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 A[polis] + Arc-lab The Future and the City of Verona Italy 2000 The site is pivotal in the maturing of Verona into a larger metropolis. The city became bifurcated as it grew beyond its urban core and beyond its industrial zone. The industrial zone assumed the function once occupied by the fortifying walls – that of separation. Segregated satellite neighborhoods, like Borgo Roma and Golosine-S.Lucia, became urban bastards. The industrial area in the outskirts, once the workplace of most of these residents, steadily moved out of town. The problem, as we saw it, deals with the following question: how does a city reconnect and become a continuum of the metropolis, while participating in and feeding off the complexity of the city? Using the strategy of corduroy urbanism we found that, through reprogramming existing structures and inserting new construction, we could link isolated struggling types to similar thriving urban types. The Magazzini Generali is situated at the apex of several different urban types. Facilitating the connections of similar urban uses creates cords of certain typologies, such as residential, civic, commercial, park space and Fair. Now the city can be seen as a continuum of particular types and can also be experienced as such. The complexity and richness of the metropolitan condition is amplified at the intersections, overlappings, and adjacencies of the cords. Viale del Lavoro, a necessary umbilical cord of the city, is submerged between the existing Fair and the Magazzini Generali. A[polis], was created in 1999 by two European architects (Paola Giaconia, Italy; and Gregory Taousson, France), and is conceived as a collaborative endeavor and an innovative workshop committed to experimental design, while considering and even foreseeing a wide range of issues: the complexity of the city, the social, economic and historical constraints of each project, the human scale and emotions. Paola Giaconia, architect (Milano), studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy. Recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, she graduated from the Master's Degree Program at SCI-Arc. She worked with various architectural offices, such as Morphosis (Thom Mayne) and RoTo (Michael Rotondi). Gregory Taousson, Architecte D.P.L.G., studied in France, at the School of Architecture of Languedoc-Roussillon, and in Quebec, at the University of Laval. After having conducted a substantial work of research with the French National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS), he moved to Los Angeles and received his Master's Degree from SCI-Arc. Arc-lab was founded in 1999 by Erik Dodge (1967) and John Mitchell (1974). Arc-lab is an umbrella organization, where people of different interests and visions meet. Arc-lab is merely a name to identify a collaborator. Arc-lab is an architectural laboratory. Arc-lab is a container, whose ingredients are impossible to define. Arc-lab generates contemporary architecture. |
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