In recent years, we are living a series of events that are determining the “historical passage” to an “after” to being explored, defining a new way of living. During the pandemic, talking about the “city-effect” may seem difficult to decline, because of the paralysis of cities and life. The pandemic leads us to reflect on the modus operandi of architecture and urbanism, disciplines that are facing a necessary change, with the adoption of new design paradigms capable to work synergistically in response to major current issues, such as climate change, natural and health events. The pandemic has been acted like a “black hole”, absorbing our habits, but offering us a “bridge” to the future, pushing us to reflect on our limits, and performing an upgrade of our society and our habits. The pandemic has led us to investigate the notion of limit in various nuances, from physical to emotional and psychological. During the pandemic, it has been possible to observe a new balance in the city design, at first animated by frenetic rhythms and now sterile, reshaping both spatial functions and temporal organization of our days. Buildings and dwellings fullness contrasts with the great social catalysts’ silence and squares’ emptiness. The emptiness, the squares, the boulevards, are symbolic places of what has been defined as the “city-effect”; all these elements can be seen as silent, and without any real function, defining rarefied environments, waiting to trigger again the life inside. The “city-system” must rise again, investigating its horizontal and vertical components, focusing on the relationship between building and urban space, on the reaffirmation of proximity, and on the combination of material and immaterial networks, as elements of development and revitalization. Nowadays we live in an era in which we can no longer speak of changes, but rather of structural mutations, such as to require a renovation of modus operandi. We need an integrated design work system on current structural weaknesses, capable to launch an “urban renaissance”. The rethinking of the city will shift from the new relationship that will be established between land consumption, sustainability and the ability to regenerate abandoned places, reshaping function and role within an integrated project.
Le città sospese: un ponte verso il futuro
Antonio Bocca
Primo
2020-01-01
Abstract
In recent years, we are living a series of events that are determining the “historical passage” to an “after” to being explored, defining a new way of living. During the pandemic, talking about the “city-effect” may seem difficult to decline, because of the paralysis of cities and life. The pandemic leads us to reflect on the modus operandi of architecture and urbanism, disciplines that are facing a necessary change, with the adoption of new design paradigms capable to work synergistically in response to major current issues, such as climate change, natural and health events. The pandemic has been acted like a “black hole”, absorbing our habits, but offering us a “bridge” to the future, pushing us to reflect on our limits, and performing an upgrade of our society and our habits. The pandemic has led us to investigate the notion of limit in various nuances, from physical to emotional and psychological. During the pandemic, it has been possible to observe a new balance in the city design, at first animated by frenetic rhythms and now sterile, reshaping both spatial functions and temporal organization of our days. Buildings and dwellings fullness contrasts with the great social catalysts’ silence and squares’ emptiness. The emptiness, the squares, the boulevards, are symbolic places of what has been defined as the “city-effect”; all these elements can be seen as silent, and without any real function, defining rarefied environments, waiting to trigger again the life inside. The “city-system” must rise again, investigating its horizontal and vertical components, focusing on the relationship between building and urban space, on the reaffirmation of proximity, and on the combination of material and immaterial networks, as elements of development and revitalization. Nowadays we live in an era in which we can no longer speak of changes, but rather of structural mutations, such as to require a renovation of modus operandi. We need an integrated design work system on current structural weaknesses, capable to launch an “urban renaissance”. The rethinking of the city will shift from the new relationship that will be established between land consumption, sustainability and the ability to regenerate abandoned places, reshaping function and role within an integrated project.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
