The Mulini Asciutti farmstead is a building surveyed by the Lombardy region as a Cultural Asset and is located in the Lambro Valley Regional Park and within the Monza Royal Palace Park.
It represents the gateway to the entire architectural complex of the Asciutti Mills farmstead. The facility consists of a residential part and a part that is home to tours, exhibitions and the Environmental and Sustainability Education Center.
The assignment to Teknoprojects.
Teknoprogetti Engineering s.r.l. was commissioned to carry out the Site Investigations and deal with the Executive Design and Structural Works Supervision in order to carry out a conservative restoration of the South Barn of Cascina Mulini Asciutti.
The project is part of an extensive renovation and renewed functionalization of the farmstead complex of buildings with theaim of enhancing and bringing back to activity the same functions for which it was built. To this end, the restoration of the buildings and their assignment to functions related to stone grinding of grains, traditional bread baking, environmental education, technical training, and the display of all that technological innovation in agriculture offers today (cultivation and breeding techniques, energy saving, water saving, etc.) was established.
Historical background of Asciutti Mills
The complex, subject to historical and cultural constraint and registered by the Lombardy Region as a Cultural Property (MI230-00100), was built in the early 1800s by Giacomo Tazzini, who was appointed “Assistant Architect of the Cesarean Buildings” as a student and collaborator of Luigi Canonica.
Tazzini’s original design dates back to 1823, but the working drawings were completed almost ten years later in the spring of 1832.
The mill consists of two bodies symmetrical to the central axis, which is formed by the irrigation ditch derived from the Lambro in the Monza Park area. The barns are arranged, as two bodies also symmetrical, to the north and south of the complex.
The commission intended to make a conservative restoration of the building to use it for exhibition purposes, with functions of information and reception of visitor groups and a venue for temporary exhibitions.
The existing structure is solid brick masonry with wooden floors. Exploratory wells in the foundation revealed the absence of true foundations.
The state of preservation of the materials was determined as a result of on-site investigations carried out by Teknoprogetti Engineering S.r.l. technicians (localized tastings and geometric surveys, sclerometric tests on mortar, and tests with Resistograph penetrometer to verify strength and compactness of the wooden material).
The intervention includes the following works, which were the subject of structural design by Teknoprogetti engineers
- Construction of new foundation curbs
- Creation of aerated crawl space
- Consolidation and replacement of deteriorated wooden floor elements with new solid wood joists
- Consolidation of solid brick and/or stone masonry with diffuse plating, on the side facing the inside of the building, with basalt and stainless steel mesh and pure lime mortar
- Formation of new openings
Structural design included seismic storage of structural works.
Currently, the work is ongoing.
Within this article about the work in the Linate al Lambro Church, you can learn about other activities that TeknoProgetti has been involved with in the last period: specifically, it is seismic risk reduction work.
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