Between Spatial Adaptations and Broken Paths
This paper explores the problems of modifications and adaptations breaking the continuity of five-footways, a shaded pedestrian pathway typically found in the Malaysian urban fabric, especially in his…
Dwelling the Places of Crossing
The research, developed within a doctoral thesis (PNRR 351) in partnership with Consorzio Parco del Lura, investigates the spaces activated by crossings as “collateral” places capable of triggering ne…
Landscape of wastelands
Transport networks, which structure and connect the territory, frequently produce collateral spaces on their edges, often neglected and unnamed. These residual spaces or wastelands are often threatene…
Landscapes of Re-Invention
The etymology of the word “invention” derives from the Latin inventio-onis, meaning “to come upon, find; invent, discover”. The most resonant implications of this term for the spatial discipline…
Open Atlas of Encounters with Infrastructure
Europe is home to cases such as fragments of aqueducts that serve as street façades or viaducts that function as market roofs. Reviewing the role of infrastructures from unprejudiced urban and archite…
Paesaggi – passaggi
The Southern Italian territory, with its peculiar morphology and rich cultural heritage, offers a significant example of how the intersection of landscape and infrastructure can be a resource for cult…
Port Infrastructure as an active territorial threshold
The Maasvlakte II project, a large artificial expansion of the port of Rotterdam, represents one of the most advanced manifestations of port infrastructure, revealing an unprecedented potential as a c…
The City of Rooms
What this research suggests is a different way to think about mobility spaces: instead of connecting everything with long corridors, it puts the focus on how rooms can come together. These rooms are s…
Threshold Architectures: Gaushalas and Infrastructural Afterlife
This paper examines the urban gaushala—a common yet often overlooked cowshed found across Indian cities—as a spatial formation that quietly manages the excesses of industrial mobility. Typically situa…
Val Bisagno level zero
Changes in mobility are radically transforming urban dynamics and the structure of cities, accelerating a rapid transition in cities traditionally shaped by infrastructures that prioritize private veh…