Design Echoes: Four Stories of Projects that Resonate with Urban Rules.

The anthropic modification of the spatial environment produces echoes in terms of urban rules, technical requirements, cultural shifts, and behaviors that travel beyond the place in which the modification occurs. While these effects of built and unbuilt projects are part of the outcomes of design, they are hardly considered part of the design process. In most cases, they just occur. How, and through which tools, could these non-local effects of design be recognized? More generally, is it possible to consider localized design as a means of representing and addressing general and comprehensive issues? In this visual essay, we attempt to face these questions, exploring the relationship between architectural projects and urban rules as a way of tackling the theme of design echoes.