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Il delta fluviale come sistema territoriale ramificato: il paesaggio metropolitano del fiume Zhujiang
No full textTerritories characterised by the presence of river deltas of considerable extension have to deal with the alternating phenomena of deposition and erosion, which shape the soil and constitute the substratum orienting their territorial structure. The branched-out network of principal watercourses and tributaries outlines these landscapes and their infrastructural layout, impacting the establishment and position of towns and settlements and, more generally, the overall spatial and physical organisation in the delta territories. A system highly ramified, with the river network serving as the ordering principle for spatial organisation, can be observed in the Zhujiang River delta in Guangdong, which boasts a multi-millennial settlement history shaped by its proximity to water resources. The identifiable components of its spatial configuration contribute to a grand design stretching along the river bends and include the oldest urban cores, arranged on alluvial cones, the urban expansion beyond the walled cities developed with a strong relationship with river banks, and the agricultural land plot, which is integrated with aquaculture and articulates the hydrographic network
The natural monument as an interpretative key for the memory of the villages affected by the seism: project experiences on Pescara del Tronto
No full textThe contribution aims to investigate the strategies of transformation for villages damaged by high intensity seismic events, which determine the impossibility of pursuing the road to the reconstruction of the damaged building heritage. This eventuality affects the fraction of Pescara del Tronto, almost completely destroyed by the earthquake of 2016, which was recently the object of a design experience conducted by the architecture collective Iosa, of which the authors are members. The project, developed for the competition of ideas published by the International Inner Wheel Italia Association and the Professional Association of Architects, Planners, Landscapers and Conservatories of the Province of Ascoli Piceno, was used as a research tool on the theme of the return of the urban memory for the destroyed village. The approach aims at recovering the urban structure of the villages, maintaining the tracks of the ancient blocks and reconstructing the routes, and transforming it into a new element of the landscape, building a large natural monument. The design idea consists of a light intervention that integrates the trace of the urban fabric, consisting of low fences, with pieces of native vegetation
Paesaggi fluviali. Argini, isole e paludi, interrelazioni tra risorse idrografiche e principi insediativi. Casi di studio nel delta del fiume Zhujiang in Guangdong.
No full textLa tesi indaga le relazioni tra solchi idrografici e principi insediativi, mettendo a sistema conoscenze disciplinari eterogenee, a partire dalla geografia fisica e dai processi di modellamento fluviale, per giungere alla forma urbana, al tipo e ai caratteri dell’architettura. L’obiettivo è quello di elaborare nuove categorie utili alla lettura dei paesaggi fluviali, attraverso il disvelamento della relazione reciproca di forma tra sistemi insediativi e idrografia, vagliando gli strumenti e le metodologie e astraendo princìpi utili a mettere in forma i paesaggi fluviali con una rinnovata attenzione verso la geografia e la morfologia degli elementi naturali.
La ricerca si articola in quattro parti.
La prima esplicita le condizioni specifiche dei territori fluviali e il carattere delle relazioni che avvengono tra fiume e paesaggio. La ricerca si fonda sulle fonti bibliografiche italiane e cinese che hanno affrontato il tema, a partire dai primi trattati occidentali e dalla lunga tradizione di studi idraulici condotti presso la corte imperiale cinese. Il confronto tra pensiero occidentale e pensiero cinese offre un supporto teorico alla ricerca, che riconosce l’impossibilità di distinguere tra flumen e ripae, tra natura e artificio, definendo il carattere di ambiguità che investe la relazione tra fiume e paesaggio.
La seconda parte include l’approfondimento di strumenti e teorie utili allo sviluppo del metodo di ricerca. Tra questi: la descrizione geografica e la morfologia fluviale, le trasformazioni e gli usi determinati dall’uomo nel suo rapporto con il territorio, le questioni tipologiche e la morfologia urbana. Usando la cartografia quale strumento orientato, la ricerca rintraccia alcuni punti notevoli del tracciato fluviale, riconosce il fiume quale principio insediativo e individua alcuni caratteri dell’architettura in relazione alla vicinanza con le risorse idriche.
La terza parte approfondisce la lettura della regione cinese del Guangdong, individuando i casi di studio nel vasto bacino idrografico del fiume Zhujiang e dei suoi affluenti, in una condizione prossima al delta. Il sistema idrografico è approfondito in termini geografici e idrologici, indagando la morfologia del suolo, inteso come superficie territoriale su cui convergono le condizioni topografiche, le trame e i percorsi, le caratteristiche fisiche del luogo. Il riconoscimento dei tracciati fluviali del delta induce a collocare i casi di studio nella geografia di questo territorio, individuando dei punti notevoli in cui città e tracciato fluviale si incontrano. Si elegge quindi il luogo di interfaccia tra acqua e suolo come tema di analisi e di progetto per il territorio: forme fluviali complesse e strategie integrate di risposta alla pericolosità fluviale vengono assunti come elementi che organizzano la forma del territorio e costruiscono due modalità principali di relazione con il fiume, argini e paludi.
Alcuni sistemi insediativi, collocati nel territorio oggetto di studio, si costituiscono come esempi paradigmatici nell’individuazione degli scambi tra forma del fiume e forma dell’insediamento. L’interesse principale in questa fase è rivolto alla morfologia delle città e dei villaggi, al fine di leggere le condizioni in cui il fiume diviene principio insediativo per la costruzione di essi e il tipo costituisce l’elemento mediante il quale il principio insediativo si rafforza. La ricerca, infine, si sofferma sulla possibilità di individuare alcuni caratteri dell’architettura costruita rispondenti alle condizioni insediative dei paesaggi fluviali, rivolgendosi a due tipologie abitative, i diaolou e i qilou, che nel patrimonio insediativo delle aree oggetto di studio rappresentano le modalità di relazione dell’architettura con l’elemento acqua.
Nella quarta e ultima parte, a valle dell’approfondimento dei casi di studio, si elaborano alcune considerazioni conclusive in merito al progetto dei paesaggi fluviali e al possibile ricorso ai principi insediativi rintracciati nel corso della trattazione per il rinnovamento delle intenzionalità progettuali rispetto al fiume.The thesis investigates the relationships between hydrographic ruts and settlement principles, relating heterogeneous disciplinary knowledge, beginning with physical geography and river-shaping processes to urban form, type and character of architecture. The aim is to elaborate new categories useful for reading river landscapes by revealing the reciprocal relationship of form between settlement systems and hydrography, sifting tools and methodologies and abstracting principles useful for shaping river landscapes with a renewed focus on the geography and morphology of natural elements.
The research consists of four parts.
The first makes explicit the specific conditions of river territories and the character of the relationships that occur between river and landscape. The research is grounded in the Italian and Chinese bibliographical sources that have addressed the topic, beginning with early Western treatises and the long tradition of hydraulic studies conducted at the Chinese imperial court. The comparison between Western and Chinese thought provides theoretical support for the research, which acknowledges the impossibility of distinguishing between flumen and ripae, between nature and artifice, defining the character of ambiguity that invests the relationship between river and landscape.
The second part includes an in-depth study of tools and theories for developing the research method. These are the geographical description and river morphology, the transformations and uses determined by man in his relationship with the land, the typological issues and urban morphology. Using cartography as an oriented tool, the research traces some notable points of the river layout, acknowledges the river as a settlement principle, and identifies some features of architecture relating to its proximity to water resources.
The third part deepens the reading of the Guangdong region of China, identifying case studies in the vast catchment area of the Zhujiang River and its tributaries in a condition close to the delta. The river system is analysed in depth in geographical and hydrological terms, investigating the morphology of the land, understood as the land surface on which topographical conditions, plots and routes, and physical characteristics of the place converge. The acknowledgement of the river courses of the delta induces the case studies to be placed in the geography of this territory, identifying notable points where the city and river course meet. Thus, the place of interface between water and land is chosen as the theme of analysis and design for the territory: complex river forms and integrated river hazard response strategies are assumed as elements organising the form of the territory and constructing two main modes of relationship with the river, levees and marshes.
Some settlement systems in the territory under study represent paradigmatic examples for identifying the exchanges between river form and settlement form. The main interest at this stage is directed at the morphology of towns and villages, to read the conditions under which the river becomes the settlement principle for constructing them, and the type constitutes the element to reinforce the settlement principle. Finally, the research dwells on the possibility of identifying some characteristics of built architecture responding to the settlement conditions of river landscapes, turning to two housing types, diaolou and qilou, which in the settlement heritage of the areas under study represent how architecture relates to the water element.
In the fourth and final part, following the in-depth study of the case studies, some concluding remarks are elaborated regarding the design of river landscapes and the possible use of the settlement principles traced throughout the discussion for the renewal of design intentions relating to the river
Schermi. Immagini, corpi, condivisioni
No full textIn this book the author investigates the digital image proliferation of our times from an interdisciplinary point of view. Starting from the Visual Culture theoretical frame, Valentina Mignano explores the ways in which we interact with the screen, dealing with the "screen experience" in the first years of the network societ
Il patrimonio militare oltre la dismissione. Il progetto per la ex Caserma Magrone di Bari
No full textThe process of decommissioning military areas calls for a rethinking of large portions of the city that were previously enclosed, keeping a vast and heterogeneous built heritage. The Ministry of Defence's Caserme Verdi project expressed the need to respond to the degradation of the military heritage through investments to upgrade infrastructure of the armed forces and recover existing buildings, opening up new possibilities for urban integration of the barracks.
Bari hosts large military areas, which weave different relationships with the parts of the city where they place themselves in terms of infrastructure and urban form. Some disused barracks have already undergone transformations, which have confronted the military heritage in its material consistency but have also expressed value judgements on it through design.
The former Magrone Barracks represents a relevant case study for the future regeneration processes of military areas in Bari as its transformation responds to the need to combine the innovation of technology transfer, public administration and public space with knowledge and design for the existing heritage of the armed force, aimed at interpreting its form and characters
UN WEBGIS PER CONOSCENZA E TUTELA DELLE TECNICHE MURARIE TRADIZIONALI IN SARDEGNA
No full textThe present work is part of a wider transdisciplinary research aimed at studying the building techniques of the 13th - 18th centuries in Sardinia (Italy) for their knowledge and conservation, but also for the analysis of their technical performances, both in their original and in their current state of conservation. In particular, within the more complex multidisciplinary research project, the task of the authors illustrated in this paper was to build a WebGIS dedicated to the management of the enormous range of data collected during the investigations. In summary, the work consists of designing a database which allows storing and managing textual information, feature geometries, spatial data. This infrastructure was entirely built using Open Source software. Furthermore, it has been published on the Internet as a WebGIS with background maps and navigation, input and query tools. The final informative system represents an effective operational tool, since it allows an in-depth knowledge of the historical structures and supports the decision-making in the fields of maintenance, conservation, consolidation and enhancement of historical architectural heritage
From Barracks to Campus: The Innovation Park as a Paradigm for the City of Bari
No full textThe design of military settlements evolves by pursuing a tenet of absolute autonomy and seclusion from the cities where they actually stay. Their transformations often occur entirely indifferent to the changes within the city, adhering instead to internal military logic.
Following the demilitarization process of these fragments in the city, the strength pursued by these enclaves to detach from urban dynamics emerges, delineating areas where values, exchanges, and uses remain suspended in a timeless and spaceless condition. In this suspension, the city has grown and transformed in its forms and characteristics, arranging itself near these impenetrable perimeters with the same indifference exhibited by the military settlements. This description applies to the site of the former Magrone Barracks in Bari, where a desirable process of reintegrating this fragment into the urban dimension has recently begun.
The project for an Innovation Park aligns with the logic of the city, constituting an autonomous part of the city, a "piece" of the city, a city within the city. It addresses the construction of a new campus capable of establishing itself as a paradigm of a new urban form. It inherits the built legacy of the military heritage, evaluating its potential to contribute to the project of a new part of the city.
As a small city within or beside the city of Bari that hosts it, the university campus emerges as an architectural type capable of relating both to the urban dimension and the metropolitan landscape structured structured by the polycentric systems of relations of mobility infrastructures.
The design concept for the Innovation Park, as developed by the Politecnico di Bari after a collaborative process with various public entities (Apulia Region, the Agency for the Right to University Studies of the Apulia Region, the Municipality of Bari and the State Property Agency), entails completing and integrating the grid of large linear buildings of the former Magrone Barracks to forge a new relationship between the "parts", where free natural spaces are no longer "outside" but within the city, generating a renewed urban section. The design of shared spaces for knowledge, marked by flexibility in uses and spatial configurations, responds to the need to establish a new campus that combines formal and educational purposes
University, city and territory. The Magrone Barracks as a new Innovation Park | Università, Città e Territori. La Caserma Magrone come nuovo Parco dell’Innovazione
No full textUniversities not only play the role of social elevator but also stand as a development engine for the Territories hosting them, through synergies between institutions and businesses. The Innovation Park project at the former Magrone Barracks is an innovative example of management and rehabilitation of abandoned stateowned property for creating a fragment of Bari’s urban landscape by expressing
common values in which the University, the City and extended territorial areas can recognise themselves. There is a need for
a paradigm shift in the interpretation of the design of these facilities, which can become genuine integrated “urban factories”, Community Hubs capable of offering new spaces for the urban fabric, attracting talent and generating businesses
Archeologia di una cava nel paesaggio salentino
No full textCertain phenomena have transformed in recent decades the Salento landscape and compromised part of its permanence. The results of these transformations yield new images which, alongside the overlapping of traces and rewritings that characterise the palimpsest of this Mediterranean landscape, are large voids caused by broad clearings among the olive groves affected by xylella fastidiosa or by hollows generated by the removal of stone material, which constitutes the geological substratum on which this territory lays its foundations.
The existence of new empty spaces, gaps they cannot fill simplistically, makes it necessary to rethink the new layout of the territory following these transformations without giving in to the instinctive tendency to fill up these voids with new full spaces but interpreting these landscape as human-made nature, which finds the reasons for its form in the continuous process of rewriting.
The description of the geological forms, the stratigraphic and archaeological procedures for removing the most superficial layer of knowledge of the landscape and recovering the sense of its traces and fragments constitute possible tools for elaborating a new order, a new state in which the instances of construction of the contemporary Salento landscape emerge
Catalogue of the Pottery Materials from Karkemish in the Anatolian Civilizations Museum, Ankara
No full textThe present study of the pottery materials2 from Karkemish kept in the Anatolian Civilizations Museum in Ankara is part of a wider project carried out by the Turco-Italian Expedition at Karkemish since 2011 (Marchetti 2012; 2013, 2014a; 2014b; 2015). The
project aims at documenting, in addition to the evidence from current excavations, the entire corpus of materials from the excavations at Karkemish and Yunus conducted by the British Museum, which is currently divided among three museums: the Anatolian
Civilizations Museum in Ankara, the Archaeological Museums in Istanbul and the British Museum in London
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