The City of Bridges

Muhittin Can Binan (Year: 2)

Milan, the contemporary European city burdened with an extensive, obsolete overground network. We witness an element which was perhaps an avantgarde solution for connectivity and transport in the 19th Century ironically becoming an obstacle itself in these fields. What used to be the "peripheral" railway network now finds itself flooded on all sides by an urban avalanche. What we are left with are isolated pockets and a major surplus of underused space around this network. The goal is to "bridge" over these gaps in the urban fabric, rather than solely focusing and operating on the urban "rupture". The main approach of this project is to attempt and bring the different edges of the rupture closer by studying surrounding programmatic profiles and consequently coming up with different sets of programmatic stretchers and condensers designed to function between specific zones, to connect and simulate a human flow between areas which were formerly cut off from each other, properly connecting lost spaces and isolated communities back to the city.