04 Acerra Advanced Design Studio

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Naples FedOA - Federico II University Press 30.05.2024
• Series: ADS Advanced Design Studio
• Subjects: Acerra; Architecture; architecture projects; connective frames; design laboratory; learning spaces; The Arts; thema EDItEUR
• ISBN: 9788868872182; 8868872188
• DOI: 10.6093/978-88-6887-218-2

The design work conducted for the city of Acerra represented, for the students of the last year of the 5UE Architecture course, an experiment of great relevance, from a design and professional point of view, towards the development of an approach aimed at finding an adequate and concrete response to the multiple needs posed by the reality of the context in which it operates. The publication brings together the results of the work carried out during the 2021-2022 academic year, highlighting the multiplicity of aspects and design themes addressed, as well as the variety of solutions proposed. The structure of the book reflects this experimental approach, starting with the exploration of some preliminary themes and methods, examined in the “Essays” section; continuing through the tool of “mapping” and the collection of the debate’s results with the municipal administration, the environment and the people living in that places; finally, arriving at the systemisation and a “synthesis” of the information and investigations carried out through the project proposals, described in the “Projects” section. Each project theme includes an in-depth theoretical study, through two introductory essays and various design declinations that try in an alternative way to provide possible scenarios for the city. In order to solve the existing criticalities, but also to enhance the potential and different assets of the Acerra area, the design proposals were constructed through a mechanism of grafting and connections into the existing, not oriented towards the definition of a completed form and a predetermined function, but which, on the contrary, allowed us to work on an idea of an open form, which reused what exists and included multiple possibilities of use, continually changing its perimeter, extending and incorporating urban pieces of a different nature. Scenarios of possible new meanings and new urban transformations are, therefore, the result of this work, composed of different levels of in-depth analysis linked to the general idea of Acerra as a city of diffuse learning spaces.