Sovraparco Hanging Garden, Milan Metro Station, Italian Landscape Design
Sovraparco Hanging Garden Metro Station in Milan
Urban Development in Italy – design by LAD and Hypnos Studio
13 Mar 2019
Sovraparco Hanging Garden Metro Station
Design: LAD – Laboratorio di Architettura e Design and Hypnos Studio
Location: Piazzale Loreto, Milan, Italy
Sovraparco Hanging Garden Metro Station

The ? Overpark ? neologism identifies a green area built from scratch above a pre-existing urban function.

In the context of an urgent need for permeable soil and vegetation for our cities, it is faster to act by addition ather than by substitution.

In a city that inside its buildings create mezzanines as soon as possible, creating hanging public gardens is our urban regeneration strategy.
We applied the architectural concept of the Overpark in the context of Piazzale Loreto.

Piazzale Loreto is the gateway of Milan, some of the most fast-moving parts of the city gravitate around it.

Piazzale Loreto is a rather ugly place: nothing more than a roundabout surrounded by buildings without architectural value.

Unable to impose on the owners aesthetic upgrades of facades or renovations of the entire buildings, the project radically rethinks the central space to drive the conversion of what belongs to the private sector.

Premise

Expressing an opinion about the city ? about the transformation of the city ? through an architectural project, can be considered a questionable operation,...