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Once the concession has been awarded, after the redevelopment it will host families for rent at an agreed rent or in an emergency. Rabaiotti: “An innovative model that intercepts the challenges of the city of tomorrow”

Milan, July 19 2020 - The new life of the Boldinasco farmhouse will pass through a housing offer in social co-housing for families, a "Solidarity inn for accessible and sensitive tourism", a musical, literary and culinary pub, spaces for working and studying together, workshops cultural and professional activities, the valorisation of existing vegetable gardens and public initiatives for the benefit of the entire neighbourhood. 
 
The “Living in the village” project, which thanks to the European funds allocated with the Pon Metro program provides for the recovery and relaunch of the ancient Boldinasco farmhouse in via De Lemene in the Gallaratese district, close to the Portello area and the Monte Stella park, has reached a turning point: through a negotiated procedure, the farmhouse will be entrusted under concession for forty years to the joint venture (temporary association of companies) formed by the construction company Giuppi srl and Campesi Impianti srl, in addition to the company of development of real estate initiatives Tao 88, the technical partners MTA Associati, VI+M, Consult Engineering, and the social cooperatives Spazio Pensiero Onlus and Altidea, as well as the professional innovation and sustainability firm Collectibus. A solid set of companies that will guarantee the creation of a 'young' housing service based on reciprocity and collaboration: a social co-housing project that introduces a model of public intervention into the city that is not yet present. 
 
Overall, the estimate for the works amounts to approximately 7 million euros, to which the Municipality will contribute with almost 2,5 million Pon Metro funds, and which include the restoration of the building, the recovery of the courtyards, the construction of a new building for expand the housing offer, the redevelopment of all the surrounding areas to be used as public greenery and urban gardens and the creation of anti-noise barriers towards Viale De Gasperi. The start of the construction site is scheduled for the first months of next year. 
 
“We are very satisfied – intervenes the councilor for social and housing policies Gabriele Rabaiotti -. After a troubled journey for the Boldinasco farmhouse, we have launched a challenge to the city and this proposal goes even beyond the expectations we had designed, opening new frontiers for living in Milan. The context was interpreted as a model full of memory on the one hand but on the other ready to intercept the challenges of the city of tomorrow. It is a composite proposal, full of ideas and functions: different forms of living alternate with education towards sustainable development, spaces for new trades and professions, workshops for free time in a framework held together by the desire to include and to integrate". 
 
History
The building complex is located on an area owned by the municipality, whose total surface area is equal to 5.166 square meters. It is made up of the actual farmhouse (three buildings with a gallery distribution around two internal courtyards for a surface area of ​​2.397 square metres), which historically was located in the center of the small village of Boldinasco crossed by Via De Lemene, to which is added a green area for a total of 2.500 square meters. 
 
Completed at the beginning of the 900th century around the original nucleus, which dates back to the 700th century, after an initial life as a traditional agricultural centre, in the years preceding the Second World War the complex experienced another life as a cutting-edge livestock farm, to then be given to the municipal administration in the 50s and dedicated, ever since, to social housing. Since 2006 the farmhouse has been abandoned because it was declared unusable.
 
The project
Once restored and recovered, the complex will consist of 45 apartments for an unprecedented housing mix: the majority will fall into long-term rental construction at an agreed rent, while 9 will be reserved for people in housing emergency indicated by the Administration. A new building will also be built which will rise next to the farmhouse, it will develop on two levels in addition to the ground floor (only partially on a third in the portion on Via De Lemene) and will contain 17 apartments of the 45 in total. 
 
The spaces on the ground floor will be dedicated to services for the inhabitants: among others, the Time Noticeboard is planned in the courtyard of the farmhouse, to promote the culture of reuse and sharing; a sorting center for a Gas (solidarity purchasing group); a coin-operated laundry service; a laboratory for small maintenance jobs; educational workshops and workshops for children and adults on topics such as sustainable mobility, care of public spaces, social integration; a music rehearsal room, soundproofed and equipped, accessible by reservation; a space for the psychological support of adolescents; free access environments for study and work; the Locanda solidarity, i.e. 6 studio apartments in the southern part of the farmhouse for a light hotel reception service managed by people with fragility supported by supervisors; the music pub, a new meeting space that can also host live events. Finally, the internal vegetable gardens will be enhanced and managed (for a surface area equal to at least 40% of the green area for public use), and their use will be assigned for 2/3 to the residents of the farmhouse and the remaining 1/3 to others citizens of the neighborhood.

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