24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age
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Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura September 27, 2017 – September 29, 2017
XXIV ISUF Conference in Valencia marks as its objective the updating of studies in urban morphology and urban and territorial planning on a two-fold global concern, environmental sustainability and social and urban inequality, concern to be focused on the development of new analytical techniques. First concern, environmental sustainability, is addressed in Topics nº 1 “Stages in territorial configuration”, nº 4, “Efficient use of resources for a sustainable city”, nº 5 “Transforming the existing city”, and nº 8, “Urban green space”.
Second concern, social and urban inequality, is addressed in Topics nº2 “Urban form and social use of space” and nº3, “Reading and regenerating the informal city”.
The emphasis in new analytical methods is addressed in Topics nº6 “Cartography and Big Data” and nº7, “Tools for analysis in urban morphology”.
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- PublicationIntroverted and knotted spaces within modern and contemporary urban fabrics: passages, gallerias and covered squares(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Falsetti, Marco; Ciotoli, PinaThe scenic plaza mayor shares with the theater organisms some formative characters, since they both derive from a transformation, by knotting, of pre-existing buildings and fabrics. This architectural transformation is generated, at the beginning, by a change in the modalities of using public space. As for the corral de comedias, the process is due to the sedentarization of the theatrical practice, which abandons the itinerant dimension of the street to move inside the buildings (such as private homes and palaces). The original corral de comedias was in fact set up inside an open place that could be covered, and this feature became permanent over time, creating a new building type. Similarly, since the sixteenth century, squares became the fundamental location of Spanish civic life as well as they hosted all sorts of political, religious and festive representations, but also the venue of executions. For this purpose, namely to allow people to watch such events, the squares were transformed, by raising temporary walls and walkways. In some cases, like Tembleque and San Carlos del Valle, they began to realize permanent continuous balconies, with solutions that seem to have followed the same morphological evolution of corrales de comedias. In both cases it was necessary to unify different elements (buildings or rooms) and connect them to each other, through a process of “knotting”, in order to create a new organism. Over time the physiognomy of the spaces, originally open, assumed the permanent characters of a new type, closed and similar to the courtyard of a “palazzo”.
- PublicationEnvironmental and energetic operation in “El Ensanche” of Valencia(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Colomer Alcácer, Juan; Portalés Mañanós, Ana María; Urios Mondéjar, David; Dpto. de Urbanismo; Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura[EN] The present paper focuses on the urban parameters we need to study, in order improve the environmental behavior on our cities. It goes deeper on how density and urban compactness can deal with some of the most important urban issues on environmental point of view. On the one hand they permit a better social cohesion due to urban proximity spaces including pocket parks, local trade, public facilities and allows identity social progress. First, it is necessary to make a brief introduction of Valencia urban morphology consolidation through the years, it is needed to begin with an accurate understanding on how does it is urban form on every case study, to could achieve our propose. Secondly, we need to do a climate analysis for Valencia weather conditions. It will detect the best bioclimatic strategies to reduce energy needs, and to create better microclimatic urban conditions. Finally the paper will show studies on the “El Ensanche” urban grid on solar passive gains strategies, internal gains and sun shading. Every strategy will demand form us to taking into account an evaluation on the limits between urban changes and the heritage protection. So this paper will link climate conditions with the urban form of the “El Ensanche” grid to clarify how the city leads with the energetic and environmental parameters. Thus, will allow us to put on the table most effective proposals for improve our cities.
- PublicationEvolution of the Urban Form in the British New Towns(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Deltoro Soto, María Julia; Blasco Sánchez, María del Carmen; Martínez Pérez, Francisco Juan; Dpto. de Urbanismo; Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura[EN] Even if the urban experience of the British New Towns, created after the New Towns Act of 1945 as a solution to the problems derived from the superpopulation of great cities such as London, is already far in time it can still offer us some lessons. Lessons which could help us when intervening in current process of development and transformation of the urban form. This article analyses these experiences from its morphology, studying their formal characteristics and the organization of the several uses of the city, as well as the diachronic evolution of their criteria of spatial composition. The First New Towns mainly followed the characteristics stated in the Reith Report [HMSO, 1946 a] and the consequent New Towns Act [HMSO, 1946 b], which defined the scale of the new cities, their uses and zoning, location, areas, distances, social structure or landscape among other. Their urban forms evolved with time and were the result of many strategic and design decisions taken which determined and transformed their spatial and physical profiles. According to the Town and Country Planning Association [TCPA, 2014] New Towns can be classified in three Marks as for their chronology and the laws that helped to create them. But if we focus in their urban form, we can find another classification by Ali Madani-Pour, [1993] who divides them into four design phases, which give answer to different social needs and mobility. The analysis of the essential characteristics and strategies of each of the phases of the New Towns, applied to the configuration of the urban form of some of the New Towns, the ones which gather better the approach in each of the phases, will allow us to make a propositional diagnose of their different forms of development, the advances and setbacks; a comparative analysis of different aspects such as mobility and zoning, local and territorial relations, structure or composition. The conclusions of the article pretend to recognize the contributions, which come from their urban form and have them as a reference for new urban interventions in the current context, with new challenges to be faced from the integral definition of the city.
- PublicationResistance & Permanence of Green Urban Systems in the Globalization Age(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Occhiuto, Rita[EN] The rapid transformation and the trivialization of landscapes in Wallonia (BE), require reformulating tools and objectives of morphological studies. Built fabrics and landscapes show the effects of abandoning or losing interest in the interrelations between natural and human actions. This contribution focuses on studies of cities and territories that have ceased to be the object of spatial policies attentive to the relationship between the need to live, maintain or care for green or natural spaces. After the systematic reduction of urban environments to simple green covers, morphological reading allows the recognition of traces of park systems or green infrastructures, whose communities often do not remember. The research's focus has shifted from the building to the green space structure. This displacement of interest makes it possible to find commons cultures that have acted on the territory of Liège (industrial city) on the one hand, through the building’s extension and on the other hand, through the project of forests, walks, squares, parks and public gardens. Now, these fragmented places become the main resource for reorganizing natural and human systems in order to offer new - social and spatial - coherence for tomorrow. Thus the historical green systems become a strong structuring link which serves to seek new dialectics of balance between existing fabrics and green systems. This system’s regeneration stands, on the one hand, to the hybridization of materials - water, green and buildings - and, on the other hand, to the physical and mental memory of the inhabited environments that populations keep. Green systems impose themselves as powerful vectors for the construction of new socio-spatial balances of cities and territories of globalization, as in the study case for the landscape systems in Liège and for the water and landscapes infrastructure in Chaudfontaine.
- PublicationStudy for a new definition of the southern side of Prato della Valle in Padua, Italy(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Pietrogrande, Enrico; Dalla Caneva, Alessandro[EN] The boundary wall of the Santa Maria della Misericordia convent continuously delimited the southern limit of the Prato della Valle space in the southern part of Padua’s historical centre. Its presence was one of the elements that more than two century ago inspired the enlightened proposal by Andrea Memmo, the Superintendent of the Republic of Venice, and Domenico Cerato, a design professor at the University of Padua. Subsequently the straight and continuous limit was replaced by the discontinuous architecture of the Foro Boario entrance, built in 1913 according to a design by Alessandro Peretti; this weakened the overall solution based on an elliptical shape and the communicative power of the nearby basilica of Santa Giustina. The examination here presented dwells on these limits, simulating the virtual introduction of architectures with a continuous front to the southern edge of the Prato della Valle. One example is the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art built in Kansas City between 1930 and 1933, based on a design by the brothers Thomas and William Wight, and expanded in 1999 by Steven Hall. The study generally confirmed that the compactness of the building’s front newly provides strength to the late 18th century Memmo’s creative intuition, which gave a sense of unity to the general emptiness thanks to the certainty of its borders, and gives again the Basilica of Santa Giustina its monumental size. This paper investigates the composition of heterogeneous fragments, excerpts from the inventory of collective memory, and the resulting unpredictable architecture in an urban context.