Supervisors: Marco Trisciuoglio, Michela Barosio, Michela Rosso, Camillo Boano, Luigi Buzzacchi
Website: Urban Form
The thematic area is part of the “Transitional Morphologies” Joint Research Unit (Southeast University of Nanjing / Politecnico di Torino, 2018), working on researches strategies and methods used by human settlements to incrementally change and assemble buildings and spaces from one period to another, from one place to another, and from one culture to another.
Four actions for urban analysis are there provided to highlight urban dynamics through the use of different tools: (a) sorting the transitional steps of urban morphologies (within rapid market processes), (b) underlining rules and processes that characterize urban coding in transitions, (c) mapping urban assemblages in an adaptive city, and (d) reading and representing the phenomenon of urban permutation.
Such a multidimensional set of analytical tools make it possible a new paradigm for design thinking that moves towards a parametric approach for the urban design of cities in transition by broadening the extent of urban regeneration process and supporting urban policies in the framework of a community-based approach.