Uneternhalcity - Urbanism beyond Rome
11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Veneto Region, Italy
TITLE
Dionisocity- Roma e il suo rovescio” within Unethernal City
CLIENT
La Biennale di Venezia XI International Architecture Exhibition, curated by Aaron Betsky - “Out of There"
TYPE OF INTERVENTION
Exibition
STATE
Temporary exibition
Originating from the geography of the places, the viral forms emerge from the subsoil, stimulating the proliferation of "antibodies", able to attack the diseased fabric of the contemporary city, its qualitative inhomogeneities, the wounds inflicted on its body, its pockets of degradation. The "antibodies" are proliferating cells able to give the city what it lacks today: places of encounter and relationship, magnets that attract talents, stages for the Dionysian liberation of its creative energy. "Inhabiting" the different altitudes changes the interior horizon and transforms our daily lives. Moving away from the ground, even without reaching great heights or great depths, generates emotions.
Uneternhalcity – Urbanism beyond Rome. Uneternhalcity
Rome and its reverse
The viruses of Unethernal Rome are the forms and senses of the underground world but also the perspectives and lightness of the air world, detached from the paths of the urban labyrinth, unifying in the gaze that reads the complexities, which allows more readings and revision of signs and meanings in multiple directions. In the thickness of the city coexist but do not communicate two parallel mazes. Our daily journey ignores the second city made of archaeological finds, cavities, conduits, tunnels, tunnels, waterways, infrastructure, technological networks. An underground city mirror of the surface city and its needs, on which always depends its vitality and efficiency: the emptiness of the quarries generated to realize its full; the metropolitan and railway networks to connect the urban nodes; telematic and telephone networks that support communication and knowledge; aqueducts, electrical conduits, gas pipelines, which innervate vital resources.
In depth as a new dimension, it is possible to organize on several levels the countless technological functions required by the metropolises of the future, experimenting with new public spaces characterized by a vertical labyrinth of new paths, transversal and oblique, alternative to the horizontal historical city. The zero, smooth, reference plane of the urban public space, corrupts of folds and cracks, creating new and unprecedented spatiality. An interval that crosses and incorporates the land line, an urban section that shows the relationships that over time the city has established with the history and geography of the places. The subsoil of Rome is a resource waiting to be rediscovered and revived.
E.U.R. - Energy of movement
The virus sculpts the urban soil with a tectonic movement, gives rise to a canyon, a stratified public space, alternative to the horizontal historical city, where the vertical labyrinth of new paths, transversal and oblique, connects the places of culture, management and trade. The kinetic energy of the steps and the urban motion, collected and conveyed into the ground by dynamic systems, feeds the city above.
Centro commerciale Porta di Roma - Energy of the earth
Old town - Energy of history
The virus rearranges the existing cavities in the Victorian underground and opens new points of access to the treasures of history, accumulated by time in the underworld. The "typewriter" tape binds images and information along an experiential path of access to knowledge. The surfaces of the glass bubbles capture the solar energy, the red wire distributes it to the city network.
Depurator EUR Magliana - Energy of matter
Il virus metabolizza le materie prime che giungono da lontano ad alimentare la città. Gli scarti e i resti, accumulati nel tempo e stratificati nel suolo urbano, l’acqua filtrata e depurata, tornano a nuova vita in un parco tecno-archeologico e ricreativo. La materia, nel suo incessante processo di trasformazione, cede energia che viene recuperata per alimentare la vita urbana.
Villa De Sanctis Casilina - Wind energy
Credits
DESIGN ARCHITECTS Guendalina Salimei – Tstudio | Alessandra De berardis, Dea Pulitano, Luissella Pergolesi, Marco Montaglini
_Dionisocity – la città e il suo rovescio. In: “Paesaggio urbano” n. 5-2008, p.42-43.
_Roma interrotta e Uneternal, nel segno della discontinuità.
Tesi a confronto sul destino della città contemporanea alla XI Biennale Internazionale di Architettura di Venezia. In: “Architetti” n. 10-2008, p 4- 5.
AA.VV., Uneternal City, Urbanismbeyond Rome. Marsilio; Padova 2008 pp. 238-249.
AA.VV., Out There, Architecture Beyond buiding, vol.1. Marsilio: Padova, pp 158-171.
Saggio, A., Uneternalcity Agora Dreams and visions. In: “L’Arca”, n. 240. L’arca: Milano 2008, p 92.
_Roma i segni del futuro. In: “La Repubblica”, 21agosto 2008
_L’altra città eternai. In: “La Repubblica”, 7 settembre 2008
_Biennale: I progetti impossibili sognano Roma futura. In: “Venerdì di Repubblica”, 15 agosto 2008
_Architettura da abitare: la Biennale. In: “Edilizia e territorio”, 10-15 marzo 2008
_Uneternalcity-Dove finisce la città, In: Venews n. 2.
_Roma: L’eternità in movimento. In: Il Messaggero, 9 settembre 2008
_Coltivare l’utopia. In: Casamica, 6 settembre 2008.
Betsky, A. (a cura di), Uneternal city Urbanismbeyond Rome Arsenale di Venezia. Domus n.917-2018.
Uneternhalcity - Urbanism beyond Rome
11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Veneto Region, Italy
TITLE
Dionisocity- Roma e il suo rovescio” within Unethernal City
CLIENT
La Biennale di Venezia XI International Architecture Exhibition, curated by Aaron Betsky - “Out of There"
TYPE OF INTERVENTION
Exibition
STATE
Temporary exibition
Originating from the geography of the places, the viral forms emerge from the subsoil, stimulating the proliferation of "antibodies", able to attack the diseased fabric of the contemporary city, its qualitative inhomogeneities, the wounds inflicted on its body, its pockets of degradation. The "antibodies" are proliferating cells able to give the city what it lacks today: places of encounter and relationship, magnets that attract talents, stages for the Dionysian liberation of its creative energy. "Inhabiting" the different altitudes changes the interior horizon and transforms our daily lives. Moving away from the ground, even without reaching great heights or great depths, generates emotions.
Rome and its reverse
The viruses of Unethernal Rome are the forms and senses of the underground world but also the perspectives and lightness of the air world, detached from the paths of the urban labyrinth, unifying in the gaze that reads the complexities, which allows more readings and revision of signs and meanings in multiple directions. In the thickness of the city coexist but do not communicate two parallel mazes. Our daily journey ignores the second city made of archaeological finds, cavities, conduits, tunnels, tunnels, waterways, infrastructure, technological networks. An underground city mirror of the surface city and its needs, on which always depends its vitality and efficiency: the emptiness of the quarries generated to realize its full; the metropolitan and railway networks to connect the urban nodes; telematic and telephone networks that support communication and knowledge; aqueducts, electrical conduits, gas pipelines, which innervate vital resources.
In depth as a new dimension, it is possible to organize on several levels the countless technological functions required by the metropolises of the future, experimenting with new public spaces characterized by a vertical labyrinth of new paths, transversal and oblique, alternative to the horizontal historical city. The zero, smooth, reference plane of the urban public space, corrupts of folds and cracks, creating new and unprecedented spatiality. An interval that crosses and incorporates the land line, an urban section that shows the relationships that over time the city has established with the history and geography of the places. The subsoil of Rome is a resource waiting to be rediscovered and revived.
E.U.R. - Energy of movement
The virus sculpts the urban soil with a tectonic movement, gives rise to a canyon, a stratified public space, alternative to the horizontal historical city, where the vertical labyrinth of new paths, transversal and oblique, connects the places of culture, management and trade. The kinetic energy of the steps and the urban motion, collected and conveyed into the ground by dynamic systems, feeds the city above.
Centro commerciale Porta di Roma - Energy of the earth
Old town - Energy of history
The virus rearranges the existing cavities in the Victorian underground and opens new points of access to the treasures of history, accumulated by time in the underworld. The "typewriter" tape binds images and information along an experiential path of access to knowledge. The surfaces of the glass bubbles capture the solar energy, the red wire distributes it to the city network.
Depurator EUR Magliana - Energy of matter
Il virus metabolizza le materie prime che giungono da lontano ad alimentare la città. Gli scarti e i resti, accumulati nel tempo e stratificati nel suolo urbano, l’acqua filtrata e depurata, tornano a nuova vita in un parco tecno-archeologico e ricreativo. La materia, nel suo incessante processo di trasformazione, cede energia che viene recuperata per alimentare la vita urbana.
Villa De Sanctis Casilina - Wind energy
Credits
DESIGN ARCHITECTS Guendalina Salimei – Tstudio | Alessandra De berardis, Dea Pulitano, Luissella Pergolesi, Marco Montaglini
_Dionisocity – la città e il suo rovescio. In: “Paesaggio urbano” n. 5-2008, p.42-43.
_Roma interrotta e Uneternal, nel segno della discontinuità. Tesi a confronto sul destino della città contemporanea alla XI Biennale Internazionale di Architettura di Venezia. In: “Architetti” n. 10-2008, p 4- 5.
AA.VV., Uneternal City, Urbanismbeyond Rome. Marsilio; Padova 2008 pp. 238-249.
AA.VV., Out There, Architecture Beyond buiding, vol.1. Marsilio: Padova, pp 158-171.
Saggio, A., Uneternalcity Agora Dreams and visions. In: “L’Arca”, n. 240. L’arca: Milano 2008, p 92.
_Roma i segni del futuro. In: “La Repubblica”, 21agosto 2008
_L’altra città eternai. In: “La Repubblica”, 7 settembre 2008
_Biennale: I progetti impossibili sognano Roma futura. In: “Venerdì di Repubblica”, 15 agosto 2008
_Architettura da abitare: la Biennale. In: “Edilizia e territorio”, 10-15 marzo 2008
_Uneternalcity-Dove finisce la città, In: Venews n. 2.
_Roma: L’eternità in movimento. In: Il Messaggero, 9 settembre 2008
_Coltivare l’utopia. In: Casamica, 6 settembre 2008.
Betsky, A. (a cura di), Uneternal city Urbanismbeyond Rome Arsenale di Venezia. Domus n.917-2018.
