The ancient center of Palermo today presents itself as a particularly sensitive field for welcoming innovative urban redevelopment actions; here the new interventions are urgent and necessary, also due to the strong conditions of degradation in which large parts of its neighborhoods still find themselves. Furthermore, the most recent urban history of Palermo reveals an almost total exclusion of architecture from the list of tools that can be used to achieve a broad and consolidated recovery, with the result of having left for almost eighty years (unique case in Europe) large part of the most degraded historical fabric in the conditions of a patient with no apparent hope of cure. In this context, the therapeutic reference to acupuncture, if referred to the case of Palermo, could help to identify effective operating methods also in similar cases, for interventions on a limited scale, implemented on strategic points in the life of the city and necessary to bring the collective energies for the redevelopment of degraded spaces and the related social context. Taking the architectural project as a tool for understanding contextual complexity, in this volume we therefore advance some methodological indications for possible interventions on the specific case of the Albergheria district, reaping the fruits of research carried out for some years as a laboratory activity for a degree thesis master's degree in the five-year single-cycle course of studies in Architecture at the University of Palermo. The book is structured into three sections: the first part discusses the design and research method adopted; in the second part the design hypotheses are described which, as a whole, make up the possible general framework of the proposed interventions; finally, the third part gives an account of further teaching and research experiments carried out in parallel with the degree laboratory, also at an international level, on the same urban context.

Calvaruso, C. (2024). La via Mongitore: da taglio a promenade. In Agopunture urbane. Progetti per il recupero del centro antico di Palermo (pp. 117-123). Palermo : Caracol.

La via Mongitore: da taglio a promenade

Calvaruso, Claudio
2024-01-01

Abstract

The ancient center of Palermo today presents itself as a particularly sensitive field for welcoming innovative urban redevelopment actions; here the new interventions are urgent and necessary, also due to the strong conditions of degradation in which large parts of its neighborhoods still find themselves. Furthermore, the most recent urban history of Palermo reveals an almost total exclusion of architecture from the list of tools that can be used to achieve a broad and consolidated recovery, with the result of having left for almost eighty years (unique case in Europe) large part of the most degraded historical fabric in the conditions of a patient with no apparent hope of cure. In this context, the therapeutic reference to acupuncture, if referred to the case of Palermo, could help to identify effective operating methods also in similar cases, for interventions on a limited scale, implemented on strategic points in the life of the city and necessary to bring the collective energies for the redevelopment of degraded spaces and the related social context. Taking the architectural project as a tool for understanding contextual complexity, in this volume we therefore advance some methodological indications for possible interventions on the specific case of the Albergheria district, reaping the fruits of research carried out for some years as a laboratory activity for a degree thesis master's degree in the five-year single-cycle course of studies in Architecture at the University of Palermo. The book is structured into three sections: the first part discusses the design and research method adopted; in the second part the design hypotheses are described which, as a whole, make up the possible general framework of the proposed interventions; finally, the third part gives an account of further teaching and research experiments carried out in parallel with the degree laboratory, also at an international level, on the same urban context.
Mongitore Street: from cut to promenade
2024
Settore CEAR-09/A - Composizione architettonica e urbana
Calvaruso, C. (2024). La via Mongitore: da taglio a promenade. In Agopunture urbane. Progetti per il recupero del centro antico di Palermo (pp. 117-123). Palermo : Caracol.
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