As a space of collective interaction, the multi-dimensional streets allow investigating the adaptivity in terms of social, climate and use. While architecture projects and placemaking processes have been realised, ordinary residual open spaces in the urban environment are still misused or poorly executed. Which European actions and architectural design strategies can be adopted to create such public spaces? From this perspective, the viale Mai case study in Turin shows contradictions between its hidden potential and its actual transformation. Located in a vibrant city, where university hubs and adaptive urban renovations occur, the viale Mai is an underused and awaiting transformation street close to the new University Campus Einaudi. The site has been assumed by an academic reflection with students during three years in a Design Studio at the Polytechnic of Turin as the topic. Today, it is a new public space project held by the municipality of Turin for the European program UIA - ToNITE. The complexity of architectural projects, demonstrated by students' work based on the critical thinking of adaptive public space, climate change, and environmental comfort, appears to be in contrast with the results of public action. Indeed, to enhance the viale Mai potential, the contribution underlines the difference between two approaches: academia’s problem-setting and the problem-solving led by public action.
Designing ordinary public space, between revealed potential and public stance. The case of Viale Ottavio Mai in Turin / Crotti, Massimo; Germak, Claudio; Tonti, Ilaria; Hetman, Janet. - ELETTRONICO. - (2024), pp. 915-940. (Intervento presentato al convegno City Street 5 tenutosi a Lisbona (PRT) nel 12-14 October 2022).
Designing ordinary public space, between revealed potential and public stance. The case of Viale Ottavio Mai in Turin
Crotti, Massimo;Germak, Claudio;Tonti, Ilaria;Hetman, Janet
2024
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As a space of collective interaction, the multi-dimensional streets allow investigating the adaptivity in terms of social, climate and use. While architecture projects and placemaking processes have been realised, ordinary residual open spaces in the urban environment are still misused or poorly executed. Which European actions and architectural design strategies can be adopted to create such public spaces? From this perspective, the viale Mai case study in Turin shows contradictions between its hidden potential and its actual transformation. Located in a vibrant city, where university hubs and adaptive urban renovations occur, the viale Mai is an underused and awaiting transformation street close to the new University Campus Einaudi. The site has been assumed by an academic reflection with students during three years in a Design Studio at the Polytechnic of Turin as the topic. Today, it is a new public space project held by the municipality of Turin for the European program UIA - ToNITE. The complexity of architectural projects, demonstrated by students' work based on the critical thinking of adaptive public space, climate change, and environmental comfort, appears to be in contrast with the results of public action. Indeed, to enhance the viale Mai potential, the contribution underlines the difference between two approaches: academia’s problem-setting and the problem-solving led by public action.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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