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Planning
Town planning and territorial planning together represent one of the main A9studio's area of activities, both as professional works and as a material for further research development.
Planning experiences develop in different fields: local scale planning such as in master plans and land use plans, regional planning, landscape planning.
Planning activities are crucial to identify different critical aspects in relationships between different scales and to find different ways to face the transition from general strategies to guidelines, rules and implementation criteria, according to different territorial, cultural and social contexts
The relation with urban and territorial policies represents a fundamental topic for planning practices -
urban design
A9studio’s urban design experiences can be read finding two main topics: relationships between planning and urban morphology and connections between urban interventions and architectural design
Different scales must be considered in order to face redefinition of urban parts, both new developments or renewals, with a particular attention to different processes where these operations can find their implementation
A9studio’s works, competitions and teaching experiences in urban design, in different ways, always tend to re-examine the links between different scale and disciplines, and to focus on different specific design themes: urban and environmental sustainability, equity and social complexity of urban spaces, with a particular concern about public space and open spaces -
architectural design and restoration
Main A9studio’s architectural design experiences are focused on rehabilitation and refurbishing of historical building and renewal of existing built environment
The relationships between new spaces and pre-existing structures, linked together in a new configuration, have to be considered as one the most important topic to deal with, looking for a critical dialogue between the present existing values and contemporary needs, according to every design programme
Reading the urban and landscape context and finding their most important references and suggestions is one of the main base to find guidelines for new realizations and architectural projects -
seismic risk assessment
Seismic risk assessment and prevention at a planning scale is an important topic most of all concerning interventions on historical towns.
There are at least three essential issues to focus on:
- how general assessment methods can change according to different urban context;
- the links between seismic risk prevention and urban regeneration;
- the relationships between specific studies – such as vulnerability studies or micro-zoning studies – and ordinary planning processes.
Integrating different disciplines and finding new reciprocal chance of debate and knowledge exchange constitute a central topic both in risk assessment and in general aims of planning
A9studio's activities display on different levels:
plans and projects
on different scales and sectors:
planning
urban design
architectural design and restoration
seismic risk prevention
studies and researches
mostly in territorial and urban studies and planning scale seismic prevention
teaching and lectures
in planning and urban design themes
publications
in books, essays and articles
In every sector, main experiences have been displayed in different forms: planning and design committments, cooperation in research teams, consultancies, both for public and private customers
plans and projects
on different scales and sectors:
planning
urban design
architectural design and restoration
seismic risk prevention
studies and researches
mostly in territorial and urban studies and planning scale seismic prevention
teaching and lectures
in planning and urban design themes
publications
in books, essays and articles
In every sector, main experiences have been displayed in different forms: planning and design committments, cooperation in research teams, consultancies, both for public and private customers