FROM AQUAPONICS TO DAILY LIFE

HERITAGE MANAGEMENT

ORBIT-INNOVA
Professor ARANDA-MENA GUILLERMO
Tutor MORANDI MARCO

students:
Camurri Giorgio
Chizzoni Federica
Guerini Giulia
Lualdi Valeria
Patruno Marco
Vitolo Marta
 INTRODUCTION
Map of Milan 2
Lambrate’s industrial history 3

ANALYSIS
S.W.O.T of Ventura 5
S.W.O.T of Innocenti 6
Why Innocenti? 7
Time line of the Innocenti factory 8

STRATEGY
What intesive farming means 10
References 11
INDEX Aquaponics system 12
Explenation of our Vision 14
Vision 16

WORKFLOW
Organizational Chart 18
Stakeholder circle 19
Values gap analysis 20

PROJECT
Masterplam 24
Space function 25
Design strategies 30
Views 32
INTRODUCTION
Map of Milan

LAMBRATE

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1861|1896 BEFORE INDUSTRY
Lambrate’s industrial history
After the Unity Milan consolidates its productive that’s characterized by a multisec-
toral industry with a strong international imprint. After a crisis at the beginning of the
1861
decade, the 90’s have a new perspective of industrial development.
BEFORE INDUSTRY
1896|1918 FIRST INDUSTRIALISATION
Thank to the availability of a new source of energy, electricity, big establishment are 1896
built in Milan. For the city this’ll be a growing phase pushed by war emergency.
INDUSTRIALISATION
1918|1945 WORLD WARS YEARS
After the years of the first postwar period and the adjustment of the new regime, the 1918
industry has an ephemeral ‘boom’ with the affirmation of new sectors and a growing
bond between banks and enterprises. WORLD WARS
1945|1970 INDUSTRIAL BOOM
1945
Dragged by a will of ransom, the city manages to heal the wounds of the War and
it’s ready for a season of intense development in the sign of America and the INDUSTRIAL BOOM
production of new mass consumer goods: scooters, cars, domestic appliances.

1970|1980 INDUSTRIAL CRISIS 1970

Pushed by the strong late 70’s movement those years are characterized by a
growing crisis of the big industry dealing with a costs growth and syndicate conflicts.
INDUSTRIAL CRISIS
Armed groups, that act in the movement, will leave a trail of blood on those years.
1980
1980|1992 FINANCIAL BOOM
After the dark years of terrorism and crisis, the 80’s start with a growing financializa- FINANCIAL BOOM
tion of the economy and with a spreading of new costumes and lifestyles. Those
years end with the political system crisis caused by the inquires of the magistracy. 1992
1992|2010 METROPOLITAN CITY METROPOLITAN CITY
In those years Milan stress its metropolitan and tertiary features. The old industrial
city is just a memory: entire neighborhoods face a dramatic transformation. Facto- 2010
ries and warehouses are demolished in order to build new residential or services
functions. In the ex-industrial areas of Milan suburb new universities are built.
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ANALYSIS
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i Why
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Through the SWOT analysis of the Ventura district and of the ex Innocenti factory in the Lambrate industrial area, we have chosen the
most suitable place based on the idea of circular economy that we want to apply in order to be able to re-function a piece of the industrial
heritage of the suburb of Milan. The primary aim is to revitalize an abandoned industrial building from 1993 and re-give a function to
a place that during the 20th century gave birth to an icon of Italian design: the Lambretta scooter. The ex Innocenti factory seems the
perfect space to fit a new urban agricolture production plan, through the aquaponic system.
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Timeline of the Innocenti factory

After a crisis the auto-

After the II WW start mobile sector is taken Innocenti’s shares are
the production of over by the British sold to Fiat
“Lambretta” Leyland group

1933 1960 1976 1993

WHAT’S NEXT?
1947 1970 1990

Founded by Start the production of There is another crisis Total closure of the
Ferdinando Innocenti cars with BMC and the factory is Innocenti factory
occupied by workers

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ST R AT E GY
what intensive farming means
42% of earth’s land surface area is
used for farmland 30% of all greenhouse emissions is
from agriculture

70% of global water consumption is

used for farming 12% extra emissions before the
consume of the vegetables travel
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MIRAI GROUP
Japan
50-100X EFFICIENT
Compared to the traditional farming, MIRAI
plant factory system has 50-100 times the
production efficiency.
PESTICIDE FREE
This system does not need any pesticide.
STABLE OUTPUT
This system output is highly consistent both in
quality and quantity, regardless of the
outside environment.
SELF-CONTAINED
It is possible to cultivate vegetables anywhere
in the world because the system has the
complete self-contained environment.
1/50 OF WATER USE
MIRAI system requires only 1/50 of water
compared to traditional farming. We recycle
much of the water in our system.
PROJECT REFERENCES
LA NORIA DI MALAGA
Spain
SELF - SUFFICIENT SYSTEM
To produce high protein content food, cultivate
different plant species, consume less water
and soil, in a closed and self-sufficient system.
EFFICIENT PRODUCTIVITY
Easy to realize it with a very high productivity:
about 20 kilograms of fish per cubic meter of
water.
LOW ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
This system is used in hotels (as Hilton) to
have a low environmental impact, reducing
the production of food chain to waste less
natural resources.
REPLICABLE SYSTEM
The goal is to create a sort of practical manual
that has a strong social impact and that can be
replicated in small communities or families.
SKY GREEN
Singapore
PATENTED VERTICAL FARMING SYSTEM
Sky Greens system consists of rotating tiers
of growing troughs that rotate around the
aluminium frame to ensure that the plants
receive uniform sunlight, irrigation and
nutrients.
HIGH YIELD
The system intensifies land use and result in at
least 10 times more yield per unit land area.
LOW ENERGY USE
Harnessing of natural sunlight, while rotation is
powered by an hydraulic water-driven system
which utilises the momentum of flowing water
and gravity to rotate the troughs.
LOW WATER USE
Only 0.5 litres of water is required to rotate the
1.7 ton vertical structure.
The water is contained in a enclosed
underground reservoir system and is recycled.
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 90% 70%
HOW MUCH AQUAPONICS IS SUSTAINABLE

water saved energy saved

using recycled water OPTIMIZING production tools

10
times more productive
improving controlled system

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fertilizers
2
final outputs
deleting bacteria PRESENCE producing vegetables and fishes

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 OUR VISION
“From Aquaponics to daily life” project fits in a widely studied and initiated sector all
over the world.

It participate in a series of politics and conditions, through management tools to

guarantee the inclusion of economical, social and cultural resources.

The constant technology developing and the productions of goods utilised in the world
improvement are simultaneously linked to the resources decrease and to the waste
material production without any possibility to be reused.

The identification of the three main categories involved in this new technology (design,
resource and business) makes aquaponics a more suitable and real operation, related
to the possibility of being declined in material assets production.

Using the aquaponics technologic process, based on a cyclic production itself, it is

possible to expand the involved fields range that may benefit from a new production
system, to start laying the groundwork for many products working process
amendment in several commercial sections.
In particular, food and hemp are considered.
The first one directly involves ichthyic fauna and agriculture; the second one handles
the textile, construction and cosmetic fields.

To update the process explained, stakeholders have been identified to develop this
new frontier production.
Embroiling each part of the pyramidal project it can be created another cyclic process
that ends with the utilisation of waste material and further resources production.
In that way it can be possible to restart from the aquaponic system to begin a new
loop.
There are moments in the history that seems to rejoin and fulfilled, putting every thing
in its own place.
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Vision

aquaponics

design research business

food hemp

unilever patagonia knauf lush

eataly h&m edilcanapa the body shop
juicebar nike schönthaler vertly balm
green foodz service adidas ecopassion allegrini spa
soul green timberland röfix lord jones
greenday puma bio level bullfrog

from waste to energy

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This brands use hemp fiber to
produce part of their texile
products. Hemp is an
alternative natural fiber that’s
cultivated with low impact on
the environment and it’s one
of the most durable natural
fibers on the planet.
This green companies This companies use hemp oil, This brands comes from big
produce building materials extracted from seeds, in order companies and local
from hemp reducing to create natural and healthy activities that share a
environmental impact and cosmetic products. They have commune goal: to buy, use
guarantee low pollution and anti-infiammatory, and sell directly to the
an healthy and confortable antioxidant, analgesic and costumers sustainable,
indoor environment. This calming properties. natural and healthy products.
materials are completly
natural, reusable and
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WORKFLOW
 Organizational chart
Orbit-Innova

Owners EU
Final
Clients Municipality Region
Users

Start Up Comune of
Milano

Researchers FROM Environmental Engineers

ACQUAPONICS
University TO.. Consultants
Professors Team Biochemists Architects

Students

Food Market Edile Agency

Research
Sponsors Constructors Professional
Cosmetics
Textile Offices
Edile

The diagram represents all the actors involved in the project from its conception to its realization and to its maintenance. The starting idea is
proposed by Orbit-Innova that wants to give a new life to waste throught a circular economy system in order to be involved in fashion,textiles,
food, cosmetics, architecture fields. We can classify the stakeholder in active and/or passive. In the first category we can find all the subjects
that make possible the ralization of the project idea. Each one of them has a different importance and, based on their field of competence,
they are choosen to collaborate in specific moments of the developement . Instead the passive actors are the ones that will use the final
product. We identify also stakeholders thatcorrespond to both categories and that will collaborate during the developement and that will
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 Stakeholders circle
MUNICIPALITY

FINAL USERS

CONSULTANT

ORBIT INNOVA
CONSTRUCTOR

UNIVERSITY TEAM
SPONSORS
LEVELS OF IMPORTANCE IN EACH FASE

LOW HIGH

The actors take part to the project in different phases and with different intensity. At the beginning we found all the stakeholders that develop
the idea of the project, and that controls all its steps until the realization and also after the construction for its management, like the customer
and the first sponsors. After the phase of ideation all the actors that are involved are necessary for the project realization and to allow the
concrete development of the ideas and the project. They are the consultant that have the duty of analize all the architectural, scentific and
economical aspects. The municipality that will give the founds in order to achieve goals on reuse, redevelopment and new use of spaces.
Designer and constructor that allow the concrete realization of the building and system developed. Our last actors are the final users, that are
those to whom the project is really addressed in double ways: they’ll use final products but they also live the spaces of the Innocenti factory.
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 The following graphic highlight the role of sponsors, consultant and university team. The values of
this this group of steakeholders are almost allined except the educational value, wich is much more
important for the university team.

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 The chart shows that final users and municipality have similar values, in fact the role of municipality
in the early stages of the project is to direct the buisness in good direction according to the final users
values.

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Aquaponics Production

The major part of the building is dedicated to the coltivation

through aquaponics system. There are vertical and floating
coltivation systems and fish breeding tanks. In the upper
corner there is the logistic area and offices.
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Research Lab.

In this area researchers will constantly propose new ideas

and develop innovative solutions in aquaponic, coltivation
and production fields. The spaces reserved to research
are: a dedicated part of coltivation, a connected laboratory
and offices.
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Restoration and Coworking area

The central area of our building is dedicated to a more

dynamic space. This areas are destinated also to the public in
order to let people work and eat in a innovative atmosphere.
Developed on two levels, the dispisition allows a more
private and quiet space.
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Market

The shop area is organized like a classical market where

it’s possible to find all the primary and secondary goods
obtained from the aquaponic system.
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Connection

The aquaponics coltivation system needs a close envelope

in order to be protected by bacteria and to maintain the
right temperature.
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 DESIGN STRATEGIES

MEMORY
The project has as its starting point the redevelopment of
the area keeping the external envelope. In this way the
original structure is enhanced, also saving on the high
demolition costs.

STRUCTURE
The architectural intervention is designed to not burden
the existing structure. This is made possible through the
construction of structurally independent volumes within
the sheds.
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22°C 28°C
22°C 22°C 24°C 22°C

SUSTAINABILITY
The construction of independent volumes makes it possi-
ble to have different temperatures inside the building, so
as to be able to considerably limit the waste of energy for
heating and cooling.

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FLEXIBILITY
By using different sizes of independent volumes it is
possible to obtain a wider possibility of disposing of
different functions. It also increases the relational quality
between the spaces themselves.
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THAT’S ALL FOLKS!

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