| GRATTACIELO | Grattacielo is the architectural concept born in the 19th century in the United States that has become a worldwide phenomenon within the city landscape. Milano is not new to this concept and like every other metropolitan city in the world, has become part of the new language of the infrastructure of the city. When looking at the current physicality of the city, we can identify a disruption of the horizontality is representative of Italian cities. The new language, a language of verticality, is a more global one, the existence of these elements represent the new layer of the “palimpsest” of the city, a layer which is more part of a shared global language than an individual one like in previous eras. In Milan, the presence of these elements has been increasing with regeneration projects like “Porta Nuova” and “Tre Torri” which have given the city and its citizens in the last decade a new perception and use of the city. The condition of “architectural horizontality” and “flatness” which is thought to be very representative of Italian cities is changing today and Milano has been the pioneer of this movement within the country. We can identify that the trend is not slowing down and more and more projects are being approved and developed by the Milanese municipality. So, what will this mean for the current physicality of the city? and Do citizens agree and recognize this as the future of their cities? • Credits | Group 15: Goudarzi Farnoosh, Obregon Vazquez Luis Arturo, Rier Philipp, Yao Xi
