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Re-Building Public (Plural) Spaces Through Inclusionary Participative Processes in 'Tresholds' Places
2010
PUBLIC SPACES: resources for the city or places of conflict?
2019
Public spaces, whether they be indoors or out, are an important part of cities. They are the places of everyday life that have, over time, undergone a phase of decline. Today, in fact, they are under used, unattractive, unsafe and reflect the state of health of urban centers and their inhabitants. This study investigates the quality of public spaces of some urban realities - national and international - which have become examples of sustainable urban regeneration, places of sociality and hospitality.
Who is entitled for the recognition of public right in the urban domain? A perspective from the southern Italian context
2015
Who has the right of access to public space of the city and what are the limits to this access varies depending on the circumstances: the shift between the public and private sphere, the economic- institutional system, laws and planning tools. If many scholars focus on relational values of public/political spaces, the sphere of public facilities is a central issue. In Italy this issue is ruled by an ancient national law, aimed at ensuring minimum collective rights, the so-called urban standards as mandatory quantity of areas to locate within the municipal plans. Although many regions of Northern Italy have satisfied and raised this standard, the southern areas remain in a situation of sever…
Road safety for the elder pedestrian in urban contexts - L'insicurezza per i pedoni anziani in ambito urbano
2011
Accidents involving elderly pedestrians are an important statistics on accidents due to vehicular traffic. So many researches investigated loss of safety of the elderly. The transition from work to quiescence period changes individuals’ lives and their concept of mobility, but car use is still prevalent during some years. Then the elderly significantly change their way of moving, preferring to walking. Over the years they become more and more fragile and they see the decline of their physical, sensory and cognitive faculties, so their safety has to lead urban Administrations to find practical solutions to improve movement and comfort of these urban users. This study aims to explore possible…
The accessibility of public urban spaces: walkability and ergonomic aspects
2013
Pedestrians can be ergonomically considered as workers into the socio-technical system of public urban space. Pedestrian targets can be defined as operations: the accessibility to a place characterized by services, commercial activities, enjoyment of leisure. Public space is a "universal" tool (differently from the ergonomic one), but it serves different user categories and enables different targets (movement, parking, social integration, etc..). The organization of public space should basically allow to perform users’ activities, but it has often been divided into a spatial and thematic compartments. From the twentieth century it was subservient to the dominion of the car, which strongly i…
Palermo, La Città del Mercato Ballarò. COSTRUIRE SOCIALITA'
2019
Action research project of the LabCity Architecture (DARCH-UNIPA), directed by Prof. Renzo Lecardane, with the IACP within the wider urban regeneration process of the Ballarò Market in Palermo. Action research is a field work, a fragile and complex work, which through a relational approach access to critically enter into places, commits to attend spaces, to face the repeated human and urban conflicts of the community through a process of re-appropriation of the right to the city. Through the use of light materials, shapes and structures, still with lights, colors, smells and sounds, the project of the new Market Hall and the public space of Piazza del Carmine redesigns the places of relatio…
Orizzontale vs Verticale. Lo spazio pubblico in sezione
2019
Alla richiesta di citare l’edificio recente che più avrebbe influenzato l’architettura americana, il critico architettonico del New Yorker, Paul Goldberger (2011),rispose senza esitazione: «Può sembrare strano, ma penso che la High Line potrà condizionare il prossimo decennio più di qualsiasi edificio convenzionale». Dietro questa risposta c’è molto della condizione contemporanea dell’architettura in cui si esprime un’innovativa visione dello spazio pubblico. Questo progetto - insieme ad ulteriori esempi dimostrativi che costituranno la massa critica del corpo tematico del futuro saggio - sancisce il definitivo ed epocale distacco da un’interpretazione dello spazio pubblico come livello zer…
Taranto città arcipelago. Un caso di emergenza abitativa
2022
Lo scritto restituisce in chiave critica gli esiti della sperimentazione progettuale, sviluppata in occasione del seminario itinerante di progettazione architettonica Villard, sul tema della rigenerazione dei quartieri di Edilizia Residenziale Pubblica a Taranto. Una città fortemente segnata dalla sensibile questione legata alle oltre millecinquecento richieste di accesso da parte dei cittadini aventi diritto ad una casa. Una condizione che determina un forte disagio sociale nelle famiglie meno abbienti escluse dall’assegnazione di alloggi per la limitata offerta di abitazioni pubbliche. Le aree oggetto di studio del Seminario coincidono con tre distinte parti della città di Taranto: Tambur…
Esperienza della didattica. Architettura e infrastruttura nella città contemporanea
2014
Il testo riguarda il metodo i temi e gli esiti del laboratorio di quarto anno di progettazione architettonica, che pone l’architettura fra le produzioni culturali complesse della nostra società, nel passaggio da un’idea di crescita quantitativa a un principio di crescita qualitativa, che includa l’ipotesi della decrescita, l’integrazione degli scenari di sviluppo con le proiezioni dei limiti e della sostenibilità delle trasformazioni. Il laboratorio chiede di elaborare il progetto di edifici di servizio e di una piazza in prossimità di uno svincolo dell’autostrada urbana e su alcune aree che lambiscono la circonvallazione di Palermo. Queste aree hanno caratteri di valenza generale, oggi ric…
Expériences temporaires en Architecture. La ville du Marché Ballarò
2020
The rediscovery of the cultural value of the project and of the new aesthetic of temporality are two issues among these emerging in the city in times of crisis in Italy which are measured through the process of active involvement of inhabitants, associations and actors institutional. The research proposed concrete explorations of the transformation of the street into a public space through an interdisciplinary prospective of participatory practices and interlocutions. It is in this context that research is interested in the cultural and material value of urban space as a projection of social relations towards a new aesthetic of temporality which aims to reverse the gaze of waiting spaces th…