The city in quarantine. Perspectives of urban regeneration through the experimental model of the macro-block

Abstract

The lockdown showed a city that is often unsuitable for emergency situations, such as that caused by the pandemic. Nonetheless, the population, imprisoned inside their homes, expressed the need for an urban experience and to practice open space. The emergency thus becomes an opportunity to rethink the city through a revision of the models. Within a line of research of the University of Parma on urban structure and density as regeneration factors, settlement methods are being experimented on the macro-isolated model. A spatial prototype that, starting from the type-morphological invariant of the block, improves the quality of living by means of compositional operations in the dialectic between built and open space, in the context of new primary functions, proximity services and improvement of environmental sustainability standards. In these terms, the macroisolation helps to create a settlement structure where the continuity of the fabric is defined by complete autonomous parts that relate to each other according to different degrees of complementarity.

Keywords

• rigenerazione urbana
• tessuto
• isolato
• spazio pubblico
• servizi
• abitare