San Basilio_l'effetto collage

San Basilio is a neighbourhood sited in the north-east periphery of Rome. It is surrounded by urban infrastructures such as two high-ways, the detention centre Rebibbia and an industry district, which hamper its contacts with the rest of the city. This quarter is incapable of being a self-sufficient part of the city, mostly because of its strictly residential function and its position, which makes it isolated and disconnected. San Basilio's identity is fragmented and very distant from the classical typology of a part of a city because of the lack of a general plan aiming to coordinate the interventions the neighbourhood had undergone. The result is a collage of parts which do not communicate one with the other. Nowadays the problem remains unsolved, notwithstanding the numerous renewal programs dealing with San Basilio, since the administration keeps on working on single problems eluding a comprehensive vision of the neighborhood itself.