Landscraper
Natalia SANTARELLI (IT)
architect
Cinzia CATENA (IT)
assistant
Europan 7 Monza
runner-up
A new connective tissue (the green flat) puts in to a system great thoroughfares, sprawling urban fabrics, green urban and rural areas, existing and new residences. The project tries to ease the tensions of different ways of going all over today’s town. The project proposes a new kind of urban life improving all types of moving and reducing needs of moving at the same time; new life’s solutions start: people can work at home or near it, do shopping in their multifunctional hub, live new kinds of social interactions and free time. Everything usually vertically synthesized today (skyscraper) now is stretched out on the ground with its layers: from skyscraper to “landscraper”.



Site informations
Monza
Synthetic site file EN
This project is connected to the following themes
Shared spaces - Programmatic patchwork
Instead of adopting the skyscraper approach, the “landscraper” project seeks to develop a patchwork of different programmes. This design creates the conditions for a richer social life and new patterns of living.