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VELODROMO
MILAN, ITALY Renovation
The University of Tokyo: Year 4:
Studio Kuma - Lab: Spring 2013: Competition
PROFESSOR: Kengo Kuma,
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR: Ko Nakamura,
KENGO KUMA AND ASSOCIATES: Javier Villar Ruiz.
INTRODUCTION
The project aims to combine the sport-ing activities, relaxation and dining with the theme of the landscape - as a "urban landscape".
The strategy implemented by the project involves the re-functionalization of the Interior of the Velodrome and the connection of the same with the external environment. The velodrome is not seen as building "closed," comparable to a defined object and the content itself, but rather as an "open system" capable of amplifying its urban function and re-vitalizes the area on which it is built.
The general scheme of the project in-dividua the spatial continuity between the new park and the renewed velodrome-and then nature and architecture-a para-graph of force. The park-with green slopes and facilities for sport-enters into the Vigorelli.
The interior space-in-the proposed project has within it two spaces separate but interconnected: the arena and the new velodrome. This new configuration-space with outdoor and indoor in-sequence combines the traditional sports and urban sports like skateboarding and-wall-climbing-offering a modern holistic vi-sion of a certain type of high quality urban lifestyle.
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