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MILANO - TALL BUILDING URBANISM

6a Edition

The sixth edition of the Tall Buildings Conference, promoted by Iuav University of Venice and Polytechnic of Milan, deals with two distinctive subjects concerning design and construction (for new and existing buildings), including demolition experiences. Next to the Italian experiences (CityLife in primis with a particular focus on the new look, and mission, of the Milan metropolitan area with its over 4 million inhabitants) a number of related foreign examples will be touched upon. The conference is organized, like the five previous editions[1], the endorsement of CTBUH– Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat .

Preliminary Program

9:30 Registration (welcome coffee)

10:00 Opening Address – Armando Borghi, chief executive officer, CityLife

10:10 Key Remarks – Aldo Norsa, full professor , Università Iuav di Venezia

10:20 Introduction - John Iorio, founder, J&A

I Session – New Projects

10:40 Andrea Rolando (Politecnico di Milano) – The difficult mix between high rise, low rise and urban spaces

11:00 Gianfranco Ariatta – Mep concepts for the first CityLife tower (Arata Isozaki – Allianz)

11:20 Mauro Eugenio Giuliani (Redesco) – Structural design for the second tower CityLife (Zaha Hadid – Generali)

11.40 Lukasz Platkowski (Gensler) – Optimizing the workplace through design

12:00 Ennio Brion (Iper Montebello) – The urban prospects of the new quarter Portello-Fiera

12:20 Giuseppe Dibari (Deerns) – Tall and Smart Buildings

12:40 Patricia Viel (Citterio & Viel) – Tall buildings of a new generation

13:00 Bernardo Fort Brescia (Arquitectonica) – Designing residential towers (Solaria, etc.)

13:20 Lunch

II Session –Existing Projects

14:40 Dario Trabucco (CTBUH - Università Iuav di Venezia) – Life cycle thinking

15:00 Gary Steficek (Gms) – Restoration of the Woolworth Building

15:20 Maria Antonietta Crippa (Politecnico di Milano) – Restoration of the Pirelli, Galfa … and Velasca towers

15:40 Alberto Ferrari (Ramboll Uk) – Designing appropriate façades (and structures)

16:00 Leonardo Cavalli (One Works) - Relationship between tall buildings and public spaces

16:20 Italo Savastano (Otis) – The role of lifts in the retrofit of tall buildings

16.40 Elena Giacomello (Università Iuav di Venezia)- The living green approach to design

17:00 Daniel Libeskind – A lifelong experience in tall building design (in Milan and the world)

17:30 Conclusions and closure

18:30 – 19:30

Urban Center – Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II

Opening of the exhibition “Milano - The new skyline”, related to the 21° Triennale ( )

Introduced by Alessandro Balducci (City of Milan), Pierluigi Nicolin (21° Triennale), Valerio Paolo Mosco (Iuav)

Sponsors: Otis (main), … Undisclosed, CCC, Cmb, Cmc, Colombo Costruzioni, Deerns Italia, eFM, Faces Engineering, F&M Ingegneria, Focchi, J&A Consultants, Maltauro, Mapei, One Works, Siemens, STR - TeamSystem , … Autodesk, Bodino Engineering, Carron, Estel, Fip Industriale, Gemmo, Intercantieri Vittadello, Longhi, Knauf, Risk Management, Stahlbau Pichler, Vetrocare,… Gae engineering, Peverelli, Saint-Gobain (in – kind)

[1] The previous international tall buildings conferences have taken place in Venice at Università Iuav on 22 November 2010, 21 October 2011, 23 November 2012 and 15 November 2013; at Ateneo Veneto on 21 November 2014.