Physical and social infrastructure Infrastruttura fisica e sociale The project strategy at city level is based on the concept of ecotone. Just as in nature the latter is defined as the space that comes between two different ecosystems, acting as a filter and gradient between the two, so the investigated suburban can be regarded as …
At the beginning our research has figured the crisis that our society is experiencing and which reflects inevitably on the future of the cities. The dominance of the financial economy on the real one, the over-exploitation of resources and the loss of confidence in the sense of community are just some of the aspects of a …
Architecture can not ignore the reality that surrounds it. Let alone today, it is called to deal with a society in crisis. Economic, cultural crisis, but also crisis of the city, a place where the community interacts and enters into a symbiosis with the landscape. Like a cellular organism, even the urban one modifies itself …
Pioneering Agriculture is a research that is established with the aim of defining scenarios and pioneering actions to promote the development of local peri-urban areas through the instrument of agriculture. In fact, it may encourage the emergence of a new territory, a defense that allows interaction between environmental, settlement, social systems. the themes that we …
Volevamo segnalarvi la mostra organizzata da Gino Gianuizzi che si inaugurerà domani 10 marzo 2013 a Casabianca Si tratta di lavori che in un qualche modo sono un ragionamento sul paesaggio, sulla presenza del verde selvatico e del verde agricolo, sui ritmi e sulla capacità e sulla ricchezza della terra e della natura, sul confine … Continue reading
Autenticittà Autenticittà We want to point out a book that we have developed in the Course of the Architectural Planning for Urban Recovery, taught by Professor Alessandro Bucci within the Faculty of Architecture of Ferrara, during the academic year 2010/2011. The goal we have set ourselves is to read the city using a less rigid … Continue reading
A few days ago, visiting the new studio made available by duepuntilab and Spazio Lavi!, We have witnessed the inauguration of the photo exhibition cittàinattesa artist Giovanni Hänninen. The theme of the event is definitely present: in a time like ours where the watchwords are land use and re-use, they can not hit the photographs Hänninen … Continue reading
Opening date on 15th of November ! The website is in italian now, but it will be available in english as soon as possible. Per ora il sito è in italiano ma presto sarà anche in inglese. Continue reading
And after nine long months, so demanding as stimulants, used for the preparation of the final report, here is our first small goal! October 12, 2012 we graduated in Architecture at the University of Ferrara, with a thesis entitled: A ‧ live | agricultural landscapes to Increase the value of the environment. Despite the obstacles … Continue reading
Project application Applicazione progettuale After we have analyzed the entire study area and have developed a strategic overall masterplan, the look is concentrated in a specific area, which is intended as a practical application and exemplification of a concrete project of landscape and social enhancement in this neglected and abandoned suburban. This is a nodal … Continue reading
Location Localizzazione The study area is located on the northern suburbs of Bologna, between the old tramway to Malalbergo and the highway that runs alongside the ring road. It is included within Navile and S. Donato neighborhoods. These two suburban neighborhoods are mainly characterized by the elderly population and a high proportion of immigrants, by … Continue reading
Causes of the expansion process Cause del processo di espansione Since the late nineteenth century, Bologna was also crossed by important processes of expansion, so today it is a reality defined on a metropolitan scale. After World War II greatly increases the amount of land removed from agricultural use or to its natural condition: it … Continue reading
Periurban as a resource Periurbano come risorsa In the project to re-estabilish the relationship between town and country plays a vital role the filter space between these two realities: the suburban in fact, although it is often defined as a residual space, marginal, weak, has potentialities to be reckoned with. It is a territory active … Continue reading
Rural society in crisis Società rurale in crisi The loss of importance of agriculture does not concern, unfortunately, only the problem of its coexistence alongside a growing urban reality. After World War II in fact, under the pressure of so-called Green Revolution, the agricultural sector lost its importance in the Italian economy and is forced … Continue reading
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