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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…
RESTORING THE CITY CENTER, PLANNING AND POLICIES
2011
The Intervention on urban fabric and open spaces in the historical city. The article describes the restoration process of Palermo’s historical centre. The process has been discontinuous and fragmented, so that presently, extremely degraded urban areas still coexist with highly desirable areas characterized by first-rate restoration. Palermo’s experience with urban revitalization and development of an impoverished historical city centre demonstrates the need for urban planning that is systematically supported by effective public policies and that never loses sight of preserving the soul of the city.
The interpretation of prehistoric visual expression in indoor museums
2011
Representing Prehistory in museums, with all the contradictions that the term “representation” may imply, is always very controversial from the interpretative point of view, implicating a series of different philosophical and scientific positions, both on Prehistory itself, and on the way of introducing it to the public, particularly today with the resurfacing of the need to dedicate some attention also to the social and the so-called “immaterial” contexts, to the myths, the rites, the cults, to the interpretation of life and nature, overcoming the obsolete concept of the museums exposing manufactured articles. In the long decontestualization process of the objects involving, unfortunately,…
La Piazza del Garraffello a Palermo tra iconografia storica e attualità
2018
The proposed contribution is focused on the graphic analysis of an eighteenth-century perspective view portraying one of the most ancient squares of the City of Palermo (piazza Garraffello). It is an engraving print made by F. Cichè in 1711 on commission of the Guild of Silversmiths: the square is completely described with the fountain (still existing) in the foreground, and with the corporate lodges of foreign nations in the background (these two buildings nowadays have disappeared). In the picture is also visible a temporary triumphal arch with canopy erected by the same guild who had commissioned the view: this is the object of main perspectival interest. The study of the perspective use…
Letture grafiche sulla città di Bressanone: modelli e schemi
2019
L’articolo affronta un’analisi morfologica e urbana di Bressanone attraverso la modellazione digitale del territorio e del tessuto edilizio con l’obiettivo di definire una modalità di osservazione dal paesaggio alla città in grado di fornire, attraverso l’elaborazione di nuove immagini, gli strumenti per la conoscenza del patrimonio storico-architettonico di Bressanone. I valori simbolici, restituiti dalle immagini prodotte, declinano la complessità orografica e urbana nel linguaggio della rappresentazione che traduce il processo analitico in un apparato iconografico digitale. Le vedute realizzate a partire dal XVI secolo vengono integrate con le nuove elaborazioni grafiche, rintracciando i…
The hellenistic Théatron of Morgantina: History and Restoration
2011
Note sulla ricostruzione del centro storico di Palermo. Idee e proposte dai piani.
2011
Palermo was a town still ravaged by war - as Argan reported and he stated that: >. In fact the outcome in terms of damages caused by the war was huge, as entire monuments and considerable urban environments had disappeared into large cavities. In particular, the Teatro Marittimo area, between the Foro Italico and the Cala, became one of the largest sites of ruins created by the war in Italy. With the reconstruction plan approved in 1947 certain indiscriminately destructive principles reappeared in planning policies, such as the implicit request for a new parallel road upstream the 17th century Street called via Maqueda the third road crossing the old town centre, which had been already draw…
Il progetto I-Access: implementare l'accessibilità nell'uso e nella conoscenza dei centri storici urbani
2021
This paper describes the INTERREG Italy-Malta 1/16 project, of which the Department of Architecture was the beneficiary. The proposal, in the disciplinary field of restoration, aims to create action-learning to be applied in the historic quarters of Palermo and Valletta by implementing an integrated, totally, interdisciplinary working method; it embraces the degree of physical accessibility (with the design of architectural interventions and the provision of technological-IT assistance tools for a smoother passage), and a cultural one, which is expressed via the 'networking' of virtual communication for areas that cannot be easily reached and in parallel educational action that works on ove…
Valorizzare il centro storico di Palermo: un cambio di paradigma
2022
The contribution starts from a basic question that is whether the historical centres of large cities can escape the same destiny exclusively based on the historical heritage excellence, on tourism and cultural activity or can continue to play the role of a vital urban structure with a mix of social groups, of ordinary functions and activities as the residential one. Moreover, the historical centre tendency to transform into predominantly commercial and touristic areas has had surreal implications during the period of lockdown caused by Covid-19 pandemic, when the most valuable parts of our cities were totally emptied of human presence. This is also confirmed in the case of the historical ce…
The urban rent in the multicultural city: retail shops, migrants and urban decline in the historic centre of Palermo
2020
La diffusione di nuove modalità di vendita al dettaglio, come gli shopping mall, i megastore e l’e-commerce, hanno modificato i tradizionali modelli localizzativi di immobili a destinazione commerciale, incidendo anche sulle connotazioni del tessuto urbano ed extraurbano e sulla distribuzione spaziale della rendita. Anche le zone centrali delle città hanno subito trasformazioni significative, che a volte si traducono in un vero e proprio declino, soprattutto in presenza di sistemi economici locali deboli e di mercati immobiliari in recessione. Una quota rilevante di immobili a destinazione commerciale può rimanere a lungo non utilizzata per eccesso di offerta sulla domanda, poiché a fronte …