Search results for "urban regeneration"

Polipheries: Heterotopic Cities and Plural Communities of a Different Present in Southern Europe

2018

In Europe, cities have always been theatres that put utopian thinking on the stage. The European city is a “mediation between mediations”, to quote Henri Lefebvre, one of the most lucid philosophers of the city, since the city is a permanent interface for several types of relationships: relationships between individuals, structured and unstructured relationships, and relationships with and between social, institutional, and normative organisations. And in an increasingly urban world where most of the world’s population lives in cities, with levels close to 80% in Europe, cities are the living organisms that breath the breath of change, especially the change in the relationships, visions, an…

L’urbanité de l’héritage industriel La reconversion du viaduc de la High Line à New York

2015

At the heart of urban dynamics over the past few decades, the reconversion of riverside and port spaces in cities of the western world is associated with the deindustrialisation of these sites, often situated near historic city centres. This contemporary situation puts industrial heritage conversion at the centre of thinking which goes beyond the mere conservation of the original value of the buildings to question the future of cities, in relation to the notion of sustainability. In New York, after thirty years of neglect, the old railway viaduct known as the “High Line” has been transformed into an elevated, linear urban parkway. The project must be reframed within the Hudson Riverpark ope…

Progettare città nel tempo della metamorfosi

2013

Metamorfosi è una potente parola-guida della contemporaneità. E’ un impegno di cui numerosi segni ci facevano intravedere la necessità durante gli anni propulsivi della globalizzazione e molteplici indizi tracciavano la strada da percorrere. Ma, anestetizzati dalle aporie dello sviluppo, li abbiamo ignorati, emarginandoli nella ecosofia o reagendo in modo impulsivo con seducenti inni alla decrescita felice. Oggi invece gli anni recessivi di una crisi che non è una semplice stagione di attraversamento ci chiedono la responsabilità di un mutamento di paradigma che conduca alla metamorfosi ecologica, culturale, economica, sociale e politica. Ma il mutamento sarà soprattutto urbano, perché vivi…

TRANSIZIONE AMBIENTALE E SVILUPPO SOSTENIBILE

2021

This paper explores the issues related to the principles of eco-sustainability by proposing a case study of sustainable regeneration in Sicily, whose intervention choices were made with respect for the environment and local traditions. General guidelines: reduction of energy consumption; use of recycled and recyclable materials; improvement of thermo-hygrometric conditions. Programming is based not only on performance control, but on an idea of global sustainability based on the use of urban greening systems.

Menzione d'Onore Borgo Vecchio Factory

2018

Il Premio Compasso d’Oro ADI è il massimo riconoscimento italiano al progetto, al prodotto, alla ricerca di disegno industriale. È stato istituito a Milano nel 1954 dai grandi magazzini la Rinascente per incentivare l’“estetica del prodotto” e il nascente design italiano. Il marchio del premio, che fa riferimento al compasso di Adalbert Göringer e alla proporzione aurea, è stato disegnato dal grafico Albe Steiner, mentre il compasso d’oro tridimensionale è a firma degli architetti Alberto Rosselli e Marco Zanuso. Nel 1958 il premio è stato ceduto da la Rinascente all’ADI Associazione per il Disegno Industriale, che ogni due anni ne cura l’organizzazione attraverso le selezioni di una giuria…

Building community spaces: Processes and actions In the City of Mercato Ballarò in Palermo

2022

The rediscovery of the cultural value of a project, the creation of new imagery in marginal places and the new aesthetics of temporality are some of the emerging issues in the city of crisis which are measured through processes of active involvement in community relations. There are many cities that have recognised urban markets as an integral part of local economies, with great benefits also at cultural and social levels. The hypothesis of triggering regenerative processes in the urban and social fabric in the unstable urban market context is the foundation of this research-action contribution developed through active relationships with public entities, associations and citizens. The syste…

(Ri)costruire spazi di comunità. Progetto-azione nella città del mercato Ballarò a Palermo

2022

The rediscovery of the cultural value of the project, the creation of new imaginaries in marginal places and the new aesthetics of temporality are some of the emerging issues in the city of crisis in Italy that are measured through processes of active involvement of inhabitants, associations and institutions. The contribution first proposes an analysis of the potential of public space through a research-action with a high social content in the urban fabric of the Ballarò market in Palermo. Subsequently, the research returns a multidisciplinary perspective on the interpretative models of public space to propose new imaginaries. Themes related to social inclusion, community participation proc…

Lo spazio collettivo nei contesti spontanei dell'abitare. La rigenerazione urbana e sociale di Bogotà e Medellììn

Assumendo l’inscindibilità della diade architettura-necessità, la ricerca volge il suo interesse nei confronti della dimensione collettiva dell’abitare, orientandosi specialmente verso quei contesti urbani e sociali emblematici laddove, alle trasformazioni indotte dall’evolversi della vita stessa, si sovrappongono problematiche incrinanti la possibilità di un vivere felice. In tali contesti più urgenti e bisognosi, l’architettura è concepita quale risposta concreta all’imprescindibile bisogno di abitare, e si rivela uno strumento capace di migliorare la qualità di vita della collettività, garantendo il bene comune ed incrementando il capitale sociale. Gli spazi collettivi, ritenuti la rispo…

The Creative Land. Heritage and Creativity in the Neo-Anthropocene

2017

Urban creativity is a hard challenge, because it doesn’t need rules or models, but adaptive protocols applicable in different local contexts, able to mount resources, capacity building and creative environments. It challenges us to find local features that could provide good practices to be turned into methodologies or components to forge new urban and human regeneration tools, based on the cultural armature and citizens engagement. We live in a Creative Land composed by generative cities, a wide palimpsest of innovation labs, as experimented by several worldwide networks supporting what’s variously termed social enterprise, community interest companies, impact economy, organizations that a…

Augmented City : a Paradigm Shift

2017

Augmented City is a spatial/cultural/social/economic platform for enhancing our contemporary life, individual and collective, informal and institutional. If we live and act in a reality permanently improved by hard and soft devices, our cities must be more responsive to our behavioral changes. In incoming Neo-Anthropocene cities are " vibrant organisms of space and community, of data and information, of sensors and actuators, of actions and reactions, of urban/rural metabolism generated by people and environment both.