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ROME: Urban Structures and Forms critics
WK 1-3: Collective Palimpsests [spatial data, social/temporal
human relationship to the land and public space. In the same
Marcella Del Signore
practices]
way that the ancient Rome and the contemporary city super-
Tiffany Lin
The experience of living in Rome reveals the city as a contem-
poses layers of information and matter in successive and varied
students A | Andrew Graham B | Laura Robins C | Sophie Dardant D | Chris Tellone E | Natalia Hidalgo
porary urban metropolis existing within a preserved historic
entropic combination.
fabric. The first 2-week exercise focused on understanding Ro-
WK 9-15: Urban Collector [Cohabiting Dynamics ]
man strata as a series of formal/spatial layers and social/temporal layers. As an initial record of architectural observations, students distilled the spatial data of an urban piazza in terms of specific formal categories to produce a series of analytical 2D drawings and 3D models.
building types are a practical and sustainable means of optimizing land use, serving the varying needs of city’s inhabitants, and creating dynamic new urban communities. Mixed-use developments have the ability to become catalysts to generate
LANDscraper is a term coined by the architect Antoine Predock
activity and a vibrant 24-hr lifestyle for otherwise neglected
constructed on it. They seek the ability of to establish a new
/ STUdy AbROAd /
and housing development is in increasing demand. Mixed-use
WK 4-7: Lands of Superimposition [programming simultaneity] to denotate buildings that unfold the land, rather then being
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In contemporary cities, the available land for commercial, retail
areas of the city.