Tuesday, October 26, 2010

What Does Knit 6 Rows Mean

ARCHITECTS WANTED 2010_Concorso



Designers: Bruna Vendemmia, Laura Falcone, Stefano Sbarbati

Consulenti: Sara Di Micco (Sostenibilità ambientale), Roberto Santini (Strutture), Jean François Laurent (Grafica 3D)

Il progetto prevede la costruzione di edilizia residenziale convenzionata ed agevolata su di un lotto di 10663 mq, nella parte ovest della città di Milano, lungo via Gallarate.

- The project area is the southeastern border of a large park with residences and equipment provided by the "PII Merlata Farm" north of Via Gallarate. The main entrance to the park is located by the master at the House Merlata.

- Gallaratese The neighborhood and the surrounding areas, while still presenting the typical elements of the outskirts of Milan, are now integrated into the city.

- Via Gallarate si caratterizza per la presenza di numerose slabbrature dovute all’arretramento degli edifici rispetto al fronte strada. Gli strumenti urbanistici vigenti prevedono anche per il lotto di progetto una fascia di rispetto di 20m.

Questi elementi urbani sono confluiti nel progetto:

- per accogliere e delimitare il parco e, al contempo, proteggere lo spazio condominiale rispetto alla strada, The building is concentrated along the south-west of the lot. The result of separate entities: one is building a large and massive, defined stereotomic, which forms the boundary wall, built-up area of \u200b\u200bthe park and on the other hand, within a batch and arranged more freely in the green, three volumes, defined tectonic much more permeable.

- To encourage interaction between site and the city is located on the ground floor via Gallarate a "promoter of urbanity, a function of neighborhood giving quality the space in front of the building and the park also appeals to local residents Gallaratese. The project proposes a center for music that will help to enliven the neighborhood in the evening. In parallel, you create a pedestrian path that starts from Via Gallarate and across the lot, entering the park.

In this way the whole site functions as a valve between the park and city.

This first scheme was further divided into the following account of bioclimatic factors:

- Volume stereotomic original monolithic, L, was excavated on the upper floors and completed with the addition of transverse sleeves to get the best exposure for the greatest number of dwellings. The lower floors, however, remained anchored to the ground to protect the garden from the prevailing winds in winter, from south-west.

- the offset of the towers is functional to obtain the best possible exposure to housing.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Quien Canta A Long On Dong

Unexpected Developments Global effectson premises. NaplesMetropolitan Region. ESU

ABSTRACT

This paper based my research on the relation between the local and the global in the metropolitan region and tries to clarify, looking at the case of Naples, the consequences of regional strategies considering the unexpected effects of global choices on the local city growth.

In 2010 Naples lies on a huge conurbation: the high-way infrastructures reduced the distance, increasing the accessibility of the region but without building a clear relation with the surroundings; as a consequence the city sprawls messing up the previous rural structure. At the same time, the industrial areas produced visible fractures on the configuration of the territory.

An important fact is that nowadays and worldwide, we are assisting to the replacement of the industrial sector with global services and transport; commercial activities are transforming the landscape, finding their location in places that have well defined characteristics: big plots, high visibility, global connectivity and easy accessibility. In Naples they have been established in the same area where agriculture, industries and residential suburbs have already layered. Even though, here, they symbolize territorial references: “land-marks” (Lynch, 2006) .

If the city can be described “as points of articulation and of translation between different extensive layers of the multi-scaled urban ‘cake’“ (Read, 2007) it will not be astonishing to discover, in Naples Metropolitan Area, new peripheral commercial centralities on the trucks of an old roman street. This synergy, raised in some urban nodes, is the result of a slow bottom-up process. Meanwhile, as the opposite bottom-up development, and as a consequence of the industrial sector reorganization, faster global dynamics create “new centralities” producing effects at the local scale and increasing the fragmentation. Moreover, it must be taken into account that these layers and processes are not only restricted to physical networks but they are shaped also by economical and social interactions, and that a network is always global and local in all its points (Latour, Nous n'avons jamais été modernes. Essai d'anthropologie symétrique, 1991)

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