CAN TEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE IMPROVE OUTDOOR CONDITIONS IN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS?

The life quality and the livability level of a city are strictly related to how public urban spaces are used and maintained, and to the type and number of outdoor activities. The absence of recreational and optional activities may create poor outdoor conditions: many public spaces are currently used in ineffective ways, often in uncomfortable and unsafe conditions. Seasonal and weather conditions are also a potential limit to the use of spaces between buildings. The paper stems from several investigations that demonstrate how the request for urban quality is a pressing need of residential areas inhabitants, and how collective outdoor spaces have great unexplored potentiality. With sustainable models, capable of adapting to outdoor climate conditions, this research will try to respond to the request of a livable outdoors, in order to introduce effective programming in comfortable conditions, and give back strength and identity to neighborhoods. Through the analysis of several case studies, classified on the basis of their use and through recurring features and keywords, the project aims at identifying a transferable model based on sustainable and multipurpose structural units for temporary outdoor architectures. These elements will be the base to introduce urban “acupuncture intervention” as a support for the growing need for recreational and cultural activities, in order to provide a tool capable of improving the urban outdoor conditions. The background purpose is to come to a conscious use of the city’s potentialities with the aim of improving the citizen’s modus vivendi.