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Desert City - Shelter City. Possible scenarios in the unidentified space of cities suspended by unexpected events.
No full textThe contemporary city is a reality full of contradictions. It is a multiple and changeable artificial space that shows opposite conditions, Unexpected occasions. Starting from the idea of the city as a place of life, this essay intends to reflect on the condition of crisis that our urban organisms are going through, high- lighting its limits and potential. The recent Covid-19 pandemic has helped to re-emerge latent problems and re-consider new ones: with greater awareness, it is perhaps possible to transform our historical moment into an opportunity to identify the limits of planning and incorrect habits and, finally, find new ideas for the city of the future
Utopia, industry, planning, paradoxes, and possible futures. Comparisons between Raša (HR) and Ivrea (IT)
No full textThe twentieth-century utopias are almost all explicitly linked to the industrial-production factor, which determines the identifying figure within the historical urban landscape; the economic component is therefore indissolubly connected to the social one, providing the characterization of these urban organisms, generating the contradictions that lead to the crisis. It is within this mechanism that the key to reading and acting on those ideal cities must be sought; ideal cities raised to this rank by our vulnerability to the externalization of living principles; perhaps those principles do not differ in their essential structures from those in which we already live; following this logical path it could be declared that utopias are not utopias, and ideal cities are not ideal, but they are explici
OBIETTIVO NOVECENTO. Riflessioni e sperimentazioni sul tema della città ideale nel secolo scorso
No full textObiettivo Novecento raccoglie riflessioni sul tema della città ideale e sulle sperimentazioni compiute nel secolo scorso. Interesse particolare è la recente iscrizione della città di Ivrea tra i siti UNESCO: il riconoscimento tangibile del valore architettonico e sociale della visione riformatrice di Adriano Olivetti.
Obiettivo Novecento raccoglie una selezione di contenuti originali volti all’interpretazione dell’esperienza eporediese nel contesto attuale e nell’ottica di una prospettiva futura. L’intento non è solamente la divulgazione di visioni e previsioni in ambito locale, ma delle teorie più rilevanti del secolo scorso e la verifica puntuale sullo stato dell’arte in merito al dibattito sulla città pianificata, diffusa e dispersa. Professionisti ed esperti del settore espongono e promuovono la propria vision all’interno della raccolta che alterna teorie storicizzate a possibili scenari futuri nell’intento di (re)interpretare in maniera attuale il secolo appena trascorso.
Il progetto apre a una visione condivisa su alcune tematiche centrali che si articolano in macro aree: architettura e urbanistica, cultura e innovazione
Urban Corporis X - Unexpected
No full textStarting from the emergency provoked by the Sars-Cov2 that affected the whole world, the book brings the contributions of researchers and artists from all over the world discussing the theme of the “unexpected”, its implication, and inter-action with everyday life. The book presents a series of essays divided into three parts: Living unexpectedly, Missing interactions, and Different sociality. These three categories bring together authors who have had a reading of the unexpected emergency that occurred, pointing out different perspectives upon dynamics and relation caused by this situation, underlining how the isolation period has affected both the domestic and the urban sphere. Moreover, through drawings, photomontages and photographs, several authors gave a visual interpretation of the changed lives, spaces, and routines. All these contributions don’t want to answer to the enormous problems brought by the pandemic. Rather they synthesize an interpretation of the shifting condition that occurred, showing both the great reactive capacity and the fragility of the no longer present reality
URBAN CORPORIS X - UNEXPECTED
Full text linkStarting from the emergency provoked by the Sars-Cov2 that affected the whole world, the book brings the contributions of researchers and artists from all over the world discussing the theme of the “unexpected”, its implication, and inter-action with everyday life.
The book presents a series of essays divided into three parts: Living unexpectedly, Missing interactions, and Different sociality.
These three categories bring together authors who have had a reading of the unexpected emergency that occurred, pointing out different perspectives upon dynamics and relation caused by this situation, underlining how the isolation period has affected both the domestic and the urban sphere.
Moreover, through drawings, photomontages and photographs, several authors gave a visual interpretation of the changed lives, spaces, and routines.
All these contributions don’t want to answer to the enormous problems brought by the pandemic. Rather they synthesize an interpretation of the shifting condition that occurred, showing both the great reactive capacity and the fragility of the no longer present reality
Perceptive Landmarks
No full textSkin , noun
The thin layer of tissue; the
thin layer of tissue; a container made from the skin of an animal such as a goat, used for holding liquids; the peel or outer layer of certain fruits or vegetables; the outermost layer of a structure such as a building or aircraft; any outer covering ; a thin, solid surface.1
If we consider the city as a set of objects, it is easy to understand how their presence becomes a perennially observable and/or per- ceptible scenario. The urban ele- ments that are “building” our cities are part of what could be obser- ved; more precisely their envelo- pe, their volume and their skin: we can look at it, touch it, vandalistical- ly engrave it, tag it and so on. The perception of the skin of our cities becomes a fundamental element for better understanding that layer that divides the exterior and inte- rior of the buildings in which and between which - at different levels - all the possibilities of daily life are manifested.
1 Skin: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/ dictionary/english/skin, 05/2019
Urban Corporis. The city within
No full textThis pamphlet brings together the contribu- tions of architects, researchers and artists from all over the world. The common ground of di- scussion is the city analyzed in its less explo- red “folds” becoming the ground for experi- mentation and research.
The work is divided into three parts: Theories - Report - Visions.
The three categories bring together authors who have had, in their specificity, a reading experience of the city belonging to a similar field of action.
The Theories part has a theoretical approach overlapping with an operative study of pos- sible interventions in the urban fabric; an hi- storical analysis seems to play a key role in all theses.
The Report focuses on the residual spaces of the city; the relationship between art and ar- chitecture seems to be the solution of this spa- tial rebus, even if it leads to always different results.
Visions is a collection of future projections, fast images and critical readings of the city. Through drawings, photomontages and pho- tographs we tried to expose the most signifi- cant aspects of different urban situations.
These materials together do not want to give solutions but they want to ask new questions, being conscious that curisioty remains neces- sary for any kind of progress
Urban Corporis. The city within
No full textThis pamphlet brings together the contribu- tions of architects, researchers and artists from all over the world. The common ground of di- scussion is the city analyzed in its less explo- red “folds” becoming the ground for experi- mentation and research.
The work is divided into three parts: Theories - Report - Visions.
The three categories bring together authors who have had, in their specificity, a reading experience of the city belonging to a similar field of action.
The Theories part has a theoretical approach overlapping with an operative study of pos- sible interventions in the urban fabric; an hi- storical analysis seems to play a key role in all theses.
The Report focuses on the residual spaces of the city; the relationship between art and ar- chitecture seems to be the solution of this spa- tial rebus, even if it leads to always different results.
Visions is a collection of future projections, fast images and critical readings of the city. Through drawings, photomontages and pho- tographs we tried to expose the most signifi- cant aspects of different urban situations.
These materials together do not want to give solutions but they want to ask new questions, being conscious that curisioty remains neces- sary for any kind of progress
URBAN CORPORIS. The City and the Skin.
No full textSanders Architects state that «as humans and biological elements, building have a skin. [...] The skin has a responsibility to protect the contents, much like our skin protects us. It also makes a bulging unique, recognisable. [...] Given these complex duties, skin [...] show[s] the “body” of the volumes». [1]
In this Urban Corporis volume, “The city and the skin”, we asked the authors to read, define and interpret the role of the skin as a facade, as a protection, as a compositional image of urban revelation. Without formal restrictions, without ethical preconceptions: the skin as part of the building designed to mediate the relationship.
The architectural skin, understood as the tech- nological system of delimitation between archi- tectural space and unbuilt environment, can be analyzed as a boundary system between interior and exterior, the most evident expression of the identity of an artifact. In this dual role of border and interface, receptive as active, the skin of an architecture (seen also through art) is charged with a double value: an element of covering and protection and, at the same time, a tool of relationship and interface, in fact, towards the external world.
[1]Sander Architects, 2017, https://www.sander-architects. com/single-post/2017/09/12/Building-Skin-Whats-In-A- Face (02/2019)
Urban Corporis - To the Bones
No full textThe second volume of Urban Corporis, titled "To the Bones," compiles reflections from architects, artists, and scholars who have extensively delved into the fundamental themes of contemporary architecture. By navigating a constant interplay between past and future, memory and innovation, and the realms of the natural, artificial, and virtual, these contributions put forth strategies for architectural, artistic, urban, and landscape projects that resonate with the fundamental principles shaping our built and perceived environment. They advocate for design approaches that synchronize with the foundational elements, referred to as "the bones," that structure the landscape while promoting forward-thinking considerations
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