CONTENT / Today, architecture, public spaces, gardens, and landscapes are experiencing moments of contamination like never before seen in the history of these disciplines. During the Renaissance and soon after, major projects such as Versailles brought together the fields of architecture and landscape, creating physical connections and visual relationships between garden spaces and the monumentality of architecture.
Today, at a time of democratization of public spaces in the city that is taking place through new and important projects, they need to strategically review the design of the soil, triggering processes of more significant contamination between the closed space of architecture and the open space of gardens, landscape, parks, and public space.
AIMS / The workshop has two moments. The first one is a physical workshop during which students and the professor draw a tree-city on a large canvas to be seen only from above. The second one is online, reflecting on the previous workshop experience to image more realistic relationships between trees and architecture.
METHOD / Students draw without having a direct relationship with the scale of the canvas, imagining a landscape city intuitively. Later, they are required to visualize their city through sections, diagrams, maps, or any other media they consider helpful to redesign their city.
1st day: brief introduction of inside outside by professor; Presentation of the spaces chosen by the students.
2nd day: Group work.
3rd day: Final critic.
SCHEDULE / 2-Week Workshop. Weekly 4-hour class arranged with the students:
Introduction / TBA.
Development / TBA.
Final Crit / TBA.
Bibliography / Morabito V, The City of Imagination. ORO edition.
Corner J., The High Line, Phaidon.
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Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria (Italy) /
Valerio Morabito (valerio.morabito@unirc.it)
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