FORMA URBANA TRA DISCONTINUITA' E DISTANZA

Abstract

With the belief that only by adhering to a wide and general theory on the composition of its structure, it is possible to proceed to the manipulation of even the most minute of its parts, the essay tends to develop a thought on the idea of the shape of the urban organism aimed at composing a settlement grammar to define a suitable syntax that is then projected to assign an identity to the peri-urban areas. Drawing on references that have already expressed a stance on the matter, to be found throughout the text is the endorsement of an idea of densification linked to the expansion and completion of existing manufactured fragments to yield clusters on the remains of what is left of the original landscape, the islands identifiable as concluded portions of the urban setting. On the horizon, the idea of an archipelago of settlements of small and medium size defines the operational synthesis of dialectic between urban clusters and natural spaces understood as equal and distinct elements of a composition. The underlying objective therefore refers to the proposition of a forma urbis aimed at delineating, within discontinuity and in the distance, the information necessary to determine a fruitful tension among the subjects of a composition such as to render immovable the elements that underlie a balance.