Abitare insieme : Santa Chiara come infrastruttura per vivere il Centro Antico di Napoli

Abstract

This volume presents the didactic work developed in the four Laboratori di Composizione Architettonica e Urbana 4 and the related Lettura Morfologica courses of the 5UE Degree Course. Starting from the identification of a common theme - the Insula of Santa Chiara in the historical centre of the city of Naples - the fourth year Labs explored the relationships that exist today between community, architecture and city, focusing on. The empty spaces along the perimeter of the monastery, between the boundary wall and the consolidated historical core of the monastic citadel, were the subject of a reflection aimed at their valorisation and integration into the city through urban regeneration strategies. Through the study of these sites, the workshops explored the relationship between architecture and the city, experimenting with methods and ways of intervening in a dense context, highly stratified over time, a privileged field for the study and verification of an architecture capable of perpetuating the values and meanings of the historic city, resisting time and overcoming the transience of fashions. The essays and projects collected in this volume illustrate and describe the results of an experience that has allowed the coexistence of old and new, of community and architecture, reinforcing meanings and characters and perpetuating the civic and cultural role of the monastic citadel.