| The project rethinks the idea of the Silk Road’s caravanserai, places of hospitality and stay, for the contemporary context of the 2015 Expo and the theme of sustainable mobility, creating a new axis between Milan and Shanghai.The project aims to create a multifunctional, dynamic and trading space in which trade can become a guideline, developed to offer an alternative lifestyle to the modern travelers.These goals are achived through the creation of a layout including the macrofunctions of: dining, hospitality, cultural center,time to resemble, info-host and mobility, divided between different functional levels, organized under a concept of increasing and ascending privatization, allowing lower levels to have a direct exchange between interiors and exteriors, while providing full privatization to upper levels. The layout has been applied to a series of buildings,belonging to the larger complex of Mombello’s mental hospital, located at the coordinates 45.612842,9.127873 Milan,Italy. |
