The Struttura Reticolare Acentrata, a Design Strategy for Spatial Organization
- PDF / 4,026,413 Bytes
- 19 Pages / 439.37 x 666.142 pts Page_size
- 51 Downloads / 202 Views
The Struttura Reticolare Acentrata, a Design Strategy for Spatial Organization Veronica Bastai1 · Andrea Cavani1 · Francesco Gherardini2 · Giulio Orsini1 Accepted: 15 October 2020 © Kim Williams Books, Turin 2020
Abstract The Non-centred Reticular Structure is a modular pattern developed by Cesare Leonardi (Modena, Italy, 1935) from 1983, the result of research into spatial and urban planning focusing on trees. It is a model of spatial organization seeking a balance between the spaces of people and those of trees, reconciling and promote all living forms. The Structure consists of a primary pattern of 23 irregular polygons defining the areas belonging to each stakeholder in the spatial organisation: humans, plants, animals. The sides of the polygon constitute a network of nodes (vertices) and connecting rods. The pattern may evolve in space and time, combining biomimicry and geometry, and adapts to different contexts through metamorphosis and deformations. The Structure was applied to ‘Bosco Albergati’ Park (Modena, Italy) which, 30 years after planting, represents an example of spatial organisation imitating nature. This paper presents the Structure as a tool supporting the designer in the spatial organisation of the functional design elements, and investigates its relevance in the design of current green projects. Keywords Struttura reticolare acentrata (non-centred reticular structure) · Design method · Modular pattern · Spatial organisation · Biomimicry · Tree
Introduction The spatial organisation of parks, urban and rural areas, infrastructures and their surroundings requires the development of models describing their current morphology and arrangement as well as planning for their future expansion (growth). Several studies consider the city model as polycentric, since it describes the spatial organisation of human activity better than the monocentric model * Francesco Gherardini [email protected] 1
Archivio Architetto Cesare Leonardi, Viale Emilio Po 134, 41126 Modena, Italy
2
Department of Engineering ‘‘Enzo Ferrari’’, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Pietro Vivarelli 10, 41125 Modena, Italy
Vol.:(0123456789)
V. Bastai et al.
(Friedman and Miller 1965; Greene 1980; Anas et al. 1998; Kloosterman and Musterd 2001). Similarly, regular grid models appear inappropriate today and have been largely abandoned (Barthélemy and Flammini 2008) in favour of biomimetic models inspired by the modularity of nature, and its ability to adapt and self-organise in variable spatial and/or temporal structures. The mathematical representation of natural and biological systems in organising space is a fascinating issue for researchers and architects (Novak 2015; Gherardini and Leali 2017), leading to the widespread use of models that organically divide and arrange spaces into subspaces. Among these, the Voronoi diagram emerges at different scales in natural patterns (Novak 2015; Park et al. 2008; Okabe et al. 2000). Its spatial discretisation is based on points that create regions by ass
Data Loading...
