Super-Imposti
Monte Amianta e il Gallaratese
Collective Walkshop - Milano Arch Week 2025 - Gallaratese, Milan
Promoted by Triennale Milano and Comune di Milano - Developed with Cooperativa Antonio Labriola
Super-imposti is a collective walkshop through Milan’s Gallaratese district and the Monte Amiata housing complex, developed as part of Milano Arch Week 2025, promoted by Triennale Milano and the Comune di Milano.
Within this institutional framework dedicated to reflecting on the future of architecture and the city, the project proposed a counter-narrative of Gallaratese; moving beyond academic interpretations and iconic readings of modernist housing.
Developed in collaboration with Cooperativa Antonio Labriola, a long-standing community presence in the neighbourhood, the walkshop was rooted in local knowledge and lived experience. Working closely with the cooperative’s activists, the project fostered a different view of the district; often reduced to the iconic Monte Amiata complex by Aldo Rossi and Carlo Aymonino.
Rather than isolating the architecture as a singular monument, the walk traced the broader urban and architectural episodes that have shaped — and continue to shape — the life of Gallaratese. Along the route, these spatial layers were interwoven with the histories of resistance carried forward by the cooperative since the 1970s, revealing how struggles for housing, rights and community have continuously redefined the district.
Walking became a method of spatial inquiry: a way of reading the city through movement, listening and conversation. Shifting attention from the monumental image of Monte Amiata to its lived dimension, the project mapped how architecture operates as an infrastructure of community continuously reshaped by use, adaptation and collective life.
By situating Gallaratese within both its institutional and neighbourhood contexts, Super-imposti created a dialogue between architectural discourse and local agency, reflecting on how modernist housing can be reconsidered not as an icon, but as a living terrain of coexistence.
