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The course aims to provide some basic knowledge regarding the training and the development of the framework: themes, objectives, technics and instruments. Furthermore, through a case study a reading experience and interpretation of the actual territory identifying the shapes and materials which finally will be used to experiment various projects.
For this purpose, three educational modules are being proposed and which comprise in-depth theory lessons and comparisons with practical experiences:
Module 1 – From the Beginning of Modern Urbanism to the Actual Scenarios of the Discipline.
The communication cycle will illustrate the fundamental phases of the framework: from the training in modern urbanism, through the post-war reconstruction and the reformist approaches to the actual themes of “ecological cities”.
Module 2 – The Technics
2.1. Theme mapping: one communication cycle regarding the reading and drafting of the basic mapping and subject and application exercises;
2.2. One communication cycle in order to introduce some notions regarding the most common urban technics (benchmarks, indicators.) and application exercises in the auditorium.
Module 3 – Hillside settlement
The urban condition incorporates, other than the shapes inherited from the compact and intensive city, discontinued settlement patterns and different in shapes and density in close contact with pieces of agricultural and natural landscapes. The recent history of the framework of urbanism has progressively registered and accepted in their interpretation the concerns of this new status of urbanism: not only settlements that include residual agricultural patchwork or agricultural land in marginal areas where they resist urbanism, but complex landscapes where the open space, rural and natural, traditionally outside from “forma Urbis”, makes up economies of relevant parts of the territory. Some practices compete with a conceptual and normative dimension underpinning the new relation of mutual utility between city and countryside, welcoming either agricultural landscapes at a high economic value or “testimonial” or ordinary ones.
The case study is aiming to confront the students with a case study of the Adriatic hillside, an area with important difficulties regarding hydrogeological risk, the proximity of the city to the Adriatic coast and valleys, the persistence of historical settlements (pooled and scattered) and a significant agricultural landscape.
The approach to the theme will be done through a communication cycle relating to the most important experiences in the national and international field.
References
1. Agriregionieuropa, anno 12 n°44, Mar 2016
2. Ottavia Aristone - Raffaella Radoccia, Territorio Vino Agricoltura. In Abruzzo, L’Altralinea, 2014
3. Leonardo Benevolo, Le origini dell’urbanistica moderna, Laterza, 2005
4. Piero Camporesi, Le belle contrade, Il Saggiatore, 2016
5. Viviana Ferrario, Governare i territori della dispersione. Il ruolo dello spazio agrario, www.planum.net
6. Alberto Magnaghi (a cura di), Rappresentare i luoghi. Metodi e tecniche, Alinea, Firenze, 2001
7. Urbanistica Informazioni 269-270 Rassegna: Forme del Periurbano. Suoli Usi e Vocazioni1.pdf
8. Patrizia Gabellini, Tecniche urbanistiche, Carocci editore, Roma, 2001
During the course, specific bibliographical references will be given in order to examine closer individual arguments that are treated. The specific bibliographical and mapping material for the case study will be provided.
Course Objectives
The course has the objective to provide the students with notions and instruments in order to understand the urban and territorial phenomena and the principle instruments of the framework.
The objectives are articulated according to the three proposed teaching modules.
Teaching methods
The course contains one lesson cycle ex cathedra and one activity which will take place in the auditorium and at home. Furthermore, for the module three a site visit, seminar with local institutions and scholars.
Module 1 – From the Beginning of Modern Urbanism to the Actual Scenarios of the Framework.
- Drafting of a bibliographical card (bibliographical ref. Leonardo Benevolo).
Module 2 – The Technics
Drawn up:
- Manual drafting of maps – geomorphologic, slope/inclination, use of the soil and of the settling morphologies – using the basic maps, thematical and historical, as well as the consolidated descriptions and other sources (ref. bibliogr. Text Alberto Magnaghi);
- Exercises in the auditorium using the indicators and parameters (ref. bibliogr. Text Patrizia Gabellini).
Module 3 – Hillside settlement
- Drafting of three tables of the areas being studied
- Drafting of a bibliographical card to be chosen among the texts in the references (ref. bibl. Text aristone, Camporesi, Ferrario). The other texts in the bibliography will be used to support the work to be done.
Procedures for Verification of the Learning
During the year, intermediate verifications will be effected to check the level of the learning for the practical activity (drafting of maps and technical exercises on urbanism).
The knowledge of the scientific literature, chosen among the proposed texts and the ability to elaborate in relation to the area of study will be verified with an interview at the end of the semester.
