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 Manuela Martorelli 2001: Odyssey OF space University of Architecture of the Polytechnic in Turin, HYPARC, SAD, LARTU Italy 2000, 9’05” The vocational profile of architects and town planners is being radically questioned, both in the working world and in the academic scenario. That is why there is now the need to reinvent these profiles, through tools of multiple expressiveness, and re-establish a certain representative quality that has been lost in time. In the past twenty years computer assisted design (CAD) has been greatly used by a number of designers and town planners. Even though “gigantic bonfires of “T” rulers, squares, drafting machines and compasses are starting to disappear from professional offices” computers are being used just like a drafting machine. City chaos in the twenty-first century has been strongly pointed out as a negative aspect of society because it is based upon the idea of the city as a victim of an incurable disease. Indeed, it should be considered as the incapability of questioning our knowledge, or better our lack of knowledge. “The town planner should learn how to co-operate with the spontaneous processes of city organisation through a plan that gives the processes the chance to act and be revealed and, at the same time, be guided by the town planner”. This, in turn, leads to the coding of the morphological organisation of the city. “Taking a look from far away, seeing the general tendency, for example the wavy movement of the sea and the international economic trends, and being able to consider them all together. Taking a closer look and seeing much more, observing each detail and emphasising it. For example, watching a wave breaking against the tiny irregular juts of a rock, the consequences of the economic trends in a certain country, and the possibility of analysing the specific and local effects. (...). Those who know how to use a computer very well, are aware of the continual coming and going between the various enlargements and levels”. A complex type of coming and going that can be described and interpreted through united fractal geometry, through town planning, or through the analysis of settlements on the basis of certain variables, for example, the location of the population. Manuela Martorelli was born in 1980 and is studying Architecture at the Polytechnic in Turin. She firmly believes that multimedia and digital language, and in particular the aspects of complexity and flexibility of this language, represent the new operational tool to be used for History and Town planning. She has proposed the representation of complex urban areas through fractal geometry, on the basis of research carried out on a university course, History of Town Planning I. The final project arises from the co-operation with multimedia communication laboratories, (HYPARC and SAD), and territorial information laboratories of the Polytechnic. A special thanks to those who have contributed to the project, in particular Evandro Costa. |
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