Paolo Carlotti
PhD. Prof. adj. Design Studio - Univ. "Sapienza" Faculty of Architecture - Department DiAP "Architettura e Progetto".Director of the Research Lab. LPA "Architecture Reading and Design", Member of the scientific commission of the doctoral course "Draco "Architecture and Construction" and a member of the didactic commission of the post-master's degree "Master Pares".Coeditor of the International Journal U D urbanform and design and founding member of ISUFITALY (International Seminary on Urban Form Italia).He was a collaborator of prof. Gianfranco Caniggia.Author of several book on UrbanMorphology.
Address: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Address: Rome, Lazio, Italy
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The comparison between two different approaches allowed to define the areas that had a level of homogeneity in terms of shape, characterized by different forms and building types. The result has been a map which, although derived from these two different analytical approaches, achieves, by commonly defined considerations, shareable and similar results.
So, this present day map is conceived as the 2D representation of the material building fabric. The result of continuous adaptations between the inherited body of city and present day situation. The present form, the one represented in cartography one can be read as a text, its shape, one can also be read as synthesis of several shapes, that has, in different moments of his history, constituted a different urban tissue. From time to time, new urban knots and new path have played a particularly signifi cant role that has, consequently, altered the total shape and the laws that has made its.
This “exegesis” is focused on two “Roman” cases studies (Trastevere and Cam-po Marzio), highlighting in the examples some rules (of the fabric) that infl uen-ced the process and the formation of the special type. (For example, in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence and in the Palazzo Madama of Turin, the fabric, the path, and the city have symbiotically contributed to transform urban who-le). Two elements - knots and bands of pertinence - read in the cartographic expression can be taken like tools for analysis of the formative process in the urban morphology. The irregular shapes of land lots reveal diachronic restruc-turing phase. Then, if they are deleted in the cartographic representation, they refund the phases of formative process of the urban fabric, by the bands of pertinence and by the urban knots (square) as well as the special buildings, in the past, connected between these.
Books by Paolo Carlotti
This text explores the question of how small old towns may survive as testimonies of an extraordinary architectural civilization and, above all, how we can adopt them as a development model alternative to that of the contemporary metropolis. It looks at the ancient space, by revisiting it with new eyes, as a fertile opportunity for a reflection imposed by the crisis, and as a prelude to a new equilibrium between the territory and the city. Against the tendency to propose the sole residential use for these towns, it suggests to reinstate in the central areas new structures arising from the specialization of urban fabrics, following the process of urban and building “knotting”, as has always happened in the history of Italian cities.
The comparison between two different approaches allowed to define the areas that had a level of homogeneity in terms of shape, characterized by different forms and building types. The result has been a map which, although derived from these two different analytical approaches, achieves, by commonly defined considerations, shareable and similar results.
So, this present day map is conceived as the 2D representation of the material building fabric. The result of continuous adaptations between the inherited body of city and present day situation. The present form, the one represented in cartography one can be read as a text, its shape, one can also be read as synthesis of several shapes, that has, in different moments of his history, constituted a different urban tissue. From time to time, new urban knots and new path have played a particularly signifi cant role that has, consequently, altered the total shape and the laws that has made its.
This “exegesis” is focused on two “Roman” cases studies (Trastevere and Cam-po Marzio), highlighting in the examples some rules (of the fabric) that infl uen-ced the process and the formation of the special type. (For example, in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence and in the Palazzo Madama of Turin, the fabric, the path, and the city have symbiotically contributed to transform urban who-le). Two elements - knots and bands of pertinence - read in the cartographic expression can be taken like tools for analysis of the formative process in the urban morphology. The irregular shapes of land lots reveal diachronic restruc-turing phase. Then, if they are deleted in the cartographic representation, they refund the phases of formative process of the urban fabric, by the bands of pertinence and by the urban knots (square) as well as the special buildings, in the past, connected between these.
This text explores the question of how small old towns may survive as testimonies of an extraordinary architectural civilization and, above all, how we can adopt them as a development model alternative to that of the contemporary metropolis. It looks at the ancient space, by revisiting it with new eyes, as a fertile opportunity for a reflection imposed by the crisis, and as a prelude to a new equilibrium between the territory and the city. Against the tendency to propose the sole residential use for these towns, it suggests to reinstate in the central areas new structures arising from the specialization of urban fabrics, following the process of urban and building “knotting”, as has always happened in the history of Italian cities.