ILONA raises three questions about density:
How Density can co-habit with natural landscapes?
How Density can be achieved in different phases of construction?
How Density can over overcome homogenization?
NATURE
The start up plantation traces thin lines on the ground. Local species
of plants are spread to characterize the lakeside while the whole area
is divided into parallel strips thanks to rows of trees.
PHASES
After nature reconfigurized the flat soil of the area, the investors
and the municipality will decide where and how to begin its colonization.
The functional categories of the program will be displaced on the strips
so marked: low-rise mansions, semi-detatched houses, private houses,
public areas and traffic.
The arrangement of the strips is arbitrary: notwithstanding the strips
planning grants the possibility to accurately organize - according to
the needs - a proper development program.
UNIQUENESS
The strip of the semi-detatched houses guarantees an elevated standard
of change: the plots are put in a way to vary their width and lenght
continuously, but not their surface. Every house is planned around three
main devices: the fireplace, the sauna and the patio.
The private houses have their power in the maximum plots formal variation.
In order to warrant the maximum freedom, we only planned a private house
prototype sure that every owner will design his house of dreams by himself.
Located in the more external strips, the low-rise mansions blocks are
mainly two kinds: the first one is made by isolating blocks deep in the
green. The second one is characterized by a huge inner courtyard which
is in the first floor: under the slab there are parkings.
In the central strip both the leisure and sport facilities are located:
there can be found tennis and basketball grounds, places to rest and
think or decide to have a walk towards the dock on the lake.
Strips are held together by an egg-shaped ring which re-defines the island’s
concept; no more a separate object, but a new urban centrality linked
by an efficient traffic system to the city core.
The high density of the imposed functional program that seemed to sacrifice
any architectural peculiarity to a planned vagueness is transformed into
the manifesto of suburban differentiation.
