at different distances. Moreover, the new cathedral of surgery has allowed the establishment of new 36 trees, excluding large shrubs. Those are ground floor: Acer campestre 'Elsrijk' (secondary road), Populus alba 'Pyramidalis' (via Olgettina), Prunus serrulata 'Kanzan', Viburnum rhytidophillum (university garden). First floor: Cercidiphyllum japonicum, Davidia involucrata (hill), Cercidiphyllum japonicum, Cornus Kousa, Amelanchier canadensis (belvedere)

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. Project: Ampliamento Ospedale San Raffaele Where: Milano Client: gruppo ospedaliero San Donato Partners: MC A (Mario Cucinella Architects s.r.l.) architectural design Timeline: in progress Area: sqms 2700

Inveruno (MI) [wds id="24"] A garden of about 1,500 square meters inside a private villa for a family with 4 small children has been designed North east of Milan. The customer's request was to have a garden that can be used by children, representative but low maintenance. A simple plant scheme has been studied, an easily accessible space in every area of ​​the house with a variety of shrubs, carvings, and hedges in different hues of color, flowers and heights that increase the perception of space and with a few trees of a certain scenic effect, either hiding or highlighting views and entrances. Particular attention has been paid to native and non-toxic species which are resistant to children’s careless touch, to temperatures in the area, but also to climate change and possible diseases. The project is composed of: an inner patio open to the sky, a hidden court for relaxation, where all the rooms overlook, enriched by strawberry trees, Agapanthus, and ferns.

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. Project: Private Garden Where: Inveruno (MI) Client: Private Partners: Studio Goldmann & partners progetto architettonico Timeline: 2016 Area: sqms 1200

Solicchiata, Castiglione di Sicilia (CT) [wds id="21"] Solicchiata is a small district in the town of Castiglione di Sicilia, on the north face of Etna, at about 600 meters above sea level, and has an ancient wine production tradition. This i13.000 sqms. estate has all the features both of the natural meso-mediterranean bioclimate environment and the traditional agricultural landscape, with its grapevine terracings, the manor house, and the millstone. The symbolic reference is the vineyard, whose name is “Nome est omen”. he whole landscape and architectural project focuses on the ecological use of the existing resources: terraces, herds, dry walls, lawns, stairs, and “munzeddi”. The new cellar, due to its shape and color, is the munzeddo (which means “heap” - Studio Mario Cucinella MCA Architects) which recalls the ancient stone deposits. The theme is “telling the world around the vine”, a production space, one of wine tasting and promotion of vine culture. The philosophy behind the project has followed the old strategy of exploiting any possible thing: for example pedestrian paths and pergolas are made of chestnut, while the vine supports and the plant sculptures are the logs of the vines. But the project also meant to recall the memory of farm food: chickpeas, lentils, peppers, olives, broccoli, celery, onions, capers, beans, peas, but also broad beans and lupins will be cultivated for the visitors' knowledge, along with the orchard of almonds, hazelnuts, olive trees, pomegranates, and figs.

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. Project: Il paesaggio della cantina vitivinicola Where: Solicchiata, Castiglione di Sicilia (CT) Client: Private Partners: MCA (Mario Cucinella Architects) progetto architettonico della cantina Timeline: 2015 Area: sqms 12.000

Merate (LC) [wds id="23"] The urban space covered by the ideas competition encompasses the surrounding area of three important spaces: the area behind the City Hall, Piazza degli Eroi and Giardino delle Rimembranze. The 3 areas revolve around the axis of the City Hall, as the place for democratic decision-making and the protection and care of its territory.

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. Project: Parco delle Rimembranze, Piazza degli eroi, Piazza del Roccolo Where: Merate Client: Comune di Merate Partners: Augusta Comi, Diana Conte, Consuelo Casetta Timeline: 2016 Area: sqm 17.000 Awards: 2° place Popular Jury

Sofia [wds id="20"] A “linear park” is an ecological passageway, a genuine green infrastructure, and a part of the green system of the city of Sofia. This complex organism is made up of three macro-elements: green areas, green lines, and green points. The linear park is structured on an axis from the outskirts all the way to the city center through a “green belt”, and is based on 4 different systems: the building system, the water, the green, and the infrastructures. Within the park, cycle paths are considered a priority over other vehicle use, and so is the east-west axis in relation to north-south paths running on different levels, such as the city plan and the underground lines. This stands for a sort of musical score palimpsest, in which people’s movement intercepts the functions of the buildings overlooking the park, and interacts with the different shades of green, offering the beholder varying viewpoints, within the ever-changing morphology of the place.

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. Project: Il parco lineare Where: Sofia Client: Europan 5 Partners: Antonio Gonella, Margarita Kroucharska Timeline: 1998 Area: km 1

San Felice sul Panaro (MO) [wds id="25"] The project refers to one of the worst-struck areas involved in Emilia’s earthquake in 2012. The new residential structure will host the 10 seriously disabled persons from “Il Picchio”, with a possible rise to 22 admissions, and will be available to the 9 towns in the Modena Province northern area: Camposanto, Concordia sulla Secchia, Finale Emilia, Cavezzo, Mirandola, San Felice sul Panaro, Medolla, San Possidonio, San Prospero. San Felice is situated in a landscape surrounded by various farming activities. From a careful observation of this territory we have developed a project concept out of the archetypes of “hayloft” and “rural countryside”. The project is made up of 4 aggregated, mutually intertwined bodies, which create a unitary inner space. The external structures are designed with curved lines in order to support and make the users’ activities and movements easier, even the ones in wheelchairs. The paved areas, along with the pathways, contribute to defining the rest areas. The green project will consider the original plant varieties of the site, preserving the entrance pathway in the tree-free area along the cycle path. The garden is divided into 2 parts: the private area allows a user/operator relationship that is inferior to 1:1. In this sensorial garden outdoor activities can be carried out, such as micro-gardening and aromatic plant cultivation. The public facade overlooking Via Garibaldi has no architectural barriers, and is completely permeable, a small green area donated to the town, with the intent to enrich the relationship between the youths who will benefit from the structure and the townspeople.

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TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. Project: Centro socio-sanitario assistenziale Where: San Felice sul Panaro (MO) Client: Trust Nuova Polis Onlus Partners: MC A (Mario Cucinella Architects s.r.l.) architecture design, Sarti Ingegneria structural design, Studio Tecnico P.S. electrical system project, Studio Tecnico Ing. Riccardo Giannoni thermo-hydro-sanitary system project Timeline: 2014 - in progress Area: mq 1400