Two themes: temporary housing for the Besta hospital, recovery of a courtyard farmstead
What the track asks
A sealed envelope with two alternative practical-exam themes (Section A). THEME 1 — temporary housing for the relatives of patients at the Besta hospital, on a ~2,350 sqm lot in Milan between vie G. Ponzio and E. Bassini: total floor area 3,000 sqm, max 5 floors above ground (no basement required), pedestrian access from via Ponzio and vehicle access from the car park. The publicly-accessible ground floor holds a hall, reception, cafeteria, management office and toilets (about 20% of the floor area); the upper floors hold collective-service spaces (about 10% per floor). Candidates develop three accommodation types — a hotel room, a temporary mini-apartment with kitchenette and an integrated apartment — with at least one mini-apartment accessible to the disabled, complying with hygiene and barrier-free regulations. THEME 2 — the recovery of an open-court farmstead in the Milanese hinterland, a typical Po Valley agricultural structure (load-bearing brick masonry with lime-and-clay mortar, timber floors and roofs, with a fresco of Gian Galeazzo Visconti and San Bruno on the manor house), badly decayed from abandonment and covered by a declaration of historic-artistic interest. Candidates must identify the decay of the masonry, facades and timber structures with the necessary diagnostic work, and propose a conservation, restoration and residential-reuse intervention per the TRP1 transformation-area scheme of the local plan (recovery for residential use).
Required drawings
THEME 1: functional layout; ground-floor plan with external arrangement 1:200; residence floor plans 1:100; a significant section 1:100; elevation onto via Ponzio (west front) 1:100; furnished plan of the accessible apartment 1:50; envelope/roof build-up with materials 1:10; report (max 2 sides). THEME 2: functional layout of the new residential types; plan of one type 1:100; a project elevation or section with restoration/reintegration works 1:100; a project report (max 4 sides) analysing one structural-decay phenomenon with sketched solutions.
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