Contemporary knowledge is increasingly based on the viewing of digital images rather than on direct experience. Similarly, city centres are not only made of historical real estate to observe and study to be preserved: a physical- experience of a place –‘from inside’- involves all the five senses; as a matter of fact, there are many temporary elements to be fascinated or disturbed by, or just to be beware of, that must be considered before planning any action. Urban planners were used to designing on a stated urban map, they visualized cities as if looking down from an airplane; but the aerial view can’t focus on how citizens actually dwell and live the city. Nowadays the dream of a perfect urban plan has failed: architects are called to act as anthropologists and detect (not foretell) human behaviours inside the city. The submitted paper discusses the didactic and research experience carried out during one of the Urban and Environmental Survey courses, held at the School of Architecture and Design in Ascoli Piceno (Italy): it presents the theoretical approach and the graphic results obtained by the students. The training was not merely based on technical measuring instructions for drawing visible architectural facts (measured drawing), but it consisted in facing a series of specific analyses related to the sensible aspects, which can be detected in the city centre of Ascoli Piceno.
City Scans. For an Emotional Survey Formula: Walking, Stumbling, Detecting, Drawing, Measuring and Mapping
MAGAGNINI, Marta
2013-01-01
Abstract
Contemporary knowledge is increasingly based on the viewing of digital images rather than on direct experience. Similarly, city centres are not only made of historical real estate to observe and study to be preserved: a physical- experience of a place –‘from inside’- involves all the five senses; as a matter of fact, there are many temporary elements to be fascinated or disturbed by, or just to be beware of, that must be considered before planning any action. Urban planners were used to designing on a stated urban map, they visualized cities as if looking down from an airplane; but the aerial view can’t focus on how citizens actually dwell and live the city. Nowadays the dream of a perfect urban plan has failed: architects are called to act as anthropologists and detect (not foretell) human behaviours inside the city. The submitted paper discusses the didactic and research experience carried out during one of the Urban and Environmental Survey courses, held at the School of Architecture and Design in Ascoli Piceno (Italy): it presents the theoretical approach and the graphic results obtained by the students. The training was not merely based on technical measuring instructions for drawing visible architectural facts (measured drawing), but it consisted in facing a series of specific analyses related to the sensible aspects, which can be detected in the city centre of Ascoli Piceno.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
