The real estate sectorin recent years, has seen the emergence of a number of trends that have recently been reinforced: from the home market, there is an increasing move towards the housing marketwhere quality of life, green and living context are decisive prerogatives that architecture must be able to translate into solutions and visions that can also impact on the urban model.
Forrest in Townin fact, stems from the desire to create a residential complex that is not only green and sustainable, but also has its own self-sufficiency food production using advanced off-site cultivation technologies. The innovation is such that it triggers a change in the urban configuration, bringing in-house production hubs with a very low environmental impact.
The project is an important redevelopment operation which is part of the programme for the regeneration of the city suburbs, with the new use of a former production area in the Barona district, the former Cascina Galbani - which covers the extent of the pre-existing large rural facility.
Forrest in Town, Milan's first residential suburb, thus reverses the contemporary trend towards verticality in favour of horizontal development in a succession of private, indoor and outdoor spaces and sharing spaces like the large green lung of about 6000 square metres inside it, a true lush oasis that is the protagonist of the project, characterised by a large botanical variety.
All the buildings, which are no higher than three storeys above ground and offer different living solutions for a total of 10,000 square metres, overlook this area. The structures are built pursuing the criteria of green building and energy containment, for a green and ecological footprint. The key words are clean energy and sustainability, which translate into maximum efficiency in terms of energy consumption, low maintenance costs, drastic reduction of noise pollution, confined to underground technical rooms, and reuse of well water for green areas. These are innovative solutions that combine wellbeing and sobriety, a concrete example of attention to a liveability daily urban on a human scale.
A complete residential complex designed to meet all residents' needs indoors, with ample space dedicated to the food production and sports activities all located below the park.
The above-ground cultivation area - which takes place in a protected and controlled environment - will also be located here, a 250 square metre room where baby leaf vegetables and vegetables will be produced for the exclusive use of the apartment blocks. A futuristic scenario that, using highly specialised know-how, will allow fresh vegetables to be cyclically grown with a very low environmental impact, without the use of pesticides and with a higher nutritional content.
As theArch. Fiori: "I was taught that architecture must solve the problems of living. After that, it must be beautiful to look at. I don't like architecture that is only projected in its exterior, I am interested that living is also in feeling protected, in smelling the scents of a garden that blends harmoniously with the colours and materials of the building: I want the pleasure of those who live there to come home! And this ancient place, the farmstead of yesteryear, struck me from the very first moment, I was struck by the space and the sensation that from inside it left the world outside... only to find, once back home, a further surprise: the poison-free production of colours
of nature that we feed on and that live and grow in our living spaces that Idroponica provides us with in abundance!"
The project is realised in collaboration with Building, REMI and Hortensia with the landscaper Vittorio Peretto.
