Designing with void. The structuring role of the wide open space

Abstract

Starting from the void as an opportunity to redefine urban balances in social and environmental terms. Resume the idea of the "city by parts", the role of the dispositio, the stripping of the urban pattern (as an increase in those "urban voids", indispensable material for the genesis of the architectural project). The cases treated in this paper propose a well defined city, which works through urban islands and recognizable complex architectural units. They build an identity dictated by regulatory criteria, based on distances and isolations. The construction or transformation of urban part can be thought as an organized and coordinated manageable system, capable of responding more effectively to pandemic emergencies.

Keywords

• vuoto architettonico
• città definita
• separazione
• spazio aperto