04 Acerra Advanced Design Studio

Marilena Bosone

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-218-2

04 Acerra Advanced Design Studio

Authors

Marilena Bosone

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7011-0216

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-218-2

Keywords:

Acerra, design laboratory, architecture projects, learning spaces, connective frames

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA Press - Federico II University Press

Series: ADS Advanced Design Studio

Pages: 338

Language: English

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-30042

Abstract: The design work conducted for the city of Acerra represented, for the students of the last year of the 5UE Architecture course, an experiment of great relevance, from a design and professional point of view, towards the development of an approach aimed at finding an adequate and concrete response to the multiple needs posed by the reality of the context in which it operates. The publication brings together the results of the work carried out during the 2021-2022 academic year, highlighting the multiplicity of aspects and design themes addressed, as well as the variety of solutions proposed. The structure of the book reflects this experimental approach, starting with the exploration of some preliminary themes and methods, examined in the “Essays” section; continuing through the tool of “mapping” and the collection of the debate’s results with the municipal administration, the environment and the people living in that places; finally, arriving at the systemisation and a “synthesis” of the information and investigations carried out through the project proposals, described in the “Projects” section. Each project theme includes an in-depth theoretical study, through two introductory essays and various design declinations that try in an alternative way to provide possible scenarios for the city. In order to solve the existing criticalities, but also to enhance the potential and different assets of the Acerra area, the design proposals were constructed through a mechanism of grafting and connections into the existing, not oriented towards the definition of a completed form and a predetermined function, but which, on the contrary, allowed us to work on an idea of an open form, which reused what exists and included multiple possibilities of use, continually changing its perimeter, extending and incorporating urban pieces of a different nature. Scenarios of possible new meanings and new urban transformations are, therefore, the result of this work, composed of different levels of in-depth analysis linked to the general idea of Acerra as a city of diffuse learning spaces.

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Author Biography

Marilena Bosone, University of Naples Federico II

Architect, PhD Candidate in Architectural and Urban Design at the Department of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II. His research interests focus on the design of fragile landscapes, focusing specifically on the interference thresholds between ground and water in historical cities. She has carried out national and international research activities in Spain at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura in Granada in 2019 and in France at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris-Malaquais in Paris (2024), participating in interdisciplinary groups within the framework of Conventions and Agreements between Universities and Institutions. She has participated in national and international workshops, conferences and design competitions. She has deepened the themes of architectural and landscape design for heritage at risk through a II Level Master's degree achieved in a.y. 2020/21 at the Department of Architecture of the University of Naples Federico II. She is a tutor in the design laboratories of the II Level Master's Degree “Riscape”, focused on the theme of landscape design in vulnerable territories, and of the International II Level Master's Degree, “Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree ALA - Architecture Landscape Archaeology” (2020-2023).