BUILDING TYPES AND PLANNED URBAN FABRIC'S ANALYSIS

Once introduced briefly the macro fabric possibilities that are possible to discover today in our cities and once considered that the stratified city owns some intrinsic features that always allowed and still allow to have a good human-scale living, here in this post will be deepen the shape of the planned city.

What we found especially interesting is the relationship formed by the infinite repentance of some rigid building types, creating therefore urban fabric. We selected six rigid housing scheme with this criterion: if you have to displace the same amount of people in the same area, which are the most common building types that have been used in the last decades? What kind of qualities can you obtain? What if you repeat this area with its constructions to let a fabric form?

The relationship between solids and voids, the proximity relation and the presence of services and spaces of socialization are the characteristics that make the quality of a place: a comparison with the result obtained in portions of existing planned city will lead to conclusions that facilitate e will direct our future project decisions.

 The research has been lead looking at some cases of planning where was not utilized a rigid scheme of typology but the plan was configured with a certain grade of conformity with the part already existent.

The urban sewing result to be a fusion among different building typologies, in which has been tried to reproduce and amplify the positive aspects and to delete or mitigate the negative ones.

The main project in Almere’s (NL) masterplan by OMA, is “de Citadel” by the French architect Christian de Portzamparc. This represents a breakthrough about the rapprochement to the stratified city: by integrating different functions and services on different floors, this huge isolate is cut by two irregular pedestrian streets that generate human-scale social spaces, free of vehicular traffic that passes separated on a layer beneath. The displacement of residential spaces permits to reach an optimal density and in the meanwhile to take benefits of the public green, integrated with the roof of the commercial, services and activity’s spaces. The underground parking space permits to save precious urban space.