Doors open to Corriere della Sera on the occasion of Design Week 2024. For the second year, after the success of the project Elevators of 2023, the appointment with Solferino 28 Design, the event organized by Corriere, Living and Abitare. This year, the courtyard of the historic Beltrami palace in via Solferino is transformed into the stage of Mining City. Design, Dismantle, Disseminatean installation curated by MCA–Mario Cucinella Architects that addresses the theme of sustainability through the story of a virtuous development model, bringing the idea of ’design for disassembly’ to the center of reflection.
In a’regenerative optics, the city of the future is no longer seen as a system that plunderes the environment but which instead tries to self-sustain through the reuse of existing materials. To illustrate the concept of urban miningCucinella redesigns the courtyard overlooked by the Corriere editorial office starting from a simple and everyday object, such as the wooden box of vegetable harvesting. Used as a module, this becomes the brick with which a ‘forest’ of towers is assembled, thus giving shape to the Mining City: an urban backdrop, dismantled and reassembled, which suggests the idea of the city as a possible reserve for the future.
«Inspired byEuropean Agenda for Sustainable Development, the intervention aims to recover the so-called ‘secondary raw materials'”, states architect Mario Cucinella, founder & creative director of Mario Cucinella Architects. «The key word is dismantle to rebuild. Urban centers are eternal construction sites and mines of materials that can be reused to build the cities of the future. A bit like Italo Calvino’s Tecla, a city that continually renews itself.”
Surrounded by a real skyline of wooden towers backlit, the public will encounter a series of focuses along the way issues related to sustainability, in line with the concept of the Mining City. Smart and light mobility, first and foremost, represented by electric vehicles Koelliker Group: from Microlino, the Italian microcar of the moment, to LEVC, the famous London Cab of the Geely Group, up to KL2 scooter EV, the new scooter powered by Askoll. The production of furniture with recycled raw materials, as demonstrated Fantoni, a Friulian company that creates office furniture with zero-mile post-consumer wood panels, including the Panorama system developed by UNStudio. Construction sites have less and less impact on the environment, the territory and residents: this is the case of Acrobaticsan exterior renovation company, which returns to the Corriere headquarters and offers a demonstration performance on the evening of Thursday 18 April, together with an aperitif offered by Villa Antinori And Tormaresca.
The lounge area is furnished with recycled plastic and metal furniture Kartell, MV Line with its bioclimatic pergolas and Artemis, which illuminates the site with its outdoor luminaires. And there is no shortage of technology Vimar for home automation, including charging sockets for different devices and interactive controls to interact with the lights. The recycling consortium is also among the event’s partners Biorepack, De’Longhi and the energy company A2A. Last but not least the greenery, curated by the magazine Gardenia together with the nursery Central Park by Mario Mariani and Matteo Boccardo. This year too, guided tours are planned upon reservation in the Corriere della Sera editorial office, to meet the newspaper’s big names.
Where: Via Solferino 28
when: from 15th to 21st April – 12pm-6pm (Monday), 11am-11pm (Tue-Sat), 10am-6pm (Sunday)
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