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"Compacting" the sprawling city. Building type and idea of the "fabric-building"
No full textThe paper illustrates the results of the theoretical and applied research carried out by the author on the forms and characters of the urban house conceived as an inseparable part of a “fabric-building”, within a design process aimed at the morphological reconfiguration of the involved urban context, rather than a stand-alone “object”, designed only as an answer to the “specific” themes expressed by its purpose. Its application field is that of the cities of central and southern Apulia. This studies belong to a broader research aimed to the “re-construction” of form of those parts of the contemporary city affected by the typical formal and spatial problems of the urban sprawl. This research experiments the centrality of the morphological approach in the project of the contemporary city and proposes a new relation between the concepts of building type and urban morphology, within which the building type can find fruitful conditions for its “re-foundation”
"Compacting" the sprawling city. Building type and idea of the "fabric-building"
No full textThe paper illustrates the results of the theoretical and applied research carried out by the author on the forms and characters of the urban house conceived as an inseparable part of a “fabric-building”, within a design process aimed at the morphological reconfiguration of the involved urban context, rather than a stand-alone “object”, designed only as an answer to the “specific” themes of its function. This studies belong to a broader research aimed to the “re-construction” of the urban form of those parts of the contemporary city affected by the typical formal and spatial problems of the urban sprawl. Their application field is that of the cities of central and southern Apulia.
This research is developed on two complementary levels: the analytic-cognitive level, dedicated to the individuation and description of the constitutive characters of the traditional house of central and southern Apulia; the design level, dedicated to its typological, constructive and formal “re-foundation”, according to new settlement and morphological “grammars”, defined by assuming an idea of city aimed at the “densification” rather than to the “dispersion”
Discontinuous polycentric city vs continuous sprawled city. The urban voids as "resource" for the form of the city of our time
No full textThe paper illustrates the research carried out by the author at the School of Architecture of Bari on the form of contemporary city, with particular reference to the Mediterranean city, and its crisis.
Against the indifferent continuity of the urban sprawl, against its "amorphous" and unlimited condition, the research proposes and explores a new order founded on the idea of "città per parti", theorized by Aldo Rossi and revised by O. M. Ungers in the proposal for the reconstruction of the city of Berlin (1977). In this project, called The cities within the city, the city of Berlin is assumed as a laboratory for experimenting the idea of "city as archipelago", where the "islands" are the unitary and recognizable parts of the city (neighborhoods and monumental areas) and the "sea" are the green spaces of nature, which have the role to confer a new upper unity to the city.
This metaphor expresses an idea of city that seems to correspond not only to the morphological conditions of the contemporary city but also to our aspiration to assume the green spaces of nature as the new collective places of the city. It contains the two interpretative keys for the solution of the problems of form of our large "formless" cities: the recognition of the polycentric character of the contemporary city and the role of the "vacuum" as space of relation between its built parts. It expresses a settlement principle which is based on the unity, the autonomy and the formal identity of the "islands" as well as on the concept of nature as "context" of the urban construction. The open and "dilated" spaces of the nature become the places through which the relation between the urban "islands" is established. The city is thus conceived as an "open" and "discontinuous" system, constituted by many "cities" and unified by the empty spaces of the nature which hold the new public places.
In the light of this principle, the urban voids within the contemporary city (remaining rural areas or brownfield sites) represent an occasion for rethinking the form of the city, a "resource" for the formal individuation of the preexisting and new "islands" of the "city-nature". They should never be intended as residual areas to be occupied and "clog", according to the logic of the expansion like wildfire. These unbuilt areas, whose position is often not casual, should be transformed into "green intervals" necessary to individuate the parts of the city, corresponding to its "centers", and to confer a new unity to the city itself.
On the other hand, the settlement principle of the "urban islands", constitutively founded on the discontinuity and "finiteness" of the built parts, presents the problem of the individuation of the "island" as a unit of the urban construction. Therefore, a crucial step of the research is the definition of the form of the settlement units. This step poses two problems: the first related to the definition of the building types of the unit as well as of the urban spaces within it; the second related to the reciprocal disposition of the units in the void space of the nature.
In the paper these specific problems, as well as the theoretical approach synthesized here, are dealt with through both the illustration of some important historical and modern paradigms and the presentation of some urban projects elaborated by the author in different contexts (design competitions and didactic workshops)
Mostra Internazionale di Architettura "La città. Progetti urbani", Padova, Palazzo Papafava dei Carraresi, 5 Maggio - 1 Giugno 2017
No full textForms, Spaces and Urban Typologies of Contemporary Mediterranean City. Section of the 1st Architecture Biennale of Thessaloniki "Architecture and the City in SE Europe", Macedonian Museum of Modern Art, 18/01-26/02/2012, Thessaloniki, Greece
No full textLa costruzione del limite tra città e natura
No full textLa bellezza delle nostre città è spesso legata all'immagine sintetica espressa dai fronti urbani che esse mostrano verso gli spazi di natura su cui si affacciano, eletti come luoghi della rappresentazione della loro identità. Considerando la natura come terra libera da occupare o come ostacolo all'edificazione continua e diffusa, la città contemporanea ha perso il senso della costruzione del limite verso i suoi spazi aperti, non riconosce più nell'assunzione e nella costruzione del limite un momento centrale del processo di definizione della propria forma.
Questo scritto documenta la ricerca condotta dall'autore sulle grammatiche insediative relative alla costruzione del limite tra città e natura, tra parti di città e brani di natura, grammatiche fondate su una rinnovata idea di natura, intesa come “contesto” della costruzione urbana, e su idee di città rivolte alla “densificazione” e alla finitezza delle sue parti piuttosto che alla dispersione indifferente e alla continuità informe
Architecture and Stereotomy. The relation between "construction apparatus" and "decorative apparatus" in the cut-stone vaults and domes of Philibert De l'Orme and Andrés de Vandelvira
No full textProgetto del Laboratorio di Laurea "Presicce. Nuovo polo residenziale e produttivo alla periferia della città"
No full textLa ricerca della forma della città del nostro tempo
No full textLa forma della città contemporanea, la forma della “periferia”, rende manifesto un rapporto non risolto dalla nostra cultura dell’abitare: il rapporto tra città e natura, tra le forme della città e le forme della natura. Eppure i vuoti urbani, quelli collocati nella periferia ma anche quelli corrispondenti alle aree dismesse della città consolidata, sono le parti in cui la relazione della città con la campagna, la relazione della città con la natura “conservata” o da “ripristinare”, permetterebbe di sperimentare idee di città rinnovate e rispondenti alle nostre aspirazioni. Prescindendo dai loro contenuti figurativi ed espressivi, i progetti di Carlo Moccia illustrati nell'articolo individuano e propongono una risposta "insediativa" possibile a questo problema della città contemporanea. Questi progetti corrispondono ad un’idea di città fondata su un rinnovato rapporto con la natura e indicano modi, grammatiche e sintassi per la sua costruzione. Essi costituiscono un contributo alla ricerca delle forme della città contemporanea e ci permettono di pensare alla città-natura come ad una aspirazione “realista” della cultura dell’abitare del nostro tempo
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