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LEARNING FROM ROME | historical cities and contemporary design

Organization
Conference Chairs
Paolo Carlotti, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Italy
Anna Irene Del Monaco, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Italy
Dina Nencini, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Italy
Scientific Committee
Giuseppe Arcidiacono, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
4 Enrico Bordogna, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
Brenda Case Scheer, University of Utah, USA
Giancarlo Cataldi, University of Florence, Italy
Roberto Cherubini, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Italy
Vicente Colomer Sendra, Polytechnic of Valencia, Spain
Edoardo Currà, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Italy
François Defaux, University of Laval, Canada
Carlos Dias Coelho, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Wowo Ding, University of Nanjing, China
Daniela Esposito, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Italy
Kai Gu, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Matteo Ieva, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
Karl Kropf, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
Pierre Larochelle, University of Laval, Canada
Vincenzo Latina, University of Catania, Italy
Teresa Marat-Mendes, University of Oporto, Portugal
Marco Maretto, University of Parma, Italy
Nicola Marzot, University of Ferrara, Italy, and TU-Delft, The Netherlands
Carlo Moccia, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
Gianpiero Moretti, University of Laval, Canada
Vitor Manuel Araujo Oliveira, University of Oporto, Portugal
Carmine Piscopo, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy
Antonio Vito Riondino, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
Francesco Rispoli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy
Ivor Samuels, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Uwe Schröder, Technischen Hochschule of Aachen, Germany
Andrea Sciascia, University of Palermo, Italy
Francesco Scoppola, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Italy
Giuseppe Strappa, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Italy
Fabrizio Toppetti, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Italy
Jeremy Whitehand, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Organizing Committee
Anna Rita Donatella Amato, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Italy
Vincenzo Buongiorno, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Italy
Antonio Camporeale, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Italy
Conference Office 5
Anna Rita Donatella Amato, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Italy
Vincenzo Buongiorno, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Italy
Antonio Camporeale, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, Italy

Contents
Foreword
Paolo Carlotti, Anna Irene Del Monaco, Dina Nencini
plenary session Learning from Rome
Pour une approche cognitive aux problèmes

relatifs aux interventions dans les tissus urbains
anciens
Pierre Larochelle
Brevi note su una lettura in evoluzione di Roma

Franco Purini
parallel sessions Theory | New-old Methodologies for Contempo-

rary Design in Historical City
Reading | Tools and Analisys of Urban Fabric
Design | Urban Space and Contemporary De-

sign

I Theory
New-old Methodologies for Contemporary Design in Historical City
I A.1 Theories and Methodologies pg. 18

The contribution of J. W. R. Whitehand to the Conzenian
school of urban morphology.
Vitor Oliveira
Urban composition. Imaginary versions of Rome inspired by

memories and possible scenarios.
Enrico Pietrogrande
Morphological gaps within the structure of the contempo-

rary city as the urban reason for the strategies of renova-
tion.
Irina Kukina
Plastic city. Transforming the (built) reality.

Antonio Camporeale
Architecture and Planning. Aporias in contemporary rege-

neration processes.
Nicola Marzot
I A.2 Theories and Design pg. 24
Il concetto del divenire strutturale nel progetto dei tessuti

storici di Gozo e Aachen.
Matteo Ieva
Processes of Reconstruction of the Aleppos Urban Lan-

dscape.
Giulia Annalinda Neglia
Transformation is conservation. Modification as project’s

tool.
Alessandro Oltremarini
Project, policy, The competition of new office building of

deputy in Rome.
Francesca Addario, Kaltrina Jashanica, Mariangela Ludo-
vica Santarsiero
The design of public space in the historic city The 1967 com-
petition for the new offices of the Chamber of Deputies.
Angela Fiorelli, Pia Marziano
Learning from the built city.

Sérgio Padrão Fernandes

I B.1 Theories and Reading pg. 30
Cartography and iconography as diachronic analysis tools

of the urban fabric Évora and Setúbal.
Maria do Céu Simões Tereno, Manuela Maria Justino Tomé,
Maria Filomena Mourato Monteiro
The formation process of public space: from urban fabric to

palaces and squares.
Alessandro Camiz
Using typo-morphology to save formal quality in historic di-

stricts of countries with private land ownership systems.
Mazyar Abaee
The origin, further transformations and present-day impor-

tance of Krakow historic fringe belts.
Maciej Motak
Compacting Rome. A systemic approach for a sustainable

development.
Armando Iacovantuono
The Block and Street dialectic. Lisbon as a lab for reading

and designing the contemporary city.
Rui Pedro Justo, João Silva Leite

II Reading
Tools and Analisys of Urban Fabric
II B.2 Historical Cities 1 pg. 36
Poundbury: example of Sustainable Urbanism signed by a

traditional formalism.
Nicola Scardigno
Florentia-Clepardia, the former town and historic district of

Cracovia (Krakow).
Maciej Motak
Evoluzione della città di Liegi.

Pamela Alberotanza, Nadia Simone, Valentina Zecchillo
Reading and design in Naples.

Federica Visconti
Morphological transformations in Damascus.

Avin Osman
Examination of roofed alley as an element of compact city

of Yazd, Iran.
Ehsan Valipour
II C.1 Historical Cities 2 pg. 42
Salvaguardare la città. Nicola Salvi e la perduta cappella

Bolognetti di Roma.
Iacopo Benincampi
Recovery of the Bobadela Roman Amphitheater.

Carlos Dias Coelho
Rome. Archaeology’s places and contemporary uses.

Giuliano Valeri
Finding the roman amphitheater and horrea of Lisbon.

Systemic Decomposition as a methodology for analyzing
complex urban fabrics.
Pedro Martins
Forma urbana e organizzazione strutturale delle città nord

europee. Studio comparato di Tongeren, Aachen e Liegi.
Andrea Toscano, Maria Teresa Torelli, Giuseppe Cosimo Tri-
case, Matteo Ieva
Commemoration of lost urban heritage in contemporary

urban planning projects.
Malgorzata Antonina Burkot

II C.2 Historical Cities 3 pg. 48
Reading of primordial Axes for the City structure understan-

ding. The “Rua Direita”(main Street) of Angra do Heroísmo.
Ana Elisabete Martinho Amado
Chromatic identity in the ancient and new architecture.

Maria Dolores Robador, Inmaculada Mancera, Fernando
Lopez-Barrau
Morphological transformation of the main street of large

city as the basis for their renovation.
Iana Chui
Typology and framework analysis of Iranian caravansaries

in Four Macro Climates of Iran.
Shahnaz Pournaseri, Alireza Dodangi
Transformation and typological innovation. The case study

of ‘political assembly buillding’ in modern european demo-
cracies.
Vincenzo Buongiorno, Gianluca Emmi
Forms and Evolutions of Tunpu Villages in Guizhou, Southwest

China.
Zhou Zhengxu
II D.1 Contemporary Cities 1 pg. 54
Urban fabric and primary elements. The case-study of

Frigento.
Renato Capozzi
The Grammar of Italian Modernism in Albania: Transforming

the Ottoman Built Environment.
Annabruna Menghini, Giuseppe Resta
A reflection of the urban morphology: a trace of ten cities

in the Zona da Mata of Minas Gerais.
Regina Esteves Lustoza, Renata Oliveira Assis
Notes on cultural heritage and adaptive reuse in contem-

porary China.
Anna Irene Del Monaco
The abandoned industrial areas of viale Maraini in Rieti:

latent resources and interrupted processes.
Edoardo Currà

II D.2 Contemporary Cities 2 pg. 60
The Officers Neighbourhood in Krakow. The multifamily Villas.

Anna Agata Kantarek
Observation and dialog: operational tools useful for aware

and meaningful anthropological design in Romani settle-
ments.
Milena Grbic, Zoran Lazovic
The changes of spatial patterns in affordable housing: evi-

dences from Tehran metropolitan area (1940-2016).
Seyed Jamalaldin Hosseini
Architectural Modernity in the Global South: Architecture as

“immutable mobile”.
Anjali Ganapathy
The vertical system: the role of the skyscraper in the urban

context.
Pina Ciotoli
System of community centers in superblocks: comparative

analysis of Rome and Belgrade cases.
Predrag Jovanović
II D. a.m. Contemporary Cities 3 pg. 66

Urban revitalization of the historic core of Tehran through
single architectural interventions: Case study of Oudlajan
residential neighborhood.
Kiumars Poursamini
Cities transformations: two study case.

Francesco Menegatti
Measuring Urban Form in Abu Dhabi: An Exploratory Study

Comparing Two Evolving Communities in Abu Dhabi, Similar
in Use and Layout Yet Performing Differently in Terms of Su-
stainability and Livability.
Lamis Rafe Abu Ashour
How Rome is coping with the placement of outdoor media

in urban landscape in contrast to the city of São Paulo (BR)?
Vanessa Casarin
‘Starchitecture’ and contemporary additions in historical

context.
Damla Misirlisoy
Learning from Morella: The Memory of the Urban Form and

the Dialogical-Historical Approach in the Contemporary De-
sign.
Júlia Beltran-Borràs
III Design
Urban Space and Contemporary Design
III E.1 Urban Space pg. 72
Rooted Elements, Assembled Elements. The Design of Public

Space in Rome.
Antonello Monaco
Urban Stairs and Architecture.

Anna Agata Kantarek
Tactical and strategical urbanism: the combination of diffe-

rent methodologies related to a morphological form of the
street in the historical city.
Silvia Tagliazucchi
Av. del Oeste in Valencia: modernity design throughout old

town.
César Damián Mifsut Garcia
A morphological and sustainable approach to open space

design. The case study of Viterbo historical center.
Marco Maretto
III E.2 Architecture and Criticism pg. 82

New-Old Ideas For New-Old Cities. The Case of Louis I. Kahn.
Ruben Garcia Rubio
A theatre as an urban knot grafted in the historical fabric.

Susanna Clemente
A decade of designing hypothesis for Rome: 1980-1990. The-

mes and methods.
Dina Nencini
The lesson of Rome in the architecture of Francesco Venezia

and Alessandro Anselmi.
Gianpaola Spirito
Architectural Form and Urban Design: Khan interpretation

of Rome.
Elisabetta Barizza

III F.1 Urban Growth and Transformation pg. 88
Revive old city with contemporary design; on the topic of
shopping areas as urban public spaces.
Soufi Moazemi
Marina di Ginosa: the swamp became a town.

The “reclamation characters” as new design principles
for the coastal “wet-cities”.
Giuseppe Francesco Rociola
Height regulation methods for new buildings in urban heri-

tage sites (Vilnius case).
Dalia Dijokiene
The Cities of Rome: new projects in historical contexts.

Rosalba Belibani
Continuing intensity. A densification approach for the

historic city of Naples.
Ferruccio Izzo, Marianna Ascolese, Alberto Calderoni, Van-
na Cestarello, Francesco Peirce, Jessica Silente
High Density case study: Environmental and energetic

operation on the historical urban fabric in El Ensanche of
Valencia.
Juan Colomer
II F.2 Historical Urban Fabric pg. 98

Old City of Tripoli and the Contemporary Design:
A remedy to the dilemma.
Mustafa Mezughi
Costruire nell’esistente. Tre case per tre città.

Nicola Panzini
Learning from Squares.

Sérgio Barreiros Proença
Processes of urban renewal in the Mediterranean city,

between permanences and mutations.
Antonio Vito Riondino
Underground urbanism in Iran by focusing on underground

housing.
Fereshteh Beigli, Seyed Jamalaldin Hosseini
The spreading city: archaeological excavations of the Ro-

man city for the enhance of contemporary city.
Giuseppe Arcidiacono
Different Architectural Features of Persian Bazaars in Four

Macro Climates of Iran.
Alireza Hossein Dodangi, Ali Attary, Ghodratollah Rasouli-
nejad

Plenary session 1| Rome as organism
Paolo Carlotti, Anna Irene Del Monaco, Dina Nencini
16 The Third ISUFITALY International Congress (ISUF Italy 2017) will be held in Rome from February 23rd
to February 24th and will host 75 participants, more than 40 coming from foreign countries and the
others from the Italian Schools of architecture.
ISUFITALY is launching its third international congress after hosting in 2015 the Twenty-Second Interna-
tional Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF Rome 2015) attended by 350 participants (800 abstract submit-
ted) and publishing in 2016 the proceedings by U+D Editions, a monographic series launched beside
the ISUFITALY official Review (www.urbanform.it).
The ISUF Italy 2017 is organized in parallel sessions gathered together in three main themes: Theory –
New-Old Methodologies for Contemporary Design in Historical City (16 papers); Reading – Tools and
Analysis of Urban Fabric (37 papers); Design - Urban Space and Contemporary Design (23 papers).
The papers accepted present the evidence of a balance of interests in theories and methods ap-
plied to historical and contemporary cities and a significative presence of case studies and design
issues from Italy, Europe, Asia.
ISUFITALY was established in Rome in 2014 with an Opening Conference hosting eminent members
of the Council of ISUF International, founders of ISUF local branches and a representative number of
Italian academics experienced and interested in the themes traditionally discussed in the Internatio-
nal Seminar of Urban Form.
Therefore, the idea of disseminating the ISUF International research tendencies with the Italian aca-
demic researches and the perspective of merging the Italian most sensitive audience on cities and
urban morphology to the ISUF International audience, is confirmed by the spirit of ISUFITALY 3rd Inter-
national Congress, as it was already affirmed since the ISUFITALY Opening Conference in 2014.
The Roman School has a long-term engagement with Urban Morphology studies. The theories and
the research on-field produced in Rome since early ‘20 in parallel with the foundation of the school
of architecture and developed up to post second world war events had been seminal for other Ita-
lians School of Architecture too. During ‘60-’70 a significant interest on the Roman School of Urban
Morphology emerged in international academic contexts in urban and architectural disciplines such
as in others fields: geography, survey, history, anthropology.
The renewed interest and attendance of a significative number of Italian academics at the ISUF Inter-
national Conference and networks is an opportunity to refresh, rejuvenate, rethink and reflect about
the lesson of the Roman School of Urban Morphology and other remarkable international Schools of
Urban Morphology. New challenging case studies from new emerging urban contexts are interesting
opportunities to test theories, readings and design tools. So there still is a valuable, bright and interna-
tionally relevant lesson from Rome and its School of Urban Morphology.
Despite several recurrent problems European cities can be historically considered centers of inno-
vation, places for economic, political and social engagements and grounds for cultural transforma-

tions. There is a growing and diversified expectation toward the tradition of urban innovation in
European17 society: historical cities are considered main drivers of change, especially because of
the use of new techno-logies, of new social forces although abruptly migrating and of
attractiveness related to heritage, nature, leisure, tourism, fashion and food industry.
European Parliament resolution of 8 September 2015 is collected in the document “Towards an
integrated approach to cultural heritage for Europe” addressing Europe’s cultural heritage as a
common wealth of pa-ramount importance engaging cultural, economic, social, historical,
educational, environmental and scienti-fic components; deserving new governance models;
involving strategic opportunity and challenges.
If the European urban history is well routed in a inherited system of cities anchored to the physical
and the symbolic substructure of their historical memory supporting since centuries the impact of
changes, in other cultural contexts as America, Asia, Africa there is a diversified and growing need
to develop methodologies to manage, design and protect their historical cities and settlements,
inhabited and natural environments. Just to mention significant indicators for measuring the
interest in America and Asia on architectural and urban heritage it is sufficient to consider the
work of The Getty Conservation Institute and the National He-ritage Center of Tsinghua University
demonstrating the tough work on continuos readjustment in detecting appropriate methodologies
and cultural lines for Balancing Continuity and Change and advancing toward an Evolution of
Cultural Heritage Conservation Philosophy.
The ISUFITALY 2017 International Congress will be an opportunity to discuss the criteria for designing
in the hi-storical city and the knowledge tools which are able to establish cultural and operational
mutual relationships between the urban context and the historical urban fabric of cities under
transformation.
Recently, architectural and urban strategies for reuse, recovery, transformation are among the design
and re-search themes mostly considered by the contemporary architectural culture, according to
different cultural perspectives: aesthetic, artistic, theoretical, design-based, social and economic
driven.
There is a renewed interest of policy-makers, entrepreneurs, planners and conservation professionals
on con-temporary historical cities for preserving and renewing urban fabric and architectural
heritage to prevent abandonment and decay and to develop new forms of profit.
Contemporary historical settlements are urban organisms whose survival, transformation,
management re-quires complex design actions that should be undertaken making use of survey
and analysis that integrate different knowledge and components with the scope to consciously
address the new interventions, whether they are pursued through design solutions of continuity and
discontinuity toward their past urban identity. Therefore, the scope of the ISUFITALY 2017 International
Congress is to share knowledge collecting studies, re-search, design and methodological tools on
the contemporary condition of historical urban fabrics revealing the sense of research and
innovation in their biological behavior.

Theory
New-old Methodologies
for Contemporary Design in Historical City
Theories and Methodologies

Theories and Design
Theories and Reading

The contribution of J. W. R. Whitehand to the Conzenian school

of urban morphology.
Vitor Oliveira
Centro de Investigação do Território Transportes e Ambiente - Portugal
vitorm@fe.up.pt
Over the last decades, two approaches have been predominant in the debate on urban morpho- 19
logy: the Muratorian school (Cataldi et al., 2002) and the Conzenian school (Whitehand, 2001). This
paper focuses on the historico-geographical approach promoted by the Conzenian school. More
precisely, it addresses the contribution of J. W. R. Whitehand to the establishment and development
of this school of thought. It is argued that Whitehand’s contribution has two main dimensions: in-
stitutional and substantive. In institutional terms, the paper addresses the creation of the ‘Urban
Morphology Research Group’ (UMRG) in the University of Birmingham in the mid-1970s, and the esta-
blishment of the ‘International Seminar on Urban Form’ (ISUF) and of its journal, ‘Urban Morphology’,
two decades later. In substantive terms, the paper highlights the development of several dimensions
of the ‘fringe belt’ concept, the systematic exploration of the theme of ‘agents of change’ and the
promotion of two different topics within the morphological agenda: comparative studies and the
relation between research and practice.
References_
Cataldi, G., Maffei, G.L., and Vaccaro, P. (2002) ‘Saverio Muratori and the Italian school of planning typology’, Urban Morpho-
logy 6, 3-14.
Whitehand, J.W.R. (2001) ‘British urban morphology: the Conzenian tradition’, Urban Morphology 5, 103-9.

Urban composition. Imaginary versions of Rome inspired by

memories and possible scenarios.
Enrico Pietrogrande, Alessandro Dalla Caneva

University of Padova
enrico.pietrogrande@unipd.it, alessandro.dallacaneva@dicea.unipd.it
20 This paper investigates the composition of heterogeneous fragments, excerpts from the inventory of
collective memory, and the resulting unpredictable architecture in an urban context. The project
focuses entirely on the city of Rome, its classical antiquities, its Renaissance and Baroque works and
different branches of modernism found there. The freedom to assemble figures or fragments, to pla-
ce them in another context, highlighted the effectiveness and decisiveness of a reading of urban de-
sign in which the figurative force is the result of consideration based on the visual relationships betwe-
en objects. The experiences presented outline certain unreal circumstances, but nevertheless inspire
a scale evaluation of the results of planned modifications, and suggest corrections, adjustments and
new possibilities. The experimental setting, that some may deem fantastical, is derived from the supe-
rimposition of an existing environment and works introduced from other contexts. In this way, the artist
can redesign and foreshadow, creating a fictional city that can, paradoxically, serve as a reference
in the development of new possible urban settings.
References_
Arisi, F. (1986) G. P. Panini e i fasti della Roma del 1700 (Ugo Bozzi Editore, Rome).
Giedion S. (1941) Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition (Harvard University Press, Cambridge).
Semerani L. (1993) Dizionario critico illustrato delle voci più utili all’architetto moderno (Edizioni C.E.L.I., Faenza).
Sestieri G. (2015) Il capriccio architettonico in Italia nel XVII e XVIII secolo (Editore etgraphiae editoriale, Rome)
Focillon H. (2005) Vita delle forme (Einaudi Editore, Turin).
Venezia F. (2010) La natura poetica dell’architettura (Giavedoni Editore, Pordenone).

Morphological gaps within the structure of the contemporary

city as the urban reason for the strategies of renovation
Irina Kukina
Department of Urban Design and Planning, Siberian Federal University, pr. Svobodnyi
ikukina@inbox.ru
In the morphological analysis of each city architects identified so-called “terrain vagues”, “territories- 21
in-between”, etc. (1996). They are the territories with the not understandable structure and history
of forming, unplanned unpredictable in development. From the point of view of urban morphology
fringe belts were identified as somewhat similar to “terrain vagues” if look carefully to the history of
their forming, complexity of their structure and consequently strategies of renovation taking into ac-
count modern requirements for the city environment. Russian regional administrations are searching
for the strategy of the organic development using the scientifically based reconstruction of the city
historical core as well as it´s fringes. Fringe belts still contain original samples of unique civil architec-
ture, and more over some traditional industries, gardens, etc. everything that really could be lightly
reconstructed for the purposes of the core maintenance including contemporary interventions. Old
times, functional processes evidently leaved imprints in the forms of individual house holdings as
well. Fringe belts could be considered as an integrating dialectic “sponge” between new and old
functions, architecture and new and old forms of urban life “inscribed” into historical and contem-
porary world. The comparative analyses of modern renovate projects shows similar attitudes toward
understanding of city structure.
References_
Krasnoyarsk Regional Historical Archive Documents
Conzen, M.R.G. “Alnwick, Northumberland: A Study in Town Plan Analysis”, Institute of British Geographers, Publication no.27,
London, (2nd revised edition, 1969.)
Whitehand, J.W.R. (ed.) “The Urban Landscape: Historical Development and Management. Papers by M. R. G. Conzen.”,
Institute of British Geographers Special Publication no.13, Academic Press, London1981
Conzen, Michael P. (ed.) Thinking about urban form : papers on urban morphology, 1932-1998 / M.R.G. Conzen, Peter Lang
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Plastic city. Transforming the (built) reality.
Antonio Camporeale
Facoltà di Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma,
antonio.camporeale.7@gmail.com
22 This paper focuses on a particular way of conceiving the built reality by man, typical of the Medi-
terranean, and its consistent and procedural transformation. The built reality, constituting physical
contingent matter to be transformed, recovered, rehabilitated, is returned to the center of the cur-
rent architectural debate. Architecture is the reality that man has built around himself, measuring the
space through the practice of gestures, movements, actions he cans take. The architecture of the
city is the projection of such practices in longer distances, where to define the urban space is motion.
The dyad ‘elastic-plastic’ indicates the polarization of two opposite common characters, traceable
in the matter, in the materials, in the elements, in the buildings and, in the same way, in the urban
organism: in fact, it is possible to identify an ‘elastic’ city and a ‘plastic’ cities, according to the cha-
racter of the component elements and the degree of necessity that puts them in relation to each
other.
This paper investigates the organic character of the plastic city and discusses a method of interven-
tion in consolidated contexts, adapting the concepts of resilience, flexibility, adaptability, so far used
in the socio-political sphere, that is part of the global problem of the city, to the material conception
of a physical urban transformation.
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Severino E. (2003) Tecnica e architettura (Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano).
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silio Editore, Venezia).

Architecture and Planning.

Aporias in contemporary regeneration processes.
Nicola Marzot
Dipartimento di Architettura, Università di Ferrara
mrzncl@unife.it
The paper considers the contemporary condition of crisis of the building market as being responsible 23
of a stimulating challenge with respect to the current architectural practice. Moreover, it identifies
in the building vacancies and in the urban brownfields, multiplied by the crisis of the globalizing
Network City, a potentially new generation of experimentation opportunities, whose consistency
is widely witnessed within the European context and confirmed by a wide spectrum of interesting
design initiatives in progress (Oswalt, 2013). In fact, beyond a certain threshold, any crisis suddenly
shift from a temporary state into a permanent condition. While the former situation turns out to be
physiological of every development of the existing urban form, the latter expresses a pathological
situation affecting the city overall organic quality (Caniggia, Maffei, 1979), leading to an irreversible
loss of its “common rationality”. However the Plan, because its supposedly “universal rationality”,
always resists to any attempt to experiment new possibilities, eventually leading their results to reach
the status of a new temporary “canon” through a legitimizing process. The paper aims at tracing
back the premises of this embarrassing aporias to the pre-modern age, and the foundation of Urban
Morphology and Building Typology to the need to overcome the enduring struggle between Archi-
tecture and Planning upon which Modernity grounded its prejudicial legitimacy. In conclusion, it will
be demonstrated how this opposition has affected, and still does, the possibility of any urban form
transformation, especially within the historical context (Conzen, 1969).
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Theories and Design
Il concetto del divenire strutturale nel progetto dei tessuti

storici di Gozo e Aachen
Matteo Ieva
dICAR, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
azemati@srttu.edu, a.arshadi@srttu.edu
24 Tralasciando gli esiti parossistici che designano il concetto di trasformazione come condizione di in-
terruzione integrale della continuità storica e di concomitante adozione di un principio basato sulla
semantica del non spazio, il tema del progetto contemporaneo nella città ereditata sembra trova-
re, spesso nei recenti esiti critici che guardano al problema delle mutazioni congruenti nel costruito
storico, una duplice accezione basata su unipotesi di ricerca del divenire che produce tuttavia risul-
tati anche molto diversi. Da una parte, il concetto di sincronia come unica verità del significato di
storicità, letto nellaccezione hegeliana del vivere la contemporaneità come espressione dellessere
rivelazione del proprio tempo, dunque progetto che si esprime con un linguaggio consono alla fase
temporale in cui si invera lazione propositiva, dallaltra, il superamento di tale fissità transitoria che
sottintende un fare non come spirito del tempo ma come organismo, cioè come limite alla condi-
zione che identifica il compimento del proprio tempo prediligendo un ambito di ricerca pro-positiva
coerente con la fase costitutiva dellente (urbano, aggregativo ed edilizio) in cui si interviene.
Obiettivo della trattazione sarà, dunque, la ricerca comparata delle diverse condizioni teoriche e
progettuali che esprimono tale binomio dialettico, avvertendo sin dora che le sperimentazioni pro-
gettuali esposte nel seguito si inseriscono nel solco di ricerca di una sperimentazione ispirata ad un
orizzonte culturale imperniato sul secondo asserto teorico-metodologico, basato sul principio della
coerenza alla meccanica del divenire che produce esiti organici dipendenti, spazialmente e tem-
poralmente, dal carattere strutturale del costruito in cui si inseriscono.
Il caso studio del riammagliamento del tessuto semi diruto nella cittadella murata medioevale di
Gozo e la ricerca del riordino del quartiere Frankenberger di Aachen, zona semiperiferica edificata
tra la fine dellOttocento e gli inizi del XX secolo, mostreranno proprio la diversità di orientamento
critico che porta a progettare un costruito coerente con la langue propria del contesto linguistico.
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(Alinea Editrice, Firenze).
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Hegel, F.G.W. (1997) Estetica, trad. it. Merker N. (Einaudi, Torino).
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Theories and Design
Processes of Reconstruction of the Aleppo’s Urban Landscape
Giulia Annalinda Neglia

dICAR, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
giuliaannalinda.neglia@poliba.it
The Syrian Civil War is causing extreme suffering to civil population; moreover, the fighting is destroying 25
cities and landscapes bearing witness to the Country’s millenary history. Damages are particularly
centered into the UNESCO site of the Ancient City of Aleppo where the former grandeur of the urban
landscape was given by a ‘counterpoint’ between major monuments and the fine-grained urban
fabric. Under these circumstances, a reflection on the future design strategies for the recovery of the
urban fabric of the Ancient City of Aleppo, which is in grave danger, is needed. In particular, when
the international debate is focused on the Suqs or of the Great Mosque, it seems urgent to start
talking about the reconstruction/recovery of historic courtyard houses residential neighborhoods.
In the short term, is urgent to document damage and giving people a shelter; in the long term, to
ensure the inhabitants’ right to get back their homes, preparing plans for the reconstruction, keeping
in mind that sheltering and reconstruction cannot be intended as separate problems: We should de-
velop a methodological approach that embrace the sheltering action into the reconstruction one,
considering them as two phases of the same achievement.
In this complex scenario, this paper aims at setting methodological perspectives for the after conflict
reconstruction, based on the analysis of the traditional urban fabric characteristics, as well as on the
need to update it to current living standards. To protect the Ancient City building heritage means to
preserve the Aleppo’s cultural identity.
References
Bandarin, F. and van Oers, R. (eds.) (2014) Reconnecting the City: The Historic Urban Landscape Approach and the Future of
Urban Heritage (Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken NJ).
Caniggia, G. and Maffei, G. L. (2001) Architectural composition and building typology: interpreting basic building (Alinea,
Firenze).
Neglia, G. A. (2009) Aleppo. Processes of Formation of the Medieval Islamic City (PolibaPress, Bari).
Petruccioli, A. (2007) After Amnesia: Learning from the Islamic Mediterranean Fabric (ICAR, Bari).

Theories and Design
Transformation is conservation. Modification as project’s tool.
Alessandro Oltremarini
DRACO Dottorato in Architettura e costruzione Facoltà di Architettura, Sapienza Università
Rome, Italy
aoltremarini@gmail.com
26 The paper identifies purposes and modes in order to define the construction method of the modifi-
cation language, where the modification is intended as a conceptual instrument leading the archi-
tecture s planning (Gregotti, 1984) and, moreover, it talks about the overlap of physical - operational
level, and of the linguistic - conceptual level, that the term includes. The permanence of the issue,
that determines the constant actuality, mainly refers to a particular context, as the Italian one, in
which the presence of environmental pre-existences (Rogers, 1955) includes the need for an inclusi-
ve act of maintaining and conservation that is opposite to the exclusive principle of tabula rasa be-
longed to the Modern Movement. Therefore, the project is considered as an element of investigation
and coherence with the characters of the place that they involve, especially, both the presence of
history, a permanent entity between collective culture and architect’s individual culture, and that
of discipline, general rules and traditions system that translated and projected toward new interpre-
tations by the modification project.
References
Aa. Vv. (1984), Casabella 498-499.
Arìs C. M. (1994), Le variazioni dell’identità: il tipo in architettura, Città Studi Edizioni, Torino
Focillon H. (1943), Vita delle forme, Einaudi, Torino.
Lukacs G. (1950), Saggi sul realismo, Einaudi, Torino.
Menegatti F. (2012), Itinerari italiani della residenza collettiva, Gangemi, Milano.
Miarelli Mariani G. (1993), Centri storici: note sul tema, Bonsignori, Roma.
Nencini D (2012), La piazza, ragioni e significati nell’architettura italiana, Marinotti, Milano.
Purini F. (2008), La misura italiana dell’architettura, Laterza, Roma.
Rogers E.N. (1955), “Le preesistenze ambientali e i temi pratici contemporanei”, in Casabella 204.
Tafuri M. (1986), Storia dell’architettura italiana 1944-1985, Einaudi, Milano.

Theories and Design
Polis, design, policies. The competition os new office building of

the Deputies Chamber in Rome.
Francesca Addario, Kaltrina Jashanica, Mariangela L. Santarsiero

DRACO Dottorato in Architettura e costruzione Facoltà di Architettura, Sapienza Università
Rome, Italy
kaltrina.jashanica@gmail.com, mariangela.l.santarsiero@gmail.com,
francesca.addario@hotmail.com
When George Baird, architect and researchist in urban morphology, studied Toronto’s urban fabric in 27
1978, he examined the morphological transformations of its central core and showed that the urban
fabric in some parts of this North American city was in the process of desintegration (Baird 1978). This
phenomenon also affected the urban fabric of Montreal, and the urban design projects, related to
a modernistic approach, built in the 1960s, were responsible for these transformations and provoked
a spatial discontinuity (Charney et al. 1990). The paper will study projects from the modernist period,
but will also include the postmodernist and the contemporary periods to determine the new urban
design approach and to evaluate the relationship of these projects with the urban fabric of Montre-
al. We have endeavoured to study three major urban design projects in Montreal from 1950 to 2014
to determine their role in the progression of the phenomenon of desintegration. With the work of nu-
merous urban morphologists on North American cities (Charney, Vernez-Moudon, Gauthier, Racine)
and the impact of this more recent knowledge on the way we intervene on the fabric, this pheno-
menon should be in regression in Montreal as elsewhere. Our hypothesis is that the reinterpretation
of the urban syntax in the process of designing urban fabric in Montreal is a solution to reestablish a
dialog between new built environments and the historical fabric of the city. But is this new research
for continuity still in a fragile state ?
References
Baird G., Myers B. (1978) Vacant lottery, Design quarterly, no 108.
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de Montréal. Montréal.
Martin, L. (2013) On Architecture, Melvin Charney, A critical Anthology, McGill-Queen’s, Toronto.
Vernez-Moudon, A. (1989) Built for Change: Neighborhood Architecture in San Francisco, MIT Press, Cambridge.
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Montréal.
Racine, F. (2010) L’apport de la morphologie urbaine dans une perspective d’intervention sur un secteur historique : Le
quartier ouest de l’arrondissement Ville-Marie, SÉAC, Vol.35, no.1.
Gauthier, P. (1997) Morphogénèse et syntaxe spatiale des tissus résidentiels du quartier Saint-Sauveur, Ma, Université
Laval.

Theories and Design
The design of public space in the historic city.

The 1967 competition for the new offices of the Chamber of
Deputies.
Angela Fiorelli, Pia Marziano

Facoltà di Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
angela.fiorelli@libero.it, piamarziano@gmail.com
28 The competition of 1967 for the new offices of the Chamber of Deputies is an important episode in
the Italian architecture of the postwar period, because it is a rare example of contemporary design
in the heart of the city of Rome, both for the participation of the major Italian exponents, but also for
the unusual ex aequo result which shows the failure of the competition and the heated dispute of
those years about the topic of the city.
The projects of the competition, which are collected in an interesting essay by Manfredo Tafuri,
undoubtedly show the main attention to the architectural shape of the building and its interior fun-
ctional program, but through the careful reading of the projects, it is interesting to see the centrality
of urban design as a generator or, at least, as indispensable strategy for the insertion of the object in
its context.
Following the research project done during the phd program of DRACo school - Architecture and
Construction in La Sapienza University, the paper aims to deepen the design of urban space before
the architectural design which is present in the projects of the competition of 1967, the different me-
thods and strategies of design, for example the urban platform by Passarelli, the honorary column by
Polesello, the perspective views of Quaroni and Vaccaro. In this sense it is crucial to compare these
projects and the design of Parliament Square by Ernesto Basile of 1902.
References
Il concorso per i nuovi uffici della Camera dei deputati : un bilancio dell’architettura italiana / Manfredo Tafuri, Ed. Universi-
tarie Italiane 1968
Montecitorio valle di lacrime/ G. K. Koenig in «Casabella», 1967, n°321.
Architetture 1960-1992/ a cura di Mirko Zardini, introduzione di Massimo Cacciari, Milano, Electa, 1992
Lucio Passarelli e lo studio Passarelli/ Sergio Lenci, Edizioni Dedalo, Roma, 1983

Theories and Design
Compacting Rome.
A systemic approach for a sustainable development.
Armando Iacovantuono
armando.iacovantuono@uniroma1.it
Rome is highly representative case study for the phenomenon of urban sprawl spanning at least 25 29
years (Berdini, 2006). A possible solution for its containment is represented by a return to the urban
project of the consolidated city, where it is possible to activate design strategies in order to increase
the compactness (Dempsey and Jenks, 2010). Therefore, many studies (EAA, 2015) propose a return
to the compact city, which could represent also for Rome, an evolutionary bold and sustainable
choice. Especially in areas where the compact city fades into the consolidated city, both are speci-
fically defined by the planning tools of the Roman Municipality, it is possible to identify spaces in well-
circumscribed areas that have a high degree of potential transformability. They have different sizes
and characteristics, such as brownfields, drosscapes, or other categories of voids being identified
through a prior investigation of the urban environment. Sustainability and urban form are interde-
pendent and the urban design can return to play a strategical role to coordinate a series of urban
interventions for densification and intensification (Ng, 2009; Galanti, 2009) which insert themselves
in a selective manner within the opportunities offered by the urban fabric. Thus, light densification
operations, coordinated and disseminated (Drevon, 2009), represent a mode of building within the
built environment that can realize three objectives for Rome, as well as other European cities with
similar conditions (Saaty, 2013): achieving urban compaction with the resulting social, economic and
environmental benefits; meeting the specific needs of recycling, functional rehabilitation, demolition
of incongruity, etc.; finding a new balance between the preservation of historical heritage and the
evolution of the urban fabric.
References
EAA (European Environmental Agency) (2015) Urban sustainability issues — Enabling resource-efficient cities, 25 (Copena-
ghen: EAA).
Saaty, T. L. (ed.) (2013) Compact City: The next urban evolution in response to climate change (Pittsburgh: RWS Publications).
Dempsey, N. and Jenks, M. (2010) ‘The future of the compact city’, Built Environment, 36(1), 116-121.
Galanti, A. (2009) Forma urbana, sostenibilità, pianificazione (Roma: Aracne).
Ng, E. (ed) (2009) Designing high-density cities: for social and environmental sustainability, (London; Sterling: Earthscan)
Berdini, P. (2006) ‘La cancellazione della campagna romana’ in Gibelli, M. C., Salzano, E. and Baioni, M. (eds) No sprawl: per-
ché è necessario controllare la dispersione urbana e il consumo di suolo (Firenze: Alinea) 201-212.
Drevon, J.-F., ed. (2009) Le Grand Pari(s): consultation internationale sur l’avenir de la métropole parisienne (Paris: Le Moniteur).

Cartography and iconography as diachronic analysis tools of

the urban fabric Évora and Setúbal.
Maria do Céu Simões Tereno, Manuela Maria Justino Tomé, Maria

Filomena Mourato Monteiro
Dep. de Arquitectura, Universidade de Evora, Camara Municipal de Setbal, Camara Municipal de Evora
ceutereno@gmail.com, manuela.tome@mun-setubal.pt, filomena.monteiro@cm-evora.pt
30 The evolution of cities can be interpreted through graphic elements, as recommended by Marco
Pollio Vitruvius (1st century BC), whose forms of expression (plans, elevations and perspectives) are
revealed as precious and reliable instruments to read the cities. Establishing mapping elements, they
appear as representing cities and in various stages of construction of their urban networks. The ico-
nography is an important element of analysis that allows a careful reading of the “reality” of cities
at specific times. In addition to understanding them as representative of static moments, they allow
the current reinterpretation of the urban fabric. Adding new elements may be important in reading
the cities, which are considered as dynamic tools for its understanding. Regarding cartography and
iconography of various eras, we propose to make a comparative analysis of the historical urban
fabric of two cities with deployment capabilities and differentiated urban development (Évora and
Setúbal). To achieve our goals, we will read the morphological elements of the Medieval City (forti-
fication, street, square, medieval blocks; market; singular buildings) and its iconography in order to
understand its diachronic evolution between their similarities and differences.
References

The formation process of public space: from urban fabric to

palaces and squares
Alessandro Camiz
Faculty of Architecture, Design & Fine Arts, Girne American University,
University Drive, 99428 Karmi Campus, Karaoglanoglu, Girne / TRNC, via Mersin 10 - TURKEY
alessandrocamiz@gau.edu.tr
The formation process of public spaces within the modern city has ancient origins: although generally 31
referenced to the model of the great public spaces of Republican and imperial Rome (forum), the
“common” urban space of Italian cities bears a different juridical nature from that of the “public”
space of the imperial Rome. The latter was fenced and equipped with gates, it was a personal
property of the imperial family, with access governed in time and dedicated to the worship of the
imperial family and its tutelary deities. This urban space was therefore not “public” in the sense we
understand today. The “common” space (squares) of the Italian cities came into being in the Middle
Ages hence the deliberate action of the free “Communes” that decided to build by subtraction,
demolishing residential blocks - as in Florence – of factional losers in the struggle for power. It became
a space for free civic aggregation, for the meeting and the election of the council and the pode-
stà. There are some earlier squares next to the cathedrals, where meetings where necessary for the
election of the archbishop since the tenth century, but the “common” space acquires its complete
form and its civic role only since the thirteenth century with the more mature phase of the municipal
experience. In these squares, bishopric, municipal (and later ducal and lordly), we can recognize
the presence of a market place: the “common space” here takes on the double meaning of pla-
ce for business and place for civic meetings. This manner of designing public spaces consolidates
in the following centuries with several cases in mannerist age and beyond. The birth of the modern
theater stood initially in these spaces through wooden stalls mounted temporarily, before knotting in
the form of a closed theater building (Strappa, 1995). The design of the public spaces within the city
used specific design skills to shape the urban voids in a “theatrical” manner. In parallel with the rise
of the bourgeois mansion (Palazzo) and the recast and aggregation of basic building types, often
adjacent to the palazzo, an empty space arises assuming the character of a “building without walls”.
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Using typo-morphology to save formal quality in historic districts

of countries with private land ownership systems
Mazyar Abaee
Ph.D. Researcher at School of Urban Planning, College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran
mzr.abaee@ut.ac.ir
32 In some countries, private land ownership system allows the owners to build buildings in the way they
want. The extent of such a freedom is based on the right of property laws in each country. Although
there are many kinds of regulations, policy guidelines, and coding documents in each country, the
result of a private land ownership system can be the same. This legitimacy can lead the building pro-
cess to bypassing the regulations and any kind of avoidances, such as self-interpreting the guidelines,
neglect of design review, ignoring the regulations and paying more taxes. This complexity will end to
the worst results possible in historic fabrics, where the matter of formal quality, cultural identity and
historical character, and most of all the matter of continuity is the main point. This paper proposes a
framework for saving formal, historical and identical aspects of old fabrics using typo-morphology. It
argues that the conception of type, as the essence of repeated and distributed forms, and a formal
reduction of existing formal diversities can be the kernel of saving the formal-historical quality in the
way which after all kinds of misinterpretation of laws, controlling neglects, and ignorance in using
regulations, still the essence of a preferred and prescribed form can express itself in the final form. This
paper fundamentally tries to find a solution for freedom-control dichotomy of urban reconstruction
by using typo-morphology. Methodologically, this paper passes an interpretive way throughout the
references and actual experiences and design coding and regulations in historic districts.
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Whitehand, J.R.W. (2013) ‘Urban Morphological Research and Practice’ Journal of Urban Morphology 17, 3-4

The origin, further transformations and present-day importance

of Krakow historic fringe belts.
Maciej Motak
Cracow University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture (Politechnika Krakowska, Wydzia
Architektury)
mmotak@pk.edu.pl
Basing on four key decisions, the history of Krakow urban form can be divided into five periods: 1. 33
organic agglomeration of settlements focused around the Wawel castle-and-cathedral hill; 2. highly
regular grid plan of the Market-Square-centered and walled city, initiated with the Cracovia charter
in 1257; 3. north-south line of multi-city complex of Clepardia, Cracovia, Casimiria and Podgorze
charter towns, which started in 1335 and continued till early 1800s; 4. concentric and radial form of
powerful fortress set in 1850, of three consecutive rings of fortifications, which was continued by the
1910s garden-city-like plan of Great Krakow; 5. east-west development of rapidly growing city after
the establishing of big industrial Nowa Huta city east of historic Krakow in 1949.
The article analyses selected urban fringes, which emerged in each period. Despite having lost their
original importance, the former borderlines and edges did not disappear completely from the city
and its districts. The Medieval Cracovia defenese walls and moat were adopted for the garden ring
and first beltway around the Old City. The contemporary second beltway of Krakow follows the for-
mer line of fortifications as well as, partly, the third beltway does. The edge of Casimiria, a former river
that became a busy streets, is one of many smaller examples.
The most recent attempts to continue the radial structure of Krakow should be noted, too: after the
second beltway had been completed and the third is under construction, the completion of the
fourth, motorway beltway has been planned in a similar manner.
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Learning from the built city
Sérgio Padrão Fernandes

Department of Project, Faculty of Architecture - University of Lisbon Portugal
e-mail: sergiopadrao@gmail.com
34 This communication focuses on the morphological interpretation of the urban form, and addresses
the utility of the urban-layout as a tool for reading the urban form as well as for the city design.
Departing from the subject of the urban-layout composition with streets, in particular concerning the
“ordinary streets” which are the primary evidence of the city, the aim is to discover in the built city the
spatial logic behind the streets disposition, i.e. understanding the long tradition of practice of building
(Portuguese) cities and also the role of the streets as main urban element within the composition of
the urban layout.

From the urban-layout analysis based on a partial and abstract sample, it was possible to recognize
and consequently deduct the urban-element types - streets, intersections and blocks - and, more
importantly, how they are combined in a (regular) grid system to produce a coherent composition.
From a conjectural point of view we reconstituted a set of “rules” based on a theoretical composition
system that demonstrates the relationship between the streets, and how they, together design the
urban-layout as: (1) a system of alignments, (2) a grid system with modular-blocks, (3) a system of
hierarchized axes, (4) an intersections-type system.

With the classification of the urban composition rules we distinguished the possible answers to the
subject of the urban-layout production with streets, whose debate, is not new but remains as a chal-
lenge within the actual urban production which the city faces. The reading concludes four formulas
to design the urban layout. These cannot be taken as prescriptions neither ideal recipes, but can be
understood as a lesson from the built city to the urban-layout project of today.
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Caniggia, G. and Maffei G. L., (1984) Composizione architettonica e tipologia edilizia II. Il progetto nell’edilizia di base (Marsilio
Editore, Venezia).
Michael Mehaffy and Nikos A. Salingaros (http://www.metropolismag.com/Point-of-View/March-2013/Toward-Resilient-Archi-
tectures-1-Biology-Lessons/).

The Block and Street dialectic. Lisbon as a lab for reading and
designing the contemporary city
Rui Pedro Justo, João Silva Leite

FormaUrbis Lab, CIAUD Faculty of Architecture University of Lisbon
ruijusto87@gmail.com, joaoleite@fa.ulisboa.pt
The urban form results from the permanent confrontation between the need for change and, at the 35
same time, preserving the existing urban and architectural tradition and matrix, in order to maintain
the existing city, coherent to the people that use it.
Now, more than ever, the manifestations of change in the city shape point towards the preservation
of our urban resources, which are vast and very rich, but need to, above all, be suited to the city
current and future needs. So, the historical or consolidated urban fabric should be interpreted as a
didactic tool in the production of new spaces.
In Lisbon, particularly if our focus is on the dialectical built between the block and the street, we
realize that, in fact, the urban fabric heterogeneous nature is the result of the accumulation of diffe-
rent urban processes, crystalized in their formal characteristics. This fact reveals a great capacity for
reinvention.
Thus and having as reference a set of contemporary interventions in blocks of Lisbon, associated with
different urban axes of the city, this work tries, through a morphological reading to realize the impor-
tance that these elements - block and street - can play in restructuring the urban fabric or even as
conceptual support for the city of sedimentation process.
References
Caja, M; Landsberger, M; Malcovati, S (2012) - Tipologia Architettonica e Morfologia Urbana: Il dibattito italiano - antologia
1960-1980. Milano: Libraccio Editore.
Dias Coelho, C (coord.) (2014) – O Tempo e a Forma. Lisboa: Argumentum.
Komossa, S et al. (2005) - Atlas of the Dutch Urban Block. Rotterdam: Thoth Publishers Bussum.
Mangin, D (2004) - La Ville Franchisée: Formes et structures de la ville contemporaine. Paris:Éditions de la Villette | SC.
Panerai, P; Castex, J; Depaule, J C (1997) - Formes Urbaines. De l’ilot à la barre. Paris:Editions Parenthèses.

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Tools and Analisys of Urban Fabric
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Contemporary Cities 1

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Poundbury: example of Sustainable Urbanism signed by a tra-

ditional formalism.
Nicola Scardigno
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Architettura. Politecnico di Bari
nickscardigno@yahoo.it
One aspect of this essay will consider the Poundbury design experience an holistic approach to 37
planning as a result of a multidisciplinary vision of a “localized” sustainability a vision that has overco-
me the limits of an analytical consideration of the problem of sustainability that emerged from the
debate of the 1990s, after the Brundtland report. Another aspect will attempt to explore the urban
form of Poundbury as evidence of a settlement that has derived from a “purely formal” interpretation
of consolidate historic towns. An analysis of the responses both in terms of urban morphology and
architecture to those principles proclaimed by the movement of New Traditionalism in the sign of
“Urban Sustainability”, reveals them as ideal models that misrepresent the true nature of built reality.
In fact it isn’t enough to consider the historic town as evidence of urban conditions in the sign of a
sustainable livability if those conditions are merely perceived and transmitted as consolidated forms,
rather than principles which have led to configure those forms themselves and so able to define a
“design methodology” as guarantor of continuity.
On the basis of the above assessments, the critical inquiry into Poundbury will focus on the following
binomial: the research for an “Urban Sustainability” and its impact in terms of urban and architectural
morphemes. This binomial will be analyzed in the essay from a multiscalar vision of Poundbury: urban
organism (Dorchester and Poundbury), urban tissue and architectural organism. The multiscalar ap-
proach rooted on the idea “ … one of the characteristics of urban form is that it divides into distinct
levels. The patterns found at different levels such as street/block, plot series, plot, building, cell and
structure are not interchangeable and the long term success of a design depends on understanding
not only the differences but also the relationships between levels. The levels are interdependent”
(Kropf, 2005).
References
Cadman, D. (2009) The roots of sustainability (Seacourt Environmental Printing, Oxford)
Caniggia, G., Maffei. G.L. (2001) Architectural composition and building typology. Interpreting basic building (Alinea Editrice:
Oxford)
Cerasi, M. (1988) La città del Levante: Civiltà urbana e architettura sotto gli Ottomani nei secoli XVIII‐XIX (Jaca Book: Milano)
Gindroz, R. (2008) The Place of dwelling
Hindle, P. (2002) Medieval Town Plans (Shire Publication Ltd: Buckinghamshire)
Krier, L. (2009) The Architecture of Community (Island Press: London)
Kropf, K. (2005) Urban Design: The handling characteristic of urban form (http://www.rudi.net/books/6051)
Petruccioli, A. (1995) Typological process and design theory (Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture: Cambridge) Panerai,
P., Castel, J. and Depaul, J.C., 2008. Isolato urbano e città Contemporanea. Torino: E.S.T. Stampa digitale Watson, G., Ben-
tley, I., Roaf, S. and Smith, P. (2004) Learning from Poundbury, Research for the West Dorset District Council and the Duchy of
Cornwall (Oxford Brookes University: Oxford)

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Evoluzione della città di Liegi
Pamela Alberotanza, Nadia Simone, Valentina Zecchillo

Facoltà di Architettura - Politecnico di Bari
pamela.alb@libero.it, simone_nadia@libero.it, valentina_zecchillo@libero.it
38 Lo studio si propone di indagare i caratteri dell’organismo urbano della città di Liegi nelle sue fasi
evolutive, soffermandosi su quelle otto-novecentesche, significative al fine di spiegare l’apparente
complessità morfologica dei tessuti urbani, causata da una serie di strutturazioni diacroniche diffe-
renti, spesso condizionate dalla particolare morfologia del fiume Mosa.
Avvalendosi del metodo analitico derivante dal pensiero di S. Muratori, G. Caniggia e G. Strappa,
l’indagine presenta un’ipotesi ricostruttiva delle fasi di formazione del tessuto esterno alla città mu-
rata, fino all’assetto contemporaneo, mostrandone le gerarchie relative che hanno mutato l’orga-
nicità della città storica.
L’analisi tipologica dei nuovi sobborghi, nati nel XIX secolo, per il fenomeno di industrializzazione del-
la città, mostra una dinamica atta a ridurre il sovraffollamento di alcune aree, spesso in prossimità di
stabilimenti industriali collocati sul lungofiume o presso stazioni ferroviarie.
La morfologia di tali quartieri, nati spontaneamente come realtà autonome rispetto al nucleo antico
della città ed, in seguito, oggetto di intervento critico-pianificato, ne risulta fortemente condizionata
dato che lo sviluppo iniziale, costituito da una strutturazione lineare del tipo lungo i percorsi, viene,
nel tempo, integrato da percorrenze e tessuti che collegano quelli esistenti alle polarità urbane, pro-
duttive o di trasporto ferroviario.
Tale studio analitico e tipologico del tessuto storico ottocentesco, eseguito su cinque quartieri peri-
ferici, oltre che ambire ad una conoscenza scientifica della struttura formativa della città nordeuro-
pea, mira a trasmettere una diversa sensibilità verso il patrimonio ereditato, soggiogato regolarmen-
te da una forma di disinteresse collettivo che si traduce troppo spesso in pesanti ristrutturazioni del
tessuto storico.

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Reading and design in Naples. Largo Barracche case-study

within METRICS research program
Federica Visconti
Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
federica.visconti@unina.it
Looking at the map of Naples it is still possible to read an articulation of formally defined parts: the 39
ancient centre and its Greek-Roman urban fabric based on decumani and cardini; what remains of
the ‘quartieri bassi’ behind the waterfront after the demolition of Risanamento; the grid of quartieri
spagnoli, between via Toledo and the foot of Sant’Elmo hill; to the west Chiaia, its public garden and
the system of streets orthogonal to the coast built on the slope where the water descended to the
sea; to the east the via per le Calabrie where it is still possible to recognize the system of ville vesu-
viane, placed orthogonally to the street with their gardens facing the gulf or Vesuvius; the expansion
of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the east and on Vomero hill. These parts, synchroni-
cally, define a city of extraordinary wealth in its relationship with geography and with a history that
roots its origins in myths. The relationship between architectural typology and urban morphology is
clear, in each part, even if the stratification was not always responsive to the urban values but thanks
to the clarity of urban fabrics and the reference to precise ‘ideas of city’. Among others, the case of
quartieri spagnoli is certainly one of the clearest and most representative. The paper will present a
reading of this ‘part’ and a proposal of urban regeneration, through the demolition and rebuilding of
eight blocks around an open space.
References
Bisogni, S. (ed.) (1994) Napoli: Montecalvario questione aperta. Teorie, analisi e progetti (Clean, Napoli).
Ferraro I. (2004) Napoli. Atlante della Città storica. Quartieri Spagnoli e “Rione Carità” (oikos, Napoli).
Mangone, F (2010), Centro storico, marina e quartieri spagnoli. Progetti e ipotesi di ristrutturazione della Napoli storica 1860-
1937 (Grimaldi & C., Napoli).
Castagnaro, A. (ed.) (2012) Largo Barracche nel centro storico di Napoli (Paparo, Napoli).

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Morphological transformations in Damascus
Avin Osman
40 urban form of Damascus( Syria) since the Romanian period to the time before war(contemporary),
shed light on the phenomenon of the decline of traditional centres and green spaces, study the
relevant issues and threats concerning the changes in the urban form and climate in Damascus,
Review and Analytical criticism some of the factors that lead to these changes, conclusion and Re-
commendations stressed the importance of preserving the urban fabric of Old Damascus and put
integrated strategy for the rehabilitation, preservation of the Old City the of Damascus and green
area which play a crucial role in emphasizing the identity of Damascus and to achieve Recombinant
Urbanism and upgrading the physical, social, economic and environmental aspects to the city of
the sustainable development perspective.

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Examination of roofed alley as an element of compact city of

Yazd, Iran
Ehsan Valipour, Samira Tayyebisoudkolaei

DRACo - Dottorato in Architettura e Costruzione, Facoltà di Architettura, Sapienza Università di
Roma, Italy
valipour.1704694@studenti.uniroma1.it, tayyebisoudkolaei.1741640@studenti.uniroma1.it
Mostly, cities with compact form are resulted to being sustainable. In most studies, features of com- 41
pact city are defined, mention to life quality, accessibility, neighborhood satisfaction also impro-
vement of outdoor community. Compact cities have some structures to reach these goals such as
roofed alleys with high rate of popularity in Middle East cities. This study specifically explores the role
of roofed alleys and their function in development of sustainability in compact cities. Objective of this
paper is on examination the function of roofed alley to keep cool outdoor spaces by their specific
form. Date is collected by mechanical software to reach result the difference passages with and
without roof in the same condition about the action of roofed alley to wind. Findings of this study
show that how roofed alleys of compact city could be useful to provide cooler outdoor space with
specific shape. In this regard, Yazd city of Iran that has compact city form is established to analyze
on roofed alleys of this city.
References
Adems, J. (2011). Balancing the Urban Fabric. Sustainable Urban Design Journal , 70-80.
Alexander, A. (2009). Britain’s New Towns: Garden Cities to Sustainable Communities. London : Routledge.
Architectural formation of Iran and West countries 1992TehranFaza Press
Baren, j. (2004). Urban morphology and planning: the case of fringe belts. J.W.R Whitehand , 275–289.
Barton, H. (2010). Shaping Neighbourhoods: For Local Health and Global Sustainability. London : Routledge.
Bartuska, T. Kazimee, B. (2000). Envisioning a Sustainable Community. Washington State University: WA.
Brown, A. (2007 ). Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. London : Housing Audit.
Campbell, K. (2000). Re: Urbanism. London: Urban Exchange.
Crane, R. Crepeau, R. (2000). Does neighborhood design influence travel?: A behavioral analysis of travel diary and GIS
data, in Transportation Research Part D. New Yourk : Transport and Environment.

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Salvaguardare la città.
Nicola Salvi e la perduta cappella Bolognetti di Roma
Iacopo Benincampi
Facoltà di Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
42 Di recente, la vicenda della Chiesa di S. Maria della Natività – normalmente nota come ‘Cappella
Bolognetti’ – è stata oggetto di grande interesse da parte della storiografia, principalmente in virtù
della sua doppia valenza quale oratorio privato e, al contempo, luogo di culto aperto al pubblico.
Infatti, affacciata sulla via Nomentana (fig.01) – fuori dalla cinta muraria e inserita in un sistema di
ville allora appartenenti per lo più alle nobili famiglie patrizie romane – questa piccola costruzione
costituì uno dei più interessanti esiti della ricerca architettonica di Nicola Salvi (1697-1751), seppure
sia annoverabile fra le sue opere meno conosciute. Purtroppo, la sua integrità venne compromessa
agli albori del XX secolo, quando l’improvvida politica speculativa della Roma sabauda ne impose
l’abbattimento al fine di ampliare l’antica strada consolare, senza lasciarne alcun rilievo. Tuttavia,
nuove acquisizioni grafiche hanno consentito ora di ampliare le conoscenze su questo manufatto,
facilitandone la comprensione e suggerendone altresì una più completa ipotesi ricostruttiva.

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Recovery of the Bobadela Roman Amphitheater
Carlos Dias Coelho

Faculty of Architecture - University of Lisbon
cdcoelho.luotp@gmail.com
One of the intervention in patrimonial areas main issues is the integration of urban elements, archi- 43
tectural elements or constructive structures obsolete or decomposed in the day to day of the city as
it is lived, implying a refusal of its museification.
The patrimonial density of many historical zones requires a compatibilization between banal urban
activities and the use of spaces and buildings that in other less rich contexts would be destined to
exceptional functions. The approach to a recovery case of a Roman amphitheater in the north of
Portugal forced the design team to question the recovery of an old Roman building integrating it
into the day-to-day of a nucleus away from the main tourist and cultural circuits. The purpose of this
action was to allow the re-reading of deleted heritage elements with their integration into the current
urban fabric.
The process involved an interdisciplinary work among architects, archaeologists and municipal
agents in order to allow the re-reading of the fabric erased forms in order to valorize the urban nu-
cleus from the urbanistic point of view, the constitution of a contemporary architectural reference
and its effective integration in social practices of the population.
References
Bedon, R; Chevallier, R; Pinon, P. (1991) Architecture et urbanisme en Gaule romaine : l’architecture et la ville , vol. 1 (Erran-
ce, coll)
Dias Coelho, C. (ed) (2014) O Tempo e a Forma. Cadernos de Morfologia Urbana, Estudos da Cidade Portuguesa n.º 2.
-Panerai, P.; Depaule, J. C.; Demorgon, M. (1999) Analyse Urbaine (Marseille: Éditions Parenthèses)

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Rome. Archaeology’s places and contemporary uses
Giuliano Valeri
Roma, Italy
giuliano.valeri@uniroma1.it
44 The relationship between old and new, architecture and archeology, tradition and innovation is now
a central theme in the history and practice of occidental architecture. The city of Rome represent
the most important case in the world regarding the co-existence of archaeological remains within
the consolidated urban fabric. The two reality live in a dichotomy that determines urban outcomes
that can be divided into two main categories. The first one, nearest to the present days, is the muse-
alization due to the presence of the many legal restrictions that isolate in someways the archaeologi-
cal remains from the urban life and leave them in a sort of romantic contemplation made of solitude.
The second one is the integration of the archaeological substrate with the fabric of the modern city.
Exemplary is the case of Palazzo Savelli on the Teatro di Marcello where the historic legacy, deter-
mine the structure of the present building and produce the urban fabric of this part of city. In both
cases the discovery of archaeological remains within the urban fabric change the existing spatial
relationships and would require that these be reformulated through an architectural project. The
intervention in an archaeological urban area should first define the margin; secondly entail a critical
choice, that is a selection as to determine a hierarchy that allows the reading of these; finally ensure
resemanticization and reintegration of archaeological artifact within the contemporary city through
the inclusion of new uses. The aim of the research is to analyze this methodology in the city of Rome
through the study of significant projects that have explored this issue.
References
Manieri Elia, M. (1998) ‘Topos e Progetto. Temi di archeologia urbana a Roma’, Gangemi, Roma.
Marzo, M., Vanore, M. (2010) ‘Luoghi dell’archeologia e usi contemporanei’, IUAV, Venezia.
Panella, C. (1989) ‘Roma Città e Foro. Questioni di progettazione del centro archeologico monumentale della capitale’,
Roma.
Porretta, P. (2011) ’Archeologia e Progetto’, Gangemi Ed., Roma.
Segarra Lagunes, M.M. (2002) ’Progetto archeologico progetto architettonico’, Gangemi Ed., Roma

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Finding the roman amphitheater and horrea of Lisbon.

Systemic Decomposition as a methodology for analyzing com-
plex urban fabrics.
Pedro Martins
FormaUrbis Lab. CIAUD. Faculdade de Arquitectura, Universidade de Lisboa
pedro.vasco.martins@gmail.com
The urban fabric in consolidated historic cities presents extremely complex forms as a result of its 45
evolutionary process. In order to overcome and analyze this apparent incomprehensible complexity
architects such as Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Carlo Aymonino or Philippe Panerai proposed the con-
ceptual decomposition and simplification of the urban form in to several elementary systems, namely
the Streets, the Plots and the Buildings. This methodological process known as Formal Decomposition
allows to separate, isolate and study each urban elementary system, making them simpler, more
visible and evident, and thus highlighting shapes and structures that would otherwise, diluted in the
complexity of the urban fabric, be hardly perceivable.
The communication seeks to demonstrate not only how the methodology of Formal Decomposition
is a fundamental instrument in understanding the historical city morphology, but also to show how
trough it we can explain the genesis and evolution of the complex forms in the urban fabric. As an
example we propose the study of the Moorish neighborhood of Alfama in Lisbon, whose extremely
complex urban forms rather than being simply justified as a result of its Islamic origin are in fact the
probable appropriation of pre-existing roman buildings, namely a large roman amphitheater and a
roman Horrea.
References
Caniggia, G.; Maffei, G.L. (1979) Composizione architettonica e tipologia edilizia (Venezia).
Dias Coelho, C. (ed) (2014) O Tempo e a Forma. Cadernos de Morfologia Urbana, Estudos da Cidade Portuguesa n.º 2. (Li-
sboa: Argumentum)
Rogers , E.N.; (1963) Gli elementi del fenómeno architettonico (Milano)
Aymonino, C.; (1977) Lo Studio dei fenomeni urbani (Roma: Officina)

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Forma urbana e organizzazione strutturale delle città nord eu-

ropee. Studio comparato di Tongeren, Aachen e Liegi
Andrea Toscano, Maria Teresa Torelli, Giuseppe Cosimo Tricase,

Matteo Ieva
Dipartimento DICAR, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
mt.torelli@libero.it; andrea.toscano1988@gmail.com; gc.tricase@gmail.com; matteo.ieva@
poliba.it
46 Il tema proposto descrive i risultati di una ricerca eseguita nel territorio del nord Europa compreso
tra il Belgio e la Germania in cui si ricostruisce la forma urbana come specchio di una civiltà che ha
costruito, nel tempo, il proprio spazio vitale per svolgere tutte le attività di tipo residenziale, sociale,
religioso e produttivo. Liegi in Vallonia, Tongeren nelle Fiandre e Aachen in area tedesca sono sta-
te messe in relazione attraverso uno studio comparativo che ha permesso di chiarire le analogie e
le differenze dei diversi tipi strutturali formativi compresenti nella stessa area culturale. La raccolta
dei dati storici, le risultanze degli scavi archeologici e la cartografia attuale e quella storica, costi-
tuiscono la base documentaria dello studio eseguito, integrato dalla struttura di metodo proposta
dalla Scuola italiana che trova in S. Muratori, G. Caniggia e G. Strappa i principali esponenti, per la
ricostruzione delle fasi di formazione e trasformazione dei tre insediamenti messi a confronto. Da cui
si evince che, se negli stadi iniziali dell’insediamento la struttura sociale ed urbana sembra essere
analoga perché condizionata dalle popolazioni celtiche che abitavano questi luoghi, con l’età
romana compaiono già le prime concrete differenze. L’ipotesi congetturale di ricostruzione degli im-
pianti urbani mostra, infatti, logiche formative simili per le città di Aachen e Tongeren, in cui ancora
permane traccia dell’ordine pianificato, rispettivamente a vicus e (forse) a castrum, ma un assetto
molto differente per Liegi che costituisce un unicum nel sistema insediativo del nord Europa per la
presenza quasi contemporanea di otto collegiate. Differenza di organizzazione e di governo delle
città che sembra ridursi con l’avvento dei Merovingi, e soprattutto dei Carolingi quando Tongeren si
dota di una grande collegiata, mentre Aachen ristruttura il nucleo pubblico dell’impianto romano
con la costruzione della Cappella Palatina in cui sarà sepolto Carlo Magno.
L’evoluzione successiva delle città rispecchia più fedelmente la struttura insediativa e sociale propria
di ciascun ambito culturale. Differenze che, invece, non sussistono nei sistemi costruttivi e tecnolo-
gici espressivi del carattere elastico-ligneo che favorisce l’uso di strutture puntiformi -portanti e non
chiudenti- e ampie superfici diafane, come compare apertamente nell’edilizia abitativa e in quella
specializzata.
References
Ranieri D., Ieva R., Savino E., Piccione C., Natale R., Pulimeno G., Tesi di ricerca: Studio dei caratteri dell’architettura nord-europea. Lettura comparata dell’orga-
nismo e del tessuto urbano di Liegi e con alcune città dello stesso intorno culturale. Politecnico di Bari, Facoltà di Architettura A.A. 2013/2014
Ieva M, Piccione C, Pulimeno G, Savino E (2016). City as organism. New visions for urban life. In: City as organism. New visions for urban life. vol. City as organism.
New visions for urban life, p. 1275-1284, Rome - Italy, 22-26 september 2015
Ieva M, Ieva R, Natale R, Ranieri D (2016). Liegi’s urban and aggregative organism lecture. In: City as organism, New visions for urban life. vol. City as organism,
New visions for urban life, p. 1411-1420, Rome - Italy, 22-26 september 2015
Strappa, G. (1995) Unità dell’organismo architettonico (Edizioni Dedalo, Bari).
Caniggia, G. Maffei, G.L. (1984) Il progetto nell’edilizia di base (Marsilio, Venezia).
Muratori, S. (1963) Architettura e civiltà in crisi (C.S.S.U.).
Strappa, G. (2014) L’architettura come processo. Il mondo plastico murario in divenire (Franco Angeli, Milano).
Thomas R. Kraus, (2011) Aachen-von den Anfängen bis zur gegenwart: Die natürlichen Grundlagen. Aachens Geschichte von den Anfängen bis zu den Karo-
lingern; Mayersche Buchh.
Thomas R. Kraus, (2013) Aachen-von den Anfängen bis zur gegenwart: Karolinger - Ottonen - Salier. 765 bis 1137; Mayersche Buchhandlung.
Eycken J.P., (2015) Hetlandvan Ambiorix - DAVIDSFONDS/LEUVEN, Tongeren Openbare Bibliotheek.
Guida Museo Gallo; (2015) Romano,Gallo Romeinse Museum – Tongeren.

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Commemoration of lost urban heritage in contemporary urban

planning projects.
Malgorzata Antonina Burkot
Cracow University of Technology

m.a.burkot@gmail.com
Contemporary projects and interventions in urban public spaces often show interest in the planning 47
history of the place. Commemoration of the lost urban heritage becomes an inspiration for archi-
tects and urban planners. The aim of the paper is to discuss the means in which the historical plan
and unexisting elements of the city (layout of streets and squares, buildings, defence structures, wa-
tercourses) are introduced to the contemporary projects. Four methods are distinguished and discus-
sed “1. Placement of visual or tactile information; 2. Application of specific surfaces and elements
of landscape architecture; 3. Introduction of specific solutions in designs of new buildings erected
in the historical structure of the city; 4. Establishment of a generally accessible or partially accessible
reserve” (Motak, 2015). The paper presents examples and short analysis of such projects completed
in Europe after 2000. The examples of reconstruction are excluded form the selection. The analysis
shows described intervention provide educational, commemorative, artistic and historical benefits
for the city and its inhabitants.
References
Motak M. Współczesne działania na rzecz prezentacji utraconego dziedzictwa urbanistycznego w przestrzeni publicznej mia-
sta, na przykładzie Krakowa w latach 1985–2015 [in:] Czasopismo techniczne Architektura, 6-A, 2014 p. 121-140.

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Reading of primordial Axes for the City structure understanding.

The “Rua Direita”(main Street) of Angra do Heroísmo
Ana Elisabete Martinho Amado

FormaUrbis Lab, CIAUD, Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade de Lisboa
ana.martinho.amado@gmail.com
48 O Processo de Fundação e de Produção PARA O Tecido urbano na Tradição Português Revela Que
ELE E baseado Dentro Eixos Estruturais lineares. No Continente Português Cidades a “Direita” Rua E
identificado Como hum Desses Eixos, é Sua Propriedade Como hum Arquetipo PODE Ser encon-
trada nenhuma Tecido urbano MUITOS de Diferentes Realidades territoriais de Origem Português,
permitindo demonstrar Uma práxis generalizadas Durante o ritmo de Expansão no exterior.
A investigação centra-se na leitura do tecido urbano da cidade Português de Angra do Heroísmo e

sobre os processos implícitos na produção de sua forma urbana a partir da perspectiva de “Direita”
Street. As recaídas de foco na construção de um tecido urbano a partir de uma malha regular e
sustentada em um sistema axial, considerado como sua “espinha dorsal” de acordo com a cultura
urbana europeia.
The method of analysis is based on a morphological comparison, supported by monographic and

thematic studies, based on the knowledge of “Direita” Street and its characteristics in a range of
typological variants existing in the mainland space. The “Direita” Street of Angra is studied in relation
to its urban context (fabric - urban and built elements) Functions and Uses, its shape (layout, size and
installment) and its origin (topos, initiative, design, production), Assessing the characteristics carried
on its exportation.
As a result of the export of a concept and image we witness the improvement of characteristics to
the urban element designed as a project despite of the premises in place. Thus the approach to a
mono-axial system, of linear-base model that defines the Hierarchy and the system of spatial referen-
ces where it is inserted allows to question the current practice of urbanism and to recover the idea
of the street as a generator and structuring element of the urban territory.
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mestrado
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Fernandes, José Manuel. 2008. Angra Do Heroísmo. Aspectos Urbano -Arquitectónicos. Angra do Heroísmo: IAC - Instituto
Açoriano da Cultura.
Reis Leite, Antonieta Ferreira. 2012- Açores, Cidade e Território. Quatro vilas estruturantes. Coimbra. Tese de doutoramento.
Rossa, Walter. 1995. “A Cidade Portuguesa.” História da Arte. Circulo de Leitores.
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Historical Cities 3
Chromatic identity in the ancient and new architecture
Maria Dolores Robador, Inmaculada Mancera, Fernando Lopez-Barrau

Universidad de Sevilla
lolarobador@us.es, ic.mancera@gmail.com, ferlopezbarrau@gmail.com
Light, color and textures of historic architecture are part of the identity of a city. Part of the heritage 49
character is the material nature which is built, especially facades. Color historic is a fundamental
value to study, to understand and incorporate as an essential tool for future interventions. The evo-
cative force of chromatic characteristics leads to establish a harmony between perception and
memory, emotion and location. Each city has his own color palette that we should use as a tool for
analysis of the historical urban fabric, to be maintained and taken into consideration to preserve and
renew the cities.
A methodological reflection on the value of knowledge of colors’ features of each city is studied to
incorporate projects of contemporary architecture and design in public spaces of the historic city,
what provides light and beautiful colors to landscapes of cities.
Therefore we have selected examples of contemporary buildings in historic center of Seville, that
as Rome, has its own chromatic identity, as result of its Roman history, Renaissance… (Lleó, 1979).
The analyzed buildings are Torre-Triana by Saenz de Oiza, Prevision Española by Moneo, Colegio de
Arquitectos by Ruiz Cabrero and Perea, hotel EME by Tarruella and Triana’s Ceramics Museum by
Hernandez. These interventions show that coatings with high durability materials provide rich colors,
tones and hues, luminosity, vitality, strength, vibration, transparency, authenticity and a colored light
that fills the public spaces (Robador, 2015), beside adapts to Seville’s color identity.
References
Capobianco, G. et al (2013) ‘A scientific approach in the recovery of the historic center of Rome: limits and potentialities of
the “color plan” ’, Procedia Chemistry 8, 212-220.
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Robador, M.D. (2015) ‘The light of cities’, in III Congreso Internacional sobre Documentación, Conservación y reutilización del
Patrimonio Arquitectónico (Byprint Percom, Valencia), 2082-2089.

Historical Cities 3
Morphological transformation of the main street of large city as

the basis for their renovation
Iana Chui
Master of Urban Planning, PhD student, Assistant Professor of Urban Development, Siberian
Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia - Supervisor, architecture Ph.D. I.V. Kukina,
yanachuy@mail.ru
50 Main Street is a planning framework of the city and the places of public life concentration, and their
design needs special attention since the Antiquity and up to our days. At present it is important to
study the varieties morphological types of the main streets and their transformations in modern con-
ditions for the understanding of their development as public spaces of city. Changing their planning
structure takes place under the influence of a commercial activity, industrialization and motorization,
as well as under the influence of modernist ideas. In some cases all mentioned above leads to loss
of the main street as a public space. Comparative analysis of the main streets in the cities of Europe
and Russia shows that the renovation with the purpose of revitalization of the main streets should be
in the sphere of great importance. It is necessary to highlight some direction of their reconstruction,
such as the usage of borrowed elements of the Antic architectural design; restoring the traditional
medieval European street structure with a high density; saving type of representation space and
strengthening the multifunctional use. In general - the creation of a functional load on the street with
the aim of formation the structure and parameters of public use.
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Krier, R. (1979) UrbanSpaces (London: AcademyEditions)
A. Madanipour, S. Knierbein, A. Degros (ed.) (2014) Public space and the challenges of urban transformation in Europe (New
York and London: Routledge).

Historical Cities 3
Typology and framework analysis of Iranian caravansaries in

Four Macro Climates of Iran
Shahnaz Pournaseri, Alireza Dodangi

Department of Architectural Engineering,
Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, Iran
sh.pournaseri@srttu.edu; ali1dodangi@gmail.com
Iran is a country with different types of climates, like “hot dry deserts”, “mild and wet”, “cold 51
mountains”, and “hot and wet” climate, which in companion with the culture and conventions,
results in existing various models of humans’ adaptation with the environment. One of the characte-
ristics of this country is its variety of architectural patterns and living styles.
Framework of the caravansaries in Iran is an example of climate-compatible architecture. Caravan-

serai is an exclusive feature of this country because of its geographical situation. The Persian plateau
is a triangle between Persian Gulf to the south and the Caspian Sea to the north which is like a bridge
between Central Asia and Western Asia, linking Anatolia and Europe either. Accordingly, Iran is pla-
ced in the center of a path connecting the east and the west. Also, the Silk Road, the oldest and the
most important network of trade routes, is passing through this country. Regarding the arid climate,
water scarcity and the far distance between villages, designing places for travelers’ temporary re-
poses was founded significant.
Because of the importance of caravansaries in Iranian architecture, this research not only introduces
their general structures and elements of the caravansaries, but also analyses their framework descrip-
tively in four macro climates of Iran in order to comparing the resulted patterns for their upgradability
and implacability in modern architecture of residential areas.
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Kasmai, M. 2003. “Climate and Architecture”, Khak Publications.

Historical Cities 3
Transformation and typological innovation.

The case of ‘political assembly building’ in modern European
democracies
Vincenzo Buongiorno, Gianluca Emmi

Roma, Italy
vincenzobuongiorno@hotmail.it; gianluca.emmi@libero.it
52 The transformation process, either urban or architectural, has always represented a substantial part
of the instruments for the construction and the built environment. The transformation of the built is a
practice used more frequently in times of crisis, where the need for innovation get stronger. It occurs
in cyclical returns and structural crisis in the XIX and XX centuries and in economic and social depres-
sion begun in the early XXI century.
Here is proposed the analysis of what happens to the historic city in a given historical period and a
specific typological process.
Economic and political changes affected significantly the whole Europe in XIX century; they pointed
out the need to adapt existing places for political assembly. The functional and technical restructu-
ring arisen from the demand of the new political class ensure the equality, the equal rights and du-
ties to each member. Therefore the traditional urban and suburban palaces and the monastery are
converted to accomodate new spaces for political assembly. The need of a new place dealt with
the instruments of existing buildings transformation leads to a new typological process; it comes into
being from the type of urban, sub-urban palaces and the monastery and bring on the new type of
the building for the Parliamentary Assembly.
The paper investigates the morphological process to show how morphological processual can be
useful in the contemporary design, suggesting that a reactivation of the morphological process can
generate new interesting modes for the contemporary space.
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1987;
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G. Strappa, Unità dellorganismo architettonico, Edizioni Dedalo, Bari 1995

Historical Cities 3
Forms and Evolutions of Tunpu Villages in Guizhou, Southwest

China
Zhengxu ZHOU, Ziyu JIA, Nian WANG

School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Qinghuayuan Beijing, China
huihuang121@hotmail.com
School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University, Esat qinghua Road Beijing,
China
Tunpu villages could be traced back to the early Ming Dynasty in 14th century, the Ming Emperor 53
sent an army from the east to control the rebels in southwest China. After that, the soldiers settled
down in these regions with their families and latecomer, most of them were Han immigrants from
the east, in order to guard the emperor’s southwestern frontier. Nowadays, there are still many well-
preserved Tunpu villages in central Guizhou Province, southwest China.
Based on the investigation and mapping of 30 typical villages in this region, the types of settlement
in this area were clearly classified by morphological and typological methods. Combined with the
narratives from historical materials and anthropological materials, the paper studied the historical
backgrounds in different periods when the villages were built. This paper tried to build a brief history
of the construction of Tunpu villages since the Ming Dynasty (1368 AD). We classify the village forms
to 5 typical types, which built in different historical periods, dates from early Ming Dynasty (middle
14th century) to late Qing Dynasty (early 20th century). Furthermore, we found that the different
typical forms have different strong characteristic, which reflects the different historical situation in the
process of immigration.
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Li, J.(Eds.).(2009)Study on Tunpu Culture in Academic Perspective (Guizhou Science and Technology Press, Guiyang).
Whitehand, J. W. R.(1992) ‘Recent advances in urban morphology’, Urban Studies, 29 (3, 4), 619 -636 .
Wu L .(1989). Integrated Architecture (Tsinghua University Press, Beijing).

Urban fabric and primary elements. The case-study of Frigento

within “Metrics” research
Renato Capozzi
Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
renato.capozzi@unina.it
The paper aims to investigate the particular morphology along a ridge of Frigento’s historical centre
related to an hypothesis of intervention in the context of an industrial research and of experimental
development within the Project “Metrics_Metodologie e Tecnologie per la gestione e RIqualificazio-
ne dei Centri Storici e degli edifici di pregio” (Methodologies and Technologies for the management
and requalification of historical centres and valuable buildings): a project of the High Technology
District for the Sustainable Building of Campania Region, STRESS S.c.a.r.l., funded by Programma
Operativo Nazionale Ricerca e Competitività 2007-2013 (National Operative Program Research and
Competitiveness 2007-2013).
The preliminary analysis activities underlined the permanence of a foundation urban fabric (settle-
ment aggregate) of Samnitic and Roman origin (Aeculanum) that during the time was the support
for a ducal re-formulation through two prevailing typologies: the courtyard house and the terrace
house. The ordered urban fabric, caused by the ridge road and determined, in its deformations, by
the acclivity of the earth form, had its counterpoint in some primary elements: the cathedral, the
town-hall, the market. This urban congeries dominated the valley below, anticipated by the natura-
listic system of the “edges”.
The research activity is now in its final phase and, after investigated the centre through the typo-
morphological analyses, implemented them with a spatial reading following the methodology pro-
posed by Uwe Schröder, aiming to underline the relationship between interiority and exteriority of
urban spaces. Finally the research activity proposed projects as possibility of check of the proposed
methodology. The projects were hypothesis on urban fabric, reconfiguration of mixtilinear courtyard
blocks with garden, reconstruction/revamping of valuable buildings (Palazzo Testa-Pelosi) and on
new buildings: in order to complete the head of the block, to measure the promontory towards the
“edges”, to re-polarize and re-triangulate, to the west and to the south, the historical centre starting
form the cathedral, through a new town-hall and a new market.
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The grammar of Italian Modernism in Albania: transforming the

Ottoman built environment
Annabruna Menghini, Giuseppe Resta

Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering DICAR, Politecnico di Bari, Italia
The paper explores the relation between space, both urban and rural territory arranged by Ottoman 55
Empire, and a western power (Italy) that wanted to impose different aesthetic codes to shape new
spatial structures, those derived from a complex blending of Modernism and rhetorical architecture
(Ciucci, 1989). Italian modernism, at the beginning of twentieth century, molded autocratic spaces
by four main design tools: pure volumes, colors and materials, rhythms, and scales (Rava, 1931). Town
planning was a large-scale architectural project, of a metaphysical nature, setting a scene that was
classical and abstract at the same time. The minimum fascist configuration was the cardo-decuma-
no scheme, cris-crossed in the rectangular square (forum) where the space is enclosed with porticos.
Italian new roman forums (E42, Foro Italico, Città Universitaria) served as models, re-elaborated and
grafted in another cultural environment.
Italian Modernism implemented a new aesthetics from the field of figurative art that made some au-
thors address fascist architecture as a built metaphysics (Besana et al., 2002), namely history that has
been freed from material implications. The classical-oriented civilization of the New Order translated
the state of otherness of early century Metaphysical art into reality (Trione, 2006). The same alienation
and absolute power of silence of Giorgio de Chiricos’s paintings arouses in the spaces designed for
Albanian towns.
Therefore, the grammar of WWII Italian urban designs in Albania arouses two main topics: How we-
stern Modernism plunged into an ottoman built environment? How do we define the grammar of
spaces that constitute the body of Italian architectural identity?
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A reflection of the urban morphology: a trace of ten cities in the

Zona da Mata of Minas Gerais
Regina Esteves Lustoza, Renata Oliveira Assis

Universidade Federal de Viçosa, MG - Brazil
56 This work is part of a research that had the support of Fapemig Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do
Estado de Minas Gerais. It is a reflection on the urban morphology through a reading and perception
of ten urban traces of small demographic cities located in the Zona da Mata of Minas Gerais - Ara-
ponga; Cajuri; Canaã; Coimbra; Cipotânea; Paula Cândido; Pedra do Anta; Presidente Bernardes;
São Miguel do Anta and Senhora de Oliveira. The urban tracing through the application of the me-
thodologies created for Lynch, Cullen and Kohlsdorf.
The street represents the place of realization of a space-time determined in the process of urbaniza-
tion. By bad path outlined and wide avenues, the street became an expression of urban space. The
city is manifested in the street, whether through its design and its way is as a place of social achieve-
ments, differences and norms of everyday life at a given historical moment. The research sought to
demonstrate that the layout of the streets was the result of successive tissue accumulation processes
and indicating a possible relationship between drawing and the representative elements of local
history. At first, was systematized a discussion regarding the term morphology. Then, two important
elements of the urban structure, specifically the urban grid and layout, were treated as central points
in the circuit analysis of cities, taking the streets of central areas and the configuration of their traces
could reveal.
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Cultural Heritage and Adaptive Reuse in Rural Urban Contem-

porary China.
The interest for the western methodologies and the peculiarity
of the Chinese issues.
Anna Irene Del Monaco

Dipartimento di Architettura e Progetto, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
anna.delmonaco@uniroma1.it
From the early 90s several Chinese cities engaged transformation embodying in architecture, public 57
space and urban texture the physical evidence of the expectations and contradictions originated
and breed by the reforms initiated in the late 1970s. The idea and the meaning of cultural heritage
has been evolving since then in Chinese architectural culture through central government reforms
and private initiatives managing the reconstruction of national identity within a context of cultural
modernity, through physical architectural and urban simulacra replacing a glorious past recently
destroyed. The academic studies deeply rooted in the tradition settled by Liang Sicheng (1901-1972)
– considered the father of modern historical studies in architecture – have been running parallel
trying to appropriately address the national ambitions and to establish a specific Chinese discipline
inspired to international principles on the design theme of adaptive reuse within the more general
framework of cultural heritage. The most recent changes in the Chinese contemporary countryside
due to the urban-rural migrations and increasing national tourism industry are also adding complexity
and defining new possibilities.
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May 5-6th, 2014), Tsinghua University.
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#1; Nuova Cultura Roma.s

The abandoned industrial areas of viale Maraini in Rieti: latent

resources and interrupted processes
Edoardo Currà
Facoltà di Ingegneria Civile e Industriale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
edoardo.curra@uniroma1.it
58 A long story of abandonment of large industrial areas originates in Rieti, since 1973, by the closing of
the former sugar factory Maraini, the first one in Italy operating since 1873. Following the closure, two
plants facing the sugar factory slow down, and then stop, their production. First terminating the Mon-
tecatini plant and lastly, in 2006, the former Supertessile (at the time of closing Bemberg-Cell), part of
early industrialization of Rieti. Over the decades, one might encounter several attempts to start a pro-
cess of recovery, interrupted before they prefigure a regeneration of the areas according different
possible ways: nor in the revitalization of production, nor in the urban metabolization of the areas,
much less in returning to the Campo Reatino fields. In themselves they constitute a whole system, a
district, whose fabric has followed dialectically the road structure, the organization of the property
and, above all, the beds of watercourses which drain the Rieti plain near the river Velino. Moreover,
between the site and the town walls, the presence of the railway line helped to maintain a green
tongue, with which the bush and the trees that have colonized the factories, are in total continuity.
So this green is an important ecological corridor between the historical town and the contemporary
one, which is developed, in part, beyond the industrial areas. The present paper, therefore, pressed
to the examination of the failed recovery attempts, the reading of the evolution processes of the site,
assuming a revision of the constitution process, to activate, at least “in extremis”, a form of controlled
and usable degradation.
References
Cavallari, P. and Currà, E. (eds.) (2014) Architetture industriali dismesse Rieti, conoscenza e recupero dei siti produttivi di Viale
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Aachen e l’espansione pianificata tra XIX e XX secolo: lettura

morfologica e tipologica del Frankenberger Viertel
Luca Tommasi, Matteo Ieva

Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
luca.tommasi@rocketmail.com
L’espansione ottocentesca di Aachen, all’esterno del tracciato della doppia cinta muraria medie- 59
vale, rappresenta il vero tessuto storico della città tedesca della Cappella Palatina, considerato che
la Aquae Granni (sostrato) romana e quella medioevale sono state parzialmente distrutte durante il
II conflitto mondiale.
I nuovi quartieri extra moenia si strutturano sul modello insediativo mitteleuropeo costituito, general-
mente, da residenza unita all’industria. L’analisi tipologica e processuale eseguita su alcuni di essi
(impiegando il metodo caniggiano integrato dalle interessanti deduzioni di G. Strappa), mostra i
tratti caratteristici dei tessuti urbani edificati tra il XIX e l’inizio del XX secolo in cui le vaste pianificazio-
ni, documentate dai piani di espansione urbana, non sempre trovano esatta corrispondenza negli
aggregati odierni anche a causa delle parziali ricostruzioni post-belliche.
Lo studio si propone di approfondire il carattere tipico dell’architettura nordeuropea analizzando, in
particolare, il quartiere di Frankenberger Viertel. Il ridisegno di alcune parti dei fronti urbani, integrato
dalle planimetrie delle unità abitative, fa emergere, alla sola rapida osservazione, il comportamento
del tessuto costituito prevalentemente da case a schiera, unifamiliari e plurifamiliari, e case in linea,
spesso dotate di aree di pertinenza molto profonde o unificate in giardini comuni che trovano si-
gnificative variazioni in corrispondenza degli ampi complessi industriali, talvolta vincolati dall’essere
compresi in un nuovo margine urbano, o degli edifici speciali collocati nei punti nodali del quartiere.
L’indagine sulla lettura degli ingredienti caratteristici della leggibilità di facciata, la distinzione ma-
terica e coloristica che connota ciascun edificio, la ricostruzione della modularità estesa ad ampie
parti degli isolati studiati, restituisce una “immagine urbana” della città tedesca molto differente dal-
la facies visibile tipica dei sistemi aggregativi delle città italiane, senza dubbio più organici e murari,
con cui si eseguirà una comparazione al fine di rileggere le differenze strutturali che li connotano.
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The Officers’ Neighbourhood in Krakow. The multifamily Villas
Anna Agata Kantarek

Faculty of Architecture, Cracow University of Technology, Krakow, Poland
akantarek@pk.edu.pl
60 In this paper The Officers’ Neighbourhood in Krakow is shown as an example of new developed (from
1924 on) housing area based on villa structure and evolving from one family houses to mixed one
and multifamily buildings. An example of Rome’s Palazzine development could be citated here.
The development was started on post fortification lands and was extended by further regulation and
subdivision plans.
Although not obligatory as a model in the whole Master Plan of Krakow, the development of this
small area led to the creation of interesting, not very intensive structure of villas neighbourhood with
buildings on separate plots and with a good percentage of greenery.
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Archives - Archiwum Narodowe w Krakowie

Observation and dialog: operational tools useful for aware and

meaningful anthropological design in Romani settlements
Milena Grbic, Zoran Lazovic

Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade
mdelevicgrbic@arh.bg.ac.rs
Information about informal Romani settlements housing are not found in books or archives. They are 61
found live, in settlements. The intent of this paper is to point out that they represent a world of signals
that can be detected through the methodological tools of observation and discussion with residents;
also and therefore, to create guidelines for operational tools useful for an aware and contemporary
design in their advancement process.
The paper begins with the proxemics treatment of a Romani settlement as a closed system where
spatial relations are filled with semantical values typical for ethnological and sociological situations
of such a microenvironment. Explanations of these values are obtained once the focus of observa-
tion is passed from object to process, and the objects are perceived as products of processes. Such
observing practice along with dialogues, enables analysis not to overlook existing values, meanings
and symbols of space that are culturally driven, explicitly defined not by professionals but through
perception of the residents- users . This is the only possible way of developing adequate principles of
future architectural realizations in Romani settlements that would be innovative, but within the articu-
lation system of the local community.
The paper will present a case study of a Romani settlement with this methodological apparatus ap-
plied as well as its concept, all research steps and results accomplished by such procedure.
The purpose of this paper is seen in collecting and archiving knowledge about Romani settlement
housing which provides a double effect: building a basis on which the future of settlements is well
planned, and increasing their significance for the town and strengthening awareness about them
too.
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Grbic, M. (2015) Improvement of housing spatial organization in Roma settlements in Belgrade under influence of Romanipen
principles, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Moran J. (2005) Reading the Everyday, (Routledge, London, GB and New York, USA).Steadman, F. (2014) Building types and
built forms (Matador, Kibworth Beauchamp, UK).
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Wallach, R. (2000) L’ambiente costruito storico (Gangemi, Roma)

The changes of spatial patterns in affordable housing: eviden-

ces from Tehran metropolitan area (1940-2016).
Seyed Jamalaldin Hosseini

DRACO Dottorato in Architettura e costruzione Facoltà di Architettura, Sapienza Università di
Roma
sjh201415@gmail.com
62 This paper reviews the 70 years changing spatial structure of the affordable housing in Tehran metro-
politan area from the early 1940s, concentrating on, the urban form, the transformation of housing
and the settlements patterns differentiation. The paper argues that between the 1946 and 1979
there were constant changes and steady improvement in different aspects of affordable housing
characters, however, from 1979 the housing patterns experienced significant change. It later evalua-
tes the quality of the latest generation of housing practices for the metropolitan area of the Tehran,
all constructed between 1979 and 2016, and argues that there is a mismatch between the recent
constructions and the sustainable view of desirable future urban structure, based on environmental,
economic and social sustainability principals. In particular, the current housing development do not
come to terms with the economic needs of target social groups and do not respond the ecological
and social issues that navigate to the sustainable neighborhoods inside the sustainable city and
they are unsuccessful in approaches to the evolving issues of housing affordability and new, higher-
grained patterns of peripheral inequality and disadvantage.The method of research is based on
reading, analyzing and interpreting related built areas and relevant studies. This will be observed by
evidences from Tehran metropolitan area and outcome will be sum-up the affordable housing cha-
racters in the Tehran metropolitan area.

Architectural Modernity in the Global South: Architecture as

“immutable mobile”
Anjali Ganapathy
Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
University of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ganap002@umn.edu
Using Latour’s concept of the “immutable mobile” (2012), which describes the process of translation 63
that leaves the object intact over large geographical distances and time, I argue that globalized
architecture, first amongst all of the arts, satisfies the mechanics of reproduction most obediently,
and is the “immutable mobile” par excellence. In this paper I pursue a double line of argument to
make sense of contemporary architecture’s simultaneous embrace and resistance to Western styles
of architectural transposition into the new urban centers of the Global South. I take UB City (2008)
in Bangalore, a monumental complex of buildings, as the archetype of architectural pastiche, as it
attempts to reproduce the New York City skyline using Renaissance ideals of space. The presence
of this architectural intervention in Bangalore, although it exists as a transposition of some aspect
of New York City, does not ultimately lead to “behaving in new ways”, interfering with “habitus”, or
as Bourdieu describes it, altering the set of embodied practices in the lives of the inhabitants of the
Bangalore. I argue for a relation of resistance as evidenced in “habitus” that is wholly at odds with
the modernity of New York City almost a century ago or the Renaissance city over 500 hundred ye-
ars ago. I want to look at the base of architecture’s resistance to transposition since, to return to my
example, it seems that UB City has generated amongst the citizens of Bangalore, alternatively awe
and revulsion, pride and shame.
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of Architecture, MIT Press]

The vertical system: the role of the skyscraper in the urban con-
text
Pina Ciotoli
ciotoligiusi@gmail.it
64 This paper aims to highlight the urban role of skyscraper within the historical cities. If examined
within a complex system structured into distinct vertical elements, each skyscraper behaves as an
autonomous organism, as a “micro-city”, reproducing in its inner space, and in a smaller scale, the
same kind of widespread urbanization of the urban fabric.
In particular for the contemporary cities, it is possible to schematize the dynamics of high-rise
buildings system identifying an inner “overturned” structure, that corresponds with a vertical
transposition of the horizontal hierarchy (like in the Commerzbank Tower of Norman Foster).
Necessarily the urban cities system experiences its gathering places, devoted to social interactions,
within the delimited structures of the skyscraper, and it defines the architectural shape of real
“vertical squares”.
This research aims to demonstrate how the skyscraper, considered as a vertical transposition of the
urban system, represents another main “human-scale” element to live in the contemporary cities, so
being able to define a new ideal city model, taken from the “utopia” and lowered in the
contemporary world.
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System of community centers in superblocks: comparative

analysis of Rome and Belgrade cases
Predrag Jovanović
Department of Urbanism, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia
predrag.jovanovic@arh.bg.ac.rs; predragjovanovic.arch@gmail.com
As the critique of the functionalistic planning indicated (Jacobs, 1961; Alexander, 2002-2005; Gehl, 65
2011), open spaces of superblocks are characterized by enormous proportions of spaces, monotony
and lack of place identity. But within them, there is also a potential for improvement of local com-
munity quality of life through establishing the system of places for community gathering (hereinafter
community centers). The objective of this research is to determine an adequate methodology for
analyzing eligibility of the physical structure of open space through connections between communi-
ty centers for their improvement.
Superblock in Rome and Belgrade emerged from the same planning approach, but during the time
they have developed different systems of functioning. In this research, they are compared through
the two cycles of analysis. Potential zones of superblocks emerged from overlapping the General
plans before and after World War II. After that, their governing levels were compared and historical
facts of superblock development were highlighted. The second cycle of comparative analysis, after
consulting the theories (Jacobs, 1961; Whyte, 1980; Alexander, 2002-2005; Gehl, 2011), is examining
open spaces and community centers of superblocks from the aspects of the shape of the accessible
space area, the presence of positive place elements (seats, natural elements and street) and con-
nectivity of community centers.
Overlapping those analyses produced schemes, inspired by Alexander’s Hulls of open spaces, which
represents an accessible open public space that is connecting different kind of community centers.
These schemes could be a useful tool for further analysis of the superblock system of community cen-
ters in order to improve them.
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Urban revitalization of the historic core of Tehran through single

architectural interventions:
Study Case of Oudlajan residential neighborhood
Kiumars Poursamini
Università degli Studi di Roma, Sapienza, Italy
Poursamimi@live.it
66 One of the most important problems of the historic dilapidated areas in Iran is the presence of a
large amount of people that are living in such quarters. Iran is a country with a high seismic risk and
it caused a real danger for the inhabitants of such areas. By this way the constructive activities in
historic quarters continues and due to the current Iranian building rules the old and non historic bu-
ildings that are located in the historic quarters can be replaced by new buildings. Now a day, this
kind of interventions is going to form an anonymous aspect for the historic quarters. The new buildings
realize without particular attention to the adjacent historical buildings, traditional spaces in Persian
residential buildings and the vernacular characteristics of the local architecture. In the introversion
Persian architecture there are many different traditional spaces but today the lifestyle changed and
for a modern building it is not possible to realize all of them. But there are three main spaces that can
increase the compatibility of the new buildings with the historic buildings; The Portal that presents the
identity of the buildings, the vestibule that presents the introversion nature of the Persian architecture
and the of the half-open spaces. In this paper we study the way of the apply these three important
spaces in the new buildings of the small urban grains of Oudlajan quarter in the heart of Tehran. A
modernized combinable contemporary design to apply in different building structure scales.

Cities transformations: two study case
Francesco Menegatti
Politecnico di Milano Architettura Urbanistica Ingegneria delle Costruzioni, Milano, Italy
francescomenegattipublic@gmail.com
In this issue, I will present two design assumptions of intervention, one in an old historical center and in 67
a fragile environment: a redevelopment project of an ancient district of Tehran and an other as an
urban limit reconfiguration project in Miami, Florida.
The first project focus the role of the demolition in urban transformation, through a virtuous circularity,
starting with new considerations on the several hue that the intervention of the demolition occurred
in the city of Rome between the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The second has evaluated
the problem of the completion and the city limits on a waterfront, referred to the Ostia coastal wa-
terfront construction.
The contribution is divided in two parts, the first part in which is delineated the demolition as an instru-
ment of the project that establish which are the durable principles and, that the urban project has
a strong priority above the existing and the environmental pre-existence as a material of the urban
context; and a second part in which I will present a methodology of the demolition and project to
complete the existence through two study case.
The goal is to reconsider the project instruments in relation to the lesson of Rome as a permanent fact
in the city’s transformation process.

Measuring Urban Form in Abu Dhabi: An Exploratory Study

Comparing Two Evolving Communities in Abu Dhabi, Similar in
Use and Layout Yet Performing Differently in Terms of Sustaina-
bility and Livability
Lamis Rafe Abu Ashour

Department of Sustainable Critical Infrastructure Masdar Institute of Science and Technology
labuashour@masdar.ac.ae
68 Cities like Abu Dhabi which have not grown gradually are referred to as sudden cities because they
emerged instantly and keep rapidly urbanizing. Although this rapid planned development has gran-
ted Abu Dhabi the strong admiration of other countries, it has been sometimes hasty and off-balan-
ce, overlooking crucial environmental aspects. However, unlike other Gulf cities, planning policy is
currently focusing on sustainable urban growth and development. Estidama, a sustainability rating
system similar to LEED, is at the forefront of these efforts.
Within this context, and given urban planning’s key role in achieving sustainability goals, it is rather
important to operationalize theory and to perform quantitative and multi-criteria assessments, in or-
der to provide clear direction to future growth. Particularly, guiding growth by taking into account
existing neighborhood typologies and their longstanding presence in this context. Thus, urban form
and density are analyzed in reference to each other, by relating different form metrics associated to
livability and urban vibrancy, whilst taking into consideration different urban situations
Accordingly, as it will be discussed, the way different neighborhoods grow and evolve in Abu Dhabi
have affected the city`s sustainability performance. More specifically, this paper focuses on a com-
parison between two superblocks that were developed at different times in Abu Dhabi: one older
one on the island itself, and a recent development in the mainland. Both share a similar land use
structure and have very similar size and street layout, although their overall density and functionality
differs significantly. The study aims to analyze whether performance shifts in response to changes in
density and building intensity and measure consequential changes in built form and livability.
The methodological approach is based on a quantitative and qualitative study of the relationship
between major urban form elements that are widely and commonly applied, such as City blocks
(CB), Plots (P), Streets (S), Constructed space (CS), and Open space (OS); all these analyzed using
common metrics, such as block, plot, and network density, number and type of road intersections,
and floor area ratios. Data obtained from the study of GIS information will address different rela-
tionships qualitatively and quantitatively. Retrieved conclusions will be used as guidelines for desi-
gning and guiding new sustainable neighborhoods in the region and providing recommendations
for operating the existing ones.

How Rome is coping with the placement of outdoor media in

urban landscape in contrast to the city of São Paulo (BR)?
Vanessa Casarin
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Campus Trindade, Florianópolis, Brasil
vanessa.casarin@ufsc.br
Outdoor media is part of the contemporary urban contexts and with the development of new 69
technologies it presents even biggest dimension, diverse shapes, different textures, vibrant colors
and incorporates lighting technologies and others. These kinds of elements are far from constitute
only a second skin to buildings or be considered as secondary. It is clear that in contemporary cities
the 2D surfaces from this kind of media are capable to hide entire open spaces as parks or even an
entire conjunct of buildings. It is clear that urban morphology should be analyzed through, not only
the horizontal plan, but also vertical ones, because this is the way people perceive the cities. So in
the context of what we have to learn from Rome the aim of this paper is to compare how an histori-
cal city as Rome is coping with the placement of outdoor media in urban landscape in comparison
to São Paulo, in Brazil, a city mainly oriented to business, through the analysis of the most recent ways
of control implemented and policies adopted in both cities.
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‘Starchitecture’ and contemporary additions in historical con-

text
Damla Misirlisoy
Faculty of Architecture, Design and Fine Arts, Girne American University, Karmi, Cyprus
damla.misirlisoy@gmail.com
70 In the adapting process of the heritage buildings, new additions are required either to meet the
need of the new function or to create structural, aesthetic, functional missing parts of the building.
However, all interventions should respect and preserve the significance of the heritage building.
The design approach of new additions is one of the most commonly discussed issues in the conserva-
tion field. Additions should be differentiated but compatible for achieving a harmonious relationship
between new and old. Heritage buildings can be transformed into major landmarks of the city after
conversions or may harm the originality and significance of the heritage buildings. Although there
are international preservation standard and charters that introduce principles for interventions in
historical context, they are not followed by some countries. Local authorities give permission to new
developments that have been designed by Star architects, which can be inappropriate to historical
context, to promote the district and the country. The paper questions the success of the selected
designs by star architects in terms of social, economic and physical aspects of the interventions.
Selected case studies are analysed in terms of the compatibility between new and old and also its
relation to the context and historic environment.
New additions should add another value to the heritage buildings rather than destroying its cha-
racter and identity. A successful intervention may contribute social life and economy of the region;
in this respect, advantages and disadvantages of the interventions should be also discussed in city
scale.
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Kadir Has University, RE-COND’15: ‘Re-evaluating contemporary designs in historical context’ 22-24 July 2015, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Learning from Morella: The Memory of the Urban Form and the
Dialogical-Historical Approach in the Contemporary Design
Júlia Beltran-Borràs
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
julsbel@gmail.com
From the dialogical models defended by Mijaíl Bajtín (Bakhtin 1982), GIRAS Research Group has 71
analyzed for years the historical urban form and architecture, trying to clarify how the architect can
at the same time, innovate and preserve, understanding that in the specific of each place are the
seeds for a good modernization. (Muntañola 2016)
To understand the relationships between history and memory and to clarify the types of memory
that the architect can use to learn from the city, we use Paul Ricoeur’s theory (Ricoeur 2010) and
Space Syntax as a theory as well as a method (Hillier 1996). In the case study of Morella, Spain, we
will see that the urban form of the historical city has kept in his memory the existence of an old gate
of the wall, in a place that people has forgotten. With historical drawings, plans, written sources, with
archaeological exploration and with Space Syntax analysis, it will be shown that the memory of the
city is present in the constructed form.
In Morella, we will find some interesting examples about how the architect can make bridges betwe-
en the new design and the history of the profession, of the place and of the society, analyzing two
heritage buildings restored in the core of the city, the town hall and a church as a health center, and
two new buildings outside the wall, the Primary School designed by Miralles & Pinós and the Secon-
dary School by Helio Piñón, both of them with international awards. (Beltran 2015)
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Design
Urban Space and Contemporary
Design
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Urban Space
Architecture and Criticism
Urban Growth and Transformation
Historical Urban Fabric

Urban Space
Rooted Elements, Assembled Elements. The Design of Public

Space in Rome.
Antonello Monaco
Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria
Despite the presence of so many outstanding works of architecture, the design of public space in 73
Rome is almost always indefinite and of a low quality. The obelisks, fountains and monuments marking
its piazzas and streets rarely correspond with urban furniture of any particular quality or capability to
definitively shape the space of the city. Cobblestone pavers do not provide public space with that
extra quality which makes it sensitive to use and at the scale of the city’s inhabitants. The competi-
tion announced some years ago by the City of Rome-Ufficio Roma Capitale for the renewal of the
path through the historic centre linking the Trevi Fountain with the Pantheon offered one of the first
occasions for rethinking the design of public space in the city. The competition was followed by only
a few projects and of scarce importance, lacking any capacity to definitively redeem urban space
or provide this path with any particular relevance, unlike examples offered by other European cities
during the same period. Beginning with the project submitted by the author to the aforementioned
competition, the proposed text will investigate a methodology for redesigning urban space based
on two concepts, corresponding with two categories of urban furniture: rooted elements, the stable
elements that model the surface of the city and the support to assembled elements, the mobile and
adjustable structures more directly compromised by the functional values of elements of urban fur-
niture. It is my belief that the organisation of these two typologies of elements may provide the city
with a greater definition of its public environments and redeem the anonymity to which so many of
its most representative spaces have been consigned.

Urban Space
Urban Stairs and Architecture.
Anna Agata Kantarek

Faculty of Architecture, Cracow University of Technology, Krakow, Poland
akantarek@pk.edu.pl
74 In this paper a relation between stairs in urban space and architecture that surrounds them is de-
scribed. Historical examples of great importance from Rome - Spanish Stairs and Capitol Complex is
considered here as a model for contemporary design.
These examples are contemporary solutions placed in the structure of the city, which is becoming
more complicated and multilayered. Linkage of volumes and open spaces is done in such a way
that these, based on buildings structure, arrange key places from the point of view of public relations
areas. Public stairs are here multifunctional structures that offer not only a wide range of activity but
also created new compositional urban points of a city center areas.
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culturel, 1984, unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0006/.../062310fb.pdf,
Caniggia G., Maffei G. L., Architectural Composition and Building Typlogy. Interpretating Basic Bulidings, Alinea Ed. Firenze,
2001
de Portzamparc Ch., La ville âge III, Conférences Paris d’Architectes PA 1994, les mini PA no 5, Ed. du Pavillon d’Arsenal, Paris
1994
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Wejchert K. Elements of Urban Composition, Arkady, Warszawa, 1974

Urban Space
Tactical and strategical urbanism: the combination of different

methodologies related to a morphological form of the street in
the historical city.
Silvia Tagliazucchi
Facoltà di Architettura, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
silvia.tagliazucchi@gmail.com
The object of this research is Via Carteria, a street in the historical center of Modena (Italy) that it 75
characterized by a typological form of the Emilian streets: the porch. In the past, it was popular be-
cause it was the area for artisans and artists in the historical center. During the years this characteri-
zation was lost: the artisans’ workshops were closed, the street was blight and more insecure to cross,
in particular during the evening and the night.
From 2010, to change this condition, the public administration of Modena decided to improve the
economic and social development of this street through a renting-scheme for the empty workshops
in Via Carteria, aimed at emerging artists and designers.
The activation of this plan increased - and is still increasing - the number of shops, restaurants and
bars around this area. The proximity to the main monuments of the city qualifies Via Carteria as one
of the most inspiring street of the historical center.
In the 2014, the association Architetti di Strada (lit. Street Architects), from Bologna, had the opportu-
nity to work on this street during an event Rainbow Advertising art. The association’s work consisted
in a participatory laboratory to design urban home-furnitures (called: Inside-Outside). This event sho-
wed how the combination of different methodologies leads to more effective regeneration results
than a single-methodology approach. This paper explains the different approaches to the same
morphological form of the street in the historical city, and analyses the potentiality of their combina-
tion.
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edizioni, Modena)
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tiva, Colombini Editore, Modena
Panzani, E. (2012) ‘I portici di Modena: indagine e riflessioni. Un caso particolare: il portico di Palazzo Levi’, unpublished thesis,
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT.
Cervellati, P. and Miliari, M. (1977) I centri storici (Guaraldi, Firenze).

Urban Space
Av. del Oeste in Valencia: modernity design throughout old

town.
César Damián Mifsut Garcia

Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
cmifsutg@urb.upv.es
76 The avenue opened in the west side in Valencia old town -Avenida del Oeste- is in fact the last lar-
ge urban intervention into historical city centres in Europe. It develops in its origins the approach of
those interventions in Paris along the 19th century. Av. del Oeste follows other Spanish models as well,
on its social and national conditions, and their plan outlines: Gran Vía in Madrid and Via Laietana
in Barcelona. It was planned in the beginning of 20th century, but it was builded finally from 1941 to
1975 – the last huge urban intervention in a Haussmann way. But the real significance of the avenue
is, on the first hand, its drawing. Its lines refer to the 1902s modernity in architecture, creating a urban
patchwork related to previous urban fabric through the drawing of round corners. The point was the
perfect scene for expressionist rationalist architecture that finally will build several wonderful architec-
tural pieces. On the other hand, because of the problems that produced its long construction and
its drawing lines, the avenue built up a unique catalogue of architectural styles in that period. But
the main approach must be focussed in the way this new avenue is opened on the west of the old
town through the historical city –that was executed only in less than a half- and also on the unfinished
relationship that awaits a post-intervention to for a real connection of old pre-existence urban fabric
and the new wide avenue.
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Urban Space
A morphological and sustainable approach to open space

design. The case study of Viterbo historical center.
Marco Maretto¹, Barbara Gherri¹, Anthea Chiovitti2

¹
Department of Engineering and Architecture. Univesity of Parma
2
Department of Architecture and Design, DRACO-PhD School in Architecture and Construc-
tion, University of Rome-La Sapienza. Roma.
marco.maretto@unipr.it, barbara.gherri@unipr.it, anthea.chiovitti@uniroma1.it,
The project proposal is based on the idea that a city is, first of all, a body made of “fabrics”. Social fa- 77
bric, economic and cultural fabrics that are in the physical form of the built city, its streets, its squares,
direct and dynamic expression of its vitality over time. Morphological analysis of the Viterbo urban
fabric and its public spaces has therefore constituted the first step of the project design, focusing
also on daily use of urban spaces and their potential for development to make the center of Viterbo
a sustainable city, a pedestrian and child-friendly. Talk about a shared city, efficient, citizen-friendly,
also means, however, to speak of a sustainable city, where the concept of sustainability is understo-
od in its broadest sense and not as a mere compendium processes and other strategies. The city is
a key resource for the enhancement and mitigation light performance, temperature-humidity, noise
and air quality, which in itself contains most of the elements that can generate and monitor the main
climate and environmental aspects. The scale of the microclimate come, in fact, into play tighter
interactions between form, materials and climate data, from which you can define and identify ma-
jor elements of comfort and environmental dis-comfort. Proper design of open spaces, along with
specific and “targeted” urban regeneration operations therefore constitutes a crucial opportunity to
reach the goal of a sustainable and environmentally liveable cities. The design and requalification of
urban public space allow, in fact, to improve the environmental conditions of the context promoting
social relations between users and promoting energy saving strategies for the creation of a healthy
and comfortable urban environment. The verification protocol adopted into the streets of Viterbo
provides a state of fact analysis through some basic local climate data such as temperature, humi-
dity, rainfall, wind, solar radiation. To these are added: the reliefs on the morphology of the place
and the form factors and porosity of the blocks; radiation analysis in relation to the elevation profile
of the involved sections; analyzes of finishing materials and related albedo values. Concludes the
preliminary analysis the solar axonometric applied to particular days deemed “period threshold”
from dawn to sunset, from which to obtain the map of shading the whole calendar year. These data
led to the development of thematic maps useful to determine which were the most affected areas
to direct sunlight, which are affected by a greater number of hours of shade during the summer
and winter season, so as to have devices of bioclimatic mitigation, such as trees, hedges or shading
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Urban Space
78 elements and screening in the square. Finally a fundamental element in the tracking of these geo-
referenced thematic maps it was the use of GIS software (Geographical Information System) through
operations of geoprocessing in order to locate in a reference coordinate system the environmental
components of the basis of design choices. The joint use of the urban morphology tools, in order to
understand the role and the potential of public spaces in the historic center of Viterbo, together
with an accurate environmental analysis, has made possible the design of living spaces, aware and
respectful from the identity point of view, efficient from an energetic point of view, but also open
and maximally flexible to the changing use conditions of the city. The city, like its public spaces, is a
complex organism made up of different levels of relationships, which are dynamic and change over
time, as well as material and immaterial. The Architecture main task is then to understand these pro-
cesses by providing the physical conditions for their development within a system of shared values.
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Cities, vol. 2, p. 114-122.
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and design 03/04, 46-65.
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History in the Plan: why preserving the historic city pattern is

key to preservation and urban character
Brenda Case Scheer

College of Architecture & Planning, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States
scheer@arch.utah.edu
80 Preservationists usually focus their efforts on the preservation of particular buildings. While the disap-
pearance of buildings tears at the emotions of neighbors and advocates, the disappearance of a
historic urban fabric is rarely noted or mourned, and does not receive the attention from planners
that it deserves. This paper, using examples from Cincinnati, Boston, and Salt Lake City, demonstrates
how the preservation of the plan – original streets and lot subdivisions – can also have great impor-
tance to the character of a place and the ultimate preservation of its buildings.
The streets and lots of a place, once laid down, are far more enduring than buildings -- sometimes
enduring for centuries -- and effectively structuring (and protecting) all the buildings that follow. This
study looks at original plans that are more than 150 years old and compares them through time using
a time-series of historic maps, including Sanborn maps. The maps serve as the data from which the
analysis and conclusions are reached. This paper includes extensive illustrations and maps.
This paper demonstrates that historic plans which are violated, even when some buildings are pre-
served, often presage a weakening that ultimate brings on more destruction. Even small areas of a
plan that are well planned and well preserved hold out against the forces of destruction much better
than others nearby which are not. This paper also demonstrates that historic plans that are themsel-
ves weak – chaotic or unstructured – also presage far more destruction than a more regular plan.

Practices after a disaster:

geographical narratives vs territorial dispersion
Lina Maria Calandra

Dipartimento di Scienze umane, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy
linamaria.calandra@cc.univaq.it
After the earthquake on 6 April 2009, L’Aquila becomes more fragmented and dispersed physically, 81
socially, and culturally. This transformation is closely bound up with some emergency solutions as
the realization of segmented and separated residential zones that determine internal inequalities.
L’Aquila knows a growing sense of fear, mistrust, uneasiness and a decreasing sense of cohesion
towards a social polarization typical of larger cities. What most damages the community capacity
to retain its potential for communication, participation, exchange, sociability is the sudden or acce-
lerated replacement of open and public spaces with separated and private areas.
In the context of the urban transformation after the disaster that changed daily life of people and
communities within the Municipality of L’Aquila, participation can represent a practice of regene-
ration to face urban fragmentation and territorial dispersion (Calandra, 2012). Some researchers of
the Department of Human Studies, University of L’Aquila (Italy), have developed and are applying,
according to the “trial-and-error” strategy, a methodology of communication and participation in
research practices. It will be explained the geographical narrative issued from the participatory/par-
ticipating research that involved citizens, students and scientists together (Cahill, 2007; Fuller, Kitchin,
2004; Pain, 2014) and that emphasizes the importance of places in the everyday life of people for
their psycho-physical health and for the welfare of the entire community.
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ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 6, 3, pp. 360-373.
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theory, critical praxis: making a difference beyond the academy, Vernon and Victoria, Praxis (e)Press, pp. 1-20
Pain R. (2004), “Social geography: participatory research”, in Human Geography, 28, 5, pp. 652-663.

New-old ideas for new-old cities. The case of Louis I. Kahn
Ruben Garcia Rubio

Al ghurair university (dubai, uae)
r.rubio@agu.ac.ae
82 The architecture of Louis I. Kahn changed radically in the 1950s. Such was the transformation that it is diffi-
cult to find his mistakable mark in works so different like the miesian Parasol House (1944) or the palladian
Fleisher House (1959). All these differences have been widely recognized by leading architectural critics
and some of them even venture to place that process of changing while he was at the American Aca-
demy in Rome between 1950 and 1951. They are absolutely right in terms of time and place. But the real
question arises when they have to establish the reasons for such a radical change in a short stay in Rome.
The answer, however, is more difficult.
The three months that Kahn spent in Rome were really intense. His position was a Resident Architect
(RAAR). Contrary to what one might think he was more a kind of a college friend than a Professor. His job
allowed him to travel and also encouraged him and so Kahn used to do it a lot. Some of those travels were
nearby but he also made a far journey that got him to Egypt and Greece. This Mediterranean journey is
also known by everyone because of its greats drawings. Even some architectural critics point a possibly
influence of this travel on his late work. But no one has dwelt upon it so far.
The present abstract (as it is a part of my Ph.D. about the influence of this European travel on his work)
will try to find the traces of the Mediterranean historical cities in Louis I. Kahns work. Firstly, I will analyze the
stage of Louis Kahn at the AAR and especially his contact with the historical cities; secondly, I will go into
detail about the lessons were given to Kahn; and finally, I will explain how Louis Kahn use these lessons to
design a contemporary building, like the Hurva Sinagoge (1968), in another historical city such as Jerusa-
lem.

A theatre as an urban knot grafted in the historical fabric
Susanna Clemente
susanna.clemente@uniroma1.it
The project for the Carlo Felice theatre in Genoa, badly damaged during the latter stages of the Second 83
World War, kept Carlo Scarpa busy for several years, near until the end of his life. However, the project
never left the paper. In it there are enclosed and brilliantly solved key issues in the approach to the subject
of the graft in the historical centre. The theatre is in fact thought to become a real knot between the an-
cient city, the nineteenth-century city and the most recent expansion of the old town. By overturning the
traditional Italian theatre hall in the foyer you get a new, extremely distinctive public space: the theater
stages the theater, it presents itself to the city. The study aims to retrace the two main phases of the project
by Carlo Scarpa, highlighting those methodological aspects still valid today in the process of integration
into the historic fabric, as well as that marked an evolution in the process of formation of modern space
for the show.
References
Botto, I.M. (1986) Il Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, storia e progetti (SAGEP, Genova).
Valente, E. and Zanchettin, V. (2010) I teatri di Carlo Scarpa (Electa, Roma).

A decade of designing hypothesis for Rome: 1980-1990.

Themes and methods
Dina Nencini
Dipartimento di Architettura e Progetto, Facoltà di Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma,
Rome, Italy
dina.nencini@uniroma1.it
84 The study I propose concerns some projects developed but not builded in Rome between 1980 and
1990.
These projects allow us to develop a reflection on themes and methods used in contemporary de-
sign in the historical center. In them the functional distinction and design definition of the architects
may identify some ways of architectural design in a stratified context such as the historical center of
Rome.
This projects are the one for archaeological site of the Imperial Forums designed by Leonardo Bene-
volo and Vittorio Gregotti in 1984; the project called “The modification of Rome” by Alberto Samonà
and others, 1985; the design presented at the XVII Triennale in Milan coordinated by Franco Purini
and others, in 1987, and at last, a project-manifesto for Roma developed in 1991 by Franco Purini.
In these projects, very different one from the other, we may identify a sort of “beginning” or “fore-
going” to which they are directly or indirectly referred, and especially a designing process by which
we can deduct different lines of development and interpretation of the design approach to existing
city. City means all the material and imaginary dimension that defines the cityscape.
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lità Direzionali, vol. 120, p. 98-102, ISSN: 0392-8608
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The lesson of Rome in the architecture of Francesco Venezia

and Alessandro Anselmi
Gianpaola Spirito
Dipartimento di Architettura e Progetto, Facoltà di Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma,
gianpaolaspirito@gmail.it,
For many architects, who attribute to memory a fundamental role in their creative process, Rome 85
and its multiple spatiality have been and continue to be extraordinary sources of inspiration.
Its ruins, expression of the fragment and unfinished condition, have been used as a bare architecture,
pluging in a new building, or as a layer on which build up the following one. Their building systems
and urban role have attracted architects from different eras.
Its Renaissance buildings show how architects have been able to adapt the principles of symmetry
to the irregularity of the sites, generating exciting new solutions.
Thereafter, the baroque architects change the relationships between architecture and urban space
and create innovative devices for shape the light.
This great repertory of space, intervention strategies, architectural themes that Rome offers, is used
by many modern and contemporary architectes that, starting from their experience of those places,
have studied them and reuse, reinterpreting them in their projects.
Among them, the intervention aims to deal with two Italian architects: Alessandro Anselmi (1934-
2013) and Francesco Venezia (1944). Both have selected from this extensive repertory buildings and
places, that, captivated by their memory, could emerge later, providing strategies and meanings to
their projects.

Architectural Form and Urban Design: Kahn’s interpretation of

Rome
Elisabetta Barizza
Facoltà di Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma,
elisabetta.barizza@fastwebnet.it
86 This report reviews the contribution made by Louis Kahn in the reading of urban morphology and
architecture of Rome. It also covers related topics which have been identified as significant themes
linked Kahn’s interpretation of Rome, like the notion of Form as organism «made of inseparable parts»
and the fundamental role of proportions and congruence. In his original reading of Roman Architec-
ture, Kahn’s was influenced both by Paul Philippe Cret and, indirectly, by Le Corbusier. Indeed, Kahn
met Rome with the knowledge gained in the cultural climate of Philadelphia between Thirties and
Forties, where he worked with Cret, then with Kastner, Stonorov and Howe in the field of social hou-
sing, and he contributed as co-founder of American Society of Planners and Architects, working in
urban planning with the most important european masters of the Modern Moviment in United States.
This background opened Kahn’s eyes when he come to the American Academy of Rome in 1950,
and he found the key to re-invent masonry architecture using modern technology. Looking to the
«Architectural order» of Rome, that «implies integration of space, structure and mechanics», Kahn
started to design small cities and buildings able to achieve the integrity and “resilience” of the great
architecture of the past, in which legibility, sustainability and structural consistency, reveals the value
and the timeless deep meaning of the Urban Form as organism.
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Revive old city with contemporary design; on the topic of shop-

ping areas as urban public spaces.
Soufi Moazemi- Iranian

Fine Art Faculty of Hacettepe University, Department of Interior Architecture and Environment
design Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey
soufi.moazami@gmail.com
88 Public spaces like shopping areas are indispensable places for human. The buying and selling of go-
ods played a very important role in the development of towns and cities (Dixon, 2005). Shopping pla-
ces has been changed with modernity. At the same time, these spaces embrace particular events
that have collective social, historical and cultural associations; projections of these events influence
the physical transformations, which can each be re-identified through time. One of the basic featu-
res of traditional shopping areas is the association between urban fabric and social structure (Birol,
2005). However, contemporary shopping places has been emerged as closed box independent
from tissue of city which lost their spatial values. Therefore, especially in historical cities, the unity of
‘urban fabric-shopping place’ is impaired.
The “space- time” relation in modernity shifts because of breaking ties of western societies with the
traditions and is leading to the loss of identity (Hall,1996). This study discusses the space design of
contemporary shopping areas as important public city places and the interpretation of traditional
impression in today’s modern architecture to refer to values of place. As case study, “Mediacite”
shopping center in Belgium designed by Ron Arad and eastern covered bazaar will be examined.
The “Mediacite” was created in the context of modern design criterias, although the architect has
revived the sense of traditional design principles in the place. This project ties together all the dispa-
rate elements of its site to create a new axis through the city of Liege (Uffelen, 2013).
References
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cle, Architecture Faculty of Balıkesir University.
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Hall, S.,1996. The Question of Cultural ldentity. Modernity an Introduction to Modern Societies. Edited by Stuart Hall, David Held,
Don Hubert, and Kenneth Thompson, pp. 595-635
Uffelen, C.V.,2013, Malls & Department Stores, vol. 2

Marina di Ginosa: the swamp became a town.

The “reclamation characters” as new design principles for the
coastal “wet-cities”.
Giuseppe Francesco Rociola

Dipartimento DiCEM, Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Matera, Italy
giusepperociola@yahoo.it
The article proposed investigates the urban development of Marina di Ginosa, a new town founded 89
in twentieth century as a part of reclamation works that changed the structure and identity of the
western plain along the Ionian coast, near Taranto. In it converge two separate but synergic expe-
riences: both the hydraulic-settlement re-arrangement designed by Opera Nazionale Combattenti
in 1920 - which anticipates the design principles of the later interventions in the Pontine Marshes - and
the work of Ente per la Riforma Fondiaria in the Second postwar, which carried out the residential
transformation of the coastal farm lands.
The analysis reveals a complex program in which the reclamation of Stornara marsh and the later
subdivisions of the “new lands” into small plots are aimed toward a “rural urbanization”, implemen-
ted mainly with the construction of towns, villages, farm houses and so-called “service centers”, who-
se importance is emphasized by the absence of earlier settlements in the territory.
Within these phenomena, the transformation process of Marina di Ginosa summarizes the strenuous
attempt to adapt the marshes to human needs, represented by the first temporary village built in the
mid-twenties as a sort of morphogenetic nucleus of the future town, still visible in the structure of the
current urban organism dedicated to the tourism, despite the chaotic development of the last forty
years has denied the syncretism based on the integration of the farmland structure as a planned
matrix of the urban fabric.
This condition characterizes by now the entire coastal strip extended from the area of Metaponto to
the boundary of Taranto industrial district and its crucial environmental issues.
The aim of the research is to find new design principles in the stratified urban-rural process, to define
a coherent development strategies able to connect the contemporary uses of the waterfront and
“woodfront” with the reclamation nature of the place.
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tuto italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente e dai fondi locali. Milano: Touring club italiano
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Height regulation methods for new buildings in urban heritage

sites (Vilnius case)
Dalia Dijokiene
Department of Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University,
Vilnius, Lithuania
ddijokiene@gmail.com
90 International documents of the beginning of the 21st century dealing with cultural heritage protec-
tion attribute equal significance to both contemporary and historical architecture. Contemporary
architecture is subject to the following requirements: respect for historical context, harmony, and
quality. This presentation is based on the analytical work carried out for the eastern part of Vilnius’
old town (UNESCO heritage site). Vilnius’ old town does not represent a complete composition struc-
ture. On the contrary, it is an open structure in a certain stage of its development and only some of
its microstructures are fully developed. Therefore, the composition and functional structure of the old
town need to be developed further. This creates objective grounds for new architecture to appear
in the old town. On the other hand, the built-up that has developed in Vilnius’ old town is considered
to be a historical and highly valuable environment, thus the height of the built-up is treated as final
and the townscape that it creates is viewed as valuable. The objective of the study is to answer the
question what height of new built-up is acceptable in the former historical suburb of Vilnius. The po-
tential impact of new buildings on the panoramas, silhouettes, dominant elements, and perspectives
as well as nominal spaces of that concrete street of the historical suburb is assessed based on the
analysis of the townscape seen from typical external and internal viewing points of the old town. The
presentation describes integrated method of assessing visual effect.
References
Daunora, Z. J.; Kirvaitienė, S.; Vyšniūnas, A. (2004) Vilniaus miesto vizualinio identiteto apsauga ir plėtros principai (VGTU, Tech-
nika, Vilnius).
Feilden, B. M.; Jokilehto, J. (1998) Management guidelines for world cultural heritage sites (Rome: ICCROM).
Meuser, P. (2006) Experiments with convention. European urban planning from Camillo Sitte to New Urbanism, in Krier, R. Town
spaces (Birkhauser – Publishers for Architecture).
Roberts, M., Greed, C. (2007) Approaching Urban Design. The Design Process (Longman).

The Cities of Rome: new projects in historical contexts
Rosalba Belibani, Paola Gregory

Facoltà di Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy
Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italia
rosalba.belibani@uniroma1.it, paola.gregory@polito.it
The work we intend to present results from a research carried out by the Eindhoven Technical Uni- 91
versity, the Turin Polytechnic and the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Rome Sapienza in a
common thesis laboratory with the objective to study The Cities of Rome.
Different aspects of Rome were investigated using a temporal and spatial approach: the first inve-
stigated the urban growth of the city in different historical periods, in order to obtain an overall view
of the city’s development; the second aimed at analysis of eight different streets with the criteria that
each represented a different character of the city.
In the volume The cities of Rome, which collects the work-in-progress of the study groups, the urban
growth of the city is shown by photographing nine historical epochs: each period is represented by
urban maps and architectural fabrics with a brief description of the historical era.
For each of the eight selected streets, there was a careful tracing of the development of the area
throughout the different historical periods - the “city” examined - while urban morphology and typo-
logical analyses were carried out for identifying sensitive urban spaces for new projects.
These spaces and projects were the focus of our work with an aim to solve local problems within
dynamic realities, where transformations of historical areas should compare the morphologies and
urban tissues with new requirements and take into consideration the knowledge and language of
present day society; a manner of also considering what kind of society we are and want to be.
References
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Carandini, A. (2012) Atlante di Roma antica, Electa.
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Continuing intensity. A densification approach for the historic

city of Naples
Ferruccio Izzo, Marianna Ascolese, Alberto Calderoni, Vanna Cestarel-

lo, Francesco Peirce, Jessica Silente
Department of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
ferruccio.izzo@unina.it, marianna.ascolese@gmail.com, calderoni.alb@gmail.com, vanna.
cestarello@gmail.com, fra.peirce@gmail.com, j.silente@libero.it
92 The topic of our paper focuses on density in the European historic city in order to understand possible
negative and positive aspects resulting from continuing to densify its unbuilt spaces.
Our reflection starts in opposition to the homologation processes developing inside the European
city. Our argument recognizes the importance of intense places in its historical centers, generated
by building stratifications as well as by commingling public and private spaces, and looks at them as
good formal construction precedents for designing new ones.
The density of the historic city generates authentic conditions of urbanity and leads different con-
ditions both physical and relational which are able to influence meaningfully the life of places for
people. This idea of density generates urban intensity that is a typical feature of places able to give
meaning to the environmental atmosphere. Intensity can be considered as own feature of tensio-
nal ensembles among different buildings, of their architectural physical elements and in-between
space. The core questions is: what is the specific relationship between building density and urban
intensity in the historic city?
We are looking for possible answers through the development of a new design for the area of the old
hospital of Policlinici in the ancient centre of Naples. This area was altered in the nineteenth-century;
it has never been absorbed by the forma urbis and lacks ancient city own spatial devices. The propo-
sal looks at building intense spaces in the historic city through a densification process able to create
qualitative built-and-unbuilt spaces in continuity with the existing urban fabric.
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AA.VV. (2003) ‘Densità, infill, assemblage’, Lotus 117
Alexander, C. (1977) A Pattern Language (Oxford University Press, New York)
Benjamin, W. (2007) Immagini di città (Einaudi, Torino)
Eberle, D. and Tröger, E. (2014) Density & Atmosphere. On Factors relating to Building Density in the European City (Birkhäuser,
Basilea)
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Pane, R. (2007) Napoli imprevista (Grimaldi & C., Napoli)
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High Density case study: Environmental and energetic opera-

tion on the historical urban fabric in El Ensanche of Valencia
Juan Colomer, Ana Portalés, David Úrios

scuela de Arquitectura de Valencia, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
juancolomeralcacer@gmail.com
Urban high density is one of the most important parameters we required to our cities now a days, 93
in order to increasing sustainable levels. Almost everyone believes the goods of high density cities
against the low density models. Benefits concerns both social and environmental functioning. On
the one hand they permit a better social cohesion due to urban proximity spaces including pocket
parks, local trade, public facilities and allows identity social progress. On the other hand, compact
urban fabrics, reduces energy needs because of the lack of large fuel transportation where an im-
portant part of it is lost along the pipelines, moreover every transportation such as people, medical
or cleaning services, increases their costs both economical and energetic in the diffuse city model.
The present case study, focus on “El Ensanche” of Valencia, takes for real the above said which is
enough contrasted, however it goes one step further. The main idea of the study is to elucidate if
high density model in “El Ensanche” has the same good functioning on some of the most important
environmental parameters such as solar energy irradiation, natural ventilation, sun shading, wind pro-
tection, and how can those urban models be rehabilitated in order to reduce energy dependence.
Urban heritage in European cities claim to be renewal, regenerated and rehabilitated putting the
aye on the energy consumption without destroying its historical essence.
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de Arquitectos de la Comunidad Valenciana.
Fariña, J.. Ciudad sostenible, rehabilitación arquitectónica y regeneración urbana. Revista Aragonesa de Administración
Pública, 2013, vol. 15
Hernandez , A. Calidad de vida y Medio Ambiente Urbano: indicadores locales de sostenibilidad y calidad de vida urbana.
Revista invi, 2009, vol. 24
Olgyay, V.. Arquitectura y clima: manual de diseño bioclimático para arquitectos y urbanistas. Editorial Gustavo Gili, 1998.

Old City of Tripoli and the Contemporary Design:

A remedy to the dilemma.
Mustafa Mezughi
University of Tripoli
mmmezughi@hotmail.com
94 Old Traditional Historical Cities are an outcome of a long slow pragmatic process that involves trial-
and-error, and a merged procedure of thinking and making of a form that can modify the given
climate with the available technology and material. The pragmatic historical context of architecture
embodies the interaction between form and the pattern of life. The built environment modifies and
to be modified by cultural aspect. ‘Change’ and ‘Addition’, both processes are generators of histo-
rical traditional form.
The question that addresses introducing ‘Contemporary Design’ into ‘Traditional Historical Cities’ in-
volves two central issues: the endeavouring of an architect in applying self-conscious graphic pro-
cess on to a pragmatic historical context of which is not a self-conscious. The vital aspect of the
graphic process issue is in the impact of the separation of designing from making, and the use of dra-
wing in place of product as the medium for change and addition. Secondly, is the dilemma of the
approach of ‘Contemporary Design’ to be adopted in such introduction? Architects require more
information about traditional historical cities as they experience more of conflicting opinions, ideas,
constraints and design approaches. These parameters make contemporary change and addition
more complex and uncertain for the architect who is obliged to use existing information to predict a
future state that will not come about unless his/her prediction is precise.
The Old City of Tripoli, Libya demonstrates in this study, as a suitable case study to examine the im-
pact of both; the contemporary design tool and approach on the change and addition that the city
has experienced in its urban fabric and architectural qualities over time.
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‘Mediterraneity’, 1926-1942’ Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories, ed. F. Demis-
sie, Ashgate Publishing Limited, England,
Capresi, Vittoria., (2007) ‘The New Face of Tripoli (Libya) in the Thirties’, Journal Architectura, Citation vol. 37, no. 1, , p. 95-116.
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tal Design Research Centre. pp. 46-55
Day, Christopher., (2002): SPIRIT & PLACE, Oxford: Architectural Press.
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ECOU (2010) Tripoli Old City- Rehabilitation Project. City Code. Tripoli.

Costruire nell’esistente. Tre case per tre città.
Nicola Panzini
DICAR, Politecnico di Bari, Bari
nikipanz@tiscali.it
Nel corso della seconda metà del Novecento si susseguono una serie di esperienze progettuali che 95
risultano emblematiche per la formulazione di modalità di intervento sulla città storica.
Esse rinsaldano il valore della costruzione con quello della forma e reinterpretano i caratteri partico-
lari dei luoghi, la trama strutturale alla base del processo edilizio, il linguaggio e le soluzioni abitative
dell’area culturale di riferimento fino alla innovazione tipologica e al completamento o alla ricon-
figurazione di un ambito urbano. All’interno del tessuto medievale di Udine, Gino Valle innesta una
casa per uffici e appartamento tra il 1963 e il 1965; la dimensione del fabbricato è stabilita dalla par-
ticella del lotto stretto in profondità, sul cui sedime si ripetono le unità delle case a schiera, e il piano
di facciata accoglie la vocazione commerciale del portico rispetto allo spazio privato. Al termine
di una stringa del tessuto seicentesco di Monaco di Baviera, Hans Döllgast costruisce la sua casa
d’abitazione tra il 1953 e il 1954; l’edificio si pone come testa conclusiva di una successione di ma-
nufatti con tetto a spiovente e falde parallele alla strada, che si aprono sul retro ad orti e giardini, e il
profilo della casa si allinea alle preesistenze adiacenti nell’immagine di una cortina ininterrotta. Sulla
scacchiera della maglia ottocentesca di Atene, Aris Konstantinidis colloca una casa d’abitazione
unifamiliare nel 1961; il volume cresce letteralmente dalla terra e fissa la sequenza tettonica delle
sue parti in relazione alla condizione orografica di declivio e all’alternanza dei corpi disposti lungo il
margine del grande isolato.
Queste tre architetture si confrontano con tre momenti differenti della crescita della città e s’interro-
gano, di volta in volta, sulla capacità «d’inserzione del nuovo nel vecchio».
References
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Gaenßler, M., Kurrent, F. (1987) Hans Döllgast 1891-1974 (Callwey, München).
Gregotti, V. (1966) Il territorio dell’architettura (Feltrinelli Editore, Milano).

The return of an interest in morphology in South African urban

design
Sérgio Barreiros Proença, Sérgio Padrão Fernandes

FormaUrbis Lab, CIAUD, Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade de Lisboa
sergiobarreirosproenca@gmail.com, sergiopadrao@gmail.com
96 The portuguese term praça (square) is rooted in the Latin word platea and it is used to identify a pu-
blic space of an exceptional character that is morphologically distinct from the channel-like spaces
that streets make. However, very different spaces correspond to this apparently clear morphology,
covered by varied nomenclature and which in some way are not a cultural constant.
The research project made by the Forma Urbis Lab, that led to the publishing of the books Squares
in Portugal and Squares in the Azores - A Public Space Inventory, took on the job of fact-finding,
graphic restitution and illustrating the main examples of squares in Portugal, with the intention for the
work to be a representative body of the diverse typology, the state of development, dimensions and
usages of this so particular type of public space.
Stemming from the research work that makes up the inventory of public squares in Portugal, two
projects for very different public spaces were developed in our architectural office: one for a church
square in a small village near Coimbra, in the centre of Portugal, and the other one for a new square
in the Azorean island of Santa Maria. The first square has been an important public space since the
early Roman occupation of the site; the second is a completely new public space that was pre-
viously occupied by an urban block.
The presentation underlines the influences and relations between the architectural research deve-
loped in the Academy and the practice of Project, i.e. how the research influenced the creation of
reference spaces for the contemporary and future society.
References
Auzele, R.; Jankovic, Ivan. (s.d.) Encyclopédie de l’urbanisme (Paris, Vincent Fréal et C. Editeurs).
Dias Coelho, C.; Lamas, J. (coords.) (2007) A Praça em Portugal - Continente, Inventário de Espaço Público/ Squares in Portu-
gal – Mainland. 3 vol. (Lisboa, FAUTL/DGOTDU)
Dias Coelho, C.; Lamas, J. (coords.) (2005) A Praça em Portugal - Açores, Inventário de Espaço Público/ Squares in Portugal –
Azores (Ponta Delgada, FAUTL/DROTRH)
Vragnaz, G. (1995) Roma: 1527-1621. Modificazioni della città e disegno degli spazi aperti in Benevolo, L. (ed.) Metamorfosi
della Città, (Italy, Civitas Europaea, Credito Italiano, Garzanti, Scheiwiller)

Processes of urban renewal in the Mediterranean city, between

permanences and mutations
Antonio Vito Riondino

DICAR - Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Polytechnic of Bari (Italy)
av.riondino@libero.it
The objective of the dissertation is to investigate the potentiality of reading the historical phenome- 97
na, in the project of renovation of the contemporary city. It’s an update that has a critical-operating
horizon aimed to resolve the contradictions between permanences and transformations; between
the sites of History and places of new social anthropologies; between the “ordinary architecture”
and architecture of the new “languages”, in which their problematic framework is the basis of the
critical review of contemporary design.
This study is part of a larger research conducted for years by the Department of Architecture of the
Polytechnic of Bari.
Specific place for such a study is the Mediterranean city, investigated through a series of degree
thesis on these city-sample: Athens, Nicosia (Cyprus), Seville; cities that represent an extraordinary
investigation and experimentation field, because of their historical and archaeological heritage and
the transformation phenomena underway for decades.
Subject of this experimentation is the attempt to resolve the contradictions caused by the disconti-
nuity between the consolidated urban fabrics and those built by the recent transformations, to link
them through possible “diachronic dialogues” able to form a “new organicity” in an evolutionary
framework targeted to the general urban updating .
Following this goal, the projects are the result of an approach based on the “circularity” of this urban
corpus, trying to transform the criticality of its internal relationships, in a possible matter of solidarity,
the same by which to provide to the city with the tools to make the transformation processes the
basis to protect its historical heritage.
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The return of an interest in morphology in South African urban

design
Fereshteh Beigli, Seyed Jamalaldin Hosseini

DICEA, the Department of Civil, Constructional and Environmental Engineeering, La Sapienza
University of Rome, Italy
febe201415@gmail.com
Roma, sjh@gmail.com
98 Concentration on the unique Iranian traditional urbanism offered us its numerous positive aspects;
which provide us more thoughts about the process of appropriate designing methods, applicable
construction, and optimal environmental and thermal condition inside the buildings. Cities created
at the heart of the ground, within Iranian traditional urbanism, can be considered an efficient suita-
ble solution for higher environmental sustainability due to their providing thermal comfort, optimal
climate for inhabitants and passive design for suitable heating, cooling, ventilation and light. Those
cities used maximum potential of the earth in order to provide optimal condition in terms of energy
consumption and environmentally friendly.
The purpose of this research is introducing different buried components of the cities particularly hou-
sing in various regions of Iran. Furthermore analyzing and indicating how these cities create proper
environmental condition and thermal comfort with the minimum energy consumption. A glance on
the architecture in the past periods gives us some valuable principles which can be used in contem-
porary urbanism more over gives urban designer awareness and new approach to apply climatic
strategies in appropriate way in contemporary urbanism.
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V. Ghobadian, “Climatological Investigation of Iranian Historical Buildings”. University of Tehran, 2012.

The spreading city: archaeological excavations of the Roman

city for the enhance of contemporary city
Giuseppe Arcidiacono
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria. Dipartimento di Architettura e Territorio, dArTe
giuseppe.arcidiacono@unirc.it
In 1910 Loos wrote: Modern civilization is based on ancient greatness [...], one thought unify great 99
architects. They think: as I build, so ancient Romans would have built. But he warns: We know that
they are wrong. Time, place, purpose, climate, environment prohibit this estimate. But what is the
meaning of this message, that shows us the way and - at the same time- forbids embarking it? After
Loos, antiquity will be no more a repositorium where our identity resides; but the Classic is Das Andere,
the place of otherness. The modern-desperate artist, as Füssli (1778), facing the greatness of roman
ruins- now knows that the Classic is a silent presence: that must be interrogated, knowing that every
question will come back like an echo, measuring an absence. But for us, it is essential to look at this
absence, to fill it with the presence of our projects, with the aid of the myth. Myth precedes sciences
in time and space: myth is inscribed in places; while science is a mapping that ends up covering real
spaces - land grabbing (Serres): for this, a scientific discussion on archaeological sites cannot be divi-
ded from myth. Myth inscribed in places gives voice to them: giving voice to the places through the
project is the leitmotif of the Atelier UNIRC Thesis: those thesis aimed to deepen dialogue strategies
between the Old and New in architecture, applying them to the urban context of Vibo Valentia and
its archaeological park of the Roman city.

Different Architectural Features of Persian Bazaars in Four Ma-
cro Climates of Iran
Ghodratollah Rasoulinejad, Alireza Dodangi

Department of Architectural Engineering, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran,
Iran
rasoulinezhad@yahoo.com
Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Faculty of Architectural Engineering ,
Tehran, Iran
ali1dodangi@gmail.com
100 Climate is one of the most important factors that effects on the framework of the Iranian historical
bazaars. Iran has four macro climates, that in every climate their framework differ from each other.
In this paper we consider Bazaars’ environmental variables, such as height, materials, width and
height ratios, and etc. Then we compare these factors, and find that they differ from each other
and findings show; the climate of bazaars’ situation is effective factor in their space and geometry
formation.
In mild and humid climate that include Caspian sea wayside cities such as Rasht, Lahijan, , Toneka-
bon, Sari and Gorgan we find that bazaars often don’t have any arches and they are almost cove-
red by sloping roofs of the shops. If the passage is covered with an arch, the airflow won’t be able to
circulate the humid weather of the bazaar.
The north littoral of Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman has a hot and humid climate and the bazaars of
this area are located in the cities of Bushehr, Ahvaz, Bandar Abbas, Khorramshahr and Bandar Len-
geh. The first priority in this type of bazaar is to prevent the direct sun shine and facilitate the circula-
tion. Accordingly, the passages are covered with high sunshades.
Because of the cold and dry climate in highlands like Hamadan, Zanjan, Sanandaj, Tabriz and Arda-
bil, bazaars are roofed and have a concentrated and compressed texture. The height of the passa-
ges is low (6m Max.) and the width is between 4 to 5 meters. In comparison with the central area of
Iran, the roof of the passages are low and the small apertures on the roofs are responsible for both
illumination and circulation. The roofed and twisted passages not only make a spectacular space,
but also they bring in thermal equilibrium for the bazaars in summers and winters.
Hot and arid climate in the central areas of Iran is situated in Kashan, Isfahan, Yazd, Shiraz and Ker-
man. The form of the bazaars in these cities are like those in highlands and they mostly have arches.
As the sunshine and the heat are more important to confront in these areas, bazaars have higher
arches and wider passages and apertures. Arches are acting as sunshades in summers. In winters,
they are operating as a thermal capacitor and equilibrate the temperature and living conditions. In
addition, they prevent dusts and desert winds to find a way in the bazaars.
Eventually, the results have shown that some formal characteristics and inspired models of ancient
bazaars’ architecture have the capacity to being upgraded and then implement in the construction
of the modern marketplaces.
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Sapienza University of Rome Faculty of Architecture

3rd ISUFitaly International Congress I Rome, 23-24 February 2017

LEARNING FROM ROME

3rd ISUF ITALY|International Seminar on Urban Form

3rd ISUF ITALY| International Seminar on Urban Form

LEARNING FROM ROME | historical cities and contemporary design

3rd ISUF ITALY|International Seminar on Urban Form

LEARNING FROM ROME | historical cities and contemporary design

plenary session Learning from Rome

Pour une approche cognitive aux problèmes

Brevi note su una lettura in evoluzione di Roma

parallel sessions Theory | New-old Methodologies for Contempo-

Reading | Tools and Analisys of Urban Fabric

Design | Urban Space and Contemporary De-

LEARNING FROM ROME | historical cities and contemporary design

I A.1 Theories and Methodologies pg. 18

Urban composition. Imaginary versions of Rome inspired by

Morphological gaps within the structure of the contempo-

Plastic city. Transforming the (built) reality.

Architecture and Planning. Aporias in contemporary rege-

I A.2 Theories and Design pg. 24

Il concetto del divenire strutturale nel progetto dei tessuti

Processes of Reconstruction of the Aleppos Urban Lan-

Transformation is conservation. Modification as project’s

Project, policy, The competition of new office building of

Learning from the built city.

3rd ISUF ITALY|International Seminar on Urban Form

Cartography and iconography as diachronic analysis tools

The formation process of public space: from urban fabric to

Using typo-morphology to save formal quality in historic di-

The origin, further transformations and present-day impor-

Compacting Rome. A systemic approach for a sustainable

The Block and Street dialectic. Lisbon as a lab for reading

LEARNING FROM ROME | historical cities and contemporary design

II B.2 Historical Cities 1 pg. 36

Poundbury: example of Sustainable Urbanism signed by a

Florentia-Clepardia, the former town and historic district of

Evoluzione della città di Liegi.

Reading and design in Naples.

Morphological transformations in Damascus.

Examination of roofed alley as an element of compact city

II C.1 Historical Cities 2 pg. 42

Salvaguardare la città. Nicola Salvi e la perduta cappella

Recovery of the Bobadela Roman Amphitheater.

Rome. Archaeology’s places and contemporary uses.

Finding the roman amphitheater and horrea of Lisbon.

Forma urbana e organizzazione strutturale delle città nord

Commemoration of lost urban heritage in contemporary

3rd ISUF ITALY|International Seminar on Urban Form

Reading of primordial Axes for the City structure understan-

Chromatic identity in the ancient and new architecture.

Morphological transformation of the main street of large

Typology and framework analysis of Iranian caravansaries

Transformation and typological innovation. The case study

Forms and Evolutions of Tunpu Villages in Guizhou, Southwest

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Urban fabric and primary elements. The case-study of

The Grammar of Italian Modernism in Albania: Transforming

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