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Working with the aim of designing a more welcoming Milan, the spontaneous reflection regards hospitality. Milan is often a safe port, a city that does not reject but accepts, whoever and whatever. It is perhaps for this reason that in the city there is now a celebration of any kind of worship, being it religious or pagan: from design, to fashion, to music, to pets. Milan has therefore become the meeting point and the attraction of what we can call the generation of digital nomads and new urban tribes.
The word tribe is, in fact, the heart of the internal project and the direction in which the research was focused, starting from the aggregative forms of indigenous populations. There is always a central space, as we can see in the Watoriki, a typical structure of the Yanomani tribes, from the Amazon forest. A central space that represents the center of the ritual, social and magical activities of the entire community. It was therefore identified an area within BAM that was already circular but "non-active", to be activated with our intervention.
After that, the research moved on to a more scientific level by studying the mathematical principles of tribe aggregation and expansion, taking Ron Eglash's studies of African tribe village conformation systems as a reference. These plans were and are determined by fractal geometries: geometries that, repeating a module of a constant shape but of different scales, form complex structures that can always be traced back to an initial rule.
So the main aim was to create a village that did not have a predefined shape or conformation but whose result could in some cases always change following a constant repetitive rule; the growth of this dynamic architecture would have depended not on a decision taken a priori but on the extent of the event and the number of guests who would eventually take part of it.
Proof of that this design method works is contained within the projects of Fabrizio Carola, an architect who, in Africa, has applied this type of geometry to complex architectural and distribution structures such as hotels and hospitals, demonstrating the strength and sensitivity of this design method in which the designer almost takes over from the user in the final form that the project will have.
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