Novate Milanese city center

 CLIENT: Comune di Novate Milanese

LOCATION AND CHRONOLOGY: Novate Milanese (Milano) - 2023/2024

TEAM CREDITS: Landscape an Urban design - Lorenzo Noè with Sara Boraschi, Iacopo Benciolini, Alberto Fedalto, Valentina Lapris and Paola Valenza. Mobility design – Netmobility: Francesco Seneci with Francesco Avesani, Licia Bernini, Filippo Forlati, and Matteo Masconale

PHOTOGRAPHIES: Matteo Bertani

DIMENSION: Pedestrian surface 1400 sqm, bike paths 700 sqm, green area 200 sqm

CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: 820.000 Euro

The redesign of Via Matteotti and Piazza della Chiesa in Novate Milanese has accessibility and safety for all as its main objectives – in addition to the needs of users and economic operators; to be achieved through the creation of rich urban spaces and the improvement of the ecosystem component. Many of the areas for vehicular transit have been converted, creating meeting places for the citizens, thus improving the quality of daily life.

The project involves the reduction of paved areas in favor of more permeable solutions: flowerbeds with shrubs and trees and draining stone paving sealed with permeable resins. The combination of innovation and tradition finds full expression in The Geese and the Asparagus – the monument to the City of Novate located in piazza della Chiesa – whose new base developes in continuity with the paving design.