Università Roma Tre

Despite being located only 48 Km away from Rome in its eastern hinterland and hosting two Unesco Sites (Villa Adriana and Villa d’Este), Tivoli is poorly perceived in the collective imaginary. A “must” in the Grand Tour, depicted and described countless times in tourist Guides throughout the XVIII and XIX Centuries, nowadays Tivoli ranks only 29th among the destinations in Italy.
Tivoli is well renowned for its sulphur mineral water springs and for the exploitation of water resources in the impressive sceneries of Villa Adriana (II Century) and Villa d'Este (XVI Century). The long-lasting mutual interdependencies between Roma and Tivoli have been marked by a series of trade exchanges along the Aniene River and the Tiburtina Consular road: Tivoli's hills have always been producing high quality olive’s oil. Quarries lengthwise have been providing a particular white calcium-carbonate rock – the “travertino” - used in building most Roman monuments. The water power of the Aniene falls has been exploited since the early industrial period for paper mills and ironworks factories. From the Twentieth Century onwards, the river has partly provided for the Capital’s electricity needs.
Nowadays, many plants along the Aniene River are abandoned and brownfields holding landmarks of industrial archeology lie among quarries, factories still in use, illegal settlements, large retail boxes and warehouses. Altogether, these dynamics account for environmental fragility and hazard, land use fragmentation and a general loss of “sense of place”.
Several issues and scales are at stake in the spatial strategy tackling the Aniene River as a green infrastructure: urban agriculture and urban greening practices, along with re-use schemes and small-scale solutions able to improve urban quality are called upon to improve the overall resilience within the area.

Students are expected to draw sustainable development scenarios incorporating several opportunities and risk factors within the urban area, to carry out a draft Master Plan tackling a set of main issues and consequently to outline some design proposals.

Attendance is mandatory.
The course will be structured in homework deliveries and intermediary assessments (exercises to be developed in the classroom, interpretation and commentaries of some texts quoted in the specific bibliography, etc.).
The final evaluation report is related to the results achieved all along the course, to the contents of lessons, seminars and recommended bibliography, and to the discussion of the projects.

A.L. Palazzo, L. Giecillo (a cura di), Territori dell’urbano. Storie e linguaggi dello spazio comune, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2009.
A.L. Palazzo (a cura di), Campagne urbane. Paesaggi in trasformazione nell’area romana, Roma, Gangemi, 2005.
P. Colarossi e A.P. Latini, La progettazione urbana. 3 voll., Milano, 2008, Edizioni del Sole 24 ore.

English summary
The city is the place of research, experimentation and action of the Studio. Students are involved in understanding of the city and they will work with the main themes running through the discipline of urban design. Finally, students will produce a master plan for the redevelopment of the city under study. The course approaches to the students about the problems of contemporary urban condition. Lessons and classroom activities, with the active participation of students, will explore the major theoretical developments in urban studies.
The final exam is individual and consists of an oral and evaluation exercises carried out in any working group.

The references will be provided at the end of each lesson.

The Studio deepens and experiments some methodological theses on the construction of the urban project with particular attention to the formative reasoning of the design qualities and to the contents, holding counted of its economic-operational feasibility and of the attended spatial results.

The objective is to teach to produce a deduced interpretative reasoning and a scheme of territorial organization that allows, using the tools of plan, to direct the transformations, to choose and to put in coherence the different proposals, in reference to the character-value of the places and local demand.

In the preparation of the plan, particular attention is turned to territorial demand, to the evaluation of the objectives and the strategies of the change, to the configuration of the programmatic organizational model and the actions of plan.
Integrative lessons in the studio are:
A) the formative reasoning of the plan ( problems, values and local demand)
B) urban structure reading and evaluation methods, the plan construction and his technical and normative expression
C) typologies of intervention reference to: the form-structure, the graphics and normative expression …

Method:
The formulation of the problem, beginning from the survey of the local demand, to find the general objectives to assume for the plan: interpretation of the context and the place reading using the structural paradigm of the characters and the component systems (systems of environmental and historical values, green discontinuity and residual rural landscapes; urban typologies; uses;infrastructure); synthesis of the existing structure and selection of the trasformation dynamics; Plan operations of construction / transformation of the structure; formal and spatial results of the proposed solutions; evaluation of the compatibility and the effectiveness of the plan in comparison to the objectives and feasibility of some proposed operations.

Organization of the studio and examination
The work is developed in group. The studio is offering specific contributions and readings. The final examination is based on the discussion of the plan.

- Catizzone, A. (2007), fondamenti di Cartografia, Gangemi ed. Roma.
- Gabellini, P., (2001), Tecniche urbanistiche, Carocci ed.
- Gabellini, P., (1998), La rappresentazione nel piano urbanistico, Nis ed.
- Nucci, L., (2012), Verde di prossimità e disegno urbano, Gangemi Editore, Roma.
- Nucci, L., (2004), Reti verdi e disegno della città contemporanea: la costruzione del nuovo piano di Londra, Gangemi Editore, Roma.
- Secchi, B., (2008), La città del Ventesimo Secolo, Laterza Ed., Bari.
- Campos Venuti G., Oliva F (a cura di), (2010), Città senza cultura. Intervista sull'urbanistica, Laterza Ed., Bari.
- AA.VV. (2013), Governo del territorio e pianificazione spaziale, città studi edizioni, Milano.