Alfa Romeo Industry Park - Portello - Municipality of Milan

Alfa Romeo Industrial Park - Portello

Town Hall 8
Arrival: via Don Luigi Palazzolo, Alcide De Gasperi
Opening hours: 7:00 - 22:00, summer time; For more details, please see the section below

How to Get There:: trolleybus 90/91
Area: 35.504 sqm
Year of realization: 2012
Designers: Andreas Kipar, Charles Jencks, Land Srl

What to do at the park

1 play area
walk
stop and relax
running and cycling

The park in brief

The curved line is the characteristic of this park. It is a garden made up of two hills, the first of which is crossed by a spiral while the other has a concavity that protects the pond it encloses from noise. Built on the disused area of the Alfa Romeo car manufacturer, it recalls the nearby Monte Stella park with the two hills formed by debris and with the reproduction of the shapes of the circle and the spiral.

The park is periodically monitored by the GEV, the Volunteer Ecological Guards.

History and Architecture

The park is shaped in such a way as to create a system of continuity with the nearby Monte Stella, the historic artificial hill built after the war by Piero Bottoni. The desire to establish links with the places and times of the city and its territory is the very matrix of the project, composed of circles, arches and segments of the moon as well as the shapes and finishes of the floors.

The circular spatial guidelines constitute the construction lines for the three "green sculptures" "Mound1", "Mound2", "Mound3", which, with the small garden called "Time Garden" and represent the different scans of time: Prehistory, History, the Present and individual time.

From a morphological point of view, the park develops at different heights recovered through a system of paths called "Time Walk". In a perspective of a broader relationship with the city, the Portello park is also part of a green system of cycle and pedestrian paths: the so-called "Green Rays" which, passing beyond the ring roads, connect the center of Milan to the hinterland.

Historically it occupies an area on which the historic Alfa Romeo factory stood and was for this reason named after the automotive industry in 2015 which for 110 years was the productive soul of the neighbourhood, giving work to tens of thousands of people and has contributed to the economic and social development of the entire city and the country.