The project "Connecting San Siro" is a concept of how to renovate and transform 20th century social housing instead of replacing it. The usual way of dealing with buildings that do not have any particular architectural value and no longer meet today's requirements is to demolish them and replace them with buildings that are contemporary in terms of energy and space. But the really sustainable approach is to retrofit the existing building.
The still stable basic substance is used and new spatial and energetic qualities are created by renewal and extension.
The block in Milan's district San Siro, which we are working on, suggests an intense visual continuity, but these are courtyards assigned to the individual buildings, which separate rather than connect. Except for the residents, everyone else is denied access, an exchange is not possible.

Our concept wants to open the block, use and activate the backyards and connect the residents. A new structure is wrapping the Building and gives new connecting access, creates common outdoor space on each floor and invites exchange. Since the existing 2 and 3 room flats do not allow diversity of the residents and restrict them spatially, we have developed a new typology of flats.
Each apartment consists of a central arena for living, eating and cooking and a core for the bathroom. It is possible, depending on the number of residents, to add 1-4 bedrooms flexibly. The building can be adapted sustainably to the inhabitants. The new living interlocks and connects.