Ridolfi a Terni, 1944-1964. La Palazzina com a síntesi entre forma urbana i tipologia domèstica
Roman architect Mario Ridolfi (1904-1984) made a substantial contribution to the transformation of European cities and to collective housing after the Second World War. For a period of twenty years, he used the city of Terni as his experimentation field to develop a renewal of the public space and a...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/673238 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673238 https://dx.doi.org/10.5821/dissertation-2117-360911 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Ridolfi, Mario Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Arquitectura 71 72 |
| Sumario: | Roman architect Mario Ridolfi (1904-1984) made a substantial contribution to the transformation of European cities and to collective housing after the Second World War. For a period of twenty years, he used the city of Terni as his experimentation field to develop a renewal of the public space and a redefinition of a domestic culture. At a time when central Italy was the core of one of the most important intellectual currents of the post-war period: Neorealism, and the urgency for new homes and a social and economic problematic was leading to a cultural and political change, Ridolfi stood for a sensitive understanding of the construction of cities in an inductive way rather than a derivative conclusion of rationalistic thinking. Through the development of an inclusive language Mario Ridolfi shifted the meanings of traditional forms, loading them with a new significance that he managed to articulate through a personal discourse with great collective resonance. His response advocated for urban complexity of spaces and an ennobled condition for the social concept of dwelling. The object of this research is to investigate the evolution of Mario Ridolfi´s urban theories and domestic ideas through the projects he developed in the city of Terni between 1944 and 1964 and highlight their mutual dependency. This investigation attempts to shed light on an inductive approach to considering the form of the city together with the dwelling typology that allowed Ridolfi to transform, in continuity to its historical and cultural value, both those spaces that defined the domestic domain and those that established the public realm and to extend the detail and materiality of built architecture to urban-planning discussions. The investigation is built on a basis of a varied number of primary and secondary sources captured from a systematic review of the exuberant bibliography on the topic. In relation to the primary sources, almost the entire archive of Mario Ridolfi is held at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome and it is accessible for researchers. However, there are still other sources of his work with documents not yet catalogued. An important set of unpublished drawings are conveniently saved at Luciano Marchetti among them, perspective views from his most celebrated works and intermediate plans and sketches of several projects. The research analyses how Mario Ridolfi developed a specific understanding of the relation between buildings and the overall urban composition and thought about ideas of ‘urbanism of 500 metres’, ‘city as a house’ and ‘city made of rooms’. The objective of the investigation is to identify those intrinsic values and characteristics of Ridolfi’s approach and to reflect the strong relation between his urbanism and the buildings he designed. Furthermore, this case study intends to contribute to the re-evaluation of a current of thought that developed an urban design that could integrate simultaneously the town-planning discussions together with a close attention towards the spaces and real materiality of the built architecture. Tthe investigations aim to contribute to the re-evaluation of the urban and architectonic narrative of the 20th Century by characterising an under represented approach in the canonical history of modern urbanism and architecture. In doing so, this investigation expands the depiction of a current of thought that considers the city form and the building design together and shares important similarities with the work in other European intermediate cities that goes from the early experiences by Andrea Palladio in Vicenza and Karl Friedrich Schinkel in Berlin to Gustav Gull in Zürich, Giovanni Muzio in Milano, Wilhem Marinus Dudok in Hilversum, K.R. Schättner in Eichstätt or, even more recently, August Perret in le Havre, Giancarlo di Carlo in Urbino or Luigi Snozzi in Monte Carasso, among others. An approach that links both the buildings and the urban composition with a strong spatial structure. |
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