302 research outputs found
"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”
Architetture come "pietre miliari". Grammatiche di costruzione di un paesaggio costiero
No full textIl carattere del paesaggio costiero medio adriatico è determinato da precisi rapporti tra forme, quelle fisiche della natura e quelle costruite dell'architettura, nonché da reciproche attribuzioni di significato, laddove le forme dell'architettura, nell'assumere e rappresentare il valore delle forme della natura, nel renderle riconoscibili, acquistano senso e valore a loro volta. Questo carattere, determinante nel definire la bellezza di questi luoghi, costituisce un valore identitario da difendere e rinnovare, comprendendo il principio insediativo che lo ha definito e interpretandolo alla luce delle aspirazioni del nostro tempo
Progetto del Laboratorio di Laurea "Presicce. Nuovo polo residenziale e produttivo alla periferia della città"
No full textDiscontinuous 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)
Città e Natura. L'architettura del limite
No full textQuesto libro raccoglie gli esiti della ricerca, teorica e progettuale, svolta dall’autore in ambito didattico sul rapporto tra città e natura.
Tale rapporto è intenzionalmente focalizzato sulla questione della definizione e costruzione del limite della città, heideggerianamente inteso come ‘luogo’ di tensione tra la città e la natura, tra gli spazi delimitati della città e quelli aperti della natura, e non riduttivamente come ‘confine’ fisico tra entità distinte e contrapposte o come interruzione casuale di una rispetto all’altra. L’idea che nel ‘luogo’ del limite la città e la natura possano definire ed esaltare le proprie identità, attraverso reciproche relazioni, e renderle manifeste ciascuna attraverso le proprie forme ha guidato la ricerca, tesa a verificare questa idea e a comprenderne la portata nel progetto di ‘ri-costruzione’ della forma delle nostre città.
La ricerca delle forme della città contemporanea costituisce l’obiettivo generale di questi studi, che vedono nel rapporto rinnovato con la natura, con i suoi spazi e con le sue forme fisiche, nuove opportunità per la sua rifondazione. Il rapporto tra città e natura è in essi indagato sotto un duplice aspetto: da una parte si assumono gli spazi aperti e vuoti della natura come luoghi di relazione tra elementi o parti di città, considerando la natura stessa come contesto della costruzione urbana; dall’altra, si attribuisce alle forme fisiche della geografia il ruolo di elementi catalizzatori della forma urbana. In entrambi gli aspetti, considerati complementari, la natura assume il valore di ‘struttura’ sintattica, cioè di struttura capace di suggerire rapporti spaziali e formali significativi.
In questa ricerca la centralità del rapporto con la natura si fonda sull’assunzione della condizione ‘aperta’ della città contemporanea, la cui forma, non più compatta e finita come quella della città antica, sembra dissolversi nella campagna periurbana, non riconoscendo più il valore sintattico della misura e del limite.
I progetti raccolti ed illustrati in questo libro provano a confrontarsi con questi temi e con il problema generale della perdita di forma della città contemporanea. Oltre ad avere il valore di risposte specifiche ai problemi posti dalle aree individuate, tutte di margine e connotate da una condizione di crisi della forma urbana, essi hanno valore manualistico, cioè provano ad individuare soluzioni formali generali corrispondenti ad una teoria, ovvero, in questo caso, ad una idea di città basata su un rinnovato e costitutivo rapporto con la natura, le sue forme e i suoi spazi.
Alla definizione di questa teoria, che costituisce l’obiettivo di una ricerca più ampia e articolata, questo libro cerca di dare un piccolo contributo, proponendo una riflessione che si serve dell’esercizio del progetto solo per esplicitarsi e progredire piuttosto che per affermarsi perentoriamente e precludersi nuove e differenti possibili interpretazioni.This book collects the results of the research, both theoretical and applied, carried out by the author on the relationship between city and nature.
This relationship is specifically focused on the question of the definition and construction of the limit of the city, heideggerianly conceived as a ‘place’ of tension between city and nature, between the delimited spaces of the city and the open spaces of nature, rather than simply as a ‘border’ between distinct and opposing entities or as a random interruption of one with respect to the other.
The idea that in the 'place' of limit city and nature can define and exalt their identities through reciprocal relationships and manifest them through their own forms led the research and the choice of the case studies aimed at verifying this idea and understanding its impact in the project of ‘re-construction’ of form of contemporary city.
The search for the forms of contemporary city is the general objective of these studies, which see in the renewed relationship with nature, with its spaces and physical forms, new opportunities for its re-foundation. In these studies the relationship between city and nature is investigated under a twofold aspect: on the one hand, the open and empty spaces of nature are assumed as places of relationship between elements or parts of a city, considering nature as a context of urban construction; on the other hand, to the physical forms of geography is conferred the role of catalyst elements of the urban form. In both the aspects, considered complementary, nature assumes the value of a syntactic ‘structure’, that is, a structure capable of suggesting significant formal and spatial relationships.
In this research, the centrality of the relationship with nature is based on the assumption of the 'open' condition of the contemporary city, whose form, which is no longer compact and finite than that of the ancient city, seems to dissolve itself in the countryside, no longer recognizing the values of measure and limit.
The projects collected and illustrated in this book try to deal with these issues and the general problem of the loss of form of contemporary city. In addition to the value of specific answers to the problems posed by the identified areas, all characterized by a condition of crisis of the urban form, they have a manualistic value, that is, they try to individuate general formal solutions corresponding to a theory, or in this case, to an idea of a city based on a renewed and constitutive relationship with nature, its forms and its spaces.
This book try to give a small contribution to the definition of this theory, which is the objective of a wider and more articulate research, proposing a reasoning that makes use of the exercise of the project only to explain itself and advance rather than to affirm itself and preclude new and different possible interpretations
Progetto di Concorso per la riqualificazione del centro storico di Rutigliano (Bari) Progetto I classificato
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