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2+2=7. If the project improves its parts
2016
The International Open City Summer School of Piacenza 2015 involved the participants in the design of a spread museum of the agriculture between rural and urban areas, crossing the old town of Piacenza. The submitted project, processed in that workshop, is an occasion to call in question the different scales of the design and some linked themes like the measure, the porosity and the permeability of the architecture and the town. Within the design of the museum, the experimentation of an “intermediate scale” reached us to the need of the architecture as connection of various parts, thus to the difference between mending and making something new. At the end, the challenge is that the sum of t…
The social regeneration of brownfields as an activator of peri-urban development. The Añana salt valley in Spain as good model of brownfield regenera…
2016
Productive and extractive districts in a state of neglect are in dire need of regeneration, especially brownfields that are in rur-urban sites and could disfigure the landscape. These elements should be considered as resources to define a new territorial value. The present paper shows an empirical example of brownfield re-cycle that produce social innovation in rur-urban sites, this case study is the Añana salt valley and it is situated in Spain. Brownfields, in fact, are catalysts of social, economic, cultural, and ecological revitalization. This aspect assigns to these elements a value of peri-urban resource for a sustainable and participatory multi-scale enhancement. The paper focus the …
The green wedge. An urban design opportunity
2017
Il contributo descrive l'area di progetto scelta per il workshop internazionale "Dynamics of Periphery", evidenziandone le potenzialità e sottolineando le questioni progettuali. Il Vallone Cicchillo, a Favara, valle coltivata che si incunea nel tessuto urbano, è un esempio di in-between rurale-urbano, denso di questioni e opportunità: i margini e i bordi, le connessioni e l'accessibilità, il paesaggio agricolo all'interno della città. Selected as focus area of the project for the workshop "Dynamics of Periphery", the area called "Vallone Cicchillo" is a natural wedge-shaped cultivated valley within the city of Favara, characterized for being an example of rural-urban in-between, dense with …