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Financing of up to 100 million euros for housing, public spaces and sustainable mobility

Milan, 2 April 2021 - Importanti risorse economiche, fino a 100 milioni di euro, a favore di interventi di rigenerazione del tessuto abitativo, sociale e ambientale nei quartieri Lorenteggio e Giambellino potrebbero arrivare dal Governo grazie alla partecipazione del Comune di Milano al Bando del Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti nell’ambito del “Programma Innovativo Nazionale per la Qualità dell’Abitare (PINQua).

With this aim, the Council approved the proposal relating to the pilot project “Milan, metropolis of neighbourhoods. Infrastructure for habitability in the districts of the public city” which closely connects a series of projects already envisaged in the two districts of the south-west quadrant of the city.

The aims of the project that will compete for the ministerial tender concern the regeneration of the residential fabric of neighborhoods characterized by profiles of housing and socio-economic discomfort, the redevelopment and reorganization of the existing building stock intended for social housing, a capillary transformation of the network of public spaces which starts from the forthcoming entry into operation of the new M4 underground line which crosses and innervates the area concerned, the increase in the quality of the natural environment.

“In recent years, Milan has consolidated a clear strategy on ministerial funding – declares the city planning and green councilor Pierfrancesco Maran – concentrating them in some areas, such as Giambellino and Lorenteggio. Adding up they can make a difference and radically change some of the most important districts of our city. It is a double challenge: quality of living for residents and environmental sustainability for the entire Milanese community”.

In detail, the proposal concerns ten projects. The first seven require government funding and concern:

• demolition and complete reconstruction of the public housing buildings in via dei Giaggioli 7/9/11 and related works (48 million);
• surface improvements on the M4 line, western section (20 million);
• surface improvements on Line M4, Center section (23,5 million);
• surface improvements on Line M4 in the San Cristoforo area, footbridge landing area and cycle/pedestrian connection (2,8 million);
• MUST masterplan: redevelopment of via Olona and the Olona-Modestino-Solari cycle path (850.000 euros);
• Transport Plan Circular Line 90-91 - Reserved office from Piazza Zavattari to Piazza Stuparich (3,5 million);
• new Lorenteggio Library (1,35 million). The project is the result of the International Design Competition held in November 2017 as part of the Periphery Plan and will give life to a new concept library capable of combining the traditional functions of supporting study and reading with a great opening to the territory, providing workshops and spaces for active participation for the whole district.

Per le case popolari di via dei Giaggioli 7/9/11 - 210 ‘case minime’ costruite nel Dopoguerra per i senzatetto - il progetto prevede una ristrutturazione completa. I sei edifici (raggruppati su tre stecche gemelle) verranno abbattuti e ricostruiti con una soluzione tecnologicamente avanzata di prefabbricazione per sei piani fuori terra più uno interrato: in particolare pilastri, solai, travi, facciate e pareti verticali verranno realizzati ‘off-site’, cioè altrove, e in seguito assemblati e montati in cantiere. Il modulo di progetto previsto è un bilocale, che può facilmente, attraverso lo spostamento di pochi elementi costruttivi e quindi la combinazione del modulo base, diventare monolocale o al contrario tri o quadrilocale, a seconda delle esigenze abitative. Una soluzione vantaggiosa in termini sia economici sia prestazionali, che garantisce, oltre all’efficienza energetica, sicurezza, facilità di manutenzione e suo mantenimento nel tempo.

“It's an opportunity – explains the Councilor for Social and Housing Policies Gabriele Rabaiotti – to build the social housing of tomorrow. Simple but quality buildings, energy efficient, accessible and easily reconfigurable in their composition, thanks to the adoption of the project module: the premises can become double or half depending on the families' needs. The project includes an 'off-site' technology, i.e. an intelligent prefabrication, in which the site is dedicated only to assembly and assembly: a rapid, safe, low environmental impact activity with minimum inconvenience. Lastly, this proposal amplifies the already existing redevelopment operation of the Giambellino-Lorenteggio area, adding resources and development opportunities in this working-class neighbourhood”.

The quality of living also necessarily depends on interventions on public space. For this reason, public housing projects have been combined with those for the redevelopment of streets, squares, sidewalks, cycle paths and green spaces, with the aim of increasing usable and more accessible space for all, safer for road users starting from pedestrians, families and cyclists.

"The strategy is to connect the districts of the western part of Milan to each other by enhancing the spaces of streets and squares affected by the M4 line - continues the Councilor for Mobility Marco Granelli - thus creating a quality path where public space helps to improve the quality of neighborhoods and of those who live there. A route that also connects these places with the city centre, starting from Piazza San Babila, along the Cerchia dei Navigli, Sant'Ambrogio, Sant'Agostino, Via Solari, Via Foppa, Via Lorenteggio, Via Frattini and Piazza Gelsomini, up to Piazza Tirana and Ronchetto sul Naviglio. If the M4 will make it possible to move faster from the city center to the neighborhoods by traveling underground, the space on the surface becomes more livable, creating a regenerated and quality space for everyone".

Three other interventions form an overall synergistic picture of the Project, although they are not the subject of a request for ministerial funding because they are already fully financed with own resources or other state or European sources:

• environmental redevelopment of the Lorenteggio district: new equipped green areas in via Giambellino 129. This is an area of ​​27 thousand square meters, abandoned for a long time which, after a reclamation operation, will be transformed into a cultural park focused on the relationship between man and nature in the within the European project Clever Cities;
• piazza Napoli-Giambellino cycle route;
• Via Strozzi 11 middle school (Zone 6): reconstruction of the school building.

The proposal will be presented to the Ministry, to be subsequently submitted to the funding assessment, by 15 April.