City In Translation Davide Maggio Yearbook 2015-2016
UniversitĂ IUAV di Venezia
TREVISO Italy LONDON United Kingdom SIRACUSA Italy HAMBURG Germany PADOVA Italy
URBAN MORFOLOGY Silea, Treviso, Veneto, IT In the last 50 years the unstoppable modernization process of the communication systems has produced a radical transformation of the territory that nowadays appears to be made of urban spots and networks composed of integrated flows. The marginal areas, entangled in infrastructure networks, characterize mostly the suburbs, which are made and then immediately forgotten by the street. They are spaces, sometimes empty, that inevitably transform into actual enclaves, wiped out by the degradation. They are static and virgin places in which the contemporary project can give life to a new role to reestablish a value. The contemporary city, with its rapid and heavy processes, that are too fast to be absorbed by the historical sedimentation and by the physical and social coherences, nowadays composes a quite complex phenomenological context. It’s an elusive space, reluctant to be described, an explosion of a mosaic composed of different and distinct fragments. Historically, the city evolution was identifiable with the continuity category. The urban morphology and the place hierarchy were determined from easily recognizable social and economic phenomena. It is necessary to act on the urban context relying on the role of the project which must solve the current
problems and which presumes a supervised development in the future years. The project has to be focused both on the quality of life and on the identity of the society that lives there. It is necessary to act on the landscape involving every space of our living and foreshadowing a new urban scenario. In the past the transformative action was aimed at creating places, that is suitable living environments made of a combination of private and public spaces; it was inconceivable to live without the relationships with the community and the places.
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1. Manhattan, New York, US 2. Barcellona, Spagna 3. Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi 4. Hong Kong, Repubblica Popolare Cinese 5. Parigi, Francia 6. Lazise, Italia 7. Lucignano, Italia 8. Pavia, Italia 9. Silea, Italia
URBAN RENOVATION Silea, Treviso, Veneto, IT Accademic project The intervention of urban renovation contemplates the project of a new residential neighborhood in a very important landscape. The area, which measures 90000 square meters, is located within the naturalistic system of the Sile river, just outside Treviso’s city center. The research was conducted analyzing the potentiality of such a big area, critically studying different city models in the world, understanding the relations between constructed and unconstructed spaces and the relations between these and the number of residents. Along with this research, we have tried to develop our urban scenario, a “smart” neighborhood that uses the potentialities of the area in a completely sustainable perspective. The reuse of natural elements was a key element because these elements have always characterized this landscape and nowadays are endangered. The reuse of these elements means recuperate the efficiency of the ancient control systems of nature, retake possession of the landscape, and reestablish the identity in the procedures but, particularly, in the environment.
Site Plan Silea, Treviso
Elements: - Buildings - Basament - Landscape
The urban project is born from the idea that the city’s shape identifies with the urban shape. This identification has brought us to study and interpret the long settlement tradition of the different urban models, our attention has been primarily focused on the medieval urban shapes. The analysis of the urban models was focused on various aspects: technique, sustainability, porosity, tradition and permeability. This occasion has offered us the opportunity to define a new urban model which describes a new scenario.
Mobility and transport - car - Pedestrians Environmental sustainability - Renewable energies - CO2 emission - Rain wather lamination Social sustainability - Inhabitant of urban model - Vegetables garden - Parks
5% 95% 100% 0% 57% 550 inh 5mq/inh 120mq/inh
Wather system plan
Focus on
SUSTAINABILITY The desire to renounce all forms of energy, which derive from the consumption of fossil fuels, is at the heart of the project and of the technological equipment. It was decided to use a heating system with water heat pump supported by photovoltaic panels and solar thermal energy equipment. Each residential unit is therefore equipped with an underfloor heating and cooling system together with dehumidifiers. The essential element for the indoor air quality is the mechanical ventilation. For the commercial spaces, heating and cooling are provided by fan coil units and air handling units for big public open spaces. The constructive system with load-bearing partition walls was conceived in order to be both functional for the placement of the technical systems and flexible enough to accommodate the furniture.
Basament plan Urban renovation Silea, Treviso
First floor plan Urban renovation Silea, Treviso
LONDON PUBLIC LIBRARY Honorable mention International Students competition Potters Fields Park, London, GB Individuality of urban facts The development of modern city is the reason why buildings are increasingly developing upright making them individual and independent objects in comparison to the existing historical structure. This lack of homogeneity among the different elements wich are part of the city, is the starting point of a program wich could be the solution to integrate the individual features of skyscraper to the homogeneity of the historical urban environment. The new headquarters of London library represent a little tile of mosaic of the city. The new complex consists of a series of exhibition spaces , large reading areas, computer rooms and a great number of functional areas. The main idea is to think about the common places, as a library, conceiving them as “pieces of the city� and not as isolated places. For this reason the project includes spaces for the community and a new urban park.
First floor plan Potters fields park, London
LIGHT HOUSE SEA HOTEL International architects and students competition Capo Murro di Porco, Siracusa, Sicilia, IT The area covered by the project is a large peninsula with the lighthouse in the center. Just like an acropolis, the new building is intended as a building structure composed of various architectural pieces, a synthesis between the polis concepts and architectural work. On the ground we would ideally continue the input shaft and land base of the lighthouse, while expanding the depth maintains the same width, placing it behind the lighthouse, with the project becoming almost invisible in its entirety from the entrance area. On the one hand, therefore, the settlement act of the temple, a large sign 125 meters long to 18 which relates on a regional scale, that as the temple consists of voids and masses, its pillars, and that makes the structural logic its very structure. Just as its distribution follows the rigor, the central axis used that recalls the lighthouse plan itself, emphasizes and frames it perceptually. On the other hand there is the suggestion of the city. The project is in fact composed in turn of multiple cells, each with its own functional and structural independence, each one bearing its own roof.
EST Facade
Gruond floor plan
The destinations of these are modeled on Rossi’s dichotomous separation between primary and residential buildings, in this case between the first section closest to the entrance where you will find restaurants, bars, kitchens, offices, reception, several toilets and storerooms, and other various living cells of the hotel rooms. To combine these two areas there is the Central “square” space: a meeting point, open to the enjoyment of all, where there is more space for the preparation of exhibitions and various performances. In summary, this space is actually a widening of the empty central axis, regaining space in a contemporary way, the swell from the Baroque taste of Via Landolina in the Duomo Piazza space in Syracuse, real machine-like theatrical urbanism.
Material detail of hotel’s units
HAMBURG HYBRID HOUSING International architects and students competition Hamburg, GE “If a city is an organism, then it has some characteristic features that distinguish living creatures from machines. An organism is an autonomous individual with a definite size. It does not change its size by simple extension or swelling or limitless adding of parts, but reorganizes its form as it changes size, and reaches limits, or thresholds , where the change in form is a radical one. The whole organism is dynamic, but it is a homeostatic dynamism.” Kevin Lynch - A theory of good city form Linch’s words represent a crucial reference to understand the meaning of working in an urban environment, which approach we can adopt in front of settled urban dynamics and which is the meaning of giving form to a town. As the author claims, the town isn’t always destined to modify its structure. Within certain limits it is reorganized its size is modified. Therefore this is a decisive aspect for our project: our intent in fact is not to change radically the urban morphology, nor to modify the social dynamics of that area, but it is that of understanding, follow and possibly implement them. Consequently the project starts from the constant that the structure of the town identifies and is the result of the urban shape, and this shape tends to evolve in time because of a series of experiences and relations with itself and with man. In this view the urban area becomes a piece of a bigger jigsaw which is the town and its configuration.
Panoptikum Theatre
Schmidt Theater
St. Pauli Theater
Die Reeperbahn is not only a street but also and above all a meeting place where a series of activities. This interpretation is therefore the key point of our proposal whose aim is to link together all that series of miscellaneous elements through the common shareable space.
Spaces of sociability Private spaces
Focus on Perspective section of family units Scheme of family units disposition
PRIVATE HOUSE Camponogara, Padova, IT Personal works The project has been selected at THE PLAN AWARDS 2016 We live in a diffuse city, citing Francesco Indovina. We are dealing with an individual territory, which is not a result of collective and coordinated decisions but it is based on the realization of individual interests, of an ethics that elects work and the private property as only vehicles of personal and “social� realization. The citizen of this city (term that seems inappropriate at this point) is inserted in a socioeconomic system that forces him to dynamism, to the con- stant movement in the execution of his own micro practices. It seems that the economic development, the working change of the farmer from simple agriculturist to accomplished entrepreneur has caused a personal profit without any respect of his own territory that is affected by it in the construction industry, especially in the residential one. In this inconsiderate building development, the bu- ilders have put aside the real reason why a house is realized, proposing instead other instructions that led up to a contamination of the strong historical memory surrounding the Veneto territory. In this perspective the intervention tries to rediscover and reinterpret the traditional signs that, feeble, make their way through the intricate building development.
Design team: Urban renovation, Silea - IT Davide Maggio Federico Durigon Fabio Menegazzo London Public Library, London - UK Davide Maggio Tommaso Petrosino Light house sea hotel, Siracusa - IT Davide Maggio Vittorio Massimo Elena Cecchetto Hamburg Hybrid Housing, Hamburg - GE Davide Maggio Tommaso Petrosino Private house, Padova - IT Davide Maggio Fabio Menegazzo
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