This paper aims to highlight the urban role of skyscraper within the historical cities. If examined within a complex system structured into distinct vertical elements, each skyscraper behaves as an autonomous organism, as a “micro-city”, reproducing in its inner space, and in a smaller scale, the same kind of widespread urbanization of the urban fabric. In particular for the contemporary cities, it is possible to schematize the dynamics of highrise buildings system identifying an inner “overturned” structure, that corresponds with a vertical transposition of the horizontal hierarchy (like in the Commerzbank Tower of No man Foster). Necessarily the urban cities system experiences its gathering places, devoted to social interactions, within the delimited structures of the skyscraper, and it defines the architectural shape of real “vertical squares”. This research aims to demonstrate how the skyscraper, considered as a vertical transposition of the urban system, represents another main “human-scale” element to live in the contemporary cities, so being able to define a new ideal city model, taken from the “utopia” and lowered in the contemporary world.

The vertical system: the role of the skyscraper in the urban context / Ciotoli, Pina. - (2018), pp. 468-475. (Intervento presentato al convegno Learning from Rome. Historical cities and contemporary design. 3rd Isuf Italy international congress tenutosi a Roma presso la Facoltà di Architettura sede di piazza Fontanella Borghese, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza.).

The vertical system: the role of the skyscraper in the urban context

Ciotoli Pina
2018

Abstract

This paper aims to highlight the urban role of skyscraper within the historical cities. If examined within a complex system structured into distinct vertical elements, each skyscraper behaves as an autonomous organism, as a “micro-city”, reproducing in its inner space, and in a smaller scale, the same kind of widespread urbanization of the urban fabric. In particular for the contemporary cities, it is possible to schematize the dynamics of highrise buildings system identifying an inner “overturned” structure, that corresponds with a vertical transposition of the horizontal hierarchy (like in the Commerzbank Tower of No man Foster). Necessarily the urban cities system experiences its gathering places, devoted to social interactions, within the delimited structures of the skyscraper, and it defines the architectural shape of real “vertical squares”. This research aims to demonstrate how the skyscraper, considered as a vertical transposition of the urban system, represents another main “human-scale” element to live in the contemporary cities, so being able to define a new ideal city model, taken from the “utopia” and lowered in the contemporary world.
2018
Learning from Rome. Historical cities and contemporary design. 3rd Isuf Italy international congress
vertical fabric; skyscraper; contemporary design; urban planning; public space; urban morphology
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The vertical system: the role of the skyscraper in the urban context / Ciotoli, Pina. - (2018), pp. 468-475. (Intervento presentato al convegno Learning from Rome. Historical cities and contemporary design. 3rd Isuf Italy international congress tenutosi a Roma presso la Facoltà di Architettura sede di piazza Fontanella Borghese, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza.).
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