Segantini Park Project

The project conceived by Michel Desvigne and developed by the Green Area, Agriculture and Urban Furnishings, hypothesizes a design that transforms from East to West for parallel and diversified areas; the park gives life, first to an extension of the urban plot that is wedged into the greenery through the new residential buildings, then to an equipped park and finally to a protected naturalistic area along the course of the Boniforti canal; by its characteristic hydrophilic vegetation, the final natural limit.

The connections are designed by a pedestrian grid, orthogonal and parallel, which connects and delimits the different spaces. The double tree-lined backdrop announces the existence of a new park and reconstitutes an urban front, leaving the traffic and noise of the city behind to enter the dimension of the park and the "green rooms" passing between the new residential buildings.

The new row of Prunus pado, placed along Via Segantini, has a functional layout for the design of the future car park, the pre-existing avenue of lime trees shades the promenade that connects Piazza Belfanti longitudinally to Cascina Argelati.

The heart of the park, a large turf: the "Clearing", extends up to the naturalistic area along the Boniforti Roggia. In this large space only a few specimens are planted to accentuate the perception of the open area whose dimensions are be almost exceptional for a city as densely built as Milan.
The last area of ​​the park, towards the West, is the new "wooded" strip along the canal and its banks, an element to be preserved through a delicate environmental restoration intervention.

Technical data:

  • Decentralization zone: 6
  • Area: m² 100.904
  • Access: via Giovanni Segantini, via Filippo Argelati, via Dei Crollalanza, viale Liguria, piazza Serafino Belfanti
  • Public transport: MM 2 (Romolo) trolleybus 90-91, bus 47
  • Main tree species: wild linden (Tilia cordata), sophora (Sophora japonica), oak (Quercus robur), turkey oak (Quercus cerris), plane tree (Platanus Occidentalis), pado (Prunus padus), wild cherry (Prunus avium)
  • Playgrounds: n. 2
  • Dog areas: n. 2

The “Raggio Verde n.6”, a cycle/pedestrian path that crosses the park from south to north starting from Via dei Crollalanza up to Via Carlo Torre; it borders the naturalistic area, connects the weft and warp of the paths, connects the park to other area projects recently concluded or under construction: the Argelati park, the Romolo interchange and the Darsena.

The naturalistic area along the Boniforti canal constitutes an element to be enhanced from the point of view of biodiversity through a careful and delicate intervention of construction of a natural area, a wooded area in which the typical botanical associations of the Po Valley are proposed with particular attention aimed at the reintroduction of spontaneous species typical of the undergrowth and the banks of the "Lower" canals.

The creation of this area of ​​the park will be carried out by the Segantini Committee with the support of Italia Nostra through the signing of an agreement between the Municipality and private individuals.

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Updated: 16/02/2022