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The Ordinary in the approach to architecture and building of John Habraken
No full textLa “teoria dei sistemi” di John Habraken origina dall’attenta osservazione di un fenomeno ricorrente di appropriazione spontanea del patrimonio edilizio, realizzato nel rispetto dei principi del Movimento Moderno, da parte degli abitanti, al fine di adeguarlo a mutate esigenze e valori. In tal modo l’autore si pone nei confronti dell’esistente con spirito critico analogo a quello con cui Saverio Muratori, negli stessi anni, andava analizzando l’edilizia dei centri storici di Venezia e Roma. Per queste ragioni, e per le ricadute indotte dalle sue ricerche sulla cultura del progetto nei decenni a venire, Habraken innova il concetto di ordinariness nel processo edilizio industrializzato
The study of urban form in the Netherlands
No full textThe study of urban form in the Netherlands has been heavily influenced by the Modern Movement and characterized by strong disciplinary specialization. On the one hand there is the distinction between art and engineering and on the other the search for instrumental universal rationality. This helps to explain the increasing interest, initially within academe, in the first English and German translations of some outstanding works of Italian researchers, who were at the time already acting as leaders in new perspectives in the fields of urban form and architecture. In keeping with the Dutch practical attitude, these investigations contributed to urban developments of the post-industrial era, beginning at the end of the 1970s. Today much of the study of urban form entails investigation of how global trends affect local systems and how local systems can be improved by analysing best practices. In that respect the Netherlands has been able to establish a leading role in contemporary architecture that is widely recognized within EuropeArchitectureArchitecture and The Built Environmen
From Aldo Rossi to Rem Koolhaas, Architectural research and design teaching of Hybrid building
No full textLa città contemporanea è caratterizzata da una discontinuità programmatica, che non è più il prodotto della “ città per parti”, ma l’effetto indotto dal fenomeno urbano delle Reti di città. Una delle manifestazioni architettoniche più evidenti è il proliferare di edifici ibridi, soprattutto in prossimità di importanti nodi di scambio dell’accessibilità intermodale
GROOT-GREAT. European and Dutch hybrid buildings: Vitalizing the tradition of the urban low-rise, mixed hybrid building
No full textLa progressiva transizione dalla città metropolitana alle reti di città stimola una riflessione sui programmi urbani complessi e, in particolare, sullo sviluppo di nuovi tipi edilizi, corrispondenti alle mutate condizioni al contorno, definibili “edifici ibridi”
Groundscrapers: Vitalizing the Tradition of the Urban Low Rise, Mixed Hybrid Building
No full textThe fact that hybrid buildings can be interpreted as extremely condensed urban blocks, increasing the city’s density and contributing to its public realm, forms one of the key interests of this research. According to its European interpretation, the “ground scraper” is not only public because of the character of its plinth facing the street, but also due to its interior space, partly accessible to public. As such it potentially extends the city’s public domain, horizontally and vertically, into the building’s interior and links the public domain inside and outside. Basically it acts as a city within the city.ArchitectureArchitecture and The Built Environmen
States of co-existence and border projects in port cities: Genoa and Rotterdam compared
No full textIn port cities there is a tendency to dislocate production activities in favour of logistic-productive dynamics. In addition, the transition from an industrial area model to a ‘logistics hinterland’ formula shifts attention to a territorial scale, focusing on spaces at the border between the port and city areas. Today, port–city borders are commonly perceived as barriers but they could be dynamic development thresholds. Existing port cities exhibit different states of coexistence at their port–city borders: sometimes they are forced situations originating from poor management, but they can also provide opportunities for mutual interaction and synergy. This paper compares port–city borders in Genoa and Rotterdam using interviews, relevant literature and mapping. Conclusions are drawn concerning the possibilities and potential for future port–city borders
Tekenboek stadsgebouwen. Functie-stapelingen, publieke binnenwerelden, in één block.
No full textIl libro affronta il tema dell'isolato urbano di tradizione olandese attraverso la descrizione del processo di ibridazione- di scala, di funzioni e di spazio- che ne ha sviluppato l'innovazione nel corso del tempo. Il fenomeno viene indagato attraverso il rapporto con precedenti europei ed american
The New BreBeMi Highway. Character, Identity, Scenarios of a New Regional Conurbation
No full textThe BreBeMi highway project began in 1990: a highway connection to link the metropolitan system of Milan to the zones of productive activity of Bergamo and Brescia. The highway - construction began in 2009 - connects 3 of the largest cities of northern Italy, crossing 43 municipalities. Apart from the technical and constructive difficulties the main problem faced by the new infrastructure is its impact on the territory, on conurbation and on the habits of social life.
The territorial context crossed by the highway is impacted by processes of transformation of the landscape and the environment, accompanied by consolidation of the settlement patterns that beyond the borders of the historical cities and their immediate suburbs have accelerated the process of widespread anthropization of the territory, especially in the vicinity of the branching infrastructural grids.
The goal of this study is to identify and describe the character of each place (cities and landscapes) impacted by the highway, and to bring out the general identity of this territory seen as a whole. The connecting thread is a new street. By means of suitable categories of interpretation, the paper attempts to describe guidelines that can be of use for the comprehension of the landscape, crossed by the highway, while at the same time shedding light on opportunities on which to base future projects, trying to imagine a possible transformation of the infrastructure itself during the time, according to the growth of cities.
The hypothesis of including such a vast territory in a single study is based on the premise that it is possible to consider the landscape - natural and constructed - through the same parameters, in order to orient individual new projects in a coherent way with respect to a more general idea of place.
The project presented here calls for the subdivision of the space in variable intervals and measures, marked by the presence of repeating elements, thus producing the rhythm of the urban narrative. On this “platform” that subdivides the territory between Milan and Brescia a metric pace is thus generated. The highway becomes not an element that splits the territory, but a new opportunity. The work is organized on two different levels of analysis: a macro level, that focuses on all the territory crossed by the infrastructure and its areas of influence; a micro level that puts local identities into relation with the overall design of the territory
Rossi, Ungers and Koolhaas: Three positions on the relation between Architecture and Planning
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Continuous and Step-level Pay-off Functions in Public Good Games: A Conceptual Analysis
Get PDFConflicts between individuals’ and collective interests are ubiquitous in social life. Numerous experimental studies have investigated the resolution of such conflicts using public good games with either continuous or step-level payoff functions. A conceptual analysis using both classic game theory and social exchange theory shows that these two types of games are fundamentally different. A continuous function game is a social dilemma in that it contains a conflict between individual and collective interests whereas a step-level game is primarily a social coordination game. Thus, we conclude that one can not safely generalize results from step-level to continuous form games. Additionally, our analysis shows that the distinction between continuous and single-step games can be blurred by segmenting a continuous function into steps or adding steps to a single-step game. We identify characteristics of the payoff function that conceptually mark the transition from a dilemma to a coordination problem.
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