Mass-housing renovation is a major challenge for architecture and urban design in Europe and nowadays is in one of its most crucial and debated periods. We face the inadequacy of public housing stock in terms of: spatial, material, and environmental issues, the incapacity to meet today’s accommodation needs, vulnerability deriving from original design choices, and stigma that all too often affects narrative of mass housing districts negatively. The need for a drastic rethinking of the broken relationship between buildings and open spaces was immediately apparent as being recurrent as soon as the renovation wave began all over Western Europe in the early 1990s, after the end of mass-housing neighbourhood expansion. The place where this relationship exists is precisely the most impacted by key mass-housing fragilities. The book focuses on this topic, proposing a design approach that aims to improve quality of life by rethinking the ground level-scape, considered as the extended area for developing spatial relations of continuity between a building’s ground floor and open spaces around it. Renovating the ground level-scape is an effective way of introducing a new urbanity in mass-housing neighbourhoods and redefining the spatial hierarchies of buildings and the connecting space between indoor and outdoor areas. The results are useful adaptive design strategies for inhabiting a sequence of critical places, increasing their vitality, inclusiveness, adaptability, environmental quality, and resilience. This study will show in detail why we consider Tor Bella Monaca – a district on the outskirts of Rome – to be a compelling example of ground level-scape challenges and a rewarding field for testing design solutions, defined through a circular connection between cross-disciplinary knowledge and research by design. The book comprises three main parts: the first (analytical) explores Tor Bella Monaca’s key spatial fragilities; the second (design-based) discusses pivotal design strategies and solutions; the third (theoretical) reflects on design outcomes and provides ideas for mass-housing ground level-scape transformation.

Ground level-scape. Mass-Housing adaptive design strategies in Italy / Dondi, Lavinia; Fontanella, Elena; Lepratto, Fabio; Morganti, Michele. - (2022), pp. 1-184.

Ground level-scape. Mass-Housing adaptive design strategies in Italy

MORGANTI Michele
2022

Abstract

Mass-housing renovation is a major challenge for architecture and urban design in Europe and nowadays is in one of its most crucial and debated periods. We face the inadequacy of public housing stock in terms of: spatial, material, and environmental issues, the incapacity to meet today’s accommodation needs, vulnerability deriving from original design choices, and stigma that all too often affects narrative of mass housing districts negatively. The need for a drastic rethinking of the broken relationship between buildings and open spaces was immediately apparent as being recurrent as soon as the renovation wave began all over Western Europe in the early 1990s, after the end of mass-housing neighbourhood expansion. The place where this relationship exists is precisely the most impacted by key mass-housing fragilities. The book focuses on this topic, proposing a design approach that aims to improve quality of life by rethinking the ground level-scape, considered as the extended area for developing spatial relations of continuity between a building’s ground floor and open spaces around it. Renovating the ground level-scape is an effective way of introducing a new urbanity in mass-housing neighbourhoods and redefining the spatial hierarchies of buildings and the connecting space between indoor and outdoor areas. The results are useful adaptive design strategies for inhabiting a sequence of critical places, increasing their vitality, inclusiveness, adaptability, environmental quality, and resilience. This study will show in detail why we consider Tor Bella Monaca – a district on the outskirts of Rome – to be a compelling example of ground level-scape challenges and a rewarding field for testing design solutions, defined through a circular connection between cross-disciplinary knowledge and research by design. The book comprises three main parts: the first (analytical) explores Tor Bella Monaca’s key spatial fragilities; the second (design-based) discusses pivotal design strategies and solutions; the third (theoretical) reflects on design outcomes and provides ideas for mass-housing ground level-scape transformation.
2022
9788832080988
public housing; renovation; ground level
03 Monografia::03a Saggio, Trattato Scientifico
Ground level-scape. Mass-Housing adaptive design strategies in Italy / Dondi, Lavinia; Fontanella, Elena; Lepratto, Fabio; Morganti, Michele. - (2022), pp. 1-184.
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