This contribution examines how processes of abandonment, deindustrialization, and environmental crisis have reshaped the role of architecture and urban design in different international contexts. Based on research developed within the PRIN Re-cycle Italy program and its international collaborations, the essay identifies a set of shared conditions affecting post-industrial territories, from infrastructural voids and residual landscapes to large-scale brownfield sites. Rather than treating these conditions as marginal or pathological, the study interprets them as structural features of contemporary urbanization. Through comparative case studies—from European metropolitan regions to post-disaster contexts in Latin America—a set of methodological approaches based on reuse, mapping, and design experimentation is outlined. In this perspective, architectural design is repositioned as an operational tool capable of reconnecting fragmented systems, activating latent resources, and redefining the relationship between infrastructure, landscape, and urban form.
Questo contributo esamina come i processi di abbandono, deindustrializzazione e crisi ambientale abbiano rimodellato il ruolo dell’architettura e della progettazione urbana in diversi contesti internazionali. Basandosi su ricerche sviluppate nell’ambito del programma PRIN Re-cycle Italy e delle sue collaborazioni internazionali, il saggio individua un insieme di condizioni condivise che interessano i territori post-industriali, dai vuoti infrastrutturali e paesaggi residuali fino alle grandi aree dismesse. Piuttosto che trattare queste condizioni come marginali o patologiche, lo studio le interpreta come caratteristiche strutturali dell’urbanizzazione contemporanea. Attraverso casi studio comparativi - dalle regioni metropolitane europee ai contesti post-catastrofe in America Latina - viene delineato un insieme di approcci metodologici basati su riuso, mappatura e sperimentazione progettuale. In questa prospettiva, il progetto architettonico viene riposizionato come strumento operativo capace di riconnettere sistemi frammentati, attivare risorse latenti e ridefinire la relazione tra infrastruttura, paesaggio e forma urbana.
Common Phenomena. Territorial and Urban Crisis in the International Context
A. Gritti
2024-01-01
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This contribution examines how processes of abandonment, deindustrialization, and environmental crisis have reshaped the role of architecture and urban design in different international contexts. Based on research developed within the PRIN Re-cycle Italy program and its international collaborations, the essay identifies a set of shared conditions affecting post-industrial territories, from infrastructural voids and residual landscapes to large-scale brownfield sites. Rather than treating these conditions as marginal or pathological, the study interprets them as structural features of contemporary urbanization. Through comparative case studies—from European metropolitan regions to post-disaster contexts in Latin America—a set of methodological approaches based on reuse, mapping, and design experimentation is outlined. In this perspective, architectural design is repositioned as an operational tool capable of reconnecting fragmented systems, activating latent resources, and redefining the relationship between infrastructure, landscape, and urban form.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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