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Ecological urbanism in semi-urban areas after sprawl. The case of Tirana north.
No full textOver the last 23 years, Tirana has seen dramatic transformations. In particular, the semi-urban area of Tirana North ( the area between the city and the airport) has been gradually developed without planning or even any appropriate infrastructure, by converting agricultural land into informal small-scale housing sprawl. Surrounded by important infrastructure axes, but without any proper connection to the city, this area seem particularly isolated. The river, Another internal boundary in the area, the presence of which is almost not perceived because of the pollution and the lack of infrastructure between the two banks of the river, caused further fragmentation of the prawl
La figura di Aldo Loris Rossi nel panorama dell'architettura partenopea
No full textAldo Loris Rossi ha rappresentato una delle maggiori figure della cultura architettonica a Napoli tra i personaggi di spicco della generazione degli anni Trenta, queste mie brevi note non hanno affatto la pretesa di voler tracciare un suo profilo monografico ma di contestualizzare la sua opera, in particolare le architetture napoletane, nel panorama locale dove ha operato come docente della facoltà di architettura della Federico II di Napoli in un momento di transizione che attraversa il ’68 e giunge fino al nuovo millennio
Projecting Shkodra. Operative fragments between lake, river and sea
No full textAlbania with strong impact also in Montenegro and Kosova. The city has a great history and culture, and was consider a stronghold of anticommunist resistance between 1945-1990. Since than it went towards a turbulent transition during 90-s and a significant transformation in the last 10-15 years. Nowadays Shkodra is one of 3-4 main cultural-touristic attractions of the country, but the city is facing also the problems of national recession after 2010. Since the three years ago a newly elected female Mayor - previously an expert of local governance - has been trying to build a team and draft/implement a participatory development vision, at least for the next decade of Shkodra. The new territorial-administrative reform of the country created chances for establishing e great municipality in terms of surface, resources and boundaries, but no real fiscal and resources decentralization has been following from the central government. Meantime the newly established municipality did not inherited a readymade strategy and plan, despite those for the ‘old/urban’ municipality before the reform. Therefore the mayor could generate support from central government (AKTP, National Agency of Territorial Planning and expertise from Polis University Tirana and Arizona State University, USA. During 2016 an intensive bottom-up process of public consultations was initiated, with public community meetings, sectoral and institutions meetings, professional networks and interests groups meetings. All was about transparency, and this achieved by many public meetings, online charrettes, live television broadcasting, focused groups and thematic meetings, etc. Thanks to such process a municipal strategic vision and a general local territorial plan was drafted and latter approved with debate at Municipal Council of Shkodra. A second filtering and approval was also undertaken by several ministries and by the national territorial committee of the central governments. At this moment Shkodra has an important document to guide its own present and future developments.
However the local situation is not as perfect as it seems. Financing for the strategic projects and programs is harmed by the lack of financing of central government’s share. Meantime, the climate change has negative impact over the vast municipal territory that expands from Albanian Alps mountainous region (north-east), ending up to the Adriatic coastline (west). Municipality is part of one of the richest water energy production watershed regions, but flooding is becoming annual emergency for the western plain of Shkodra. Life of people is endangered, while material and financial costs are increased and agriculture/business isharmed. What can be the emergent interventions? What can be mid- and long-term strategic programs and projects? The general strategic territorial plan that was drafted and approved helps to orient interventions and developments. But more is needed to help local communities and improve quality of life.
Therefore, cooperation between Municipality of Shkodra and Polis University continued in a qualitative way. Two years ago a group of researchers and staff from the Joint International PhD Program of Polis University and University of Ferrara Italy, started a research project for the region of Shkodra with the core theme: the relation between water and territorial development. The starting point was the work done by Municipality and POLIS/ASU as regarding the general strategic territorial plan (PPV). A field visit was also undertaken in the region including Shkodra, Podgorica, Ulqin and all the rest of living settlements and territories around Shkodra lake. The ecosystem of Shkodra Lake, Buna and Drini River was studied, especially in relation with the city of Shkodra and flooded areas. Other focus was to understand different territorial typologies and for each of the to develop models of interventions and development in the form of strategic interventions. Case studies form other international experiences served as reference to adopt to local conditions, and as result several strategic projects are generated. We hope in this way that the contribution of our International PhD Program between POLIS and UNIFE does not simply remain theoretical and academic, but inspires and helps local authorities to detail further the so called PPV Plan. This is also a great example of how local government institutions and academic and research institutions can work together to improve the lives of people and communities! We believe this publication serves for that!
Last but not least, the publication is part the International PhD Program research series, published by POLIS_Press in cooperation with UNIFE, starting with the national visioning: Albania 2030 Manifesto; continuing with regional plans of Durara, Riviera, Semani, Prishtina. This series of publication is also documented by several international and partner libraries, including the Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA
New Dimension of Urban Living
No full textRiflessione sul rapporto tra Infrastruttura, Architettura e Città finalizzata ad una analisi delle caratteristiche del Territorio Albanese
Aldo Loris Rossi. City fragments and futuristic utopias
No full textLAUREA MAGISTRALELa decisione di scrivere la mia Tesi di Laurea su Aldo Loris Rossi è stato una volontà ed un pensiero che si è sedimentato nella mia mente per molti anni, quando, intento a redigere una ricerca bibliografia per il corso di progettazione al primo anno ,trovai una sua piccola monografia.Sfogliandola rimasi da subito impressionato dalla qualità del disegno:energico, espressivo, plastico e coerente nelle forme organiche applicate sia ai suoi frammenti di città come ai suoi studi utopistici e futuribili della città nuova.
Dopo averne letto il testo, mi si rivelò un mondo quasi sconosciuto, quello di un’ architettura contemporanea, in particolar modo quella organica italiana, e delle correnti avanguardiste internazionali, che, ancora da studiare nella mia carriera, cominciavo in maniera autonoma a scoprire.
Arrivato al termine dei miei studi è giunta finalmente l’occasione di poter portare a compimento questo studio, sintetizzato con passione tramite parole ed immagini in questa tesi.
Ho deciso di operare la mia ricerca suddividendola in modo operativo in tre diverse parti, in modo da realizzare un crescendo di informazioni e di esperienza sempre maggiori delle opere di Aldo Loris Rossi.
Prima parte è stata una ricerca critica ed analitica, quale può solo essere quella vista dalle stanze di una biblioteca, cercando ogni tipo di materiale potesse introdurmi al tema.
Una seconda parte, è stato un progetto fotografico, basandomi sulle ricerche bibliografiche precedenti, dove ho voluto toccare con mano le opere realizzate, che ho creduto importanti ed a sostegno della mia tesi.Una terza ed ultima parte, infine, è stato l’incontro con l’architetto, in quanto ho ritenuto, ed a ragion veduta, che solo la fonte prinicpale potesse idealmente guidarmi nella vastità di informazioni cercate, definendo quella che è la struttura della mia opera di ricerca.
Da qui sorge, infatti, la decisione di descrivere carriera e biografia l’architetto in tre capitoli, quante le fasi operative che hanno contraddistinto la sua carriera: La crescita, non banale accumulo di informazione, ma sedimentazione di esperienza, la dimensione urbana, definita come il laboratorio continuo e sperimentale della sua carriera e l’attivismo sociale e politico filo conduttore sempre presente e che oggi è megafono delle sue ricerche.The decision to write my thesis on Aldo Loris Rossi was a desire and a thought that isgrounded in my mind for many years, when, intent on drawing up a research bibliography for design course in my first yearof studies, I found a small monograph.Fanning it I was immediately impressed by the quality of the drawings: energetic, expressive, and consistent in organic shapes applied both to his city as snippets to his utopian and future studies of the new town.
After having read the text, I turned a world almost unknown to contemporary architecture, especially the Italian organic and international avant-garde currents, which, still to be studied in my career, I started independently to discover.
Arrived at the end of my studies came finally an opportunity to carry out this study,synthesized with passion through words and pictures in this thesis.
I decided to do my research by splitting it into operating mode in three different parts,so as to create a crescendo of information and increasing experience of the works ofAldo Loris Rossi.
The first part was a critical and analytical research, which can only be seen from therooms of a library, looking for every type of material could went on to the subject.
A second part, was a photography project, based on the bibliographical research prior to where I wanted to touch the works, that I believed and in support of my argument.
A third and final part, finally, was the meeting with the architect, because I felt, andrightly so, that only the main source would ideally lead me in the vastness of information you were looking for, defining what is the structure of my research work. From here is, in fact, the decision to describe the architect’s career and biography in three chapters, all operational phases that have marked his career: growth, accumulation of non-trivial information, but sedimentation of experience, the urban dimension, defined as the continuous and experimental laboratory of his career and the political and social activism thread always present and that today is the megaphone of his research.From here is, in fact, the decision to describe the architect’s career and biography in three chapters, all operational phases that have marked his career: growth, accumulation of non-trivial information, but sedimentation of experience, the urban dimension, defined as the continuous and experimental laboratory of his career and the political and social activism thread always present and that today is the megaphone of his research
Albanian Riviera, Urban form and landscape, the core elements of a metanational landscape
No full textThe territorial relationship of the Albania Riviera about its location relates to a platform that is investing by tradition in tourism, taking in consideration not only the economic values that tourism can offer but also a mission to maintain and transmit culturally and heritage values through time, extending The social and intellectual outreach of their civilization. This wealth of culture along with the areas of the Blue The corridor can be strongly evidenced in the Riviera, to develop further sustainable tourism as a Model structure of progression. As a South European and Mediterranean country situated at Adriatic Lake, Albania is an especially important part of South-Eastern Europe, as an essential transport bridge between European West and European Southeast and Northeast. Due to its particular geographical position and spread: Albania has a demanding form. It is crucial to understanding the potential of the Albanian Riviera in the national and regional context, as a missing of the Blue Corridor of the Adriatic Lake a clear Met National Landscape of immense value
Toolkit design methodology / Architectural project by use of classification and taxonomies
No full textThe paper is focused on a methodology carried out to approach landscape and urban design, on the base of a codified process, during an international design workshop that took place in Shkodra. The fragment comprises the mouth of the Buna River, ranging from the Albanian part of the delta to the western side of the marsh. The even landscape changes drastically every year, and often more than once, in a waterbed with houses and stables apparently floating on it. Moreover, informality along the street and the coast spread unfinished buildings, reducing the draining capacity of the area and putting in danger those who decided to move there.
Here we suggest a methodology built on a system of localized interventions. As Jan Neutelings pointed out, we need to find new metaphors to read those diffused cities that do not establish a recognizable relationship between the inside and outside, figure and
ground, city and countryside, as they provide green spots, which contain built spots too.
His metaphor of the patchwork, deflated the idea of a comprehensive large-scale design conducted by an isolated agent. We should not forget that Albania admitted the rules of the free market only during the 90s, at a mature stage of the European liberalism, causing an explosive run from state-owned lands to fragmented private properties. Then the main issue is the distance between the author (of the plan) and the user, and the way the latter can bend and transform certain rules according to his needs.
The proposed design is a soft landscape infrastructure that analyzes the overlapping artificial and natural pattern striving to enhance the natural diversity of the area, though addressing natural and human threats. The overall process is intended as an architectural toolkit that gathers three steps up to the final strategy: the formation of an analytical tableau; the visualization of a new geography; the definition of the architectural toolkit
To code or not to code? Investigating the urban-rural transect and other Smart Code instruments in the territorial development context of Albania. Case Study: city of Shkodra
No full textFollowing the subtle tendencies of ‘europeanization’ of planning traditions in EU member countries, Albania has seen some drastic changes in the way it approaches spatial (territorial) and urban planning. The level of normativity has increased, and the responsibility to establish norms and standards is shared between the central and local governments. Even though the system is supposed to be more flexible, it adopts various concepts of the post-New Urbanism planning framework, including zoning, form based codes, etc. These concepts are part of a unified framework widely applied in the US states, called Smart Codes. This paper aims at investigating these morphology-based tools in the case of Shkodra city, as a way to discuss on the need for coding and normativity in land management
Rivieras
No full textReactive is the same adjective we used to describe the reaction of the Italian area known as Riviera Romagnola to the economic crisis
Albanian Riviera: Creative Tourism Transcending Local Expediency
No full textThe paper explores the concept of creative tourism and its role in the development of touristic destinations. The case of the Albanian Riviera is analysed in its current situation in terms of tourism offers and the main objective is identifying potentials of the destination towards the development of creative tourism. What creative tourism is and how relevant Albanian Riviera is from the perspective of creative tourism’s growth, based on authenticity and in accordance with the new tourism market trend, are the two main questions to be elaborated
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