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No full textRedazione di scheda riguardante la descrizione di un luogo urbano a Torino: Piazza Carignan
Cartografie tematiche di densità: nuovi strumenti per lo studio di fatti urbani e territoriali
No full textIn this paper GIS mapping techniques have been analyzed as new tools for the investigation of urban and regional scale phenomena. The importance to make new thematic representations is related to complexity of the space investigated that has been selected in the territories in between Turin and Milan. Particularly the paper analyses some aspects related to "density maps" that can be used to identify and define "heritage areas", which are localized in the surrounding landscape of infrastructure. This territorial analysis, based on GIS technique, can prove to be a very potential tool to support spatial planning strategies in the field of cultural heritage. The density criteria allows to represent such particular distribution and configuration of cultural heritage points, showing in a very effective way, which areas could be considered to apply new valorization strategies. Different maps show the results of GIS density analysis, based on the cultural heritage distribution, on the services configuration and on the possible combinations between them. New approaches and new tools seem to be necessary to develop new strategies for management of urban and regional scale phenomen
Relazioni tra Beni Culturali e Infrastrutture. Analisi e mappatura per la valorizzazione dei territori intermedi tra Torino e Milano
No full textThe current research aims at investigating how to promote better relationships between infrastructure and cultural heritage, with a more general objective to improve new ways to access and effectively use the places that are located in the surrounding landscape of infrastructure. The main goal of research is a visual representation methodology that is able to show, at a territorial scale, how cultural heritage and landscapes can be connected to main infrastructural nodes and to the cities, in order to enhance the accessibility of these places for tourists and local inhabitants. In the first part of the research general issues related to the state of art and to three different international case studies (The New Water Defence Line - Netherlands, The Emscher Park - Germany, and The French Motorways - France) have been analyzed with the aim to understand how other Countries have faced with the same problems. The analysis of the case studies allows a better understanding of the research problem, but also a broader comparison with other territorial contexts. The second part of the thesis deals with methodological aspects which are applied to a real case study that has been identified into the territories in-between Turin and Milan, that are crossed by an important infrastructural bundle. Entering more in detail, the research tries to combine a top-down approach, based on GIS density analysis, with a bottom-up approach, based on GPS survey technique. Visual mapping techniques show the importance to make new cartographic representations in order to visualize specific phenomena related to cultural heritage distribution and localization. The density maps represent such particular distribution and configuration of cultural heritage points, showing in a very effective way, which areas could be selected to apply new valorization strategies. In the second part , there is also a dissertation on GPS tracking technologies as new tools to track, to record and to map new landscape structures, such as cultural routes, that can be used to give value to the territories in-between Turin and Milan. Different maps and schemes show the outcomes related to the different approaches, developed at local and territorial level. The research outcomes can be divided into two parts. The first one deals with infrastructural nodes, heritage areas and cultural routes, as new territorial elements, which can contribute to the valorization of intermediate territories. The second part concerns with methodological aspects related to the integration of GIS and GPS techniques, as new platform of knowledge to support spatial planning strategies, in the field of cultural heritage valorizatio
Tracking Technologies, GPS, Social Network, ICTs, Big Data: innovation in tools and methods for qualitative surveying at urban and regional scale
No full textThe research analyzes general issues related to qualitative surveying procedures, used to investigate and visualize urban and territorial phenomena, giving personal considerations about recent methods, that are developing in the field of information technologies and that start to be used also in the actual operations. The wide spread of new survey tools and techniques needs to develop real “methodologies” and “procedures”, that are able to fix a system of codified actions that, in the studies of complex phenomena at regional scale that often include heterogeneous data, should go beyond issues related to geometric representation. Particularly two fields of investigation seem to be very interesting compared with traditional surveying methodologies; the first one is about the use satellites able to georeference accurately places, people, activities, both in a static and dynamic way (GPS, Location Based Services); the second aspect concerns with the big amount of information given by all users in the territory that are interested in it and deals not only with physical characteristics of places but also with the same users that perceive places according to social issues
Contributi per il patrimonio rupestre: da una piccola esperienza di rilievo alcune questioni di metodo.Research for rupestrian heritage: from a little survey experience to methodological issues .
Full text linkIl presente contributo ha l’obiettivo di analizzare alcune tematiche relative agli antichi rioni Sassi di Matera, partendo dalla conoscenza e dal rilievo di un manufatto tipico. L’agglomerato urbano dei Sassi, si configura come continuazione naturale del paesaggio rupestre circostante, riproposto come insediamento antropico originale, nella spontaneità delle sue forme e delle sue architetture. L’esperienza di ricerca, operativamente condotta, intende illustrare gli esiti ottenuti nel campo del rilievo e commentare alcune modalità di natura speditiva che sono state adottate per l’individuazione degli aspetti geometrici (forma e misura) delle consistenze, la conoscenza storico-evolutiva del manufatto e le relative forme di rappresentazione utili a restituire la specificità del bene architettonico. È interessante proporre una valutazione critica dei risultati conseguiti, che si pongono come esempio di lavoro per un’indagine di rilievo basato su un investimento limitato di risorse e l’uso di strumentazioni di base. Parte del lavoro si concentra sull’identificazione delle fasi che hanno interessato il progressivo e tipico sviluppo della cellula originaria e del successivo complesso costruito con l’intento di ripercorrere il mutamento da “grotta rupestre” a “lamione” dei Sassi. L’esplorazione di un singolo edificio, collocato all’interno di un sistema urbano complesso, lo estrae temporaneamente dal contesto circostante, ne permette una lettura diretta, ma deve mantenere vive le relazioni che lo legano ai valori dell’ambito di cui fa parte. Il lavoro si inserisce, pertanto, nel campo di indagine della conoscenza di ambienti e manufatti rupestri, con l’intento di mostrare la validità della metodologia adoperata e la sua applicazione ad un caso studio reale.
The current research aims at investigating some topics related to the ancient neighborhoods of Matera called Sassi, starting from the knowledge and the survey of a typical building. The urban area of Sassi represents the natural extension of the surrounding rupestrian landscape, proposed as original human settlement, in the spontaneity of its shapes and its architecture. The research shows the results in the field of survey and proposes a fast method to indentify geometrical aspects (shape and measure) of building consistence, but at the same time, the historical evolution and the different visual representations of the building, in order to represent the specific nature of the architectural. It is interesting to propose a critical evaluation of results, that represents a valid working experience, based on limited resources and basic tolls. Part of the work focuses the attention on the identification of significant milestones that have concerned the progressive development of the original cell and the future building, with the aim of retracing the transformation from “rupestrian cave” to typical “lamione” of Sassi. The exploration of a single building, located in a complex urban system, temporarily removes it from the surrounding context and allows us a direct analysis of the building, but it must keep alive the relationships with the context which it belongs. Therefore, the work fits to the field of rupestrian environments, with the aim of showing the validity of methodology and its application to a real case study
The Central Park in between Torino and Milano
Full text linkThis paper aims at discussing a possible legacy of Expo Milano 2015 by proposing a new idea of park based on different layered landscapes in the Region between Torino and Milano. This works is part of a wider research program developed at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Politecnico di Milano.
The first research phase is focused on the analysis of the Region – moreover similar to most italian human landscapes - where: the cities and the villages (especially in their historical centers) are characterized by an outstanding spatial quality; vast portions of the open spaces, both natural or exploited for agricultural uses, are well set, maintained and already considered as parks, either by being formally protected or by being in fact used as leisure areas and therefore included within public and private actions of informal attention and care, responding to a more and more pressing demand from inhabitants (insiders) and “users” like the tourists (ousiders);
several fringe areas like those between the built centers, their peripheries and the countryside, the borders of the infrastructures, the industrial settlements, the areas surrounding shopping centers are dramatically lacking in terms of spatial design. The case study is of particular interest, for the presence of two of the major cities of the Po valley, emerging from a system of medium sized and small cities, and
where different entities are overlapping to create a complex layered landscape:
• a bundle of infrastructure belonging to the “long and fast” network of European corridors, intersecting just in the middle of the area;
• a thick network of “short and slow” regional railways conceived and built in the years 1850-1930s;
• historical paths across the Alps (via Francigena);
• a system of parks along the rivers and other unique protected areas like those of the morainic landscape around Ivrea, the Baragge, the remains of the planitial forest emerging from the rice fields nearby Trino, Ticino river, Groane Park, the agricultural park around south Milano and others;
• close connections with Unesco sites (vineyard landscapes, Sacri Monti, the candidate site of Ivrea and Olivetti);
• canals for irrigation and energy production (with the monumental Canale Cavour among all);
• strongly structured agricultural landscapes (rice fields, orchards, vineyards);
• important super-places like factories (Pirelli in Settimo Torinese), shopping malls (Settimo Cielo, Vicolungo Outlet), logistic poles, Malpensa airport, Fiera Milano and the Expo 2015 site.
Considering the fact that the whole system, including the infrastructural network is today mature and complete in terms of infrastructure and settlement, the whole Region can be considered as an ideal ground of action, to improve its spatial quality by enhancing a system of inter metropolitan parks, well innervated in terms of accessibility.
There is a concrete opportunity to re-connect and rethink the whole landscape, by producing a new kind of public inter metropolitan “Central Park”, considering the infrastructures and the in between left-over spaces as the most meaningful places where to intervene, even with light projects based on the improvement of the existing physical asset.
To achieve this goal, two main perceptive and design approaches are proposed, to re-think of the role of the infrastructural system as a positive element of a complex human landscape:
• to consider the landscape of infrastructures as it is perceived by travelers moving along it and by the inhabitants of the crossed territories improving in both cases their experience;
• to improve the spatial quality of the places of interface between infrastructure and its environment (natural, agricultural and built) like the “banks” of the highways and railways, the stations on the regional railways network and the service areas placed along the main road and highways and to be considered as gates to this system of parks.
• To consider the Torino Milano Region as a place of experimentation of a new kind of inter metropolitan park is possible, also considering that the event of the Expo 2015 in Milano has produced, as a positive legacy, some landscape design approaches and solutions (waterway through the Groane Park, parks and other linear open spaces around the site) that could be applied to other, somehow similar, areas like the logistic poles of Novara, Biandrate or Abbadia di Stura, the Vicolungo and Settimo Cielo shopping malls and others. As a framework, to support this idea could also refer to recent developments of the idea of smartness, extending it from the urban scale to the regional one, by experimenting the use of the ICTs and of specific digital services in marginal places as a tool to integrate the traditional spatial design actions, so to create better living conditions and contribute to better relationships between people and places
Intenzioni, idee, rappresentazioni, architetture come lascito ereditario dei Giochi Olimpici? Riflessioni, con qualche divagazione, da Torino 2006.
No full textI grandi eventi, dall’organizzazione delle esposizioni internazionali alle manifestazioni sportive di richiamo mondiale, oltre ad essere un’opportunità per i territori che le ospitano, sono anche un ambiente molto fertile per indagare il tema dei concorsi di architettura: gare di visioni che devono tradursi (entro economie, tempi e modi stabiliti) in progettazioni, opere, lavori, soggetti ad una competizione che, il più delle volte, richiama competenze e professionalità da tutto il mondo e che, tuttavia, si devono esprimere e insediare in un contesto definito da un ambiente culturale, sociale e fisico ben preciso, lì e allora (hic et nunc, in quel momento, per quel luogo). Il presente contributo si è posto l’obiettivo di riflettere sul ruolo che in simili occasioni assume la comunicazione del progetto di architettura, all’interno del vasto processo di elaborazione, per indagare i modi e le forme che l’invenzione progettuale e la prassi operativa promuovono; la cura è stata quella di analizzare in modo specifico le finalità della committenza (intenzioni), le visioni degli autori (idee), le interpretazioni espressive (rappresentazioni), gli esiti materiali (architetture) e i relativi esiti immateriali (eredità), visti come elementi relazionati in un sistema di qualità. Abbiamo pensato di lavorare su Torino perché è città olimpica, visto che nel febbraio 2006 ha ospitato la ventesima edizione dei Giochi Olimpici Invernali e la nona edizione
dei Giochi Paralimpici, e che ha saputo cogliere e trasformare l’occasione di un grande evento in una opportunità per comunicare, con successo, le sue dinamiche di rinnovamento, per mostrare che, ove presenti e radicati, i giacimenti culturali possono sostenere la rinascita anche da crisi molto profonde, sostenendo direzioni di sviluppo congruenti con l’identità culturale dei luoghi e azioni che si sono rivelate vincenti per la reinvenzione del suo ruolo di città-laboratorio. Lo ha fatto progettando e mettendo in atto strumenti culturali e tecnici complessi e sofisticati, sfruttando in modo rilevante le opportunità offerte dalla riorganizzazione di alcune reti di competenze e abilità presenti localmente, enunciando esplicitamente gli obiettivi, richiamando personalità e imprese internazionali, avviando i concorsi di progettazione, elaborando bandi e modalità organizzative coordinate, monitorando le fasi operative, con una tensione dichiarata verso i benefici per il futuro derivanti dagli investimenti in innovazione. Moltissime di queste procedure, di programma o di attuazione, hanno trovato modo di essere comunicate attraverso le forme della rappresentazione, secondo modalità tradizionali o attuali, ne abbiamo disegnato oggi, a distanza di qualche anno, un profilo critico verificando ipotesi e soluzioni proposte dal “laboratorio olimpico” torinese, concedendoci alcune, limitate divagazioni di confronto con altre esperienze
Milan-Turin: a bundle of infrastructures to access a network of places, between cultural heritage and landscape
No full textThe current research aims at investigating the relationships between mobility infrastructures and cultural heritage analyzing the case of the territories located along Turin - Milan axis. The territories in between these cities are a region where the two the main centers located at the edges are fastly connected by high speed railway and highway and at the same time still interlaced with several smaller centers of the in-between territories. The presence of a network of infrastructures - belonging to the so-called long/fast and short/slow networks - could represent a relevant opportunity to discover the richness of the territories in between the main centers. In this sense it is interesting to investigate the accessibility from the main infrastructural bundle (motorway, high speed railways, historical railways, waterways) to the territories, in order to estabilish a better connection to and among them. Relationships should be understood as a possibility to connect two or more places, identified as cultural places, to be reached from the infrastructures (stations on railways or service areas on motorways) with different systems of transport, enhancing intermodality such as that between train or car and bicycle. Therefore, the aim is to give at the same time accessibility to tourists and better mobility opportunities for the inhabitants that could benefit from their territorial values. The research is based on two main points: the first one concerns with the identification of a methodology for the investigation of the relationships between infrastructure and cultural heritage in terms of accessibility. The analysis includes also the use of tracking tecnologies based on gps systems to represent the network of cultural routes for the fruition and the development of the places. The second one deals with the visual representation and particularly with the identification of a mapping system that can contribute to effectively represent the multiscale structure of such a complex landscap
GPS tracks and representation of landscape structural facts: an experience of survey in the territory crossed by the Appulo - Lucane railway
No full textThis paper reports the first results of an experience of surveying and representation of the structural facts that support the landscape and of the cultural polarities that are present in the territories in between the cities of Matera and Irsina, crossed by the Appulo – Lucana railway. The research is carried on with reference to the possible spatial scale relationships that can be identified between the elements of cultural and environmental nature - the value of which is already widely recognized - and other systems, related to components of a more heterogeneous character and less explored meaning, as are, for example, the infrastructures. Within this study are highlighted the potential of geolocating systems and GPS tracking, as a means to support and even enhance, both the direct connection with the exploration experience and local knowledge, and the development of thematic maps that may contribute to determine, through a synthetic image, a synoptic cognitive framework. The identification of the case study of the Appulo – Lucana railway, along the route Bari - Matera - Potenza, represents an opportunity for field-testing of methodological approaches in relation to the opportunities for tourism development of the territories in between Puglia and Basilicata and to investigate the role that a positive relationship between infrastructures and landscape can play in this field. These actions can favorably be integrated with those already undertaken in Matera as a UNESCO site and as candidate city as European Capital of Culture in 2019
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