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The project is based on the idea of giving a clearer hierarchy among the open spaces that compose the square but at the same granting them a visual and symbolic uniformity, in order that they can be perceived as the result of a coherent intervention.
For the first goal, Piazza Libertà was subdivided in five places: the «urban living-room», bordered by a canopy and by a fountain, the polyfunctional area for the events (market, open-air cinema, playground, exhibitions); a didactic garden; a square for gaming and reading, the garden of Villa Magatti.
For the second one, the project introduced five layers: furniture (the canopy and the fountain, the flower boxes and the seats), green, light, water (the points, the line, the surface), and signage (monumental, botanical and historical).
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The project aims to enhance three expressions of hertiage.
For the existing heritage, represented by Casa del Fascio by Giuseppe Terragni and Antonio Carminati, it introduces furniture objects that are based on the proportions used in Rationalist architecture: static (the 1:2 ratio of the flower boxes) and dynamic (the golden ratio of the fountain).
For the disappeared one – represented by the former church in the center of the square, demolished in 1933 – it reproduces on the pavement the plan of the building.
For the intangible one – represented by the wood-furniture-design system that characterizes the cultural vocation of the city – it creates a 12-meters-long panel that tells its history through images and descriptions, and keeps wood as the recurring element of the furniture objects.
From the urban point of view, the project aims to reduce the heat island effect of the former square (configured as a wide mineral surface) introducing a new green area (the Garden of colors), 16 water jets and a fountain in front of Casa del Fascio, new trees, 4 flower boxes and a canopy with climbing shrubs in the "urban living room", and it fosters the sweet mobility extending in the park the existing bike route.
In the construction phase it is characterized by natural and easily recyclable materials, it is developed involving local craftsmen and, for the construction of the fountain, it reuses the stones that were removed from the area of the Garden of Colors.
In the use phase it is characterized by low costs of maintenance, both for the furniture objects and the for green graftings.
The intervention aims to three main goals: the development of attractivity for all the categories of users (a square for all and a square for each one), the increase of comfort (a square that can be inhabited in all the seasons of the year and in all the hours of the day) and the enhancement of memory, constituted by the existing (Casa del Fascio by Terragni/Carminati), disappeared (the demolished church) and intangible heritage (the wood-furniture-design system).
Piazza Libertà and the historical center was subdivided in five places, crossed by the same five layers: furniture (the canopy and the fountain, the flower boxes and the seats), green, light, water (the points, the line, the surface), and signage (monumental, botanical and historical).
The "urban living room", heart of the square, is bordered by two elements.
The canopy subdivides more clearly the space between the Piazza and the area in front of Villa Mussi, offering the citizens a new shaded meeting place. The structure is in corten like the flower boxes, for highlighting the difference between ancient and new. In its geometry, inspired by the Rationalist "reticolo", the horizontal and vertical axes are then coplanar and with the same thickness.
The fountain in granite is modelled starting from a golden rectangle, with perimetral subtractions for obtaining the seats. The experimentation on the dynamic proportions is an indirect reference to Terragni, who introduced them also in the Casa del Fascio of Lissone.
Four years have passed from when we broke ground on Piazza Libertà. And, although we worked in a complex historical phase, for the consequences of war and pandemic, with great satisfaction we reached the end of this journey with the designers. It is a project that goes from general to particular. In which reflections about traffic, urban furniture, lighting, design, landscape are strongly intertwined, But also where each seat, table, totem, panel and flower box…has a little story to tell.
Studio Moscatelli received many awards for its research about the project of the public space and the residential building: for the requalification of Piazza Libertà and the historical center of Lissone (1st prize, 2019), of the waterfronts of Marciana Marina (3rd prize, 2017) and Marina di Pisa (3rd prize, 2015), of the squares of Cerete (1st prize, 2006) and Berbenno (3rd prize, 2004) and of the San Martino area in Mozzate (1st prize ex-aequo, 2004).
Studio Arosio’s activity is focused on design of the interiors and of the open spaces, looking for a condition of balance between the definition of the detail and the attention to the context, aiming to give value to each place from the aesthetic and social point of view.
The components of the firms teach at Politecnico di Milano, SUPSI Mendrisio and IED Design Milan. They published books and articles (on «Archi», «Area», «Arketipo» and «Casabella») about the project of the public space and about Rationalist architecture.
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