Università Roma Tre

The construction of urban space

COURSE CONTENT

The proposal to operate in a small center, not far from Rome, concerns the possibility of confronting each other
with an immanent and exemplary theme compared to the Italian urban reality, renewal
and the development of minor historic centers, hit in recent decades by the absence of planning, degradation and abandonment. These places are affected by profound transformations
social, some foreign communities in recent decades are repopulating the belt
of small towns around Rome given the availability
housing and a lower cost of living than the capital, where they go to work.
These processes if understood and accompanied by the institutions and a clear planning could
constitute a resource for places, such as Civita Castellana, that need a horizon
development and transformation.

Civita Castellana

Civita Castellana is a place full of strength, a large tuff ship stranded in the ravine, it tells us about the geography of central Italy and its history
glorious and fertile of events and culture. Subject to critical and unstructured social transformations,
reflecting the condition of many smaller centers,
it is also an industrial excellence, with the district
ceramic industry that does not however look to the historic village as a place of investment. Thus revealing a marked contrast between beauty
places that are the result of a rich historical stratification and an uncertain present without a real horizon.
Working on the transformations, possible and already underway, of Civita means working on a condition
widespread Italian, means taking into account the enhancement
of the built and environmental heritage, which are often deeply linked, as in the case of Civita. This work must be done by accompanying social and demographic changes
in progress, to govern these phenomena towards the initiation of virtuous processes instead of in causes of conflict or contributions to degradation.
The proposed theme acts on one of the entrances to the historic center, dealing with disused and dilapidated ones
Coletta and Sbordoni furnaces and proposing them
the partial recovery in an urban project that includes the surfaces of the detailed plan
long drawn up and never implemented.

EDUCATIONAL VISITS

The direct experience of architecture plays a decisive role in the laboratory, in order to privilege
the physical and immanent dimension compared to the theoretical one.
A series of educational visits are therefore proposed
to urban environments, during which to detect
with the design the characteristics of the spaces and their relationships with the context

JOURNEY TO DISCOVER VIENNA

The educational tour "Discovering Vienna" will take place on 08-10 / 11/2019 Participation
it is not mandatory, but recommended.

FIRST EXERCISE - RECONSTRUCTION OF AN URBAN PROJECT
The first exercise involves analysis and reconstruction work, to be carried out in a group, of illustrious urban projects. To acquire tools through the study of design experiences
cognitive and composition of the urban space and its formal structures.

SECOND EXERCISE - TRANSFORMATION OF THE EX-FURNACES IN THE HISTORICAL CENTER OF CIVITA CASTELLANA
The laboratory proposes an urban project for the Sbordoni-Coletta area, taking as a basic reference the consistencies of the plan
existing details, based on the analysis made during the laboratory, they can be modified
the surfaces and functions proposed by the plan. The proposal must include the preliminary design of private buildings, in-depth public buildings and detailed public spaces.
Possible functions to be installed: residence, accommodation,
commercial and catering, exhibition spaces and ceramic workshops, parking, open spaces. The design of the open space is fundamental, and its interaction with the attack on the ground of the buildings.

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F. CELLINI, Architettura e città, Palermo 1991 (dispensa)
C. SITTE, L’arte di costruire la città, Roma 1969
A. e P. SMITHSON, The Space Between, Colonia 2016

“URBAN DESIGN HELPING ARCHITECTURE AND VICE VERSA”

The module’s aim is to promote coherence between the architectural project and the built environment’s design. The module develops detailed design approach to the local scale.

Knowledge will be imparted through lectures on:
- regeneration’s strategies of contemporary city;
- description of several regeneration’s projects;
- major concepts used in the analysis and understanding of the built environment (townscape analysis, morphology, uses, natural environment);
- description of differents masterplans and design code.

The module experiments a design’s method based on site analysis, evaluation and project referred to the local dimension.
The final work, prepared in class seminars, concerns:
- urban design analysis of the local context (urban pattern, open space and environmental issues, infrastructure and transport issues, community and social issues, existing community facilities, development issues/current initiative);
- critical understanding of people’s diverse everyday uses, problems, link and project opportunities, site analysis summary;
- strategic context framework plan and project opportunities as answer to the revealed contradictions.

Students, in investigation’s group, have to produce four outlines: two concern the urban design analysis of the local context and two describe the project through the elaboration of a masterplan, the formulation of a design code and project’s vision.
In the final examination each student presents an overview of the work which is followed by discussion on the issues raised. The module encourages student to develop a critical perspective on their own work.

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