GREEN & BLUE INFRASTRUCTURE space to Nature, which helps us breathe again, improves the climate quality of our cities, and enhances the buildings themselves, bringing well-being and biodiversity into the daily lives of all. A strong and radical message, materialized as a gift for a Milan that looks to the future as a Healing City: a city that heals its citizens and regenerates itself.”
“ This green road toward a new Policlinico represents our way of practicing public healthcare and reflects another side of our legacy: being the largest landowner in Italy, thanks to properties received over the centuries from our benefactors,” added Marco Giachetti, President of the Policlinico di Milano.“ All of this aligns with our mission to create a system of care and health promotion that also encompasses a better environment, essential for the maintenance of each individual’ s psycho-physical well-being. Therefore, in the project for the New Policlinico, we wanted to emphasize Green, both with the large elevated therapeutic garden and with the creation of a ground-level path that gives‘ breathing space’ to everyone— patients and healthcare workers— who pass through the hospital area every day.”
A result of continuous dialogue with the Fondazione Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico,“ Green on the Ground” represents the realization of nature working on multiple levels: from the ground, with the depaving strategy of Let’ s Break It Up!, to the elevated element of the Therapeutic Garden for the new Sforza Pavilion, with LAND Italia as part of the project team led by Techint, Boeri Studio Srl, and Barreca & La Varra.
Thanks to Natural Capital Accounting, it will be possible to quantify the ecosystem benefits generated by Green on the Ground during and after its completion. LAND’ s environmental performance forecasts indicate that the intervention could reduce the perceived temperature by two degrees, while the new trees could produce approximately 10,000 kg of
oxygen annually and simultaneously sequester 15,000 kg of carbon dioxide.
The landscape-environmental regeneration project has been divided into six project areas, ensuring gradual implementation over time. www. landsrl. com
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