CONCRETO Students and CONCRETO Partners were thrilled to visit the permanent display of twelve architectural icons of Pier Luigi Nervi at the Lecco campus of the Polo territoriale di Lecco – Politecnico di Milano
Students and partners mingled whilst examining and studying the inspiring use of reinforced concrete by the master architect / engineer Pier Luigi Nervi.
The permanent exhibition, donated by the Fondation PLN Project, follows both Nervi’s creative path and illustrates some of the recurring themes in his thought and work.
Plenty of food for thought for the CONCRETO Students!

Many thanks to Giulio Zani for enabling this.

CONCRETO is an international Erasmus+ project which links 13 partners from 4 European countries as well as Türkiye, with the objective of promoting practical and sustainable conservation of reinforced concrete structures.

For further information: concreto-academy.org

Il Laboratorio Nervi è candidato al Premio Compasso d’Oro ADI, il più antico ma soprattutto il più autorevole premio mondiale di design. A stabilirlo l’Osservatorio permanente del Design ADI, composto da esperti, critici, storici e giornalisti specializzati che annualmente hanno il compito di selezionare le migliori produzioni sul territorio nazionale: prodotti di ogni settore merceologico, ricerche teorico-critiche, di processo o d’impresa applicate al design.

Il percorso verso il Compasso d’Oro 2024 è iniziato ufficialmente ieri sera presso l’ADI Design Museum di Milano dove si sono tenute la presentazione ufficiale dei 248 prodotti selezionati dall’Osservatorio e l’inaugurazione della mostra che rimarrà aperta al pubblico fino a domenica 27 novembre. Presso lo spazio dedicato al Laboratorio Nervi, i visitatori potranno immergersi in un tour virtuale del laboratorio e visionare un modello della Piscina Mincio, opera realizzata da P.L. Nervi nel 1964, riprodotta in stampa 3D presso il laboratorio Modelli e Prototipazione del Polo di Lecco.

Conclusa la kermesse milanese, l’esposizione verrà trasferita a Roma presso l’Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani dove rimarrà dal 12 al 18 dicembre.

Il Laboratorio Nervi, realizzato in collaborazione con la Pier Luigi Nervi Project e grazie al contributo di Regione Lombardia, è situato presso l’edificio 12 del campus del Polo territoriale di Lecco ed è aperto alla cittadinanza. E’ possibile prenotare una visita sul sito www.laboratorionervi.polimi.it.

The 8th of September 2022, the second Transnational Project Meeting of the REcube Partnership took place in Rome on the premises of the Sapienza Faculty of Architecture. The Recube partners  had a fruitful exchange on the first year of project activities and set the basis for the ensuing work, which foresees the completion of the REcube MOOC and the outline of the REcube Guidelines. The end of the first year’s REcube didactical activities will be set by the evaluation of the REgenerate Workshop group work results at the beginning of October.

It has been a very intense week in Rome, where the REcube partnership had the pleasure to contribute to the 14th fib PhD symposium. On Friday the 2nd of September Francesco Romeo, of Università Sapienza-Roma, presented the conservation plan of the Flaminio Stadium, part of the Keeping it Modern grantees 2017, to the participants of the fib Model Code 2020 Workshop. This was followed by a tour on Saturday the 3rd of September of the Olympic architectures by Pier Luigi Nervi, while the REcube project was illustrated to the international audience of the Symposium on September 7th. REcube Project-leader Marco di Prisco, of Politecnico di Milano, presented the scope and expected outcomes of the REcube programme in a keynote lecture in the morning. In the afternoon,  Rosario Ceravolo, Erica Lenticchia and Gaetano Miraglia, from Politecnico di Torino, gave an engaging presentation of the first results of the Torino Esposizioni Keeping It Modern project finalised to the preparation of a conservation plan for this iconic building by Pier Luigi Nervi, which will be the object of study for the students participating in the next the REgenerate workshop in 2023.

Starting from the 15th of July, it has been 6 exciting days at the first REgenerate workshop within the framework of the REcube: REthink, REvive, REuse project. 28 students coming from 11 project partner universities joined us at the beautiful premises of the Politecnico di Milano Lecco Campus on the shores of the Como Lake to work on the challenging topic of thesustainable recovery and regeneration of our Modern Concrete Heritage. The Laboratorio Nervi has welcomed the students with a guided tour of our two exhibitions, contributing to this enriching experience. It is a privilege to meet and cooperate thanks to the Erasmus Plus programme!

From 9 to 12 June '22 the New European Bauhaus Festival took place, with the Laboratorio Nervi among the 15 proposed side events in this setting in the Lombardy region by the Milan Polytechnic. In presenting the work and figure of Pier Luigi Nervi to an ever-widening public, the Laboratorio Nervi contributes to Polimi's commitment to the New European Bauhaus initiative, focusing its teaching activities on the sustainable regeneration of the modern reinforced concrete heritage, thanks to the leading role it plays in the progetto REcube, un partenariato strategico Erasmus+.

The Pier Luigi Nervi Laboratory of the Lecco Territorial Pole was inaugurated on 7 April 2022. Born from the collaboration between the Pier Luigi Nervi Project and the Milan Polytechnic - Lecco Territorial Pole, realised thanks to the contribution of the Lombardy Region, the Laboratory was conceived to be a multifunctional space that will allow students and researchers to study and experiment drawing inspiration from Pier Luigi Nervi's cultural heritage. A place of study but also a place of culture open to citizens, which hosts thepermanent exhibition "Pier Luigi Nervi Architecture as Challenge" and will see a series of temporary exhibitions dedicated to Nervi's works. Starting today the exhibition "The suspended factory - the restoration of Pier Luigi Nervi's paper mill in Mantua"dedicated to the recovery of the Burgo paper mill in Mantua.
The fruitful cooperation with Italian and international universities has also made it possible to create a solid line of activities on the topics of conservation, restoration and recovery of works of modern architecture. With this in mind, the "REcube: REthink, REvive, REuse"a three-year Erasmus + programme that aims to transmit and disseminate a new sustainable approach to the conservation and reuse of modern reinforced concrete architecture at European and international level.
"The Nervi Laboratory constitutes a new element that further enhances the campus and confirms its vocation as a place open to the city," says Manuela Grecchi, Delegated Vice-Chancellor of the Lecco Territorial Pole. "Pier Luigi Nervi was an extraordinary character in terms of his art and intuition. New generations of students and professionals can draw great inspiration from the works he created. I would like to thank the Pier Luigi Nervi Project Foundation for the great work in selecting the material and for the layouts, the Lombardy Region that supported the project with an important contribution, and UTR Brianza-Lecco for the close collaboration that made it possible to realise what we are celebrating today'.