A reading of traditional urban fabrics reveals the inherent complexity of a tightly-knit urban structure and offers an example of complex socio-spatial systems. The systematic clarity of established settlements shows the nature of their habitat as an assembly of spaces, a configuration of dense settings laid out according to use, a constant appropriation and transformation according to suitability. Any reading of the “real” is a chance to reflect on the quality of places lived as shown by the capacity of the urban system to satisfy the different levels of architectural scale, the presence of various spatial entities within a resilient urban framework. The functioning of urban fabrics according to the intermediate scale of relationships is a theme of disciplinary interest to be looked at within the context of examining the articulation of places for living, conceived within a systematic urban design able to adapt to their related dynamics, so the additive/serial approach is abandoned in favour of configurative methods able to generate fabrics responding to the tensions between the individual and collective. Housing is thus part of the whole, combined in a unicum where individual presences are restored to a condition of unity; each difference is contained and assimilated within a plural urban system. The essential components of the study cases, chosen from smaller settlements in Sardinia, will be examined for the purposes of extrapolating and describing their design potential in terms of fabric generation. Reading these contexts involves the use of drawings – in the form of diagrams and architectural surveys – and photography with the aim of providing a critical analysis that offers the possibility of meeting the most authentic forms of living in connected forms, urban and architectural realities able to express their complexity, to define shapes in the existing and presence within the cohabitation found in the individual and collective context. In fact it is through the dialectic comparison between individual and collective – ever present in the lived environment –that dense spatial structures are created, that tight mixture of spaces, uses and appropriations that is indispensable to the creation of a condition of city dwelling.
The lesson of Sardinia's historic fabric
OGGIANO, FRANCESCA
2014-01-01
Abstract
A reading of traditional urban fabrics reveals the inherent complexity of a tightly-knit urban structure and offers an example of complex socio-spatial systems. The systematic clarity of established settlements shows the nature of their habitat as an assembly of spaces, a configuration of dense settings laid out according to use, a constant appropriation and transformation according to suitability. Any reading of the “real” is a chance to reflect on the quality of places lived as shown by the capacity of the urban system to satisfy the different levels of architectural scale, the presence of various spatial entities within a resilient urban framework. The functioning of urban fabrics according to the intermediate scale of relationships is a theme of disciplinary interest to be looked at within the context of examining the articulation of places for living, conceived within a systematic urban design able to adapt to their related dynamics, so the additive/serial approach is abandoned in favour of configurative methods able to generate fabrics responding to the tensions between the individual and collective. Housing is thus part of the whole, combined in a unicum where individual presences are restored to a condition of unity; each difference is contained and assimilated within a plural urban system. The essential components of the study cases, chosen from smaller settlements in Sardinia, will be examined for the purposes of extrapolating and describing their design potential in terms of fabric generation. Reading these contexts involves the use of drawings – in the form of diagrams and architectural surveys – and photography with the aim of providing a critical analysis that offers the possibility of meeting the most authentic forms of living in connected forms, urban and architectural realities able to express their complexity, to define shapes in the existing and presence within the cohabitation found in the individual and collective context. In fact it is through the dialectic comparison between individual and collective – ever present in the lived environment –that dense spatial structures are created, that tight mixture of spaces, uses and appropriations that is indispensable to the creation of a condition of city dwelling.
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