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Projecting decisions. The architectural design practice in the folds of decision-making processes
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Architectural design and planning talk to each other: a dialogue via Strategic Choice Approach (SCA)
Full text linkThe paper proposes the use of the Strategic Choice Approach as a way of structuring the architectural design process, partly individually and partly supported by meetings and interviews with DMs, experts, and stakeholders. SCA is employed as a graphic and a designing tool to provide alternative transformation scenarios. We reflect on the possible use of SCA to determine prescriptive conditions on physical form at a scale that is still intermediate between the single building and the urban tissue. In this sense, planning and architectural design talk to each other via SCA. It still represents a way of approaching the challenge of planning in an uncertain world, but moreover it produces an architectural project or transformation. SCA can work in a physical sense, not only eliciting guidelines and strategies. This proposal shows an application to a real-world problem, currently under debate by the City of Turin (Italy), the re-use of abandoned barracks located in a prestigious residential area
Valuation and Design for Economic and Social Value Creation
No full textThe quality assessment of projects is becoming increasingly relevant in the estimative discipline, aiming at a greater control of the design effects of real estate interventions. If from an estimation point of view real estate development processes are traditionally linked to a concept of economic value creation, the current context requires reflections that also consider the assessment and creation of other values, arising from environmental, social, and cultural needs. In this context, the aim of the paper is to reflect on how the application of the estimative discipline to the field of design can support the development of sustainable architectural projects, reflecting on the centrality of values in the development of the project. In this sense, the paper intends to schematize which values should be considered, estimated, and evaluated in the ex-novo and transformation processes, giving exemplifications of the potential action of the architectural project on the space for the creation of these values. The reflection is carried out on economic and social values as a first step of a research that can be expanded to other specific values of the architectural context
Architectural design and planning talk to each other: a dialogue via Strategic Choice Approach (SCA)
No full textThe paper proposes the use of the Strategic Choice Approach as a way of structuring the architectural design process, partly individually and partly supported by meetings and interviews with DMs, experts, and stakeholders. SCA is employed as a graphic and a designing tool to provide alternative transformation scenarios. We reflect on the possible use of SCA to determine prescriptive conditions on physical form at a scale that is still intermediate between the single building and the urban tissue. In this sense, planning and architectural design talk to each other via SCA. It still represents a way of approaching the challenge of planning in an uncertain world, but moreover it produces an architectural project or transformation. SCA can work in a physical sense, not only eliciting guidelines and strategies. This proposal shows an application to a real-world problem, currently under debate by the City of Turin (Italy), the re-use of abandoned barracks located in a prestigious residential area
Designing value creation. Towards a transformation of peripheral neighbourhoods
Full text linkThis article proposes an integration of methods and sources from the field of architectural design, on the one hand, and evaluation disciplines, on the other. By analysing some emerging trends in the residential demand, highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic but referable to phenomena characterised by much longer trajectories, the research aims to highlight certain criticalities and shortcomings in the current design and evaluation practices and to shed new light on the potential value of spaces that are typically underused – and underestimated – but highly transformable. The text thus introduces a critical-methodological reflection, which offers a new perspective for the study of neighbourhoods characterised by a high level of “peripheralisation”
Integrating technical, value and relational perspectives in urban regeneration projects: a framework for the municipality of Kisela Voda, Skopje
Full text linkSustainable and resilient urban regeneration encompasses the transformation of areas or buildings and their neighbourhoods, involving issues with recognised environmental, economic and social implications. In particular, cities can support the creation of new and multiple values through the transformation of the built environment, having a high concentration of capital and resources distributed over a limited territory. This paper analyses the role that design can play in pursuing sustainable cities, focusing the discussion on how to promote urban regeneration paths through urban, architectural and landscape projects. The transformation of the Municipality of Kisela Voda in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, is proposed as a case study, as an ongoing transformation process object of a recently concluded competition for the sustainable urbanization of the neighbourhood. The analysis is conducted through a series of district plans and projects developed within the framework of the “Architecture and Urban Space” master’s degree course at Politecnico di Torino, focusing on a threefold performativity of the projects, which act through: (i) mapping, with a recomposition of the conditions of “engagement”; (ii) explicating, through the sharing of the implications of value creation; (iii) translating, with facilitation of relations between actors
Facing urban uncertainty with the Strategic Choice Approach: the introduction of disruptive events
Full text linkThe Strategic Choice Approach (SCA) is a method meant to deal with operational decision in a strategic way and to manage different sources of uncertainty in decision-making processes. The paper describes how SCA can deal with the future in the specific realm of urban planning in current cities, which represents a typical example of Wicked Problem, taking into account the three different levels of uncertainties that the method aims to manage (Uncertainties about the working Environment, UE; Uncertainties about Related decisions, UR; Uncertainties about guiding Values, UV). We argue that these three types of uncertainties are referred to the ‘ordinary’ problems of modern and contemporary cities. The project of an architectural/urban transformation has to do with this kind uncertainties and implications – in overcoming a series of approvals of different institutional order – and, with this purpose, takes the form of a contract. Instead, this categorisation doesn’t conceive some new and uncertain challenges of future cities, around climate change, infrastructural disruption, insecurity, pandemics, at local and global scales, that are currently under debate in the cities. In this study we suggest that this character of uniqueness can imply the exploration of a new category of uncertainty in the SCA scheme, the ‘uncertainty about disruptive events (UD)’, a type of catastrophic or just unknown in their effects. First of all, we define the PSMs (Problem Structuring Methods) as methods of structuring the «wicked problems». Secondly, we examine the SCA as «a strategic choice process through time», taking into account the three different levels of uncertainty that the method intends to manage.Lo Strategic Choice Approach è un metodo ideato per affrontare le decisioni operative in modo strategico e per gestire diverse fonti di incertezza nel processo decisionale. Il paper descrive come lo SCA può occuparsi del futuro nel campo specifico della pianificazione urbana nelle città odierne, tenendo conto dei tre diversi livelli di incertezza che il metodo mira a gestire (Uncertainties about the working Environment, UE; Uncertainties about Related decisions, UR; Uncertainties about guiding Values, UV). Sosteniamo che questi tre tipi di incertezze si riferiscano ai problemi ‘ordinari’ delle città moderne e contemporanee. Il progetto di una trasformazione architettonica/urbana ha a che fare con questo tipo di incertezze e implicazioni - nel dover superare una serie di approvazioni di diversi ordini istituzionali – e, a tale scopo, assume la forma di un contratto. Tuttavia, questa categorizzazione non concepisce alcune nuove e incerte sfide delle città del futuro, riguardo cambiamenti climatici, le infrastrutture, l'insicurezza, le pandemie, a livello locale e globale, attualmente in discussione nelle città. In questo studio suggeriamo che questo carattere di unicità possa implicare l'esplorazione di una nuova categoria di incertezza nello schema di SCA, ‘uncertainty about disruptive events (UD)’, un tipo di eventi catastrofici o semplicemente sconosciuti nei loro effetti. Innanzitutto, definiamo i PSMs (Problem Structuring Methods) quali metodi di strutturare i «wicked problems». In secondo luogo, esaminiamo l’SCA come «un processo di scelta strategica nel tempo», tenendo conto dei tre diversi livelli di incertezza che il metodo intende gestire
Practicing Multilevel Governance: The Revision of the Piedmont Regional Territorial Plan
Full text linkThe regional level plays a relevant role in spatial governance and planning in Europe, as it constitutes the most suitable scale to both program European Union funding and territorialize international development strategies. In this light, regional spatial planning instruments play a crucial role in translating general objectives and recommendations (e.g., those included in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development) in place-based implementation practices. This contribution reflects upon the implementation of a methodology aimed at engaging a multidisciplinary team of students in the revision of the Piedmont regional territorial plan (PTR), developed in close cooperation with the regional public administration. This problem-based learning activity supported the integration of supranational strategic objectives and funding streams with the regional territorial development priorities. In so doing, it represents a possible way to practice multilevel governance in concrete terms, employing the PTR as a meaningful catalyst
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