01069 - Town-Planning (B)

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course "Laboratorio di Urbanistica" is to approach the students to the knowledge and to a critical evaluation on several aspects concerning and influencing the urban project. Students should develop technical and analysis skills to set up, evaluate and represent a urban project according to the current laws.

Course contents

FROM THE CITY TO THE COUNTRYSIDE

The course aims at developing an experience in urban planning starting from the knowledge, analysis and interpretation of the "site", and through an intermediate phase of synthesis and meta-planning, able to define criteria of intervention through the design of a project proposal in the form of a master plan and a planivolumetric project.

 

The course will focus on the interaction and transition between urban and rural areas. In their project proposal, the students are expected to re-think and re-design the city limits, with the aim of conferring an identity to those areas located between the city and the countryside referring to the dense city model.   

 

The course is motivated by the profound changes that cities, and the concept of city itself, have undergone over the last decades. Today, cities are experiencing a constant growth, with the number of houses, warehouses and mall stores increasing exponentially, often without a well-defined urban plan. This has led to a situation where there is no traditional city limit anymore, but rather a new, transitional space which cannot be defined as neither a urban nor a rural area.

 

Disruption, thus, appears to be the main feature of the contemporary metropolis. Still, the remaining free areas offer the opportunity not only for a re-thinking of the city plan, but also for experimenting new ideas. In particular, city planning should provide an answer to those cultural changes that cities have been experiencing over the last decades, which are characterized by a lifestyle where sustainability and openness are the key words.

 

 

Based on this evidence, the main topics of the course will be the environmental sustainability of the city plan, the refurbishing of existing urbanized areas, and the planning of new urban areas according to sustainable criteria.

 

An urban plan project for the city of Cesena will be assigned to all students. Each project will be linked to a specific theme and a specific area along the city border, which will be identified beforehand.

 

The project should account for the complex interactions existing between the landscape and the design and managing of public and private spaces. This a complex, yet interesting design assignment. It should result in project proposals that are able to accomodate for specific functional needs, such as mobility and presence of public and green areas, and at the same time that guarantee the preservation of the landscape and of the natural resources.

 

The course aims at developing an experience in urban planning starting from the knowledge, analysis and interpretation of the "site", and through an intermediate phase of synthesis and meta-planning, able to define criteria of intervention through the design of a project proposal in the form of a master plan and a plan volumetric project. Core topics of the course will be: the environmental and territorial sustainability, in terms of a correct density and a high standard of lifestyle, the regeneration of part of territory, the urbanization of new systems.

The learning path will develop in three phases, analytical-cognitive, synthetic and planning, along with group activity.

- Cognitive or analytical phase:

a) knowledge of legislative body, reading of typical data of plan and urban project,

b) analysis of surrounding conditions and critical reading of context; identification of the actors involved in the urban planning (promoters, implementers, project recipients, residents)

c) site analysis

 

- Synthesis phase or approach to the project:

d)summary of the analysis

e)targets and potentiality of the "macro areas"

f) defining functional, morphological, environmental, social and economical objectives

g)targets assessment

 

-Planning phase:

h) project planning (rules, conditions, installation study, typologies)

i) sustainability assessment

 

In the first phase the students have also to looking for examples concerning their project of re-think and re-design the city limits. The analysis will focus on problems and opportunities of the city, through a territorial study on landscape, functions, perceptions, infrastructures, using schemes or sketches..

 

The urban study instead will concern the analysis of the "macro area" assigned. The representation will considering precise themes: natural, functional, morphological, environmental, social and economical aspects. A perceptive analysis is suggested through pictures and scketches.

 

The practical activity organized in group of 8 people, in the first phase of analysis, and 4 people in the second phase of planning, will concern at first the analysis of the area assigned, through field trips, surveys and plans synthesis, and it will constitute a kind of cognitive body, synthesis of the analyzed territory. This phase it will be linked to a research of international and national examples, aimed at a first knowledge of the urban regeneration themes.

The next phase concerns a synthesis of the first phase and the construction-assessment  of several proposals and strategic objectives for the "macro area", "sub-areas" or "sub-themes", treated during open workshop.

The last phase will concern the elaboration of a project, according to the current urban rules, and it will be submitted to a self-evaluation. Some significant parts of the project will be developed in detail.

 

The project ratio will be typical of an urban project, going through the territorial framing (1:10.000 but in some cases 1:25.000, 1:50.000), to the typical ratio of town planning scheme and urban project (1:2.000, 1:1000, 1:500). Build a model ratio 1:2000 / 1:1000 will be useful but it is not considered compulsory.

Readings/Bibliography

L. Benevolo; Origini dell'urbanistica moderna; Laterza, Bari, 1963

Le Corbusier; Maniera di pensare l'urbanistica; Laterza, Bari, 1981 (Note: Tit. orig. Manière de penser l'urbanisme, Paris, 1963, trad. it. di G. Scattone

L. Reale; Densità, città, residenza. Tecniche di densificazione e strategie antisprwl; Gangemi Editore, Roma, 2008

L. Reale; Densità, città, residenza. Tecniche di densificazione e strategie antisprwl; Gangemi Editore, Roma, 2008

Reale L. (a cura di), La città compatta. Sperimentazioni contemporanee sull'isolato urbano europeo, Gangemi , 2012

K. Lynch; Progettare la città. La qualità della forma urbana;  Etas Libri, Milano, 1990

M. Carmona , T. Heath, T. Oc, S. Tiesdell; Public places urban spaces, the dimensions of urban design; Architectural Press, GB, 2003

C. van Eesteren; The idea of the functional city; NAI, Rotterdam, 1997

MVRDV, Winy Mass; KM3, Excursion on capacities; Actar, Barcellona, 2005

Winy Mass, Jacob van Rijs; Farmax, Excursions on density;: 010 Publishers, Rotterdam 1998

Fondazione housing sociale, Nuove Forme per l'abitare sociale, Ed. Altreconomia

Aurora Fernández Per, Javier Arpa, NEXT, COLLECTIVE HOUSING in progress, Density Series, 2010

Javier Mozas, Aurora Fernández Per, IDENCITY New collective housing, Density Series, 2009

Bauman Zygmund, Fiducia e paura nella città, Bruno Mondadori

Bauman Zygmund, Liquid Life, Polity, Cambridge, 2005

La città oltre la crisi, articolo a cura di Federico Oliva, di  N. 236 - Urbanistica Informazioni (Marzo - Aprile 2011)

Luisella Gelsomini e Ottorino Marinoni, Territori europei dell'abitare, editrice compositori, 2009

Green life, costruire città sostenibili, a cura di Maria Berrini e Aldo Colonnetti, editrice compositori, 2010

Pierre Donadieu, Campagne urbane, Donzelli editore ed. italiana, 2006

Richard Rogers, Città per un piccolo pianeta, Erid'A/Kappa ed. italiana, Roma 2000

Gli “in-between spaces” Elementi caratterizzanti della metropoli contemporanea, CITTALIA, maggio 2020

Anna Maria Biscaglia, Otello Brighi, CESENA La città sostenibile, Comune di Cesena, Grafiche Morandi Fusignano, 2012

Urbanistica QUADERNI Archivio, Cesena PRG e tutele ambientali, collana dell'INU, anno IV, 2002

Urbanistica QUADERNI Archivio, Comune di Cesena Il piano strutturale, collana dell'INU, anno I, 1999

Teaching methods

The main activity consists in the assistance and assessment of the group work (maximum three-four students).

Frontal classes and presentation of concrete experiences, with the collaboration of external experts who contributed to them, will be held. A field trip is scheduled for every study area.

The following seminaries are scheduled: a seminary of presentation of case studies on the 22th of November, on the 5th and 6th of December and a final seminary at the end of the course

Assessment methods

The evaluation of the activity will be carried out during the laboratory with special attention to common seminaries and will be concluded with the presentation and discussion of the work carried out by students, both as group work and individual contribution.

Teaching tools

The course consists of frontal classes, assessment  seminars and continuous assistance in the activities of analysis and urban planning of work groups (maximum four students); all the cartography (CTR, ortofoto georeferenziate, geoprogetto) is available and the plans can be downloaded from the network.

 

Office hours

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