a MILANO la sesta edizione di TALL BUILDING URBANISM

MILANO - TALL BUILDING URBANISM
6a Edition
Tuesday April 19th 2016
9:30 a.m. – 17:30 p. m.
Conference Hall CityLife – Milan

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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 , the endorsement of Ctbuh– Council  of 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) – Engineering  for the tall projects for CityLife and Porta Nuova 
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 (Oneworks) -  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

Sponsors (27 so far): Otis (main), … Undisclosed, CCC, Cmb, Cmc, Colombo Costruzioni,  Deerns Italia, eFM, Faces Engineering, F&M Ingegneria, Focchi, J&A Consultants, Maltauro, Mapei, OneWorks, TeamSystem, … Autodesk, Carron, Fip Industriale, Gemmo, Intercantieri Vittadello, Longhi, Knauf, Peverelli, Stahlbau Pichler,  United Consulting, Vetrocare,…

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