The work we propose concerns the theme of the recomposition of public spaces in the ancient town when compromised by old and recent speculative interventions. The methodology looks at the city as a product of functional systems (political, social, economic), but overall contemplates the urban form as a result of its spatial structure. The life of the urban form is investigated in its physical specificity, the only one able of giving reason of its special nature over every social, economic and political aspect, certainly important but not sufficient. Our teaching at the University of Padua is based on fundamental 1960s studies about typological analysis oriented towards the theme of public spaces and establishing relationships between these ones and private spaces. The spatial aspects and formal image of the transformations in the city are studied as a premise for the design of the new architecture. The San Bernardino area in Padua is one of the subjects investigated by our students, thought as an opportunity to reconfigure the lost unity of a very symbolic and representative place of the city, custodian of its memory and identity. The San Bernardino area has been affected by rapid post Second World War reconstruction that has resulted in the organic unity with surrounding parts of the city being lost. The order and hierarchy of the elements that characterize the form of this old place has been compromised by subsequent actions of speculation operated in the second half of the twentieth century. The area, recently squalid parking space but in the past centuries reference point for the community religious life, is used as a case study in which the analysis and proposals for a new urban design concentrate.
Recomposition of architecture in the historical city. The San Bernardino area in Padua, Italy
Pietrogrande Enrico
;Dalla Caneva Alessandro
2018
Abstract
The work we propose concerns the theme of the recomposition of public spaces in the ancient town when compromised by old and recent speculative interventions. The methodology looks at the city as a product of functional systems (political, social, economic), but overall contemplates the urban form as a result of its spatial structure. The life of the urban form is investigated in its physical specificity, the only one able of giving reason of its special nature over every social, economic and political aspect, certainly important but not sufficient. Our teaching at the University of Padua is based on fundamental 1960s studies about typological analysis oriented towards the theme of public spaces and establishing relationships between these ones and private spaces. The spatial aspects and formal image of the transformations in the city are studied as a premise for the design of the new architecture. The San Bernardino area in Padua is one of the subjects investigated by our students, thought as an opportunity to reconfigure the lost unity of a very symbolic and representative place of the city, custodian of its memory and identity. The San Bernardino area has been affected by rapid post Second World War reconstruction that has resulted in the organic unity with surrounding parts of the city being lost. The order and hierarchy of the elements that characterize the form of this old place has been compromised by subsequent actions of speculation operated in the second half of the twentieth century. The area, recently squalid parking space but in the past centuries reference point for the community religious life, is used as a case study in which the analysis and proposals for a new urban design concentrate.
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