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Door Front City _ Meraviglioso Urbano
No full textDoor Front City
Ground floor design as a reappropriation of social space
Keywords: community, temporal, porosity
The laboratory of Ephemeral Design has been exploring for years the temporal matrix of spaces as an intrinsic quality of the project, on which to model spaces, activities, behaviors, etc. The Ephemeral/Temporary spaces Laboratory wants to investigate the issues of time and senses in relation to the ephemeral spatial design project. The key concept to be investigated, is based on the idea that, in the future, there will be not the forms of space but the forms of time at the center of the project methodology. The theme is Door Front City, based on the theories of the 15-minute city: a new idea of urban spaces and mobility, more connected through proximity and walkability systems. The spaces of this sustainable urban vision are door front spaces located on the ground floors of buildings, too often intended only for commerce, which instead could be regenerated, reused and rehabilitated, through a return to the community. These are indoor and outdoor spaces on the ground floor, able to activate processes of accessibility, but also inclusiveness. Their activities, able to generate also new communities can be temporary and flexible, making them also suitable to host activities in support of emergency conditions.
Methods
The workshop deals with a portion of the city, with a diameter of 15 minutes, and it moves a design process from the scale 1:200 to the scale 1:5.
There are 4 modules organized according to the scale and themes to be explored:
Module 1: A sensorial and temporal analysis is conducted on area to identify new design programs, design tools, other values of beauty. This phase provides: concept; sensory diagrams, chronotypes, etc.
Module 1 defines the KPIs that will be used to evaluate each project (each group will choose at least 3).
Module 1 works on the scale, 1:200, 1:100
Module 2: Downstream of the exploration and analysis process, a ground floor location will be identified on which to carry out the ephemeral interior/exterior design of Meraviglioso Urbano aimed at creating new communities, regenerating and re-signifying the selected location. This phase of the design involves 1:50, 1:20 scale.
Module 3: This will be followed by a detail design phase at 1:10 and 1:5 scale.
Module 4: The final phase involves the synthesis and communication of the project and its contents through the design and production of a video.
Results
The central design exercise is called "Meraviglioso Urbano", recalling the Roman experience of Renato Nicolini in the late seventies and the vision of a city bottom-up. It effects the design gestures, the inclusive design practices of communities. Meraviglioso Urbano aim to encourage students to become urban explorers of the places in which they live, to entertain themselves with the communities that occupy the territories, to design in dysfunctional places where to intercept other languages and provoke wonder.
Bibliography
- Ferschin, P., Köhler, B., Franck, G., & Pollak, S. (2002). The city as a Process in Time and Space. na. Maas, W. (2003). Five Minutes City: Architecture and (im) mobility, Forum & Workshop Rotterdam 2002. episode publishers.
- Hill, D. (2021), Slowdown city. The Journal of Architecture, 26(1), 67-72.
- Manzini, E., (2021), Abitare la prossimità, Idee per la città di 15 minuti, Egea, Siena.
- Moreno, C., Allam, Z., Chabaud, D., Gall, C., & Pratlong, F. (2021), Introducing the “15-Minute City”: Sustainability, Resilience and Place Identity in Future Post-Pandemic Cities. Smart Cities, 4(1), 93-111.
- Sennett, R., (2018), Costruire e Abitare. Etica per la città, Feltrinelli, Milano.
Biography
Architect and Associate Professor in Interior and Spatial Design at Politecnico di Milano. She has been visiting professor at Tsinghua University, School of Art and Design, Beijing (China); Kookmin University, Seoul (South Korea); Hosei University, Tokyo (Japan) and others.
Author of Storie di Architettura attraverso i sensi (Bruno Mondadori, 2000), Invisible Architectures. Experiencing places through the senses of smell (Skira, 2006) and Sensi, tempo e architettura (Postmedia Books, 2012), Sensefulness, new paradigms for Spatial Design (Postmedia Books, 2019) and many other publications
Sensi tempo e architettura. Spazi possibili per umani e non
Full text linkSe l'architettura del XX secolo era dedicata alla progettazione delle forme dello spazio, si potrebbe pensare che quella del XXI è già operativa sulla progettazione delle forme del tempo. Si tratta di architetture temporali dentro architetture spaziali che già esistono ma che attraverso la progettazione architettonica temporale vengono rifunzionalizzate, re-inventate, ri-costruite per contenere tutti i tempi dell'abitare. Una parte di futuro è già in corso nei modi in cui abitiamo gli spazi usando i nuovi media che includono simultaneità, ubiquità o i nuovi mezzi di trasporto sempre più veloci in grado di deformare le coordinate dello spazio. L'architettura temporale compone altre gerarchie rispetto alle logiche spaziali tradizionali perchè la possibilità di sovvertire la consecutio degli spazi significa lavorare sulle pieghe del tempo e sul futuro. La città moderna aveva sfidato la forza di gravità per concepire i grattacieli che inauguravano la metropoli del XX secolo ed oggi la città contemporanea sfida le dimensioni del tempo per prefigurare le nuove morfologie urbane e tipologie architettoniche
Photosensitive Architecture. The Luminous Landscapes of Computers and Screens
Full text linkTe use of screens for a large amount of activities during the day and the night has defnitely changed our relationship with the places, both in terms of space, brightness, both in terms of time.
Te lighted city and internet enable us to be productive 24 hours for day and then force the circadian rhythms of our day into new temporal typologies (chronotypes) whose characteristics are to be still explored. Te architecture lighted by screens wants to be a productive, confdent, animated, safe.
Beyond the transformation that the screens are introducing in the image of the contemporary city, it is also interesting to analyze how screenscapes are changing the buildings in terms of facades, but also of interiors. It begins with the entry of other monitors in the home that the centrality of the TV has multiplied. Te increase of presence of the screens multiplies the points of attraction creating new centres indoor. From this point of view the main places that reveals an interesting relationship between the screens (computer, TV, etc..) and space/time are: the ofces (half-private); the places of passage (half-public) -mentioning Walter Benjamin's passages- and the waiting rooms
Storie di architettura attraverso i sensi
No full textL’architettura è una questione che riguarda tutti i sensi, in essa ci entriamo con tutto il corpo, non dobbiamo limitarci a sfogliarla unicamente con lo sguardo.
Il libro racconta l'architettura non attraverso le tipologie, ma attraverso categorie percettive
Sense/time_based design
No full textSense-time_based design
Designing the forms of time in contemporary spaces.
Keywords: senses, time, digital
If the architecture of the 20th century was dedicated to the design of the forms of space, one might think that the architecture of the 21st century is already working on the design of the forms of time. These are temporal architectures within spatial architectures that already exist, but through the design of time are re-functionalized, re-invented, reconstructed to contain all the times of living. A part of the future is already underway in the ways we inhabit spaces, using new media that include simultaneity, ubiquity or the new faster and faster means of transportation that can deform the coordinates of space. Temporal architecture composes other hierarchies than traditional architectural logics because the possibility of subverting the consecutio of spaces means working on the folds of time and the future.
The Thesis Incubator Studio (#TIS) investigates 20th century architectural typologies by trying to imagine how a temporal approach to space design might reconfigure or redesign them. The typologies explored so far are museums, residences, stores, offices, therapeutic places, hospitality places, train stations, entertainment places, etc.
Methods
The methodology of research and project involves the following phases:
. typological and functional research. A spatial typology is adopted, and its formal, dimensional, and distributive adequacy is analyzed with respect to its contemporary use.
Research of case studies. Research is carried out on a long, medium, and short time span of the life of a space and its potential.
. sensory, temporal, and digital analysis. Sensory qualities are analyzed (light, air, flows, materials, soundscape, density, perception, etc.); temporal qualities (on-off, presence, crossing, night/day, etc.); and digital qualities (speed, mode of transport, digital footprint, etc.).
. construction of diagrams and chronotopes. Sensory diagrams and chronotopes are constructed on different time frames and digital coordinates are identified that have an impact on the space considered.
. Recompositing of functional layouts and flows. Mapping and recompositing of distribution and flow layouts.
. Redesign of spaces or redesign of existing spaces. Redesign or design from scratch starting from the intersection of these variables and more.
. Monitoring and self-evaluation. Through kpis decided by the designer and agreed upon with communities and clients, the consistency of the project with what was stated at the beginning is self-evaluated.
Results
The results of the theses developed in #TIS constitute an atlas of spatial chrono-types that derive from an intersection between sensory and temporal analyses and the management and control possibilities made available by the new digital devices in the hands of the inhabitants.
From this integration emerge important indications both in design and in the dialogue with clients and inhabitants.
An important contribution that also goes in the direction of sustainability in terms of better governance and management of the built heritage available.
Bibliography
- Barbara, A., (2012). Sensi, Tempo e architettura, Postmedia Books, Milano
- Gausa, F., (2010). Espazio Tiempo Informacion, Actar, Barcelona
- BIRNBAUM D., (2007). Cronologie, Postmedia Books, Milano
- FLORIDI L., (2014). La quarta rivoluzione. Come l’infosfera sta trasformando il mondo, ed. Scienza e Idee, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano
- GUIDARINI S., (2018). New urban housing. L’abitare condiviso in Europa, Skira, Milano
- GROYS B., (2018). In the flow, Postmedia Books, Milan
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