What is the role of open spaces in the contemporary city? These are places of promises and unknowns. To move forward, we turn, on the one hand, to other disciplines and, on the other, to the inheritance of the Modern Movement and the criticism that has been moved to it. We need to investigate some architectural principles common to the urban and rural design, in order to propose more inclusive and relational transformations. In particular, the essay collects some "fragments" included in the “Extending town” by Giuseppe Samonà. The roots of an unprecedented and, in some ways still current, alternative to the uncontrolled urbanization of the sprawl town have been explored. Samona’s reasoning on the architecture-urban unity went to this theory that proposed to give shape, and therefore strength, to the rural spaces at risk of urban erosion. Samonà found a possible dialectic between the parts of the territory recognizing an overall advantageous anthropization. Excluding the will (and the possibility) of a return to a phantomatic nature, a confidence in the architecture emerges. We are looking for specific answers in our disciplinary field to better understand some of the unfinished and highly topical intentions of the twentieth century that, progressively up to now, have helped to refine an overall sensitivity towards environmental pre-existences. The consideration of rural parts as architectural spaces (according to Samonà’s idea) inserts the book in that “awareness” which is being acquired towards the countryside and the soils also recognized by the European Commission. It consedered an “active conservation” of material and immaterial cultural, urban and agricultural heritage as the consequence of knowledge of identity values by the community.

Qual è il ruolo degli spazi aperti nella città contemporanea? Sono luoghi di promesse e d’incognite. Per andare avanti, ci si rivolge, da un lato, ad altre discipline e, dall’altro, è indispensabile comprendere l’eredità del Movimento Moderno e la critica che vi è stata rivolta. Sembra necessario indagare su alcuni principi architettonici comuni al progetto urbano e rurale per proporre trasformazioni più possibile inclusive e relazionali. In particolare, il saggio raccoglie alcuni “frammenti” custoditi da Giuseppe Samonà ne “La città in estensione”. Si esplorano le radici di un’alternativa inedita e, per certi versi ancora attuale, all’urbanizzazione incontrollata della città diffusa, verso cui infine si orienta il ragionamento sull’Unità architettura-urbanistica, proponendo di dare forma, e quindi forza, agli spazi agricoli a rischio di erosione urbana. S’individua una dialettica possibile fra le parti del territorio riconoscendone una complessiva vantaggiosa antropizzazione. Esclusa la volontà (e la possibilità) di un ritorno a una fantomatica natura, emerge una fiducia nell’architettura. Si cercano risposte specifiche nel proprio ambito disciplinare per comprendere meglio alcune intenzioni del XX secolo incompiute e di grande attualità che, progressivamente fino a oggi, hanno aiutato ad affinare una complessiva sensibilità verso le preesistenze ambientali. La considerazione delle parti rurali come spazi architettonici (secondo l’idea di Samonà) inserisce il libro in quella “sensibilizzazione” in atto verso le campagne e i suoli riconosciuta anche dalla Commissione Europea. Quest’ultima ha attribuito all’individuazione dei valori identitari da parte della comunità il presupposto di una “conservazione attiva” del patrimonio culturale materiale e immateriale, urbano e agricolo.

Macaluso, L. (2018). Frammenti della città in estensione. Siracusa : LetteraVentidue.

Frammenti della città in estensione

Macaluso, Luciana
2018-01-01

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What is the role of open spaces in the contemporary city? These are places of promises and unknowns. To move forward, we turn, on the one hand, to other disciplines and, on the other, to the inheritance of the Modern Movement and the criticism that has been moved to it. We need to investigate some architectural principles common to the urban and rural design, in order to propose more inclusive and relational transformations. In particular, the essay collects some "fragments" included in the “Extending town” by Giuseppe Samonà. The roots of an unprecedented and, in some ways still current, alternative to the uncontrolled urbanization of the sprawl town have been explored. Samona’s reasoning on the architecture-urban unity went to this theory that proposed to give shape, and therefore strength, to the rural spaces at risk of urban erosion. Samonà found a possible dialectic between the parts of the territory recognizing an overall advantageous anthropization. Excluding the will (and the possibility) of a return to a phantomatic nature, a confidence in the architecture emerges. We are looking for specific answers in our disciplinary field to better understand some of the unfinished and highly topical intentions of the twentieth century that, progressively up to now, have helped to refine an overall sensitivity towards environmental pre-existences. The consideration of rural parts as architectural spaces (according to Samonà’s idea) inserts the book in that “awareness” which is being acquired towards the countryside and the soils also recognized by the European Commission. It consedered an “active conservation” of material and immaterial cultural, urban and agricultural heritage as the consequence of knowledge of identity values by the community.
2018
978-88-6242-355-7
Macaluso, L. (2018). Frammenti della città in estensione. Siracusa : LetteraVentidue.
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