The structure of the city is the focus of the laboratory; it is understood as a complex system of relations within which the design of public space takes shape. The program has the objective to compare students with a complex design theme and multi scale, divided into three main stages:
1_The study of the territory and planning instruments.
2_The project for the regeneration of a neighbourhood.
3_The architectural project.
1_The study of the territory and planning instruments.
2_The project for the regeneration of a neighbourhood.
3_The architectural project.
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teacher profile teaching materials
The European landscape, more than any other, has suffered a huge loss of natural habitats because of fragmentation of land uses and landscapes due to human activities and infrastructure. Such processes, resulting in an alarming decrease in many wildlife populations, are likely to jeopardize biodiversity conservation. Lately, although the main natural areas are now largely protected by the Natura 2000 Network, new concerns have been raised related to climatic challenges and to overall ecological performances within metropolitan areas. Green Infrastructures, encompassing further green (land) and blue (water) spaces, are strategically planned networks of natural and semi-natural areas with other environmental features designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services such as water purification, air quality, space for recreation and climate mitigation and adaptation.
Under a planning perspective, new relationships between urban and rural in contemporary territories raise questions about land use, level of fragmentation and fragility, management of landscape and experimentation of appropriate forms of inclusive governance.
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.
• 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
• “Romacentro”, fascicoli da 1 a 8, Palombi, Roma, 1986.
• “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.
• Caracciolo C., Roma Capitale, Editori Riuniti, Roma, 1956.
• Clementi A., Perego F. (a cura di), La metropoli “spontanea”. Il caso di Roma, Roma, 1983.
• Cuccia G., Urbanistica, edilizia, infrastrutture di Roma capitale 1870-1990, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1991.
• Longobardi G., Piccinato G., Quilici V. (a cura di), Campagne romane, Firenze, Alinea, 2009.
• Marcelloni M., Pensare la città contemporanea – Il nuovo piano regolatore di Roma, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2003.
• 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/
Programme
The European landscape, more than any other, has suffered a huge loss of natural habitats because of fragmentation of land uses and landscapes due to human activities and infrastructure. Such processes, resulting in an alarming decrease in many wildlife populations, are likely to jeopardize biodiversity conservation. Lately, although the main natural areas are now largely protected by the Natura 2000 Network, new concerns have been raised related to climatic challenges and to overall ecological performances within metropolitan areas. Green Infrastructures, encompassing further green (land) and blue (water) spaces, are strategically planned networks of natural and semi-natural areas with other environmental features designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services such as water purification, air quality, space for recreation and climate mitigation and adaptation.
Under a planning perspective, new relationships between urban and rural in contemporary territories raise questions about land use, level of fragmentation and fragility, management of landscape and experimentation of appropriate forms of inclusive governance.
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.
Core Documentation
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
• “Romacentro”, fascicoli da 1 a 8, Palombi, Roma, 1986.
• “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.
• Caracciolo C., Roma Capitale, Editori Riuniti, Roma, 1956.
• Clementi A., Perego F. (a cura di), La metropoli “spontanea”. Il caso di Roma, Roma, 1983.
• Cuccia G., Urbanistica, edilizia, infrastrutture di Roma capitale 1870-1990, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1991.
• Longobardi G., Piccinato G., Quilici V. (a cura di), Campagne romane, Firenze, Alinea, 2009.
• Marcelloni M., Pensare la città contemporanea – Il nuovo piano regolatore di Roma, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2003.
• 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/
Type of delivery of the course
The module is split into into two didactic units, which allows a better finalization of means-end relationship in tackling regeneration issues, with a main reference to the case studies proposed within the Laboratory. Therefore, lectures, seminars with experts, teamwork aimed at investigating selected cases of urban regeneration are foreseen. Attendance of the course is mandatory.Type of evaluation
The final evaluation is related to the results achieved through the activities carried out during the year and to the ability to argue theoretical and methodological contents, with reference to exercises and seminars held during the year and to the recommended bibliography. teacher profile teaching materials
This “project of the ground” accepts and works with the existing fragmentation of the city to shape a “coherent discursive universe” (Secchi 2002, 2005). This project of the ground defines a territorial figure. As for other urban figures, the general layout scheme of the Green Ring presupposes the modifications of certain strategic poles together with a number of transversal equipment—such as the slow mobility axes—that hold the projects together binding them to each other.
By moving across the scales, from that of the Rome Capital Region (Baioni et al. 2019) to that of the area of the Tuscolana Station object of the Reinventing Cities – C40 project, the aim of the course is first of all to reflect on the role of the territorial figure and its ability to federate the different actors in the area, their intentions for the future.
What are the conditions under which “the nodes of intense architectonic quality (which generally coincide with the places where politics, bureaucracy, finance, institutional information are entrenched)” and which "are given and received as an expression of the whole community", do not actually promote “the fragmentation of social groups by alienating them from the concrete problems of the physical space in which they actually live?" (De Carlo, 2013: 59).
De Carlo, Giancarlo (2013) L’architettura della partecipazione. Macerata: Quodlibet.
Mitrašinović, Miodrag (ed.) (2016). Concurrent Urbanities: Designing Infrastructures of Inclusion. New York: Routledge.
Secchi, Bernardo (1986) Progetto di suolo, Casabella, n.520-521, pp.19 -23.
Secchi, Bernardo (2002, 2003, 2005), “Diary of a Planner”, in Planum. The Journal of Urbanism, www.planum.net, nos. 4/2002-11/2005.
Programme
The design studio assumes the Green Ring (Anello Verde) of Rome as the frame of reference. The Green Ring is the territorial figure into which the Reinventing Cities – C40 call for project for the Tuscolana Station urban node fits. Approved in July 2020, the Green Ring technically is the Schema di Assetto Generale dell'Anello Verde (General layout scheme of the Green Ring), an act of programmatic direction for the sustainable redevelopment of the railway ring and the eastern sector of the territory of Roma Capitale (Roma Capitale 2020).This “project of the ground” accepts and works with the existing fragmentation of the city to shape a “coherent discursive universe” (Secchi 2002, 2005). This project of the ground defines a territorial figure. As for other urban figures, the general layout scheme of the Green Ring presupposes the modifications of certain strategic poles together with a number of transversal equipment—such as the slow mobility axes—that hold the projects together binding them to each other.
By moving across the scales, from that of the Rome Capital Region (Baioni et al. 2019) to that of the area of the Tuscolana Station object of the Reinventing Cities – C40 project, the aim of the course is first of all to reflect on the role of the territorial figure and its ability to federate the different actors in the area, their intentions for the future.
What are the conditions under which “the nodes of intense architectonic quality (which generally coincide with the places where politics, bureaucracy, finance, institutional information are entrenched)” and which "are given and received as an expression of the whole community", do not actually promote “the fragmentation of social groups by alienating them from the concrete problems of the physical space in which they actually live?" (De Carlo, 2013: 59).
Core Documentation
Baioni, Mauro, Caudo, Giovanni e de Strobel, Lorenzo (2019) Abitare nella regione capitale di Roma: una prospettiva inedita. (working paper)De Carlo, Giancarlo (2013) L’architettura della partecipazione. Macerata: Quodlibet.
Mitrašinović, Miodrag (ed.) (2016). Concurrent Urbanities: Designing Infrastructures of Inclusion. New York: Routledge.
Secchi, Bernardo (1986) Progetto di suolo, Casabella, n.520-521, pp.19 -23.
Secchi, Bernardo (2002, 2003, 2005), “Diary of a Planner”, in Planum. The Journal of Urbanism, www.planum.net, nos. 4/2002-11/2005.
Reference Bibliography
Harvey D. (2010), La crisi della modernità, Il saggiatore, Milano (Originariamente pubblicato nel 1990). Kaijima, M., Stalder, L. and Iseki, Y. (eds.) (2018). Architectural Ethnography. Tokyo: TOTO Publishing. Secchi, Bernardo (1989) Un progetto per l’urbanistica. Torino: Einaudi. Soja E.W. (2011), “Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era”, in Bridge G. & Watson S. (a cura di), The New Blackwell Companion to the City, Wiley-Blackwell, pp.679-689.Type of delivery of the course
On a practical level, the course aims to bring project, vision and scenarios into tension, experiencing the autonomy and interdependence of each of these tools. Figure Each student is required to analyse a specific territorial figure that formerly produced for/about Rome (e.g. the Asse attrezzato by Studio Asse, 1967-1970). It can be a projective figure or an analytical one—which per se has a projective power—but it has the scale of the territory. What makes the fortune of certain figures compared to others? According to what discursive, figurative, and process logics did they have operated? Who are the main actors? The assignment on the figure is accompanied by an original A4 essay of about 500 words that is a reflection on the figure and other themes that will emerge during the course. Collage The students of a same group are required to compose the figures they investigated in a collage. What are the collisions and the points of contact? Scenari For the entire area of the Green Ring, each group will formulate a scenario. Certain aspects are isolated, and it is investigated what would happen if these phenomena reached their extreme or probable consequences (Secchi 2003). Projects Starting from the framework of the scenario, some areas between the node of Tuscolana Station and its surroundings are designed while (critically) considering their responsiveness to some of the principles of the Reinventing Cities – C40 initiatives such as inclusiveness and resilience.Attendance
Attendance is compulsory according to the regulations. In the case of an extension of the health emergency by COVID-19 all the provisions that regulate the way in which teaching activities and student evaluation are carried out will be implemented. In particular, the following procedures will be applied: distance teaching and examination, while, as far as possible, several key moments of the laboratory work (e.g. introduction and workshops) will be carried out in attendance while ensuring that safety distances are respected.Type of evaluation
The evaluation is carried out on the basis of the personal short essay and the results of the group design exploration. The essay will be delivered before the exam and the result will be considered during the examination together with the capacity to argue and the coherence of the analyses and projects produced (also in consideration of the proposed frontal lessons). In the case of an extension of the health emergency by COVID-19 all the provisions that regulate the way in which teaching activities and student evaluation are carried out will be implemented. In particular, the following procedures will be applied: distance teaching and examination, while, as far as possible, several key moments of the laboratory work (e.g. introduction and workshops) will be carried out in attendance while ensuring that safety distances are respected.