Professional Documents
Culture Documents
form
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Atelier Grafton
Accademia di Architettura - Mendrisio
collective space
Rear Window is a wonderful evocation of the way the spatial organisation of the city determines the lives of its residents....the story takes place in this kind of semi-public
courtyard in the midst of the metropolis.
Hitchcock realises that some inhabitants would hesitate to
perform the same acts behind the front side or the street
side of the building.
The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock,
Steven Jacobs.
1. The Street
The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to
place, and in any once place is always replete with new improvisations.
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
2. Courtyards
Courtyards in Sevilla:
Left: Traditional adalucian courtyard typology
Right: Cruz/Ortiz Architects, Donna Maria Housing
Le Corbusier:
Roof terrace, Unite DHabitation, Marseilles
5. Staircases
collective form
Ideologies of twentieth century urbanism: The Garden City, Ebeneezer Howard (left), The Ville Radieuse, Le Corbusier (right)
Christopher Alexander
Giancarlo De Carlo
Restructuring of Coletta di Castelbianca, 1993-1995
Re-programming of historic town based on discovering genetic code
of the structure (De Carlo). Cluster structure of similar size cells allows
for flexible programme.
Giancarlo De Carlo
Insertions into historic city of Urbino based on studies of urban morphology.
Modern university conceived as analogous to Italian hill town.
collective living
Peter Zumthor
House for senior citizens, Chur, 1993.
Jorn Utzon:
Housing at Fredensborg, Denmark, 1963
Artificial Landscape
No one has the right to put himself in someone elses place, to claim they
think this way, to say they like this or that Jean Renaudie (1976)
fine