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The book is part of Initiatives consistent with the objectives of the #NewEuropeanBauhaus: https://www.polimi.it/il-politecnico/progetti-di-ateneo/newbauhauspolimi/
“Urban interstices”—their design—are the topic of this book. What are urban interstices? What different issues, opportunities, roles, and concepts do they deal with?
The book’s five chapters written by urban planners, architects and interior designers provide five different views and keys—Urban rewriting, Architectural threshold, Green rooms, Connecting publicness, Ephemeral devices—and draft a possible path to sound the spectrum of urban interstices’ design in Italy.
Urban space can be “interstitial” in its ambiguous capability of signification in the sense-making process; that is, in the double valence of a mute void—space without signification—or meaningful room—a small and dense universe of suspension. Sometimes the project for interstitial spaces aims to transform the former into the latter. Sometimes, on the other hand, the project makes the interstice an interface, connector, exchanger, membrane, space of interrelation. So that urban interstices become alternatively thresholds and pulsating rooms, and urban catalysts activated by specific design moves and devices. And somehow they also speak
of a general “interstitial” condition of urban space today.
The critical path proposed here is based on the review of seventy contemporary Italian cases. A collection of sixty projects is provided in the second part of the book, while ten cases—two for each thematic key—are explored in brief monographic essays and by interviews with the authors of the projects. They are the subject of the photographic essay, Visual narration by Marco Introini, put in the middle of the book.
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* Main research interests of Imma (Immacolata Concezione) Forino focus on interior architecture and furnishing from a spatial and historiographical point of view that embraces the "human events in daily life" as the foundation of the discipline of Interiors. Many reflections investigate power relationships (gender, social classes, workgroups, and beyond) and their "dispositifs" in the history of interiors and furnishings. Critical reflections are developed through a multidisciplinary theoretical approach that combines contributions from different study sectors ranging from art to literature, sociology to management, and cinema to design. In this connection, she wrote monographs, essays in collections and articles published in Italy and abroad. Another line of research called "Interior Reuse Lab", developed as Research by Design in Interior Design Studio at AUIC School, is related to the reuse and design of obsolete or abandoned interior spaces and guidelines for dealing with a stratified architectural context. Finally, other studies concern small abandoned open spaces, "Urban Interstices", considered "open-air rooms" and must be developed and redesigned. She is on the Board of PhD in Architectural, Urban & Interior Design at Politecnico di Milano, on the Scientific Committee of “Op. cit. Selezione della critica d’arte contemporanea” (IT), “AR. Research, Architecture” (SLO) and "Res Mobilis" (ES) journals. In 2012 for the book "Uffici: Interni arredi oggetti" (Einaudi, Turin 2011), she was awarded the First Award Biella Letteratura e Industria for Essays and the Award Selezione ADI Index within the Section Theoretical, Historical, Critical Research and Editorial Projects.
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Contrary motion, in Bertelli G., Bracchi P., Mei P. (edited by), ARCHITECTURE FOR A CREATIVE CITY Piacenza towards Expo, Maggioli, Rimini 2015
Flavia Zaffora
Within the general strategy of the projects coordinated by Sandro Rolla and Marina Tornatora, the project of “Land” thematic pavilion is settled on the edge of Piacenza south expansion. The main idea is that, operating by meaningful fragments, the specific intervention is able to generate long term and wide-range transformations, overcrossing the specific area limits and having an effect on a territory scale. It focuses on the main issue of the peri-urban space, whose ambiguity has been at the center of contemporary architectural debate. This is approached by the design of the soil, in order to tie up areas of the city and make them the enhancement key of the future urban development. The project chooses to catch the nature of the place, both urban, because it holds the last built fringes and crossed by several infrastructural traces, and rural, as a fragment of a rural life still alive in the close proximity. It chooses to operate like a musical contrary motion, where one of the two melodic lines moves up, and the other moves down: the project defines a crossing flux attracted from the countryside and, conversely, it comes back towards the city, tracing a bike and pedestrian path; proceeding from and towards the farmstead, it excavates the ground and gets the internal courtyard from a lower level, open air.
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