Pompei encloses an entire theory of architectural space in the form of a city. It’s a city in which the urban space is derived from a development and from a specific reasoning on a volumetric prototype and its composition through points of view. The “double”, or the doubling of the ancient Pompei in a new “mute city” represents an experiment, which try to define an idea of the city that is both image and repeating of its own landscape at different scale levels. The entire tectonic plan of the city is a new artificial soil, its base to territorial scale, new urban concept. As a fault or a plaque, the plateaus of new foundation duplicate those of the city, next to. It is like the crystallization of the dream of a lost city, adjacent to the site of its domain. The “plastic unconscious” of an excavated city as a future archeology, dug into an ever-changing campaign plan, inhabited again between the hypogean level and the recovered roof level in landscape scale, represents the starting point for the definition of new islets lived to the north-east of the Nolana street, outside the precint of the excavations. The new district becomes a small horizontal city designed by fragments, as if they were progressively traced by an excavation. The movements of the earth line define the distribution and the stratification of the spaces and houses and the new microcity, by configuring the foundation plan as a plastic and excavated zone, belonging to the long-time indefinitely. Thus, the development and the study of the court-systems, has led naturally to an attempt of reconsolidation of the aggregate into “inhabited plattforms with the eyes to sky”. The houses, without windows, such as those of ancient Pompei, capture the nature and the landscape through the courtyards and constitute an uninterrupted sequence of micro-islands. The thought was to translate the concept of block or neighborhood, or condominium, in a particular landscape shape of the way of living.
Pompeian Doublure Una città come prototipo: due concetti per una nuova forma
DI DOMENICO, Corrado
2012
Abstract
Pompei encloses an entire theory of architectural space in the form of a city. It’s a city in which the urban space is derived from a development and from a specific reasoning on a volumetric prototype and its composition through points of view. The “double”, or the doubling of the ancient Pompei in a new “mute city” represents an experiment, which try to define an idea of the city that is both image and repeating of its own landscape at different scale levels. The entire tectonic plan of the city is a new artificial soil, its base to territorial scale, new urban concept. As a fault or a plaque, the plateaus of new foundation duplicate those of the city, next to. It is like the crystallization of the dream of a lost city, adjacent to the site of its domain. The “plastic unconscious” of an excavated city as a future archeology, dug into an ever-changing campaign plan, inhabited again between the hypogean level and the recovered roof level in landscape scale, represents the starting point for the definition of new islets lived to the north-east of the Nolana street, outside the precint of the excavations. The new district becomes a small horizontal city designed by fragments, as if they were progressively traced by an excavation. The movements of the earth line define the distribution and the stratification of the spaces and houses and the new microcity, by configuring the foundation plan as a plastic and excavated zone, belonging to the long-time indefinitely. Thus, the development and the study of the court-systems, has led naturally to an attempt of reconsolidation of the aggregate into “inhabited plattforms with the eyes to sky”. The houses, without windows, such as those of ancient Pompei, capture the nature and the landscape through the courtyards and constitute an uninterrupted sequence of micro-islands. The thought was to translate the concept of block or neighborhood, or condominium, in a particular landscape shape of the way of living.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
