Città Studi Campus Sostenibile

Current statusCompleted (2011 / 2016)
Funding programme Politecnico di Milano
Project budget Labsimurb budget ca. € 130,000

Keywords \ campus sustainability, urban simulation, living lab

Project overview

CIttà Studi Campus Sostenibile (CSCS) is an inter-university & inter-disciplinary project for renovating the Campus according to sustainable principles. Labsimurb contributed through: (i) model reconstruction; (ii) experiential and environmental simulation, (iii) strategic vision and strategic masterplan for Città Studi; (iv) sustainability reporting; (v) inclusive design and co-design activities through simulation in public events.

In particular, labsimurb was directly involved in the redesign proposals for piazza Leonardo da Vinci, Campus Bonardi and via Celoria.

The project is still ongoing and has been consolidated through the establishment of the Polimi Sustainability Service.


Team, partners and stakeholders

CSCS Coordinator: Alessandro Balducci (Scientific Coordinator) with Manuela Grecchi
Research Structure: Laboratorio di Simulazione Urbana Fausto Curti with Eugenio Morello, Barbara Piga, Valerio Signorelli


News, outputs and other materials

Please visit the official Città Studi Campus Sostenibile website where you will find the latest project updates.


Research Focuses

Below a series of outcomes by labsimurb (updates in progress)

2011 \ CSCS Strategic Vision
Strategic vision of the Città Studi Campus Sostenibile Project (2011)

2012-2017 \ piazza Leonardo da Vinci renewal
2013 Events Timeline \ series of events organized to anticipate the people-oriented usage of the square
Today-Tomorrow \ comparative demonstration of the possible different usages of the square
Virtual Tour \ spherical panoramas of piazza Leonardo da Vinci before transformation. The images allows to compare the same point of view in different moment of the year\s

2012-2013 \ Bonardi Campus open spaces design context

2014-2019 \ Ri-pensiamo insieme via Celoria
2016 via Celoria, an opportunity for the neighborhood
Preliminary Design Proposal 
Event via Celoria in Sport \ Sharing of the Preliminary Design Proposal with citizens


labsimurb team

Barbara E. A. Piga (project leader), Eugenio Morello, Marco Boffi*, Nicola Rainisio* with Martina Brambilla, Lautaro Catrileo, Elisa Colombo, Giovanni Diliberto*, Suhash Logarajan, Elia Luongo, Valentina Petri, Andrea Premoli, Claudia Solarino, Cristina Trevia, Giulia Vergassola, Mahsa Yazdan Bakhsh
*UNIMI


Related Publications

Morello, E., & Piga, B. E. A. (2013). Envisioning the sustainable campus: the urban model as the hub that supports the transformation. In Envisioning Architecture: Design, Evaluation, Communication – Proceedings of the 11th conference of the European Architectural Envisioning Association (Nuova Cultura, pagg. V–XI). Roma.
Piga, B. E., Cibien, L., Legnani, A., Mungo, S., Zappa, D., Signorelli, V., & Morello, E. (2013). A sense-archive of urban space. EAEA-11 Conference 2013, 251–258. 
Piga, B. E. A., & Morello, E. (2013). Perceptual simulation for urban design: its use for developing and sharing urban design guidelines. In E. Morello & B. E. A. Piga (A c. Di), EAEA11 2013. Envisioning Architecture: Design, Evaluation, Communication
Piga, B. E. A., Morello, E., & Signorelli, V. (2014). The Combined Use of Urban Models to Support a Collaborative Approach to Design Towards the Sustainable University Campus: Participation, Design, Transformation. In S. M. Uddin & C. Welty (A c. Di), Design & Graphic Palimpsest: Dialogue, Discourse, Discussion (pagg. 53–58). Atlanta (Georgia –USA).
Piga, B. E. A., Morello, E., Shokry, G., & Salerno, R. (2015). A toolkit for collaborative design: envisioning and sharing the identity of place through traditional and emergent techniques of simulation. in: AnettaKępczyńska-Walczak, EAEA-12: Envisioning Architecture: Image, Perception and Communication of Heritage, Lodz (Poland).
Piga, B. E. A., Romani, G., Lautaro, C., Segarini, P., & Morello, E. (2016). Multi-Media Guidelines for Instructing Urban Design Contests (S. M. Uddin, M. Sahin, A. O. Torun, & U. C. Bayazitoglu, Eds). 
Piga, B. E. A., Morello, E., Boffi, M., Rainisio, N., & Di Liberto, G. (2017). Sharing the experience of urban design schemes through immersive simulation (T. Maver, P. Chapman, C. Platt, V. Portela, & D. Eaton, Eds.).
Piga, B. E. A. (2018). Virtual (Reality) for Urban Design Competitions: two case studies applications. Unione Italiana per il Disegno (UID) International Congress 2018  (13-15 September 2018), 205–208. Gangemi Editore International.