Nowadays cultural landscape is under a transformation process. In cities with an exponential growing urbanization a new one is being created. People are arriving to the urbanized areas from different backgrounds bringing their own roots to an “anonymous” city. Understanding different cultures is becoming crucial in planning to understand which will be the future of those areas. Syncretistic cultures that merge from the movement of masses are new and mixed. The Home is a concept that is strictly connected to the culture of living, connecting to the neighbourhood and the basic 'building block' of the living city. Informal settlements are the spontaneous answer to the spatial need of home. Slums are often a constitutive part of the city landscape. Informal settlements stretch for kilometres on the outskirts of the city but they also jostle in the nooks of the historical city centres. They need to be studied as consistent reality of the urban fabric, identifying, case by case, both their material development –in architectural terms- and their cultural heritage - often alien from the context - as settlers frequently come from other regions or countries. The phenomenon of informality, seen as a cultural answer to the need of a house, in an exponential growing economy and city, has always been present and was widely studied it in the history of architecture and of the urban fabric. The research purpose is to analyse the typologies and the morphology of the informal settlement treating it with the same respect and tools used for the formal urban fabric, seeing it as part of the cultural landscape of a place.

Jardim Filhos da Terra – an example of spontaneous landscape

DEL BIANCO, CORINNA
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Abstract

Nowadays cultural landscape is under a transformation process. In cities with an exponential growing urbanization a new one is being created. People are arriving to the urbanized areas from different backgrounds bringing their own roots to an “anonymous” city. Understanding different cultures is becoming crucial in planning to understand which will be the future of those areas. Syncretistic cultures that merge from the movement of masses are new and mixed. The Home is a concept that is strictly connected to the culture of living, connecting to the neighbourhood and the basic 'building block' of the living city. Informal settlements are the spontaneous answer to the spatial need of home. Slums are often a constitutive part of the city landscape. Informal settlements stretch for kilometres on the outskirts of the city but they also jostle in the nooks of the historical city centres. They need to be studied as consistent reality of the urban fabric, identifying, case by case, both their material development –in architectural terms- and their cultural heritage - often alien from the context - as settlers frequently come from other regions or countries. The phenomenon of informality, seen as a cultural answer to the need of a house, in an exponential growing economy and city, has always been present and was widely studied it in the history of architecture and of the urban fabric. The research purpose is to analyse the typologies and the morphology of the informal settlement treating it with the same respect and tools used for the formal urban fabric, seeing it as part of the cultural landscape of a place.
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Heritage and Landscape as Human Values Conference Proceedings Poster and General Interest
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