LANDSCAPES OF PRODUCTION

Steve Revill & Valeria Piras

ABANDONMENT OF THE LANDSCAPE The landscapes of Reggio Calabria and Messina have been subject to a social, economic and political climate of abandonment.

THE ABANDONMENT OF THE LANDSCAPE

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WALL The wall as a raw architectural elemaent that has come to characterise the abandoned territories.

MESSINA AND THE LANDSCAPE OF POST-INDUSTRIAL NEGLECT The relationship between production and care.

THE ROLE OF THE WALL ON THE SAN RANIERI PENINSULA

THE CITADEL

RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE

HEAVY INDUSTRY

The Citadel

The Citadel (Garrisons)

Workshop

Warehouse

Linear Warehouse

Divider of Space

Illegal Construction

The wall appropriated as a structural device for illegal construction.

The wall as a new architectural device to re-appropriate the territory.

CUT

RHYTHM

SPAN

FIELD

ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK

RETHINKING THE BORDERS

The archaeology of agricultural landscape

Valeria Piras

THE FIUMARE

THE DIFFERENT LANDSCAPES

THE SYSTEM OF STREAMS

REGGIO CALABRIA_ THE LANDSCAPE CONSUMPTION

THE LANDSCAPE_1912

THE LANDSCAPE_1945

THE LANDSCAPE_2013

THE FIUMARA AS A FRACTURE IN THE CITY

Segregated area

Segregated area

Segregated area

THE DIFFERENT TYPE OF FIUMARA

street canal natural bed

FIUMARA SANTAGATA_ the fiumara turned into a canal

Wall

Wild nature

Fiumara SantAgata, turned into a canal

Wild nature

Wall

FIUMARA CALOPINACE_ the fiumara turned into a canal and the streets along its sides

wall

street

Fiumara Calopinace, turned into a canal

street

FIUMARA SANTAGATA_ the natural bed

gardens

wall

Fiumara SantAgata, natural bed

gardens

SAMPLES OF DIFFERENT POSSIBLE CONDITION ALONG THE FIUMARE

THE 5 ELEMENTS OF PRODUCTION:

1. Leisure 2. Knowledge 3. Cultivated lands 4. Productive buildings 5. Housing

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CASE 1: the city beween the Fiumare

residential development

fiumara Calopinace

urban fields

city (low density) new public facility / industrial building

fiumara SantAgata

residential development

Possible project scenario

CASE 2: the Fiumara in the city grid

city grid

new position of the streets fiumara Calopinace squares

city grid

Possible project scenario

CASE 3: the Fiumara and the void in the dense city

dense city

new position of the streets

fiumara Calopinace

residential development

void

laboratories

dense city

Possible project scenario

CASE 4: the Fiumara between the city and the landscape

city (low dense)

widespread market

industrial building fiumara SantAgata

fields small agricultural buildings residential development

landscape extensive cultivation

warehouses

Possible project scenario

CASE 5: the fiumara between the low dense city and the sprawl

city (low density) residential development with urban gardens agricultural school fiumara SantAgata

residential development

sprawl

greenhouses

Possible project scenario

THE 5 ELEMENTS OF PRODUCTION:

1. Leisure (park alonf the Fiumara) 2. Knowledge (agricultural school) 3. Cultivated lands (urban fields) 4. Productive buildings (greenhouses) 5. Housing

THE REPETITION OF THE WALL

LEISURE_ park along the Fiumara

Different possible activities

sport

playground

market

park

bridge

botanical garden

skatepark

cinema

THE REDEFINITION OF THE LIMITS_

new housing developments and agricultural school

THE REDEFINITION OF THE LIMITS_

new housing developments and agricultural school

THE INFRASTRUCTURAL WALL_NORTH BANK

first floor plan

section

THE INFRASTRUCTURAL WALL_SOUTH BANK

ground floor plan

first floor plan

THE WALL_NORTH BANK

THE WALL_SOUTH BANK

KNOWLEDGE_ the agricultural school

first floor plan

CULTIVATED LANDS_

urban fields within the housing development

PRODUCTIVE FACILITIES_
the system of greenhouses