This work had been conducted during the Final Studio of Master of Science Deegree course. It’s about one of the most interesting examples of “italian skyscraper” since it’s the only one, built during the economical boom of  the ‘50s/’60s, that is endowed with a real complete courtain-wall façade system which is not interrupted by any horizontal element.

 

The building of the Torre Galfa started in 1956 to host a great managerial hub, and up to now it’s completely unused. It could sound odd to work, in a Restoration course, on such a recent building, but the sudden evolving of spatial requests, of systems and, mostly, the great fragility of the early-made reinforced concrete makes mandatory the need to work with a specific care on this kind of architectural objects.

 

The core idea of the Torre Galfa re-using is founded on its weakness, first of all the thermical one: a skyscraper derives its shape and language from the greenhouse by multiplying it in vertical; in this project the re-using proposal is in the direction of a hurban vertical-farm that improve the using of the gratest part of passive thermal gains supported by a new great system network, digesting of waste and filtration of water among the others, in order to create a complex system of closed autonomous energy circuits.

 

On the architectural design side the gratest inspiration came from the studies about botanic gardens, medieval gardens, both european and islamic and persian ones in order to suggest a new view of this ancient theme riedited with new technologies of no-soil cultivation.