LABORATORY – SYSTEM FOR GREEN AREAS

System for green areas: from urban to natural. Design laboratory. Module 01 [150 ore]
Milan, september-october 2011
Cases of Modern Movement plans which do not strictly concern the architectural construction are rare. In the functionalist plans, “urban green spaces” were considered a mono-functional area, with facilities and services, which could be constructed according to consolidated models, in exactly the same way as the residential, industrial areas, etc. Nevertheless, throughout the building of contemporary cities, from Fredrick Olmsted to Ebenezer Howard, many episodes witness the assignment of a precise value to open space design. As from the environmental movement of the 60s, but especially thanks to the fact that landscape architecture has progressed to a wide-scale discipline, what was considered merely as an indistinct green net by planning, has now become something concrete for the planner: an environmental pre-existence, a complex system of relationships between hydrogeological and botanical structures, to be understood and interpreted with the most advanced scientific disciplines, as well as to be re-planned on the basis of its valorization with respect to human settlements too.