LEISURE Luca Galofaro
LEISURE Luca Galofaro
LEISURE Luca Galofaro
1.D6 ATELIER
2.SITES
3.BOOKS
4.KEY PROJECTS
5.LECTURES
6.EXERCICES
A NEW URBAN DIMENSION: LEISURE TIME
Making the city center - Luca Galofaro
Mariabruna Fabrizi, Fosco Lucarelli (MICROCITIES)
Labour, but also new models of production that arise in the post-
war years within an ever increasing automation are not depicted
or represented by neo-avant-gardist projects for a new leisure
society, even though labour is an immanent part of the postulated
creative life of the homo ludens.
he target of the course is to determine models of a leisure time
architecture, as a direct consequence of the spread of the imma-
terial labor- a concept coined by the Italian workingclass move-
ment of the 1950-60, who’s main leaders are Antonio Negri and
Paolo Virno.
1 Il Circo Massimo
2 he archaeological area in Piazza Argentina
3 Via dei Fori Imperiali
Here students have to plan a free space interacting with the ru-
ins, building a place as an immaterial work space, as a social and
entertainment relation. A place to share knowledge , developing
a quality capable of standing out against the market request. No
shopping mall, neither museum but places where life, culture,
politics are absorbed in an ever growing relations space. he
space for leisure originate in opposition with the strong historic
space and the generic space of contemporary architecture, made
by a world of no-places. Today no-places are the only non codi-
ied space where it is possible to spend our free time following
the consumer logic. Today is necessary to understand them in
order to completelyreinvent the possibility to be places.
1.
Rome is today the narrative of two cities. he city of the hystoric
space, kept in a crystallized image, object of a kitch resigniica-
tion by the tourism industry, the monumental and archaeological
areas converted into a fertile ground for exploitation by virtue of
their own speciic suspension, their absence from time.
And the “living city”, on the run from the condition of periph-
eral capital, looking for the modernization of the communication
lows, subject to rapid demographic and social change. he Rome
of the light of the inhabitants from the center, of the jobs in the
suburbs, of the vehicular traic. he city that seems to forget his
past, but that hardly reaches modernity.
herefore, the two cities, two opposed times, live a friction that
unfolds in the metastasis of the barriers and the gates around
the archaeological sites, by now terrains vagues alienated from
the rest of the urbe. he physical line of separation (in all its
variants or typologies, from nineteenth-century walls to ivy
covered scafoldage) seems to transcend the role of temporary
protection or of regulation of access, to hide -much more sub-
tly- a roman vernacular form of today’s post-ideological poli-
tics. A politics that renounces to its very constitutive dimen-
sion, in order to convert into good administration of safety and
welfare, where “fear” becomes a means for mobilizing masses.
It goes without saying that surveillance, protection, barriers be-
come the instruments of implementation of a persuasive cam-
paign based on insecurity.
Locked in a “cage”, the monument now lives a life similar to that
of an animal in a natural reserve: protected and apparently safe
from civilization, but in fact imprisoned within an island. In-
spected by generic tourism which does not speak its language, the
monument is unable to “remember”, is dumb. Present with only
its physical shell, its meaning is emptied out.
2.
Historical and contemporary space
3.
he present: a landscape full of “weak” reappropriation.
In Fellini’s “Rome,” the cars around the Colosseum, the “new” ur-
ban actors in the multitude of traic, lead to a grotesque syncre-
tism of urban feast, the carnival of lights, sounds, events, similar
to that of the odd collective dinner at the Festa de Noantri, a few
scenes before. he monument is never just background, evidence
of a time gone, but it is actor in the tragicomic show of life and
city: here then the great night motorcycles’ raids during the long
inal scene, when they seem to emerge from obscurity to join, in an
imaginary line, the spread episodes of the past and of the present.
It seems urgent to redraw that line.
“Massimo Silenzio“ 2007 light installation by Giancarlo Neri in the Circus Maximus.
SITES
Circo Massimo
he archaeological area in Piazza Argentina
Via dei Fori Imperiali
Circo Massimo
Cedric Price
he only historical models, which appealed to Price, and Littlewood were London's great public pleasure gardens
of the eighteenth century at Vauxhall and Ranelagh, which served the broadest possible demography of London
until the advent of the Industrial Revolution. Since Littlewood's ‘idea' prescribed no particular program or ixed
activities, Price decided that it should have no speciic form and no ixed loor plan. It would not be truly ‘com-
plete' or even a ‘building' in any conventional sense of the word. Was it possible that the users could ‘design' it
as they used it? Rather than design a conventional building to contain Littlewood's luid and transformational
program, Price began to conceive a skeletal framework, like a garden trellis, within and around which activities
might grow and develop: Its form and structure, resembling a large shipyard in which enclosures such as thea-
tres, cinemas, restaurants, workshops, rally areas, can be assembled, moved, rearranged and scrapped continu-
ously. Its mechanically operated environmental controls are such that it can be sited in a hard dirty industrial
area unsuited to more conventional types of amenity buildings.
he varied and ever-changing activities will determine the form of the building.
hus the prime motivation of the space is caused by the people and their activities and the resultant form
is continually dependent on them. he fact that such enjoyment does take place within the pathetic areas
in Roma's suburbia gives a clue to the immense potential for enjoyment in an area that encourages random
movement and variable activities, which is characterized by lows of completely diferent people.
Crystal Palace
Joseph Paxton
he Great Conservatory was the test-bed for the prefabricated glass and iron structural techniques which
Paxton pioneered and would employ for his masterpiece: he Crystal Palace of the Great Exhibition of 1851.
hese techniques were made physically possible by recent technological advances in the manufacture of both
glass and cast iron, and inancially possible by the dropping of a tax on glass.
Its novelty was its revolutionary modular, prefabricated design, and use of glass. Glazing was carried out
from special trolleys, and was fast: one man managed to ix 108 panes in a single day. he Palace was 1,848
feet long, 408 feet (124 m) wide and 108 feet (33 m) high. It required 4,500 tons of iron, 60,000 cubic feet of
timber and needed over 293,000 panes of glass. Yet it took 2,000 men just eight months to build, and cost just
£79,800. Quite unlike any other building, it was itself a demonstration of British technology in iron and glass.
In its construction, Paxton was assisted by Charles Fox, also of Derby for the iron framework, and William
Cubitt Chairman of the Building Committee. All three were knighted. Ater the exhibition they were em-
ployed by the Crystal Palace Company to move it to Sydenham where it was destroyed in 1936 by a ire.
No-Stop City
Archizoom
For Archizoom, no-stop city perfomed a scientiic analysis of the contemporary urban condition. Branzi
explains:
No stop city was a mental project, a sort of theoretical diagram of an amoral city, a city without qualities…
the nihilistic logic of the maximum quantity was the only logic of the system in which we were living; instead of
denying this logic, we decided to make use of its inner workings to achieve a demystiication of all its ideals of
quality and at the same time to carry out scientiic research into the real nature of the metropolis
Salvataggi dei centri storici
Superstudio
Superstudio - Salvataggio dei centri storici 1972
gabriele mastrigli
Rome, 18-09-2011
Gabriele Mastrigli is an architect and critic living in Rome. He investigates the relationship between archi-
tects' designing and writing, researching publishing as a critical form of architecture - the main subject of his
PhD dissertation.
He is a regular contributor to the National Daily il Manifesto and its cultural supplement Alias. His articles
and essays appeared inArquitectura Viva, Domus, Log, Lotus international, Volume, and the Chinese Maga-
zine World Architecture. In 2006 he published "Junkspace," a critical anthology of Rem Koolhaas' recent
writings (Quodlibet). In 2007 he was the curator of the exhibition Holland-Italy 10 Works of Architecture,
promoted by the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Rome and hosted by the MAXXI-National Museum of the
21st Century Arts.
Since 1998 he has been teaching heory and Design at Ascoli Piceno School of Architecture and Cornell
University Rome Program and has been visiting lecturer and guest critic at Penn State University, Ohio State
University, Yale University, Berlage Institute Rotterdam. Since 2000 he has been a consultant to the Italian
Ministry of Culture's Department of Contemporary Art and Architecture. He studied at the University of
Rome "La Sapienza" and at the RWTH Aachen (Germany).
TITRE DE LA CONFERENCE / LECTURE’S TITLE: Discontinuity is a structured condition of the European metropolis and
it can be recognised in the tension between two opposing ideas of the
ARCHAEOLOGY, a centre, a system for the representation of political, social and religious
values that justify and orient these activities. This tension between the
two souls of the European city that, during the Modern era, progressive-
IDEOLOGY, ly dissolved into the respective and ever more self-referential domains of
urban planning (the increasingly abstract system of rules) and architec-
ture (the obsessive and autistic accumulation of exceptions), has always
ARCHITECTURE constituted the richest and most original patrimony of the European
city, whose peculiarity can, in the end, be traced back to the urban his-
tory of the city of Rome, namely in the physical and symbolical pres-
ence of its archaeology, one of the most powerful, ideological engines of
modernity.
GABRIELE MASTRIGLI
Gabriele Mastrigli is an architect and critic living in Rome. Since 1998 he has been teaching heory and Design at Ascoli Piceno School of
Architecture and the Cornell in Rome Program in addition to being a visiting lecturer and guest critic at Penn State University, Ohio State
University, Yale University, Berlage Institute Rotterdam. Since 2000 Mastrigli has been a consultant to the Italian Ministry of Culture’s
Department of Contemporary Art and Architecture. He studied at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and at the RWTH Aachen (Germany).
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alberto iacovoni
Rome, 18-09-2011
Alberto Iacovoni is a founding member of the Rome-based architecture practice ma0/emmeazero whose
work has been recently published by Damdi in a monograph for the Design Document series. He is the cura-
tor of a playgrounds section dedicated to interactive and open architecture for the webzine www.architettura.
it, which builds on research from his 2004 book, Game Zone: Playgrounds between Virtual Scenarios and
Reality. With Gabriele Mastrigli, Iacovoni is teaching an architecture theory course in the Cornell in Rome
program this fall.
Architectural culture oten puts in the background public
areas, being more careful in the exceptional object constituting
the landscape instead of the background itself, becoming the
most troublesome issue in the contemporary town.
he problem on the public area is based not only on the con-
temporary economical and social dynamics, which tend to
fragment in a series of surrounded and controlled area linked
to the private mobility, but also in some peculiar quality which
make the planning very diicult and also unpredictable for
the success. his quality can be summarized on four diferent
contradictions, which apparently are outside of the speciic
instruments an architect can use:
CONTRA- his four contradictions highlight the need for the project
to come out of the fence, changing his own instrument of
DICTIONS research and building , from full to empty, from site to wide
context, from public to private, from architecture to society.
IN PUBLIC
In other words the need of a project capable of extending the
entire polis and to take charge of being political.
SPACE
ALBERTO IACOVONI / ma0
Alberto Iacovoni is a founding member of the Rome-based architecture practice ma0/emmeazero whose work has been recently published
by Damdi in a monograph for the Design Document series. He is the curator of a playgrounds section dedicated to interactive and open
architecture for the webzine www.architettura.it, which builds on research from his 2004 book, Game Zone: Playgrounds between Virtual
Scenarios and Reality. With Gabriele Mastrigli, Iacovoni is teaching an architecture theory course in the Cornell in Rome program this fall.
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microcities
Paris 30-09-2011
ARCHITECTURE
AND LEISURE
léa-catherine szacka
Paris, 8-10-2011
ROMA
INTERROTTA:
WHEN 12 ARCHITECTS
PLAY WITH THE CITY
LÉA-CATHERINE SZACKA - BSC M.ARCH.
PhD Candidate, Bartlett School of Architecture
Chargée de recherche, Histoire des expositions au Musée national d’art moderne-Cci/Centre Pompidou
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ROMA INTERROTTA:
WHEN 12 ARCHITECTS PLAY WITH THE CITY
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FIRST EXERCISE
IDEA OF LEISURE
Judith Angel
Gerardo Chavez Maza
Melinda Cohen
Hicham Cherif d’Ouazzane
George Dallos
Lee Hyojn
Lee Hyunduck
Li Yawei
Lancelot Laeufer
Ann Margaret Monteclaro
Louise Morisseau
Xianlin Ning
homas Quentin Pauliac
Harold Pecout
Cheng Peng
Anna Plachta
Stafan Rosvall
Nuria Shu
Sebastien hé
Hannah Veit
Wenke Volkmann
Xie Yan
Judith Angel
Melinda Cohen
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TIME
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SPACE
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Gerardo Chavez Maza
Nuria Shu
interior space
mobility of furniture
stephy. 36 years for activities that
sat/earlymoring
need a roof so you can use the space
business woman as needed
QUIET LEISURE
leisure: birdwatching
sports
multiplicity talk about bee. 24 years
books
this leisure place mon-tues-sun/lunch
interior designer
can be spred all over leisure: read-run
the city and can music
be enjoyed 24/7
jason. 24 years
tory. 34 years mon-thurs-sat/night
tues-thurs/lunch art student
construction worker leisure: photograhpy
leisure: reflexion painting-talk
astrology
josh. 21 years
everyday
architect student
leisure: rest- reflexion
talk-cinema
john. 10 years
mon-fri-sat/morning
future doctor
leisure: kids reading
drawing
get in
love
talk about
their leisure time
ines. 27 years
NOISY LEISURE
fri/night
designer
leisure: talk
cinema-dance
jade. 48 years
thurs/lunch
scientific
leisure: whatch people
music
teach
beatrice. 48 years about life
fri-sun/morning
doctor peter. 18 years
leisure: carfts mon-sat/early morning
talk about read-skate ex prisoner
different stars
leisure: exchange talk about
talk-cinema experiences
teach
arts and crafts pastora. 48 years
thurs-sun/night
owner of buildings
leisure: carfts
drawing
talk about
shopping and sales
angel. 56 years
thurs-fri-sat/morning
pet lover
leisure: cinema
birdwatching
ron. 53 years
everyday/evening
fabric worker
leisure: cinema
rest
amanda. 55 years
wed-fri/night
rene. 110 years judge
laura. 18 years take pictures everyday/lunch
one to an other leisure: rest-read
sat/midnight oldest person in the city photografy
secretary leisure: rest-reflexion
leisure: reading birdwatching
dance
carlos. 63 years
tues-fri/early morning
ex militar
leisure: dance
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reading
UR
bird watching
interesting: relax and
common space do other activities
space where you can
interact with other people
that have the same or
diferent interests
IS
ana. 47 years
sat-sun/early morning
in/out painter
leisure: photography
space can
richard. 85 years
drawing-painting
sun/morning
be opened embassador talk about
experiences
to exterior but
LE
leisure: excercise
photography
haveing a roof
sell photos
sue. 31 years
wed-fri-sat/evening
personal trainer discus about
leisure: reflexion paintings
isabelle. 4 years
painting-drawing
everyday/morning
preschool student
leisure: dance clorinda. 15 years
crafts mon-tues-wed/evening
lee hom. 76 years bird lover
fri-sun/everyday leisure: photograhpy
phicologist rest-astrology
leisure: boardgames
julius. 43 years reading-rest
tues/lunch-night talk about
shopping and sales
celo player
leisure: cimena diego. 53 years
music-kids reading tues/lunch-midnight
exterior space convict
leisure: whatch people
duck. 70 years
ben. 27 years friday/early morning multi functional
everyday/midnight retired
watch man leisure: echange you can use the space to
leisure: jogging
dance-music
walk-concerts
do what ever you want
april. 35 years
mon-tues-sat/night
in your leisure time
fashion designer
leisure: photograhpy
birdwatch
Hicham Cherif d’Ouazzane
George Dallos
Lee Hyojn
Lee Hyunduck
Li Yawei
Cheng Peng
Xie Yan
Lancelot Laeufer
Ann Margaret Monteclaro
Stafan Rosvall
Virtually
Communicating
Assisting
Traveling
Playing
Communicating
Assisting
Meditating
Meditating
Communicating
Louise Morisseau
Xianlin Ning
Anna Plachta
• Exercise
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homas Quentin Pauliac
Harold Pecout
1/100°
Hannah Veit
Wenke Volkmann