AN INTERPRETATIVE READING OF DISPERSION AND CONCENTRATION PHENOMENA
by Monica Bramanti, Beatrice Galimberti, Francesco Magni, Anna B. Rossi, and Alice Tafuri
Urban studies Course, M.Sc. in Architecture-Building Architecture, II year
Politecnico di Milano
A.Y. 2012-2013
Prof. Alessandro Mingolo
www.progettocontemporaneo2.blogspot.it
During the second part of the course, we were asked to set up a design scenario for the whole Northern Italy system.
To work at such a wide scale, we decided to envisage a new scenario by defining new figures inquiring the binomial dispersion/concentration, starting from emphasizing positive tendencies we could already see in the present, or changing direction when we faced negative phenomena such as soil consumption, lack of land tenure, lack of connection, and so forth.
We aimed to build a new meaning through an original representation that could suggest a starting point to rethink the present situation.
Asked to work formerly with plans, we decided to use multiple scales to have a general view about the continental strategic role of North of Italy and, at the same time, to have an idea of which were main issues involved in each territory we considered.
We recognised nine different figures inside the territory; each of them is characterised by specific features. From West to East we recognised a polarised net, a productive isotropy, a linear conurbation, one crossing point, an isotropic carpet, some aligned densities, a synapsis network, some oriented fibres, and a coastal metropolis. These figures are put in one general system of connection. Thus they aren’t nine different stories but nine connected chapters of the same tale. We worked on a system able to turn on/turn of, that is to say, empower or weaken, it flexibly’s part, at the same time we can consider it as a system of communicating vessels.
