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2016, Signifying Spaces: Theory, Method, Textual Practice Conference, Lublin, Poland
The composition of space, throughout history, has been able to confront cultural/geographic multiform areas. In the case study of the Mediterranean Sea, today, the composition of space must re-establish a new relationship with a living environment, affected by severe events. The coastal basins of the territory - which in the past has been the theatre of encounter and development – is suffering today from a phenomenon of forced densification and racism. I thought to identify a survey basis - historical, literary and scientific - on the versatility of Mediterranean idea, from the challenge of the interpretative dualism of its definition, not only concerning the specificity of physical space but to the ability that the physical space has to influence the identity dimension. In this direction, I have analysed an unprecedented scenario, which allowed me to create a future background for the Mediterranean territories. The methodological approach proposed, designs a new Mediterranean Utopia: a resolution method to re-draw the architectural space and re-educate the future society with an exciting peaceful vision. The final proposal adopts the research of ten floating metropolia, autonomous city/island - corresponding to subdividing areas of the same Mediterranean Sea - characterised by spatial, experiences. The goal is to create a new inclusive and dynamic communication network. Therefore, the objective that I intended to identify - and tackle all questions related - was to draw the attention into the need of building in the Mediterranean basin a new systematic designed culture, capable of giving rise to a renewed dialogue between architectural space, places and memory.
The contribution proposes to consider the cities on the sea as the expression of those urban communities who base their identity on the relationship with the sea and sailing, in a successful fusion between urban and maritime culture. The suggestion behind our research is that to understand coastal and port cities we must move our point of view from land to sea, starting from the maritime culture because it reveals urban and architectonic visions that are rich in semantic value. Can we reinterpret maritime tradition for innovative strategies that join maritime culture and urban culture in contemporary cities? Today there are many examples of architecture and urban spaces that interact with the sea, inspired by the relationship between the community and the navigation. The proposed case-studies show this interest for the "maritimity" in urban waterfront redevelopment, aiming to stimulate new development policies, able to make economic, social and cultural impacts.
Journal of Comparative Cultural Studies in Architecture, 2018
The extraordinary human invention of the city has developed and implemented some of the elements already present in the embryonic form in primi- tive residential mode: the road, the square, the market. The void as a public space, represented by places designated for sociability and collective activities, becomes the main character of the city. In parallel to that, residences were developed in different typological and formal evolutions. The introduction of the window produces a singular phenomenon, reversing the interpretation of the relationship between the private and public space in favor of the second. Street and square became the places of the highest urban expression and identity. Around these “voids” develop the social, commercial, philosophical and political activities, which have made the Mediterranean culture the essence of the Western civilization for centuries. Squares, streets and markets were “adopted” even in the walled cities of the Middle Ages, superb urban synthesis of previous cultures, but here they are thought as a unit, a continuous flow of public places able of interacting with the private ones like never before. In the urban context, the houses and their adjacent areas are the natural completion of the medieval public space, which is in fact a place to meet and socialize, a ceremonial and institutional space, a work and activity space. Widely unchanged during the following centuries, the street and the square are now subject to a strong identity and functional decline, largely replaced by other “aggre- gating” forms and by other means of data exchange, services and sociability. If during the first decades of the twentieth century new housing models were elaborated, inspired by the utopian ones of the pre- vious century – residential solutions born from the potential of new building techniques and from a social interpretation of great charm – today things have deeply changed. The great collective housing designed by Le Corbusier (the Immeuble Villas be- fore and then the Unite d’Habitation) represented the highest point of these experimental housing types: these were large collectors of services and different human realities, capable of generating public and shared spaces, relations between the people and cities, new relationships between the communities and neighborhoods. In a different context that severely reduced the utopian eupho- ria of the Modern Movement, today new housing models are conceived, renouncing the public space in favor of a private one. Among them, cohous- ing is widely supported and is spreading even in contexts unrelated to its origins, particularly in the Mediterranean. These models, however, aim to develop an autonomous community, where every social relationship is circumscribed, addressed to other members of the community in an exclusivist way: a “return” to the primordial origins that could be very dangerous in the fragmented and not very cohesive context in which they are coming into existence.
Villes Minières | Mining Cities, 2019
ATHENS JOURNAL OF MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES
Journal of Mediterranean Cities, 2021
Embracing a geographic reality that connects the East to the West, and the North to the South, the Mediterranean basin is a melting pot of landscape diversity, which embodies equally distinct cultures, languages, behaviours, creeds, and many other identity traits, intercrossed in a shared History. But above all plurality, is it possible to identify a unity in the approach to the act of inhabiting, of architecting – in an etymological sense of building, of creating Man’s place – landscape and, consequently and intrinsically, housing, through processes that, albeit formally apart, are very close in essence? Through the analysis of different authors, with different approaches – from Braudel’s historiography to the traveling impressionism of Matvejevitch, through Orlando Ribeiro’s passionate but thorough scrutiny – we will try to reveal a transversal inhabitance genius, not confined to a determined loci, in search of that which translates a wider ethos: the Mediterranean.
CAUMME 2012, Global Impacts and Local Challenges, Proceedings, 2012
The modern way of living alienated us from natural environment, cultural, historical and traditional heritage as well from other people. Contemporary materialistic spirit and way of living imposed a sense of existence and had an essential impact on the architecture. This sequence of events had a series of consequences that we feel with more and more intensity, and then we become aware of the necessity of a change in thinking and behavior. Construction in accordance with the immediate and present context minimizes negative impacts on the environment which becomes imperative to explore and should seek for. Maturation of the idea of harmonious and sustainable building is possible through a research of the traditional construction in the past with modern treatment and positive findings from the present. With its appearance modern architecture has brought revolutionary changes in the understanding of what house should provide to the user by insisting on transparency, sunshine, open plan, organization and orientation of space. Quality achievements of modern architecture in many cases lean on purity of forming, rationalism and functionality of vernacular traditions of the Mediterranean. According to stated facts, contextualization of contemporary architecture in the Mediterranean can be based on the philosophy of modern design with compliance of the all specifics of every particular location followed by principles of ecological sustainability. The paper use studies of relevant authors and thoughts of famous architects to affirm contextual thinking and find their establishments in a numerous of recent examples some of which are presented in this study.
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theSquare – Mediterranean Centre for Revolutionary Studies, 2019
European Urban and Regional Studies, 2018
Suvremeni Mediteran, 2023
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 1996
Cities, 2013
Firenze University Press eBooks, 2022
American Anthropologist, 2001
Periodicals of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Vol 9, No. 3. IUS Sarajevo, 2021
Journal of Mediterranean Knowledge, 2017
Unipapress, Collana del Dipartimento Culture e Società, 2021
4th EMUNI RESEARCH SOUK, The Euro-Mediterranean Student. Research Multi-conference. ReSouk 2012: Bridging Gaps in the Mediterranean Research Space. Conference proceedings
ARCHITECTURE THESIS OF THE YEAR | ATY 2022
The most amazing Architecture Thesis of 2022!
After the overwhelming response from the first two editions, Charette is elated to announce the third edition of ‘Architecture Thesis of the Year Competition - ATY 2022’.
‘Architecture Thesis of the Year 2022’ is an international architecture thesis competition that aims to extend appreciation to the tireless effort and exceptional creativity of student theses in the field of Architecture. We seek to encourage young talent in bringing their path-breaking ideas to the forefront globally.
PREMISE Academic Design endeavours allow the free flow of unfettered ideas – experimental, bold, promising, and unconventional. An intensive architectural discourse and a collaborative design process are essential to developing ingenious solutions to complex problems of the future.
An Architecture Thesis is considered the avant-garde – pushing the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm in the architectural realm. It is the outcome of months of painstaking research and an excruciating design process yet it hardly gets any recognition beyond the design studio. It is imperative to share such revolutionary ideas with the entire fraternity to open up new possibilities for dialogue.
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