Social Housing at Marianella - Naples

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Social Housing at Marianella - Naples

Main objectives of the project

The idea behind the project for a block in Marianella, a center of the outskirts of Naples, consists in making react a type-morphological plan of serial nature, with the outline of the area, considered as a perimeter on which are projected different conditions of the context. In contact with such a outline, which is configured as an active margin, the model undergoes a series of subtractions that are proposed as architectural variations of the plan. It is subtracted so to the repetition inherent in the initial model by purchasing a geometric and plastic variability, which results in an increase of the complexity of the urban intervention.
The intervention for sixtyfour accommodation in Marianella, in the metropolitan area of Naples, was designed in 1983 and completed in 1988 after the earthquake of 1980, an event that ruined not only the historical center of the city but also the peripheral expansions. The project was thought both to be to rebuild a number of destroyed houses and to reconnect separate parts of the peripheral tissue. A urban fabric in which was spread a courtyard typology, which gave rise to complex residential units designed to accommodate families of farmers in the Neapolitan countryside. The project has taken this typological matrix, obviously transformed, proposing a series of residential blocks of three floors, organized around two types of courtyards. On the larger courtyards overlook houses with continuous balconies supported by iron pillars; the smallest include the stairs towers which, through four gangways, distribute eight apartments for each floor. The residential blocks are made with the French prefabrication system banches e tables and then plastered. The stairs have an iron structure covered with tuff. Also the portals of entry to the courts are made with tuff.

Date

1989: Construcción

Stakeholders

Arquitecto: Franco Purini
Arquitecto: Aldo Aymonino
Arquitecto: Laura Thermes

Location

City: Naples
Country/Region: Italy, Naples

Description

Documents

Authors:

Fundació Mies van der Rohe Barcelona

Apartment Building D, Giudecca

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Apartment Building D, Giudecca

Urban Design

Main objectives of the project

This building is part of a large urban renewal plan on the former Junghans industrial plant site. The plan involves constructing a new urban fabric and converting existing industrial buildings into residential spaces. The D building replaces a utilitarian structure on a corner between two canals. The building utilizes traditional materials and technical solutions, with three types of window openings that align with varying floor plans. The design aims to capture glimpses of the surrounding area while transforming traditional elements into graphic motifs. The project seeks a contemporary approach that values the innovations of the Modern Movement without being limited by its rigid principles. It prompts us to consider the challenges of contemporary architecture in avoiding commercial pastiches and questioning the balance between modernity, permanence, individuality, and the collective nature of cities.

Date

2001: Construcción

Stakeholders

Constructor: Fratelli Carnieletto snc
Arquitecto: Cino Zucchi Architetti

Location

Continent: Europe
City: Venice
Country/Region: Italy

Description

This building is part of a large urban renewal plan on the site of the former Junghans industrial plant on the island of the Giudecca. The general urban scheme, implemented on the basis of the results of a closed competition won by the author, acts as a sort of microsurgery within the delicate body of the city with the construction of a new urban fabric and the renovation of existing industrial buildings converted to residential use. The D building is a new construction which substitutes an utilitarian building on the corner between two canals. The materials and the technical solutions of the building are very traditional and the details of their use reveal the impossibility of an historicist replica. The façades have only three kinds of window openings and their irregular disposition follows the varying floor plans of the apartments in a search for glimpses of the Redentore apse, the canals and the Laguna. The traditional plain white stone window corniche of the minor historical Venetian architecture is changed in proportion and transfigured into a graphic motif and the crowning of the perimeter walls hides the gable roof required by the local regulations, reconducting the volume to an abstract image which is doubled by the reflection in the canal waters. Beside its specific attributes generated by the very constrained technical and economical reality of subsidised housing, the project is trying to establish a contemporary attitude toward our urban landscape, which treasures the spatial and formal innovations of the Modern Movement without being trapped into its Sachlichkeit moralisms. If Walter Benjamin prophetically understood the complex relationships between high-brow and popular culture in the age of technical reproduction, one wonders about the possibilities of contemporary architecture to employ the resonances of the well-known and the banal without falling into the pastiches of commercial architecture which is transforming the whole world into a commodified skin-deep image. The resistance to urban kitsch, at least in Venice, cannot take the simple forms of structural honesty or adopt fashionable avant-garde attitudes, but forces us to question again the problems of modernity versus permanence and individuality versus the collective artifact of the city.