To the well-known story of the transformations of contemporary architectural and urban heritage in Italy, we can associate a reading highlighting a very particular phenomenon. Many transformations, voluntarily slow and latent, are imperceptible in the short term. They originate an interrupted landscape dotted with incomplete buildings characterized by different degrees of finiteness: structural frames, platforms, enclosures. The reasons for this state of affairs are not only due to the effects produced by economic crisis, but to a progressive constructive culture considering the project as a limiting deterministic system. Starting from this premise, the contribution wants to show possible new design criteria and strategies to be applied to this vast potential heritage. They are based on a different research about unity in building and urban composition. A reflection, therefore, assuming the interpretation of the non-finiteness in architecture as nucleus.
Designing for the “first life” of non-finite architectural heritage.
COSTANZO, Francesco
2015
Abstract
To the well-known story of the transformations of contemporary architectural and urban heritage in Italy, we can associate a reading highlighting a very particular phenomenon. Many transformations, voluntarily slow and latent, are imperceptible in the short term. They originate an interrupted landscape dotted with incomplete buildings characterized by different degrees of finiteness: structural frames, platforms, enclosures. The reasons for this state of affairs are not only due to the effects produced by economic crisis, but to a progressive constructive culture considering the project as a limiting deterministic system. Starting from this premise, the contribution wants to show possible new design criteria and strategies to be applied to this vast potential heritage. They are based on a different research about unity in building and urban composition. A reflection, therefore, assuming the interpretation of the non-finiteness in architecture as nucleus.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.