A SUSTAINABLE METHOD FOR A SOCIAL LIVING

The inescapable scenery of crisis of the energetic resources represents a new starting point for the debate about the role of architecture, as a tool of control of ecological mechanisms related to the urban context and the environment. Once know that the need to link the planning activities to the themes of environmental, economic and social sustainability, it’s possible turner the subject Architecture into a discipline able to combine a variety of learning and knowledge. This discipline must concretize propositive answers, for formulating a guide able to engrave global economy of the city. While the debate on architectural sustainability has led to a huge development of research about the building envelopes, on the other hand, it shows a late caution in relation to the urban planning. The purpose of my research is to define, in a systematic way, an approach to the city's housing project that is linked with composition, and sustainability aspects. The main aims is to achieve a synthesis of the concept of “sustainable urban composition”, in which the environmental quality will be evaluated primarily within the settlement choices, the problem and its management of the measure complies, the measure of a new density and then the measure for a common open space. Furthermore, the responsibility of the choice of integrated services in relation to the regulatory framework plays a central role in the design process. The sustainable design, at the urban scale, it is deeply rooted in the past in terms of both principles, objectives and administrative directives. The Charter of Toledo in 2010 and Project 20-20-20 of European Community, are two of the main examples of this trend. These directives promote guidelines for the formation of a compact city where the new districts can find conscious relationship with the built environment in respect of biodiversity. The PASS (Sustainable Housing Project) competition issued by ATER in 2010, for the recovery of the area of Tiburtino-III, is a comprehensive example of these policy becoming the convenient opportunity to experiment a new method. The aim is to integrate the approach to energy sustainability, planning and social policy. In fact, any unused space that represents an urban voids devoid of meaning readable, becomes the heart for innovative system that can carry out oxygen and life in a widespread manner to the environment. The purpose is transform the spaces destinated to private areas, promoting a new concept of community, repeating the social experiences of neighborhood units of INA-CASA, through the redesign of open spaces with a conscientious landscape design. The open spaces are regenerated, through proper waste management, the organization of water collection, integration of urban gardens and park-food, in order to stimulate the creativity of the people and to promote sociability.