New dwelling in the compact city. Projects for the district of San Salvario in Turin. This research was born from a dual need. The first can be expressed as the contingent necessity and is linked to a specific case study, the redevelopment and transformation of the San Salvario district in Turin. This area consists in an orthogonal grid of late nineteenth and early twentieth century blocks , with a discontinuous structure due to the presence of plots which have never been developed or were destroyed during the Second World War, and continue to be unresolved, as a consequence of neglect or planning indecision. The second need can be expressed as a permanent idea and is the concept of the continuity of the historical city, offering a chance to reflect on the meaning of block and neighborhood in urban contemporary design. The overall objectives of the research are to confirm the role of the compact city as a fundamental settlement principle of great cultural and social value, and to demonstrate its feasibility, also in terms of environmental sustainability, through housing development projects that fit into the existing urban context thereby completing and transforming the existing structures. This research is based on the principle that analysis and design complement each other, and on the idea that knowledge is essential to carry out this transformation process. An analysis of the urban texture of the city was made using historical maps, retracing existing buildings, recognizing the permanent elements and typologies of the historical city followed by an analysis of the relationship between the solid and empty spaces and of the paths and the permeability of the spaces. Finally, are constructed study and project models of the areas of intervention as well as of the individual buildings. The products of the analytical phase are basically a series of historical and analytical maps (construction phases, groups of buildings and housing) and a typological survey of the ground floors, as a summary of the study of the city. The design choices are aimed at re-establishing a close relationship between housing and the street – or square – as an element of public space construction, in continuity with the ideas, experiences and examples of the ancient city. In particular, the proposed projects, impacting on the urban morphology through volumetric definition and typological choices, propose to investigate the relationship between the collective dimension of urban spaces and the private dimension of living, by relating the shape of the building to the shape of the open spaces. The theme of living is developed not only through the definition of functional and distributive aspects, but especially by the comparison with the urban block and the historical pattern of the city, taking the volumetric and compositional issue as a key element for the design of contemporary architecture but also as a yardstick to judge the city's past. The architectural design, thus, can reveal the potential of a "contemporary use" of the compact city, highlighting its meaning and claiming the eminently collective motivation behind every architecture.

Nuove residenze nella città compatta. Progetti per il quartiere di San Salvario a Torino / Malcovati, Silvia. - ELETTRONICO. - (2012), pp. 1028-1040. (Intervento presentato al convegno Abitare il nuovo/abitare di nuovo ai tempi della crisi tenutosi a Napoli nel 12-13 dicembre 2012).

Nuove residenze nella città compatta. Progetti per il quartiere di San Salvario a Torino

MALCOVATI, SILVIA
2012

Abstract

New dwelling in the compact city. Projects for the district of San Salvario in Turin. This research was born from a dual need. The first can be expressed as the contingent necessity and is linked to a specific case study, the redevelopment and transformation of the San Salvario district in Turin. This area consists in an orthogonal grid of late nineteenth and early twentieth century blocks , with a discontinuous structure due to the presence of plots which have never been developed or were destroyed during the Second World War, and continue to be unresolved, as a consequence of neglect or planning indecision. The second need can be expressed as a permanent idea and is the concept of the continuity of the historical city, offering a chance to reflect on the meaning of block and neighborhood in urban contemporary design. The overall objectives of the research are to confirm the role of the compact city as a fundamental settlement principle of great cultural and social value, and to demonstrate its feasibility, also in terms of environmental sustainability, through housing development projects that fit into the existing urban context thereby completing and transforming the existing structures. This research is based on the principle that analysis and design complement each other, and on the idea that knowledge is essential to carry out this transformation process. An analysis of the urban texture of the city was made using historical maps, retracing existing buildings, recognizing the permanent elements and typologies of the historical city followed by an analysis of the relationship between the solid and empty spaces and of the paths and the permeability of the spaces. Finally, are constructed study and project models of the areas of intervention as well as of the individual buildings. The products of the analytical phase are basically a series of historical and analytical maps (construction phases, groups of buildings and housing) and a typological survey of the ground floors, as a summary of the study of the city. The design choices are aimed at re-establishing a close relationship between housing and the street – or square – as an element of public space construction, in continuity with the ideas, experiences and examples of the ancient city. In particular, the proposed projects, impacting on the urban morphology through volumetric definition and typological choices, propose to investigate the relationship between the collective dimension of urban spaces and the private dimension of living, by relating the shape of the building to the shape of the open spaces. The theme of living is developed not only through the definition of functional and distributive aspects, but especially by the comparison with the urban block and the historical pattern of the city, taking the volumetric and compositional issue as a key element for the design of contemporary architecture but also as a yardstick to judge the city's past. The architectural design, thus, can reveal the potential of a "contemporary use" of the compact city, highlighting its meaning and claiming the eminently collective motivation behind every architecture.
2012
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