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The genesis and purpose of metropolitan architecture, its discipline in the era of the bigness at the metropolitan scale
No full textMetropolitan Landscapes
No full textOne of the main objectives of the book is to open a dialogue amongst cross-cutting discipline experts to discuss approaches, tools, and case studies focused on the coexistence of urbanity and ecology. The book focus is on case studies at the metropolitan scale and discussion about toolkits, based on the reading of the territory with the geographical, urban, architectural, economic, environmental, and public policy perspectives. It introduces the concept of Practice of Metropolitan Discipline, something which is new. The specificity of the new discipline is in its field of action, where the starting point is higher than the local case. The idea is to bring the local case to an absolute generalisation, as the level of awareness of the local policymakers and civil servants must be raised to the complexity of the metropolitan phenomenon.
The necessity of a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach and the Prac-tice of Metropolitan Discipline became a common ground for our academic ex-change in the past years. The Practice of Metropolitan Discipline supports the construction of the metropolitan spatial structure with organisational and technical expertise, proposing the big projects of the metropolitan urbanity. It is based on the physical and virtual network between the new city shape, the interfaces among built capital and natural capital, and the new forms of conviviality. The rapid urbanisation in the past few decades changed the scene of urban life on a global scale radically. Many critical issues have arisen within the physical and spatial transformations of the metropolitan regions. Social and economic inequality, the fragility of environmental systems caused by global climate change, the emergence of the political idea of the metropolitan dwellers as global citizens, the preservation of cultural heritage, and the governance and policy issues are only a few of the challenges that frame what we call 'the Metropolitan Complexity'. These issues cannot be addressed with a single, static, and traditional disciplinary approach, but instead, require a comprehensive and multidisciplinary vision to understand them. According to some scholars (e.g. Monte-Mor Roberto Lu s, 2014), we need to develop a different way of conceptualizing the new metropolitan territorialities. Metropolitan experts have to shape the city dimension starting from an environmental perspective (the environmental question in its urban and metropolitan dimensions), to evaluate the relationship between city and countryside, and subsequently, the links between the metropolis and the region, as well as the settlement patterns in contemporary metropolises.
Our book provides metropolitan key studies as generators of theoretical contents and approaches, data, experiences, good practices, and tools to remove or avoid obstacles in order to plan the metropolitan city/region. Metropolitan solutions are focused on pragmatic integrated strategies as tasks that the current city must adopt
E.N. Rogers al Politecnico di Milano: ripercorrere un'eredità-E.N. Rogers at Politecnico di Milano: retracing a legacy
No full textQuesto studio delle lezioni tenute dal prof. Rogers negli anni ‘52/’56 ancora assolutamente attuali,costituisce il fondamento di un corso di Elementi d’Architettura.
Dare di nuovo voce a chi rappresentò il momento d’iniziazione, vuol dire, però, porre nella prospettiva della competenza milanese elaborata nella modernità, il mio lavoro con gli studenti di oggi. Le lezioni di oggi così potrebbero divenire il punto d’avvio al mestiere per gli architetti di domani. I laboratori che completeranno il ciclo del loro percorso, avranno così radici profonde per spingersi ben dentro i problemi d’oggi e saperli guardare “sub specie architettonica”. Con queste parole di Rogers, ribadisco la sapienza del maestro che sui “fatti” dell’architettura (opere che hanno fatto storia) costruiva un pensiero teorico sull’idea degli stili non intesi come regole che ebbero vigore in un tempo, ma come conquiste dell’arte nel farsi più esperta dei propri mezzi di osservazione e conoscenza del mondo per l’abitare degli uomini.
Un’avvertenza. Lo studio, in quanto tale, non è un puro documento. Ho rispettato la lettera delle lezioni, per penetrarne i contenuti. Non ne ho fatto oggetto di uno studio filologico.
D’altra parte, nel presentarlo, intendo riattivare la memoria del pensiero di chi, per rinnovare l’architettura moderna, si confrontò con i predecessori, Milizia, Boito, Annoni.
Lo fece dicendosi solidale al pensiero di Gropius, perchè condivideva, con Argan, i suoi principi etici. Non so se potesse condividere l’insegnamento della sua scuola.
In ogni caso la parola chiave che coniò come blasone, continuità, rifiuta la tabula rasa. Dunque, Rogers cercava di attingere i principi metastorici dell’architettura. Il cui fondamento era l’“analisi” delle opere d’architettura, a partire da quelle più recenti, ma nel contesto di una comparazione essenziale con le più antiche, nella convinzione che fosse necessario “rinnovare” l’idea di modernità non solo nell’Architettura. Nel prendere posizione per la modernità, chiamando a suo mentore Gropius, l’intento era quello di rinnovare la modernità. Il rifiuto della “discontinuità” che considerava sterile, era inteso appunto ad un rinnovamento che potesse attingere ai fondamenti che si dicono metastorici, per indicarne la funzione genetica nella replica. La replica rinnova, tradisce e tramanda.
Genesi è la duplice azione interdipendente del costruire sé stessi e edificare. Per costruire sé stessi infatti occorre assimilare il sapere di chi ha fatto prima. Operare un’analisi di ciò che si è osservato. Ma per costruire bisogna concepire un’idea dallo “sperare contra spem”. Un duplice fondamento, in sé stessi e nel mondo genera l’azione del costruire. Questo è il fondamento filosofico dell’Architettura per il quale occorre avere praticato l’arte e il mestiere per farne la teoria. La teoria viene sempre dopo l’aver fatto. E si fa solo al presente. Perciò l’opzione della modernità non fu mai in discussione
Metro-Scapes: Metropolitan Cartographyfor Mapping Hybrid Landscapes
No full textNowadays, the metropolitan process of spatial fragmentation and spatial heterogeneity demonstrate how Metropolitan Landscapes shall be understood as spaces for changing the practice and cultural expression of those who inhabit them. At the metropolitan scale, hybrid landscapes are plastic spaces and transitional membranes that connect nature with territorial infrastructure networks according to trans-scalar visions, from a rural environment to historic centres to urban districts and neighbourhoods. The Supra-scalar dimension of Metropolitan Landscapes undergoes sudden changes: the spatial relationships between 'local/global/hybrid', 'urban/rural', 'culture/nature', and 'traditional/contemporary; this is the investigation issue of Metro-scapes through Metropolitan Cartography maps. Specifically, the research aims to dynamically set up open-data and open-source Protocol Maps to make them interoperable, combinable, and scalable through modelling Metropolitan Landscapes. They are Figural Landscape Units since they are defined by their geographical structure (section) and durable cultural permanences (name). Therefore, Metro-scapes propose a new taxonomy of Metropolitan Landscapes in which the metropolis's tangible and intangible cultural heritage declines according to new spatial categories aimed at shaping Metropolitan Landscapes of Infrastructures, Exchanges, Transitions, and Obsolescences. In conclusion, as Metropolitan Landscapes are complex systems of space networks, Metropolitan Cartography contributes to rethinking the spatial form of specific hybrid urban-rural metropolitan contexts, their spatial ecology and public spaces' average linkage according to new land-use patterns of URLs. These new spatial interactions thus open up the city's design to a range of creative agents and to an array of new spatial typologies and their corresponding effects able to stand despite the incidental spatial pressures generated by physical phenomena of uncertainty and vulnerability from the metropolitan scale
Guadalajara Metropolitan Region: The role of metropolitan cities in the integration of urban and rural territories and their inhabitants. The relevance of the Guadalajara pilot case study
No full textThe city of Guadalajara has a strategic geographical position for relations between the two oceans. It is also in a position of the junction between the axis that connects the city to Mexico City and the axis that connects Guadalajara with the port of Manzanillo.
Along the years, the projects proposed during the Taller of Guadalajara seek to increase the capacity of metropolitan government authorities for developing policies, plans and projects that will foster sustainable economic, social and environmental urban development for improving the lives of both, local communities and nowadays for enhancing the integration of new migrants in urban metropolitan areas.
By using a holistic approach considering urban and territorial planning, governance and municipal finance, sustainable and inclusive solutions at different planning scales must be developed to enhance economic and social development and integration. The UDG project includes capacity building of HEIs’ professors, local authorities and relevant stakeholders for social cohesion by participatory processes. It also includes a focus on collection, analysis and representation of geographical data with open source tools, intending to produce maps to guide decision-making across the cities’ administrative boundaries. As a result, the project strengthens the integration of Guadalajara Municipality and the middle and the small cities of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Region through more cohesive urban planning approaches, improved sustainable metropolitan project on the linkage urban-rural, tourism development, urban governance and enhanced livelihoods opportunities, by proposing specific metropolitan strategie
A new method for automatic Multiple Partial Discharge Classification
No full textA new wavelet based feature parameter have been developed to represent the characteristics of PD activities, i.e. the wavelet decomposition energy of PD pulses measured from non-conventional ultra wide bandwidth PD sensors such as capacitive couplers (CC) or high frequency current transformers (HFCT). The generated feature vectors can contain different dimensions depending on the length of recorded pulses. These high dimensional feature vectors can then be processed using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to map the data into a three dimensional space whilst the first three most significant components representing the feature vector are preserved. In the three dimensional mapped space, an automatic Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) algorithm is then applied to classify the data cluster(s) produced by the PCA. As the procedure is undertaken in a three dimensional space, the obtained clustering results can be easily assessed. The classified PD sub-data sets are then reconstructed in the time domain as phase-resolved patterns to facilitate PD source type identification. The proposed approach has been successfully applied to PD data measured from electrical machines and power cables where measurements were undertaken in different laboratories
The Narrative Structure of the Agro-Urban Metropolitan Territory. The Metropolis as Hypertext for the History of the Twenty-first Century: A Network of Middle Cities as an Operational Topography
No full textHypertext is a set of documents placed in relation to each other using
keywords. In the context of the metropolitan discourse, it can be considered as a
network of emerging urban epicentres. The reading of a metropolitan territory can
take place in a nonlinear way. The citizens’ self-consciousness and the ability to
move around freely are the backgrounds for the metaphoric transposition of the
hypertext concept in the metropolitan dimension. Reversely, to understand the
metropolitan issues using the hypertext concept, the individual choices among a
wide range of elements placed in relation to each other become significant. The
relations of various types of space and nature are managed by a subjective mapping
that is constantly updated. In the contemporary urban narrative, especially from the
governance perspective, there is a lack of storytelling, to establish a new physical
metropolitan paradigm and discourse. To introduce the metropolitan hybrid
agro-urban territory to the new metropolitan population requires a process of
building a narrative of the territorial identity and citizenship, through a powerful
metaphor. The goal of a metropolitan project is to define a space with collective and
public dimensions through the new hybrid urban forms that are public, common,
entertaining or productive. In order to build this gradient of metropolitan space and
define its functional and symbolic values and forms, it is necessary to develop new
syntax and grammar for the design
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