Università Roma Tre

The design of open space is of crucial importance in the construction of the contemporary city and the definition of urban and territorial relations.
The training activity focuses on the understanding of the multiple declinations of the open space project: urban parks, public gardens, urban gardens, squares, streets through the analysis and critical description of some significant examples investigated in their historical, cultural, geographical and social context.
The course also includes the elaboration of the open spaces project sharing the theme and the project area of the Architectural Design Laboratory. The design activity, conducted in close synergy with the lecturers of the other modules, will start from the reading of the stratification and archaeology of places, the practices of inhabiting open space, the environmental dynamics and will bring into play the knowledge of urban, architectural and landscape architecture design.

J. Corner, Recovering Landscape. Essays in the contemporary landscape architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, Princeton, 1999.
A. Gabbianelli, Spazi residuali. La vegetazione nei processi di rigenerazione urbana, GOTOECO, Gorizia, 2017.
I. Cortesi, Il Parco pubblico: paesaggi 1985-2000, Motta architettura, 2000

The design of open space is of crucial importance in the construction of the contemporary city and the definition of urban and territorial relations.
The training activity focuses on the understanding of the multiple declinations of the open space project: urban parks, public gardens, urban gardens, squares, streets through the analysis and critical description of some significant examples investigated in their historical, cultural, geographical and social context.
The course also includes the elaboration of the open spaces project sharing the theme and the project area of the Architectural Design Laboratory. The design activity, conducted in close synergy with the lecturers of the other modules, will start from the reading of the stratification and archaeology of places, the practices of inhabiting open space, the environmental dynamics and will bring into play the knowledge of urban, architectural and landscape architecture design.

J. Corner, Recovering Landscape. Essays in the contemporary landscape architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, Princeton, 1999.
A. Gabbianelli, Spazi residuali. La vegetazione nei processi di rigenerazione urbana, GOTOECO, Gorizia, 2017.
I. Cortesi, Il Parco pubblico: paesaggi 1985-2000, Motta architettura, 2000

The Laboratory intends to insert its own educational program within the urban regeneration program of the former Rome fair area on via Cristoforo Colombo.
The main objective is to transform the area by aiming to:
- improve the use of places by reducing vehicular traffic, promoting a sustainable mobility network, in line with city mobility policies,
- introducing new functions and citizen services.
- create new special residences
- create public spaces and equipped green areas.
The project aims to reconfigure a part of the city, now abandoned, along one of the most representative arteries of the city which connects the EUR with the city centre.

“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.

- Banerjee T., Loukaitou-Sideris T., (edit. by), (2011), Companion to Urban Design, Routledge.
- Carmona, M., (2010), Public Places Urban Spaces, The Dimensions of Urban Design (Second Edition). Architectural Press.
- Gabellini, P., (2001), Tecniche urbanistiche, Carocci ed.
- Gabellini, P., (1998), La rappresentazione nel piano urbanistico, Nis ed.
- Nucci, L., (2011), 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.

The module program focuses on sustainability issues related to urban regeneration projects and programs.
In the first teaching unit (2 CFU) a focus on European cities will be prepared with particular regard to the theme of nature in the city, conveyed by policy measures and practices relating to greenways and "Green Infrastructure", that is strategically planned networks that include the widest range of green spaces and other environmental features.
In the second teaching unit (2 CFU), these issues will be addressed with particular regard to Roma Capitale and Roma Città Metropolitana, in close relation with the training objectives of the Laboratorio.

Testi adottati
• Calzolari V., Storia e Natura come sistema, Argos, 1997.
• Hall P., Good cities, better lives : how Europe discovered the lost art of urbanism, London New York, Routledge, 2013.
• Insolera I., Roma moderna, Einaudi, Torino, 1962.
• Palazzo A.L. (a cura di), Campagne urbane. Paesaggi in trasformazione nell’area romana, Gangemi, Roma, 2005.

Bibliografia di riferimento
• “Urbanistica”: n. 28-29, 1959; n. 40, 1964; n. 46-47, 1966; n. 106, 1996; n. 110, 1998; n. 116, 2002.
• Aymonino C., Progettare Roma Capitale, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1990.
• Benevolo L., Roma dal 1870 al 1990, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1992.
• Clementi A., Perego F. (a cura di), La metropoli “spontanea”. Il caso di Roma, Roma, 1983.
• Longobardi G., Piccinato G., Quilici V. (a cura di), Campagne romane, Firenze, Alinea, 2009.
• Tocci V. (2011) “Utopie ed eterotopie dell’accessibilità”, in Secchi R. (a cura di), Future GRA, Prospettive, Roma; reperibile al link http://archivio.eddyburg.it/article/articleview/16953/0/124/