Door Front City _ Meraviglioso Urbano

Door Front City Ground floor design as a reappropriation of social space Keywords: community, temporal, porosity The laboratory of Ephemeral Design has been exploring for years the temporal matrix of spaces as an intrinsic quality of the project, on which to model spaces, activities, behaviors, etc. The Ephemeral/Temporary spaces Laboratory wants to investigate the issues of time and senses in relation to the ephemeral spatial design project. The key concept to be investigated, is based on the idea that, in the future, there will be not the forms of space but the forms of time at the center of the project methodology. The theme is Door Front City, based on the theories of the 15-minute city: a new idea of urban spaces and mobility, more connected through proximity and walkability systems. The spaces of this sustainable urban vision are door front spaces located on the ground floors of buildings, too often intended only for commerce, which instead could be regenerated, reused and rehabilitated, through a return to the community. These are indoor and outdoor spaces on the ground floor, able to activate processes of accessibility, but also inclusiveness. Their activities, able to generate also new communities can be temporary and flexible, making them also suitable to host activities in support of emergency conditions. Methods The workshop deals with a portion of the city, with a diameter of 15 minutes, and it moves a design process from the scale 1:200 to the scale 1:5. There are 4 modules organized according to the scale and themes to be explored: Module 1: A sensorial and temporal analysis is conducted on area to identify new design programs, design tools, other values of beauty. This phase provides: concept; sensory diagrams, chronotypes, etc. Module 1 defines the KPIs that will be used to evaluate each project (each group will choose at least 3). Module 1 works on the scale, 1:200, 1:100 Module 2: Downstream of the exploration and analysis process, a ground floor location will be identified on which to carry out the ephemeral interior/exterior design of Meraviglioso Urbano aimed at creating new communities, regenerating and re-signifying the selected location. This phase of the design involves 1:50, 1:20 scale. Module 3: This will be followed by a detail design phase at 1:10 and 1:5 scale. Module 4: The final phase involves the synthesis and communication of the project and its contents through the design and production of a video. Results The central design exercise is called "Meraviglioso Urbano", recalling the Roman experience of Renato Nicolini in the late seventies and the vision of a city bottom-up. It effects the design gestures, the inclusive design practices of communities. Meraviglioso Urbano aim to encourage students to become urban explorers of the places in which they live, to entertain themselves with the communities that occupy the territories, to design in dysfunctional places where to intercept other languages and provoke wonder. Bibliography - Ferschin, P., Köhler, B., Franck, G., & Pollak, S. (2002). The city as a Process in Time and Space. na. Maas, W. (2003). Five Minutes City: Architecture and (im) mobility, Forum & Workshop Rotterdam 2002. episode publishers. - Hill, D. (2021), Slowdown city. The Journal of Architecture, 26(1), 67-72. - Manzini, E., (2021), Abitare la prossimità, Idee per la città di 15 minuti, Egea, Siena. - Moreno, C., Allam, Z., Chabaud, D., Gall, C., & Pratlong, F. (2021), Introducing the “15-Minute City”: Sustainability, Resilience and Place Identity in Future Post-Pandemic Cities. Smart Cities, 4(1), 93-111. - Sennett, R., (2018), Costruire e Abitare. Etica per la città, Feltrinelli, Milano. Biography Architect and Associate Professor in Interior and Spatial Design at Politecnico di Milano. She has been visiting professor at Tsinghua University, School of Art and Design, Beijing (China); Kookmin University, Seoul (South Korea); Hosei University, Tokyo (Japan) and others. Author of Storie di Architettura attraverso i sensi (Bruno Mondadori, 2000), Invisible Architectures. Experiencing places through the senses of smell (Skira, 2006) and Sensi, tempo e architettura (Postmedia Books, 2012), Sensefulness, new paradigms for Spatial Design (Postmedia Books, 2019) and many other publications.