L’architettura per l’uomo. Tramite spaziale tra sport e salute quali fenomeni culturali

The city, in its various social and territorial dimensions, has long been the model of the highest concentration of critical impact factors on wellness, both in terms of physical and mental health, cultural, and educational growth of people. In response to the “functional housing”, expression of modernity and of the economic development of the past decades, the urban morphology of the “post-city” theorized by Vittorio Gregotti has now to recover the social matrix of the historical city, promoting models of shared knowledge and resources, oriented to an idea of the organic city, in terms of types and functions, which could be an actual and sustainable response to the needs expressed by the contemporary social contamination as a fundamental line of mechanisms of identity, security, and stability. An architecture can be defined as social when the space realized does not only host a social action, but it rather can become an active operator of relations aimed at social cohesion. All the architectures intended for the wellness and the transmission of knowledge are then social par excellence, and they appear, hence, to be able to highlight and reinforce that system of relations, which represents the structure of a territorial context.