Despite the catastrophic snow and weather reports, the series "Postcards from the Netherlands' Order of Architects Varese continued as planned. Wednesday, December 1, Giuseppe Scaglione and Filip Geerts directly from Trento and the Netherlands, have conducted an evening dedicated to a double view on the situation of architecture in Italy and the history of planning in the Netherlands. Opening the conference was Scaglione, engaged since 1985 in projects that refer to the relationship between architecture and urbanism . And the comparison between urban planning and architecture marked the beginning of 'intervention the professor who, perhaps even provocative tone, said that, ultimately, the most interesting things produced in Italy do not come "by exegetes of architecture, but as an offshoot of architecture and urbanism." If architecture is still very much tied to the "Beaux Artes", and then undertook to study the form and composition, said Scaglione, urban planning, are confronted with issues such as the transformation of the cruel city, is a true work in progress .
And, speaking of the city transformed, Scaglione has been shown to present the destruction of the suburbs of some Italian cities, with images of important photographers : photos taken from the outskirts of Milan, Gabriele Basilico, rather than those which immortalize Armin Linke Naples, showed "disturbing episodes of the Italian way", the work of architects who have worked senseless without thinking of the future
cities, coming to destroy their identity. In contrast, Scaglione said it was essential in a good city plan, "taking into account all the changes, identifying the steps of continuity and contiguity". The design of any element in the city, must be sensitive to the context. In particular, Scaglione examines the infrastructure, which too often have "hurt the landscape, without producing any osmotic relationship with the territory. In this regard, the professor presented a project he's working on the transformation of 'A22 . "We are working to change the skin of this motorway," says Scaglione and to do that, "we are taking into account the role that these facilities have in the future." First, many schemes have been carried out to understand how the highway is part of the territory, so it was decided to design new interactive platforms that not only take account of resting places for the drivers, hotels, restaurants, car parks to provide side public transportation into the city more environmentally friendly. The barriers were designed by the team Scaglione function as photovoltaics and identification features of the highway, especially since screenprinted Reil and the guard made with a natural material, Corten. The project is an example dell'Ausotrada A22, according to the bands, as it should be a good design, sensitive to the landscape and context and, above all, communicated in an appropriate manner, because, as the professor said, "you need to know good experiences, to expose themselves and sometimes, even for questioning. " 
After Scaglione, intervention of Filip Geerts has emerged as a kind of overview on the history of planning in the Netherlands introduced by a quotation from "Travelogues" De Amicis (late nineteenth century) which is well summed up the whole speech. "Who looks for the first time a map of Holland is surprised that a country so there can be: it seems is to disintegrate at any moment." The Dutch territory, so hostile to the presence of man from the Netherlands suggest that the name may derive from the word "hell", hell, always has been, for Dutch architects and planners, an element of challenge, to be tamed. For seven hundred years the Dutch have had to adapt and fight against the sea, by whatever means were available. It 'was the particular shape of the Netherlands to lead to the creation of another concept, that of " Ramstad," for which the city, the Netherlands, has never conceived as a nucleus in its own right, but it is an integral part of a system of cities linked together as a sort of network.
urban level, there is then, in Dutch, a term " Maakbaarhed" that sums up the concept of "build," intended both as a concrete way to turn ideas into reality, both as an ideological concept.
In his overview, Geerts focuses on two
historical dates, 1901 and 1941, two key moments in the history of Dutch urban planning. In 1901, when the law was adopted on cohousing and is made with the closure of the Zuiderzee dam 35 km into the sea, Lely Plan designed by architects and planners come into close relationship with each other to completely redesign the country.
And in 1941, the year of the bombing of Rotterdam and period of great destruction caused by the war, Holland is forced to rethink and redesign many cities. Among these, Rotterdam will be rebuilt in '44 by the work of Van Traa, and Amsterdam will see many architects, including Lely, discuss to find solutions best.
geography, history and territorial structure of Holland were the factors with which, again, Dutch architects and designers have had to face, reaching extreme solutions such as the polder, and often arrive at solutions that perfectly combine the poiesis and pragmatic plan of "Maakbaarhed.
Interview with Giuseppe Scaglione
Interview with Filip Geerts
0 comments:
Post a Comment