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30° House – Presentazione volume
30° house. Abitare tra emergenza e trasformazione: studio per un modulo abitativo temporaneo
Guya Bertelli,Claudio Chesi
Curatore: N. Petaccia, M. Roda
Editore:Maggioli Editore
Anno edizione: 2017
Il libro presenta – attraverso scritti, disegni e immagini – il progetto architettonico, strutturale e tecnologico di un modulo abitativo pensato come abitazione per l’emergenza. Il risultato finale, inteso come composizione dell’elemento edilizio, è il frutto di un’intensa e ricca attività di ricerca, sviluppata all’interno del Politecnico di Milano, che si confronta anche con i riferimenti della cultura di progetto tradizionale e contemporanea. Il nome 30° HOUSE richiama la geometria del modulo e l’inclinazione della sua struttura. L’involucro è progettato per coniugare la semplicità realizzativa con la qualità spaziale, le possibili aggregazioni con le prestazioni energetiche. Il testo propone le diverse fasi della progettazione (dal concept alla definizione dell’elemento architettonico) come un racconto articolato e finalizzato a comunicare l’obiettivo principale della ricerca: uno spazio abitativo che possa fornire risposte adeguate alle situazioni di emergenza, diffuse in modo significativo e sempre più frequente nei nostri fragili territori.
THE INDEPENDENT. URBAN-THINK TANK
Photos for the The Independent the Urban-Think Tank exhibition at MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts – Rome. In collaboration with OC OPEN CITY International Summer School – Piacenza
Urban-Think Tank – Utopia Now
Urban-Think Tank – Utopia Now
Urban-Think Tank – Utopia Now
Urban-Think Tank – Utopia Now
UPhD-Green Conference – Venice
Retrofitting Post-Socialist Landscapes
Nicola Petaccia Dipartimento di Architettura, Universita’ degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara
Dottorato di ricerca in “Architettura, Geologia, Ingegneria Civile” – Ciclo XXIX, Tutor: Prof. Massimo Angrilli, Co-Tutor: Prof. Ivica Covic, Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani, Politecnico di Milano
ABSTRACT
Research objective
The aim of this research is to analyse the problematic of post-war Eastern European housing estates, in order to set up their long-term stability and generate a better environment.
Since the end of World War II, two different kinds of modern cities were developed across Europe, even though the theoretical recipes in architecture and urbanism were the same. The differences between the socialist and capitalist economies were as deep as the spatial assets of the cities they produced.
After the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of socialism in which Eastern European societies opened themselves to global influences. This created degradation in the suburb large housing complexes making them unable to attract private capital. Therefore, they need to be regenerated.
Research methodology
In order to understand the issues related to public space, residential areas and services in those neighbourhoods, this research project analysis, through a parallel reading of paradigmatic case studies about central, western and eastern European cities. Especially during the political and economic transition from the centrally planned economic system of socialism to the market economy of capitalism, before and after 1989.
This allows to compare and explore the differences in the neighbourhoods’ development by taking into consideration their social output, and to determine that post-socialist landscapes should be a combination of traditional open spaces with urban ecological and sustainability principles.
Conclusions
Therefore, the research proposes specific regenerative scenarios in order to create new paradigms that built and reinvent the modern eastern settlements through the implementation of landscape as a strategy that will improve the quality of life.
A post-socialist landscape, full of open spaces, built spaces, infrastructures, new ecological equipment, renewable energy and participation. All these combined in deeper retrofitting strategies to give life to a new system of relations that generates unplanned scenarios.
Eventually, the scenario related to ecology, energy and participation becomes a set of guidelines built in order to reinvent the landscape, as a main generator of quality of life.
UPhD GREEN
Primo convegno dei Dottorati di Ricerca dedicati al progetto sostenibile – 22 settembre 2017, Università IUAV di Venezia
OIKONET “Global Dwelling” Conference – Manchester
Regeneration in the European post-socialist cities
N. Petaccia, M. Angrilli
Department of Architecture, “G. d’Annunzio” University Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Department of Architecture, “G. d’Annunzio” University Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyse the problematic of post-war Eastern European housing estates, in order to set up their long-term stability and generate a better environment.
Since the end of World War II, even though the theoretical recipes in architecture and urbanism were the same, two different kinds of modern city were developed across Europe. The differences between the socialist and capitalist economy were as deep as the spatial assets of the cities they produced.
After the collapse of socialism the processes of transformation in Eastern European societies have opened to global influences.
Nowadays the need to regenerate those degraded urban areas is becoming more widespread. To understand the issues related to those districts the paper will start by analysing paradigmatic case studies, in order to present an equivalent reading of central western and eastern European cities.
Keywords: Public Spaces, Landscape, 50-60s settlements, Post-socialist settlements, Retrofit, Urban, Regeneration Recycle, Urban Renewal
OIKONET is a European project co-funded by the Executive Agency of Education, Audiovisual and Culture (EACEA), with the purpose of studying contemporary housing from a multidisciplinary and global perspective by encompassing the multiple dimensions which condition the forms of dwelling in today’s societies: architectural, urban, environmental, economic, cultural and social.