Notizie per la Stampa - Scuola

SCUOLA DI
ARCHITETTURA
URBANISTICA
INGEGNERIA DELLE COSTRUZIONI
Attribuzione crediti formativi
Antonella Contin
Docente Responsabile
(di ruolo)
Docente proponente
Antonella Contin
Altri docenti
Ed Wall, Grahame Shane, Pedro Ortiz, Giovanni Santamaria (NYIT)
Titolo dell’iniziativa
tipologia
International Exchange Program 2016
14th -24th April 2016
“METABOLISM OF A CITY _ Post-Industrial Waterfronts New
York”
NYCER (LAB) IV _New York City East River IV
Brooklyn Red Hook & Bronx Hunts Point
Workshop/Seminario
ore previste
11 Giorni
periodo di svolgimento
14/24 Aprile 2016
sede di svolgimento
New York Institute of Technologies - NYIT
breve descrizione
Introduction
International Design Workshop “Metabolism of a City. NYCER (LAB) IV Edition - New York
City East River," organized by the School of Architecture and Design at NYiT – New York
Institute of Technology, and the ‘Laboratorio Misure e Scale” at the School of Architecture
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of Politecnico di Milano which will take place in the same school from April 14 to April 24 .
The great climate change, the rapid urban development, the energy crisis and the need for
a sustainable approach, are transforming the idea and the project of the city.
The aims of the International Workshop and Seminar are the social and economic
development of the territories, through high quality architectural and urban operations,
carried out within the metropolitan entire system; creating innovative processes of
integration through the establishment of public spaces and new landscapes; the fulfillment
of qualitative/quantitative standards for a revival of infrastructure, including the
development of new sources of renewable energy and intermodal transport, which will
change the shape and the image of the urban settlements. The workshop proposes two
study areas on the system of East River focused on growth and ecological urbanism:
1- Brooklyn Red Hook (post-industrial sites going through a process of gentrification);
2- Hunts Point, Bronx (resilient and transitional urban design);
Contents
Workshop and seminar will focus on specific practices and topics of design:
-Shifting Contexts: Natural Ecosystems and Urban Ecologies;
-Resilience and Transition Processes of Urban Growth;
-Blue, Green and Gray infrastructures and Post-Industrial Environments;
-Sustainable Growth: Consumption – Production – Reuse of Resources and Space;
- Identity and Structure of Public Space between new Urban Morphologies and Building
Typologies;
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-Retrofitting Strategies and New Design Tools;
The key focus of this conversation is related to the shift of the perspective from the idea of
Urban Design as defined model of objects in a mostly built context, towards a more
articulated and performative concept of Landscape Urbanism as a system of correlated
and transforming actions and reactions in an extended spatial and temporal frame, where
object and field, foreground and background proactively merge. This has been introducing
new paradigms, as a sort of evolution of the ones formulated by Rowe and Lynch,
requiring the exploration of new methodologies that integrate the concept of architecture in
terms of scale, field and process, in a renewed dimension concerning several and
differently constructed environments of our post-industrial era. This has also opened to the
need of understanding and managing issues not only related to the history of urban
settlements and their evolution, to the rules of politics, economics, sociology and
technologies but most of all, to the complex ecology of our environments: effects
depending from the actions of natural phenomena, problems of pollution, space
reclaiming/ reuse/ recovering, material recycling, producing lands, space consumption,
and alternative processes of energy production for more sustainable growth. These
elements define a new systemic and coordinated vision in approaching and developing
locally and globally role, extension and values of the context, leading to a renewed
complexity for Urban Design, which introduces new landscape structures, infrastructure,
and eco-structures, new way of dealing with natural resources and manmade processes,
within a redefined frame of relationship between public administrations, communities and
private agencies, in specific and often fragile urbanized landscapes.
Goals
-Define new tools to read, record and analyze the complexity of current environments
intended as dynamic contexts (natural/ built, historical/ geographical) and explore
possible references and parameters to forecast their evolving growing or shrinking
processes;
-Clarify new performable methodologies to critically and selectively represent the networked
set of issues across space and time frames, but simultaneously capable to recognize and
value the specificity of each location and the sequence of action/reaction;
-Delineate new ways to metabolically operate into the life cycle of the current environments
via “substitution- transformation- maintenance,” identifying critical cores for coordinated
and integrated strategies of punctual intervention, towards the definition of performative
contexts;
- Reformulate the several managing and administrative tools and agencies involved in the
process of environmental planning: horizontally, coordinating private-semiprivate-public
operators and users and vertically, integrating the different levels of political
responsibilities and involvement in a short, medium and long term projections.
Structure
Workshop will organize several NYIT lectures on the main topics of study, according to the
official program, and Open Discussion/ Seminar “Meta-Landscapes and Performative
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Contexts: Identities and Values of a New Complexity” which will take place Friday April 22
from 4:30 to 7:00 PM (t.b.c.) in the NYiT Auditorium on Broadway (t.b.c.).
The Discussion involves an International group of professors, researchers, and experts
within the International Exchange Agreement between the School of Architecture and
Design at NYIT and the “Laboratorio Misure e Scale” of the School of Architecture at
Politecnico di Milano. This is also part of the Design Workshop “NYCER (LAB) IV” which
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will take place in the same school from April 14 to April 24 .
During this period students coordinated by professors from the several universities invited
will take part to lectures, site visits and researches to work at their design proposals for
assigned two sites along the East River – New York, as part of the Hudson River Corridor:
Hunts Point- Bronx, and Red Hook- Brooklyn.
Researches as well as design proposals will engage several dimensional scales
(Metropolitan- region, Urban- city, Local- from neighborhood to building systems) and will
relate to postindustrial landscapes and processes of urban metabolic change.
-Official language of the workshop will be English.
contatti
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mail mail [email protected]
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http://www.metropolitan-architecture.polimi.it/
Riservato a studenti dei seguenti Corsi di Studio:
Lauree triennali
L-17
L-21
L-23
Lauree magistrali
LM-4
LM-48
LM-24
Firma del docente Responsabile __________________________________
Delibera della Giunta di Scuola del
2 marzo 2016
La Giunta di Scuola, vista la proposta di workshop presentata dal prof. Antonella Contin
attribuisce numero e tipologia dei seguenti crediti formativi:
n. crediti
4
Equivalenti ad attività a libera scelta
oppure
n. crediti
Equivalenti al tirocinio