A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Urban interiors
In the present-day city, the quality of the places is not just the result of its architecture but is increasingly linked to a diffused urban landscape; a sort of Buzz design, the definition Andrea Branzi uses for the shower of small and medium-size projects that contribute to creating a new level of expression and culture of the urban setting. The new nature of urban areas leads to some reflections about the competencies that are necessary for their organic planning, not strictly imposed from above, but acting more through an integrated system of micro-interventions that are better apt to deal with the characteristics of volatility, temporariness, and velocity of adjustment, typical of the postmodern era. Planning expertise, capable of connecting different disciplines in a context marked by complexity, generating a global transformation through local and specific interventions, from interiors to urban landscape, applying the concept of “see small to see more.” The essay aims to investigate the design approach to urban transformations through the interpretation of several theories including Ugo La Pietra's interior through exterior, the urban leftovers theorized by Luciano Crespi, and the in-between spaces identified in Giovanna Piccinno's publications. Through a critical reading, the text identifies how the design of interiors and spaces becomes, therefore, a tool for urban space’s re-development through different approaches linked by a single crucial theme: the centrality of space’s user, according to the Global Public Space Toolkit (2016), which defines a public place, “a portion of an area or location designated or available for or being used by someone. Place comes to existence when people give meaning to a part of a larger space. Places that have a strong sense of place have an identity and character felt by local inhabitants “. The importance of urban space, meant as a connective space, a space of sociality, a space of connection between public and private, emerges even more strongly in these years in ...
Urban interiors
In the present-day city, the quality of the places is not just the result of its architecture but is increasingly linked to a diffused urban landscape; a sort of Buzz design, the definition Andrea Branzi uses for the shower of small and medium-size projects that contribute to creating a new level of expression and culture of the urban setting. The new nature of urban areas leads to some reflections about the competencies that are necessary for their organic planning, not strictly imposed from above, but acting more through an integrated system of micro-interventions that are better apt to deal with the characteristics of volatility, temporariness, and velocity of adjustment, typical of the postmodern era. Planning expertise, capable of connecting different disciplines in a context marked by complexity, generating a global transformation through local and specific interventions, from interiors to urban landscape, applying the concept of “see small to see more.” The essay aims to investigate the design approach to urban transformations through the interpretation of several theories including Ugo La Pietra's interior through exterior, the urban leftovers theorized by Luciano Crespi, and the in-between spaces identified in Giovanna Piccinno's publications. Through a critical reading, the text identifies how the design of interiors and spaces becomes, therefore, a tool for urban space’s re-development through different approaches linked by a single crucial theme: the centrality of space’s user, according to the Global Public Space Toolkit (2016), which defines a public place, “a portion of an area or location designated or available for or being used by someone. Place comes to existence when people give meaning to a part of a larger space. Places that have a strong sense of place have an identity and character felt by local inhabitants “. The importance of urban space, meant as a connective space, a space of sociality, a space of connection between public and private, emerges even more strongly in these years in ...
Urban interiors
G. Gerosa (author) / G. Gerosa, A. Scotti / Gerosa, G.
2022-01-01
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
720
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