New colonies: the scale and structures of the historical fabric to reconquer monofunctional suburban enclaves

Journal title TERRITORIO
Author/s Sara Impera
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/68
Language Italian Pages 4 P. 78-81 File size 2426 KB
DOI 10.3280/TR2014-068014
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The spaces of contemporary commerce share both a condition of being external to the compact city and characteristics of morphological and formal uniformation that render them absolutely a-contextual and non-urban objects. The planning experiment presented here seeks to restore form and proportionality to a shopping mall on the outskirts of the city of Pavia through a strategy based on the structures and scales of the historic city. The interaction and cross-fertilisation between the pre-set model and the specific conditions of the site generate a built system of formal complexity and diversity based on the urban block and on a system of hierarchical layouts that mediate the transition from the geographical island to its urban counterpart.

Keywords: Shopping mall; historic city; block

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Sara Impera, Nuove colonie: misure e strutture del tessuto storico alla riconquista delle enclaves monofunzionali suburbane in "TERRITORIO" 68/2014, pp 78-81, DOI: 10.3280/TR2014-068014