The City and the Waters | Living Skin

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THE CITY AND THE WATER | International Workshop
Architecture, arts and design for the new waterfront of Marina di Pietrasanta
September 3rd - 14th 2014

ORGANIZERS

OBJECT

The workshop will see students and young professionals working together on the Versilia area, for a ten days-full immersion team work. Particular attention will be set to the public space, where the shared collective values of the urbs had formed. That spaces show actually a deep formal and substantial crisis of identity, to which we are called to give answers going over the traditional models. The case study selected is the waterfront of Marina di Pietrasanta: a context with a high environmental value and a great economic potential, but actually mined by a strong social fragility.

The objective of the workshop is to think up hypothesis for the urban regeneration of the public spaces through architecture, design and arts – as in a sort of renewed Bauhaus – in order to support their re-appropriation from a physical, social and economic point of view.

TARGET

The workshop is oriented to students in Architecture, Urban planning, Design, Building engineering, Art Schools, and also to young professionals and artists from all EU and non EU countries.

Students in Architecture, Urban planning, Building engineering are required to have completed at least one exam both in the fields of urban planning and architectural design/composition.

COURSE DIRECTOR

Roberto Pierini | University of Pisa DESTeC

SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR

João Nunes | PROAP | Lisbon

VISITING PROFESSORS

Adolfo Natalini | Florence
Alessandra Capanna | Rome

GUEST ARTISTS

Loris Cecchini | Berlin
Pinuccio Sciola | San Sperate

LIVING SKIN | Giulia Giorgelli, Viola Marano, Andrea Marchi, Marco Mei, Massimiliano Monteverdi, Anjeza Spahiu

PLACE |

DIRECTIONALITY | The critical aspects and the features of the area can be summarized in three tipes. First of all, over all the area of Pietrasanta, the road has a pronunced directionality in parallel way to the coast and the sea.

DENSITY | Along the coast there is a high building density except in the project area, where it has been replaced by the wild pinehood.

VOID | In the parte fo the area closest to the coast, we can find the only opening between the structure of the beach services, through which it's possible go to the sand or feel and see the sea. This aspect make this place unique.