UNPark, Milan. A social innovation experiment beneath the Serra Monte Ceneri Flyover

Abstract

Urban infrastructure in high-density metropolitan contexts constitutes an experimental frontier for improving the citizens’ quality of life and also represents a still undervalued resource in producing economic, energy, environmental and social value. Infrastructure such as the Serra Monte Ceneri Flyover in Milan, a source of distress and degradation associable with the idea of “wasted architecture”, can only be transformed into resource through a process of enhancement and a circular, multi-layer and multi-functional design vision. UNPark research is configured as an urban innovation hub by which to trigger reflection on the transition potential towards infrastructure multifunctionality.

Keywords

• Urban infrastructures
• Wasted architecture
• Up-cycling
• Social innovation
• Nature- based solutions