In the contemporary context in which globalization, rather than proceeding in line with a universalization phenomenon, nourishes a unbalance development resulting in spatial polarization based on migration, the race to the illusion of possible new activities that provide some form of survival changes sprawl in slums. The city as urban organism no longer exists; its movement between forms of sprawl and high concentration is leading to an increasing expansion of urban emergency which results in environmental emergency due to the excessive use of resources and alteration of environmental equilibrium. It is necessary to find a new point of view which allows to read the city as an organism in which social communities become the instruments of the urban consolidation and make it possible to propose a new living way; in this way should be considered the research project developed in the Specialization Course in “Habitat, Technology and Development” held at Politecnico di Torino in the academic year 2011-12. The project area is the informal settlement of Barranquitas, in the city of Rafaela in Argentina. The slum is not too large and this has allowed us to design a project that intervenes not only in response to the housing request for the slum dwellers. The design work proposes a new model that doesn’t force people to move thus maintaining neighbourly relations and the feeling of community still present and get better living conditions through programs of professional integration of weak people’s groups. Public funding, which is required to activate processes of assisted self-building and following self-completion is interpreted not as passive dependency on welfare but as a social investment: two different typologies provide for the will to enter into a mechanism that can operate also in terms of economic return thus ensuring the possibility of a further investment in services by the municipality. “Shop-houses” to allow for the development of the slum informal trade’s network and become an occasion of professional learning are accompanied by “garden-houses” which provide for the allocation of a land’s portion inside the barrio for micro-cultivation. The chance to communicate with the slummers, which led us to verify the validity of the operative proposal, offers potential new food for thought into the theme of living in marginal areas.

From ghetto to get-to. Dall'abitare privato all'abitare collettivo in un quartiere informale di Rafaela in Argentina

DEDE', ESTER CHIARA MARIA;
2012-01-01

Abstract

In the contemporary context in which globalization, rather than proceeding in line with a universalization phenomenon, nourishes a unbalance development resulting in spatial polarization based on migration, the race to the illusion of possible new activities that provide some form of survival changes sprawl in slums. The city as urban organism no longer exists; its movement between forms of sprawl and high concentration is leading to an increasing expansion of urban emergency which results in environmental emergency due to the excessive use of resources and alteration of environmental equilibrium. It is necessary to find a new point of view which allows to read the city as an organism in which social communities become the instruments of the urban consolidation and make it possible to propose a new living way; in this way should be considered the research project developed in the Specialization Course in “Habitat, Technology and Development” held at Politecnico di Torino in the academic year 2011-12. The project area is the informal settlement of Barranquitas, in the city of Rafaela in Argentina. The slum is not too large and this has allowed us to design a project that intervenes not only in response to the housing request for the slum dwellers. The design work proposes a new model that doesn’t force people to move thus maintaining neighbourly relations and the feeling of community still present and get better living conditions through programs of professional integration of weak people’s groups. Public funding, which is required to activate processes of assisted self-building and following self-completion is interpreted not as passive dependency on welfare but as a social investment: two different typologies provide for the will to enter into a mechanism that can operate also in terms of economic return thus ensuring the possibility of a further investment in services by the municipality. “Shop-houses” to allow for the development of the slum informal trade’s network and become an occasion of professional learning are accompanied by “garden-houses” which provide for the allocation of a land’s portion inside the barrio for micro-cultivation. The chance to communicate with the slummers, which led us to verify the validity of the operative proposal, offers potential new food for thought into the theme of living in marginal areas.
2012
Abitare il nuovo/abitare di nuovo ai tempi della crisi - inhabiting the new/inhabiting again in time of crisis
9788884972361
spontaneous settlements; urban regeneration; urban community
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