This research on the A22 motorway by called for the development of a specific campaign of photographic survey dedicated to the A22 motorway. This activity, entrusted to photographer Giovanni Hänninen, took place in the months of May and July 2021 for the mst1 and is currently in development for mst2 and mst3. 

The images are supported by the creation of a map indicating their location along the way.

The photographic campaign contributed both to the general development of the research (the rendition of the current environmental and landscape context crossed by the A22 motorway; the observation of the transformations processes both already happened and in development in the same context; the representation of the inner landscape of the A22 motorway starting from the documentation of the original conditions of the infrastructural project) and the elaboration of its editorial products (of which a temporary index is provided in the next pages).

The photographic campaign represented a privileged tool to give an articulated reading of the landscape and the environment crossed by the motorway’s path in the different stretches, documented in its current state. The photographer’s gaze focused on the representation of the landscape and the geography of the networks that cross and overlap it.

The path of the A22 motorway proved to be a privileged point of view from which to observe this landscape.  

Research group

Coordinator: Prof. Arch. PhD Andrea Gritti

RtdA: Arch. PhD Elena Fontanella

Research Associate: Arch. PhD Claudia Zanda

PhD Student: Arch. Beatrice Azzola

Politecnico di Milano | Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani (DAStU)