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Adapting Reuse. Strategie di conversione d'uso degli interni e di rinnovamento urbano
No full textIl significato dell’espressione anglosassone Adaptive Reuse – nella sua accezione di conversione d’uso per la ri-funzionalizzazione di spazi esistenti la cui funzione originaria è esaurita – include un complesso sistema di strategie di intervento adattabili, o meglio “adattive”, messe in campo dalla cultura del progetto. Esse sono profondamente legate ai recenti modelli di economia dell’accesso, della condivisione e dell’esperienza, e riportano in primo piano la dicotomia tra possesso e uso delle risorse, così rilevante nello scenario contemporaneo. L’Adaptive Reuse, dunque, mira a conciliare la distanza tra le funzioni originarie degli spazi e le necessità emergenti. In questo senso, è la cultura di progetto degli interni che governa e catalizza, cioè rende più efficace e sostenibile, la trasformazione degli spazi abitabili – sia interni che esterni – consentendone un veloce e dinamico aggiornamento.
Se le prime esperienze progettuali che hanno tracciato la storia dell’Adaptive Reuse riguardano la conversione degli spazi tra differenti categorie d’uso, oggi la strategia tende a costituirsi piuttosto come un “processo debole” di adattamento delle strutture stesse, a volte guidato in maniera “inversa”, cioè condizionato dall’esistente. Il “tempo”, in particolare la “transitorietà” degli interventi, costituisce una variabile strategica perché permette di rispondere a nuove domande, testare progetti, avviare programmi di inclusione, colmare i vuoti temporali tra le fasi di progetto e trasformazione. Il gerundio Adapting, nel titolo, infatti, esorta a sperimentare strategie di Adaptive Reuse sempre nuove e attente alle condizioni specifiche del progetto. Queste strategie permettono altresì di dare nuovo significato ai “vuoti” urbani attraverso interventi, spontanei o guidati, che possono prevedere un forte coinvolgimento sociale e culturale, generando nell’insieme importanti dinamiche di rigenerazione degli organismi urbani e delle comunità che li abitano
Conversione funzionale e ri-funzionalizzazione come strategia di rigenerazione urbana. Il progetto “La Città delle culture” di David Chipperfield per l’isolato ex Ansaldo.
No full textDesign to feed the world
No full textCumulus, l’Associazione internazionale di Università e Scuole d’Arte, Design e Media, insieme a Politecnico di Milano e Università La Sapienza di Roma, ha curato la mostra intitolata “Design to feed the world”, allestita presso la Fabbrica del Vapore, a Milano. I progetti, mostrati in forma di video, poster o modelli in scala, sono ispirati al tema generale di EXPO Milano 2015, “Feeding the planet, energy for life” e illustrano come la cultura del progetto, applicata al vasto tema della nutrizione, possa condurre a importanti risultati nei diversi settori di ricerca del Design, quali Comunicazione, Moda, Prodotto, Interni, Interaction, Service
Teleworking and the Adaptive Reuse of Urban Interiors: The Fragmentation and Re-concentration of the Workplace
No full textThe practice of teleworking, established by the spread of Information and Communication Technology, has taken on even more importance with the current international economic crisis. Some of the workspace lost from offices because of the growth of teleworking has been regained in the form of the so-called SoHo - Small Office Home Office – which is situated within the domestic environment and used either for tele-dependent work or for a Home Based Business. Alternatively this fragmentation of the workplace may also become re-formulated in new formats of space sharing, which evolve from models of co-working. The design of these interiors is often linked to the practice of adaptive re-use of existing spaces and, therefore, consists of making a transitional arrangement of interiors using objects and furnishings. This approach allows people to continuously reassess the interior’s functional capacity to absorb the consequences of modifications in lifestyle, social relationships and production systems.
On a larger scale, teleworking poses a problem for the interplay between the architectural typology and the activities taking place within interior spaces, making it difficult to perceive how the city functions and introducing the need for new tools for investigating and monitoring the way cities work
Restoration economy. Manufaktura, Lodz
No full textThe practice of Adaptive Reuse is often related to a profound socio-economic shift; specifically, it implies the abandonment or decommissioning of an industrial, economic or social system, and its relative structures, and is often concerned with the experimentation of a new model. Emerging countries are of particular note because they are required to tackle this profound change which needs tangible space and energies.
Adaptive reuse is therefore crucial, enabling them to exploit existing structures while preserving historical heritage. Re-use and re-adaptation are, indeed, common practices that have a historical background seen throughout human history; nevertheless, during recent decades, this sensitive design approach has also been characterized by an advanced neo-sustainability related to the environment in general. This trend is part of a widespread interest in exploitation of existing resources, represented by the concept of Restoration Economy
Reloading Spaces: How design makes urban spaces more liveable
No full textDesign has been often used as a key-lever in the transformation of urban places to respond to the arising needs of the contemporary society. Our cities see the growing demand for places where people can cultivate a sense of wellbeing, share their daily life and get closer to other inhabitants. This paper focuses on the challenging task of designing new scenarios to reactivate urban spaces and abandoned or underutilised interiors, on the ground level of the city, in some difficult contexts. Urban interior design could help to create welcoming public places where the ethnically diverse neighbourhood, the co-existence of a progressively ageing population together with young families, the mix of council housing and private ownership, could be a value. This paper introduces the neighbourhood of San Siro, where the final design studio lab experience of the Bachelor of Science in Interior Design, School of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Reloading Spaces took place. Design lab projects were aimed at the activation of dynamic redevelopment and revitalisation of the neighbourhood through strategies for the re-appropriation of the urban spaces that bond different environments in order to communicate and strengthen a common identity of the neighbourhood. The ultimate goal of the design lab projects was to imagine possible scenarios that could become innovative trends, starting with an enquiry into people, their behaviour and their contemporary needs
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