PROJECTS FOR THE URBAN AND ARCHITECTURAL RENEWAL
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- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- ALESSANDRO BUCCI
- Credits
- 9
- Curriculum
- COSTRUZIONI E AMBIENTE
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- ICAR/10
Training objectives
- Goals: learning the fundamental knowledge about urban renaissance and renewal according to the latest scientific theories and guidelines of national and international laws and regulations; the urban renewal and the “future-zero (0)-land-use” as the essential form of development, recognized by the most recent standards as the only possible form of civil-construction activity; development of a case-study.
The Healthy Cities approach: from regional to urban block scale. Prerequisites
- Skills in architectural drawing and CAD; skills in both architectural organism and urban neighborhood design.
Course programme
- The concept of Renewal and Urban Renaissance; the Re-urbanization, the Architectural Restoration.
The scale of the project: the region, the metropolis, the city, the village, the neighborhood, the block, the building.
The Urban and Sub-Urban development: characters, morphology, public realm, private space, use, density, transport. The urban and sub-urban contemporary pathologies.
The V.I.P.E.R. (Vulnerability Index for Petrol Expense Rise); the urban-vulnerability of the Italian city-pattern; from the analysis to the index of efficiency of the urban pattern (Medieval, Renaissance, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth-century, contemporary city) and sub-urban pattern (sub-urbia, slab-urbia, single-family houses). Governance and administrative efficiency.
The principles of the Eco-Compact City. The sytem of the Transect & Urban Code; the Smart Growth Strategy; the New Urbanism theory. Examples at the scale of Rovigo, Ferrara, Bologna, Firenze, Bilbao, Roma, Vienna, Monaco, Parigi.
Sprawl development phase I, II, III. From sprawl to traditional urban neighborhood.
The sprawl-repair-method, EU and USA case-study.
Repair at the Regional Scale: the metropolis, the city, the rural development, repair at the Community Scale: single-familiy subdivision, multi-family subdivision, big-boxes, mall district, urban infill, urban retrofit, mall retrofit. Re-zoning of the shopping center, re-zoning of the multifamily and singlefamily subdivision, rRe-zoning of the businesspark, re-zoning of special district. Repair at the Building Scale.
The public-realm. From Highways to Boulevards project (CNU).
European and Italian context. Analysis of mixed-use building; recurring building types, recurring distribution and functional logic diagrams, plans, recurring patterns of composition of the facades, uses, blocks, buildings, units, accessibility.
Urban Renaissance in EU: case study.
The new urban block of via della Pietra, Bologna; Rue de Laeken, Brussels; via Matteotti, Valenza; Canal Front, Brussel; Tacheles neighborhood centre, Berlin Mitte; the new urban block of Villa Medici, Val d’Europe, Paris.
Grand Prix Philippe Rotthier for The Best Operation of Urban Renaissance in a sub-urban city: Plessis-Robinson, France; The Best New City: Val d'Europe, Ile-de-France; The Best Reconstruction of an Historic Center: Dresden
Neumarkt, Germany; The Best Reconstruction of a City Center: Palermo, Italy; The Best New Village: Poundbury, UK; The Best Public Intervention: Rathaus Viertel, Germany; The Best Neighbourhood Center: Borgo Città Nuova, Alessandria; The Best European Urban Plaza: Plaza del Juncal, Irun, Spain; The Best New Garden-City: Heulebrug, Belgium; The Best Urban District: Akroken Campus, Sweden.
European Community and Italian main laws and guidelines. The urban renewal and the “future-zero (0)-land-use” as the essential form of development, recognized by the most recent standards as the only possible form of civil-construction activity. The examples of the Emilia-Romagna recent laws and urban-regulations. The scale of the public-administration (the Commune) and the job of the urban and architectural designer.
Designing at the urban scale: urban design, architectural design, structural design, building systems.
The next frontier of the Healthy-City Design.
Development of a masterplan exercise and of an architectural building proposal with the support of the professor revisions to the works of the students weekly. Didactic methods
- Lectures mainly with powerpoint support; practical lessons, tutorials design practices (individual and team).
Learning assessment procedures
- Written/oral examination.
Discussion concerning the design project carried out during the course.
Oral examination concerning the lectures and the reference books. Reference texts
- - G. Tagliaventi, A. Bucci, THE GUIDE OF ECO-EFFICIENT CITIES/LE GUIDE DES ECO-VILLES EFFICIENTES / LA GUIDA DELLE ECO-CITTA' EFFICIENTI
Alinea Editrice, 2009, ISBN: 978-88-6055-367-6
- G. Tachieva, SPRAWL REPAIR MANUAL, 2010
ISBN-10: 1597267325 | ISBN-13: 978-1597267328
- G. Tagliaventi, A. Bucci, FROM SLAB-URBIA TO THE CITY: THE NEW REGIONAL WAY, Alinea Editrice, 2006, ISBN 88-8125-860-9
- G. Tagliaventi, Rinascimento Urbano, Ed. Grafis, Bologna, 1996;
- A. Bucci, D. Diolaiti, Città Commercio Architettura, 2004 Alinea Editrice, ISBN 9788881258697
- G. Tagliaventi, A. Bucci, NEW URBAN STADIA, Ed. Libreria Universitaria (PD), 2019, ISBN 978-88-3359-195-7
- A. Bucci, D. Diolaiti, Città Commercio Architettura, 2004 Alinea Editrice, ISBN 9788881258697.
