Raumgestaltung RWTH - Five Parts Toward a City of Spaces

(...) The paradigm shift in our understanding of space also meant a radical change in our conception of the ‘modern’ city. Prevailing to a large extent in place of articulated urban inner spaces in the form of bounded courtyards, streets, and squares was the model of urban space as a continuous outer space, as an open field and landscape. A relational understanding of space as the relative positioning of objects also contributed to increasing attentiveness to form and forms, to the morphology of built structures, to a city of objects. If we wish to acknowledge this conception of space, which defines the open city, as one option for contemporary urban planning, then it becomes necessary to conceptualize, describe, and design the outer spaces of the city as a city of spaces.

The peripheries would not then be interpreted as a diffuse continuum, and instead as a structured texture of experiential situations, places, and fields that would be endowed with a variety of characters and atmospheres in a complementary field of tension that encompasses both city and landscape. In this way, the urban landscape might be transformed into city-nature, into city and landscape, into an urban architecture of buildings and courtyards, residential estates and neighbourhoods, and into an urban cultural landscape consisting of small gardens, parks and cemeteries, forests, meadows and pastures.

Only a synchronous spatial conception of the inner and outer spaces of the city allows work on a systematic typology of the outer spaces of the city to be conducted in a promising and productive way.

Such a synchronous spatial conception of inner and outer spaces forms the basis for the project for Pompeii. While the inner urban spaces of the ancient city of Pompeii take the form of a bounded spatial continuum, areas of urban expansion appear fragmentary, appear to be joined to the landscape spaces of the city in a disordered and heterogeneous fashion, with fields, but also with fallow zones characterized by infrastructural utilizations. The bounded form of the ancient city itself appears self-sufficient, although toward the edges, its form seems less clearly defined due to the topographical situation. Developed on the basis of the typology of the courtyard houses of Pompeii are proposals for five new urban quarters, which are inscribed as red interventions into the blue of the city’s periphery. As a relational fabric, the new districts are grouped around the archaeological field of the ancient city; they define new relationships between existing elements: the rail tracks, the wall, the fields (...)

Autor: Uwe Schröder, Franziska Kramer, Nicola Carofiglio
Herausgeber: Coppolino, Francesca / Di Chiara, Ermelinda / Visconti, Federica
Titel: Five Parts Toward a City of Spaces
Sammelband/Zeitschrift: BIP POMPEII. Architecture for Archaeology. Projects for the South boundary between ancient and contemporary city
Verlag: Clean Edizioni
Ort: Neapel
Datum: 2024
Seite(n): S. 22-33
ISBN: 978-88-8497-921-6
Anmerkung: mit Illustrationen der Studienarbeiten von: Jakob Lenke, Konstantin Overdiek, Georges Reiser, Tim Schell, Johanna Waechter

News: Learning from Pompeii (view from the North). The ancient urban form for the future city – Erasmus+ KA131 Blended Intensive Program, Houses and the Analogy. Learning from Pompeii, Workshop in Naples, DiARC Dipartimento di Architettura of the Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”
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