Università degli Studi G. D’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara
Dipartimento di Architettura di Pescara
Corso di laurea in Architettura
Corso del 4° anno – A.A. 2020-2021
COMPOSIZIONE ARCHITETTONICA QUATTRO
Prof. Carlo Pozzi
Arch. Giovanni Rasetti
Premise
This year's Composition 4 course again addresses the planetary dimension of the informal city, analyzing and carrying out project proposals on the Dharavi slum in Mumbai, on which the workshop (4 credits) of September 2020 and the exercises will take place course plans (10 ECTS) in the second semester (2021).
Project themes
September 2020 workshop _The treshold of the Slum
The course will deal with the theme of the informal city, built by slums.
Dharavi is an extensive informal settlement in Mumbai, a city that today has more than 18 million people and where 15% of the total inhabitants of the Indian "slums" live.
The history of the city and its evolution up to the current form bring out two fundamental questions: on the one hand, the phenomenon of informality, the result of continuous immigration, stratifications and expansions, in its social and economic relationship with a continuously growing metropolis.
On the other hand, the ecological problem of a city built on land taken from the sea, weak in the face of the violent monsoon floods that mostly affect informal settlements.
For this matter, the workshop will develop a preliminary infrastructure project for the building strip on the edge of the slum, through the provision of small residential and service buildings, as well as public spaces in the urban fabric.
We will reason by organizing the thought starting from some keywords and the most significant projects that can refer to:
Complexity, Hybridization, Iconicity, Formal-Informal, Prefabrication, Reversibility, Reuse and Recycling, Vacuum-Fluidity-Porosity, collective space, infrastructural space, natural space.
For the workshop, a synthetic A2 table and a schematic model 3d in 1: 200 scale will be created.
GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. AA.VV., The Other City, in Boundaries n. 4, Roma 2012
2. Secchi B., La città dei ricchi e la città dei poveri, Laterza, Bari 2013
3. Moroni S., La città responsabile, Carocci, Roma 2013
4. Pozzi C., Il clima come materiale da costruzione e altri scritti su Le Corbusier, Libria, Melfi 2015
5. Manigrasso M. (a cura di), Brasile. Imparando dalle favelas, Quaderno n. 4 di PPC, LIst, Rovereto 2015
6. AA.VV., The inevitabile specificity of cities, Lars Müller Publishers, Zurigo 2015
7. Manigrasso M. (a cura di), Regenerating Kibera, LetteraVentidue, Siracusa 2018
8. Fabietti V., Pozzi C., From Sprawl to Slum, LetteraVentidue, Siracusa 2018
9. Rasetti G., Tensioni. Architetture nei paesaggi, LetteraVentidue, Siracusa 2018
10. Biraghi M., L’architetto come intellettuale, Einaudi, Torino 2019
