(a) Technical project design for SARI health facilities according to information provided;

(b) Specific technical support upon request on existing problematic architectural aspects, advise on possible alternative solution;

(c) Support with evidence-based technical guidance tools and development of resource materials related to topics;

(d) Advise on appropriate technology and development & research of new applicable techniques.

The post Severe Acute Respiratory Infections Treatment Centre appeared first on FULL | the Future Urban Legacy Lab.

⁕ PDF available here

The Metropolitan Strategic Plan (2021-2023) faces a global challenge: the definition of a new balance between city and region, development and environment. At the same time, it interprets this challenge starting from a critical comparison with the local situation of the Metropolitan City of Turin, which is specific and exceptional compared to all other similar administrative entities in Italy. Turin is the Italian metropolitan city that includes the greatest variety of regions within its boundaries, since it is a metropolitan city of the plain, a metropolitan city of the hills and a metropolitan city of the mountains. This regional diversity gives rise to unprecedented potential, which the MSP aims to exploit, systematise and implement.

In order to realise this vision, the MSP proposes a substantial paradigm shift, giving a new centrality to basic infrastructure over sectoral policies. New tangible and intangible infrastructures support hybrid forms of connection and mobility, which are the fundamental prerequisite for quality diffusion in all the regions of the augmented metropolis. The MSP’s challenge is to ensure equal rights and equal opportunities for citizenship for all its inhabitants in every point of the metropolitan city.

The vision of Torino Metropoli Aumentata is structured within the six programme points of Next Generation EU, in line with the objectives defined by the Italian Recovery and Resilience Plan. The MSP pragmatically organises its objectives around the funding structure that will make them possible. It also identifies the objectives of the European cohesion policy and the sectoral programmes that might contribute to completing individual actions. Above all, it includes the affinity of its own highly cultural approach with that underlying the European document, committed to local implementation of the large-scale, long-term continental vision it proposes.

The MSP is arranged into six areas: a more productive and innovative Turin Metropolis (digitalisation, innovation, competitiveness and culture); a greener and more ecological Turin Metropolis (green revolution and ecological transition); a more mobile, accessible and connected Turin Metropolis (infrastructures for sustainable mobility); a Turin Metropolis that learns more (education and research); a more attractive, fair and equal Turin Metropolis (inclusion and cohesion); a healthier Turin Metropolis (healthcare).

This framework supports a complex but clearly hierarchical, three-level articulation. Each axis includes a series of strategies and each strategy unfolds into a series of actions to be implemented. In total, the MSP proposes 24 strategies and 111 actions to augment Turin. This three-part structure underlines the importance of coherence between objectives, policies and actions. The transformation of the metropolitan city can be effectively and positively oriented only through a solid and continuously verified connection between these three scales.

A more productive and innovative Turin Metropolis

The axis dedicated to augmenting the capacity to create value in the various economic sectors (agriculture, tourism, manufacturing, services, trade, public administration) through technology transfer, digitalisation, automation, cooperation in business networks, the construction of supply chains, process and product innovation and the promotion of the region and its products. It thus aims to augment the number of job and business opportunities and the attractiveness of the Turin metropolitan system for new initiatives and investments.

A greener and more ecological Turin Metropolis

This includes all the actions aimed at augmenting the ecological, environmental and landscape quality of the metropolitan area. These actions aim to reduce its ecological footprint, redefining its metabolic processes in a circular way and thus contributing through local actions to the global challenge of climate change.

A more mobile, accessible and connected Turin Metropolis

This suggests seizing the opportunity of the transformation of remote working commuting routines to improve connectivity and accessibility to and from the metropolitan region. It imagines the augmented metropolis as a ‘90-minutes metropolis’ made up of ‘15-minute cities’, where the ease and comfort of intermodal transport are ensured by an integrated and user-oriented MAAS (Mobility-as-a-Service) model. It promotes a differentiated use of collective transport over medium and long distances and of alternatives to the private car over medium and short distances. It projects connections outside the metropolitan area with the rest of northern Italy and the global world beyond the Alps, making gateways of metropolitan interest more accessible from all points in the region.

A Turin Metropolis that learns more

This axis stresses that it is essential to invest in the structural renewal of the metropolitan school infrastructure, in terms of buildings and the spatial model of education. It proposes seizing the opportunities experienced with distance learning during the pandemic and hybridising them with the quality of traditional teaching. It includes a series of actions aimed at strengthening and innovating vocational training, both at upper secondary school and university level. It emphasises the centrality of vocational degree courses, to be put into a system with proposals for lifelong learning and re-training of the already active workforce. It promotes and disseminates hands-on approaches to teaching, including in non-professional areas, as well as early schooling, with a view to gender balance, experimenting with hybrid forms of decentralised/autonomous management. It promotes relations between schools and the region in all contexts, making the school infrastructure a civic multi-service platform.

A more attractive, fair and equal Turin Metropolis

This aims to promote equal opportunities for personal and community development in the different parts of the region and for the entire population of the metropolitan city, so as to make it attractive again for residents and businesses. It includes actions aimed at introducing and supporting new forms of social housing and community residence, adapted to the specificities of the different local contexts, which can bring new inhabitants to areas with weak demographics, as well as prevent and recover situations of social exclusion. It suggests experimenting with and encouraging dual forms of metropolitan residence to strengthen links between the centre and peripheral areas.

A healthier Turin Metropolis

Starting with the centrality of the new Turin City of Health, investment in an integrated regional system of education, prevention and diagnosis which promotes equal accessibility of the health system throughout the region is proposed. This includes the possibilities of telemedicine and remote diagnostics. Its actions encourage making the environmental quality of the metropolitan city an active public health factor and an enabling infrastructure for a healthy and active lifestyle, as well as promoting health education, supporting active ageing, the social role of the elderly and intergenerational links.

Six axes, 24 strategies and 111 actions in just one region. It is important to underline that the six axes of the MSP refer to a single region: the metropolitan city of Turin; considered as a whole an equal space, but enhanced in its many areas as a place of positive differences. The six axes are implemented in each region but maintain their absolute local and global relevance and contribute as a whole to the single objective of the MSP: to augment Turin.

The post tM⁺ Turin Augmented Metropolis appeared first on FULL | the Future Urban Legacy Lab.

The Turin Digital Mobility Platform, developed by the Polytechnic University of Turin, is an online model which can be used both as a navigation system and as an info-mobility service. Connected with a GPS system, provided by FCA for the purpose of this demo, it is capable of showing the position on a map environment.

Il caso d’uso presentato alla demo 5GAA è denominato “Avviso urbano georeferenziato”.

Press

• https://www.ilmessaggero.it/economia/news/fca_5g_auto-4862761.html
• https://5gaa.org/news/5gaa-live-demos-show-c-v2x-as-a-market-reality/
• https://www.riskmanagement360.it/news/arriva-dal-5g-una-svolta-nel-risk-management-stradale/
• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/5gaa-live-demos-show-c-v2x-as-a-market-reality-300958637.html
• https://motori.ilgiornale.it/tim-piattaforma-5g-al-servizio-della-sicurezza-stradale/
• https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/5g/il-5g-di-tim-al-servizio-della-sicurezza-stradale/

The post 5GAA demo appeared first on FULL | the Future Urban Legacy Lab.

The winning CCP project, led by the Polytechnic University of Turin, the University of Turin and a consortium of 24 companies, proposes a space dedicated to research, experimentation, prototyping and the training of new high-level professionals through five physical and virtual pilot lines.

The CCP is a meeting and exchange platform where small businesses can access know-how on innovation and production processes in the manufacturing sector.

Following this first phase, the scenario for the future MTCC opens up with the aim of complementing and intensifying the CC programme, creating a hub of knowledge and services to bring together various companies, start-ups, research centres, training centres, incubators and business accelerators, all linked to manufacturing 4.0.

The proposed programme aims not only to create a new innovation hub for the manufacturing sector, but also a networking centre for higher education and knowledge open to the city, with services such as coworking, workshops and event spaces open to the public.

The first MTCC project scenario, put together by Equiter with the collaboration of FULL, was promoted by the main public and private institutions of Turin’s business and academic sphere: the Chamber of Commerce, Compagnia di San Paolo, Fondazione CRT, Unione Industriali, the Polytechnic University of Turin and the University of Turin, with the support of the City of Turin and the Piedmont Region.

Method

The research method used by FULL for the first proposal of the future MTCC is structured into the following points:

• Best practice and international cases studies
• Matrix of analysis
• Flexible layout

Best practice and international cases studies

The first research phase focused on the analysis of new and heterogeneous forms of manufacturing 4.0, with a special focus on the organisation and division of production phases and their spatial and logistical organisation.

This first phase of the research was also enhanced by the analysis of best practices and international case studies that are very heterogeneous in terms of location, pre-existing buildings and types of buildings, implementation processes, strategies and project solutions, in order to investigate a diversified panorama of organisational and spatial models and governance functioning.

The selected cases – MTC based in Coventry, RDM in Rotterdam, Arena 2036 in Stockard, New Lab in NYC and Station F in Paris – are analysed through a common grid based on the following points:

• Location and accessibility
• layout and logistics
• Program of functions
• Actors
• Sustainability and energy system

The comparative analysis of these five projects allowed the first layout of the future MTCC to be defined based on the concept of an incremental and scalable matrix.

The aim was to create an open, flexible system capable of adapting quickly to different programming of uses and functions, and at the same time being incremental over time so as to include new stakeholders and their demands for surfaces and volumes.

The structure of the matrix allowed an initial layout to be defined, divided into macro sectors – offices, laboratories, production areas, training rooms, halls and common areas – within which the spaces dedicated to the various players were divided: companies, research and training centres, and other services, taking into account their different dimensional/spatial, environmental and logistical requirements.

At the same time, each space is made hybrid and flexible in order to adapt over time to new uses, functions and types of spaces for teaching (e.g. hands-on teaching, spaces for student challenges etc.) and research (e.g. Interdepartmental Centres of the Polytechnic University of Turin).

Matrix of analysis

In parallel to this first phase, the selection of possible industrial areas within the perimeters of the City of Turin able to host the future MTCC began.

As with the comparables, the analysis of the areas was based on a comparison matrix structured according to specific indices and indicators:

• Size (footprint greater than 50,000 sq. ft.)
• Accessibility (connection to the city centre and permeability of the site)
• Time to market (status of single/fragmented property, constraints, reclamation, PRG compliance)
• Spatial analysis (free surface, existing building)
• Urban regeneration potential (proximity to places of interest)

From this analysis, the Steering Committee indicated the Mirafiori area – Ex Dai and Ex Gommatura – as the first candidate site for the initiative, thanks also to the Politecnico’s desire to strengthen the current Design Campus.

Flexible layout

Given the characteristics of the area and the point structure of the two existing buildings, the first concept of the flexible and incremental grid over time, developed in the first phase of the study, is taken up and strengthened.

The proposed layout for the selected area is conceived, both in plan and vertically, as a three-dimensional matrix covered by a single equipped roof under which light volumes are organised as separate pieces dedicated to the different activities required by the different players.

The organisational system of the grid makes it possible to divide the large space (hangar) into three sectors: the backbone of the offices and classrooms located along the Ex Dai building; the platform space where the light volumes dedicated to production, the various laboratories of the research and training centres and the makers’ spaces can be located; and the volumes for additional services designed both for centre users and for external users.

The connective space between the different sectors is conceived as the main backbone connecting the different elements, but at the same time as a hybrid space for light functions or as an additional space to extend the individual volumes if necessary.

The incremental model over time allows the programme of uses, activities offered, services and players involved to be expanded, increasing the site’s potential and its relationship with the city.

The post Manufacturing Technology and Competence Center Turin appeared first on FULL | the Future Urban Legacy Lab.