This thesis uses a combination of design-research methodology based on multi-scalar analysis and section-based interpretation to examine how Rottofreno’s urban landscape has changed in relation to processes of settlement expansion, infrastructural development, and agricultural and ecological fragmentation. The project argues that understanding the relationship between settlements, infrastructure, agricultural lands, and ecological systems requires architecture and landscape design to operate beyond the scale of an individual building. Boundaries are viewed as spatial nodes, not fixed physical elements. Rottofreno is located in a larger metropolitan context of Emilia Romagna, very close to Lombardia. Part of studies include a series of interpretive cartographies created at different scales. In addition, planisezione analysis consisting of systematic sections throughout the area is used to understand the elements of the territory. These analyses indicate the strategic areas of the project as well as a green–gray–blue framework integrating water-based systems, controlled settlement expansion, and ecological continuity. These areas later, during the design phase, translate into a structure with territorial axis, nodes, buffer zones, and public and common spaces. The final design proposes a metropolitan landscape border that limits urban sprawl, protects farmland loss, re-establishes the relationship between the settlements and the rivers, reinforces the social life.
Questa tesi utilizza una metodologia di design-research basata su analisi multiscalare e interpretazione per sezioni per esaminare come il paesaggio urbano di Rottofreno sia cambiato in relazione ai processi di espansione insediativa, allo sviluppo infrastrutturale e alla frammentazione agricola ed ecologica. Il progetto sostiene che la comprensione delle relazioni tra insediamenti, infrastrutture, suoli agricoli e sistemi ecologici richieda che l’architettura e il progetto di paesaggio operino oltre la scala del singolo edificio. I margini territoriali vengono interpretati come nodi spaziali, e non come elementi fisici fissi. Rottofreno è collocato all’interno di un più ampio contesto metropolitano dell’Emilia-Romagna, in stretta prossimità con la Lombardia. Parte dello studio comprende una serie di cartografie interpretative elaborate a diverse scale. Inoltre, l’analisi planisezione, costituita da sezioni sistematiche distribuite sull’intero territorio, viene utilizzata per comprendere gli elementi che strutturano il paesaggio. Queste analisi permettono di individuare le aree strategiche di progetto e di definire un sistema green–gray–blue che integra sistemi idrici, controllo dell’espansione insediativa e continuità ecologica. Tali aree vengono successivamente tradotte, nella fase progettuale, in una struttura territoriale composta da assi, nodi, zone cuscinetto e spazi pubblici e collettivi. Il progetto finale propone un margine paesaggistico metropolitano in grado di limitare la dispersione urbana, proteggere i suoli agricoli, ristabilire la relazione tra gli insediamenti e i sistemi fluviali e rafforzare la vita sociale.
Borderless Boundaries
Amiri Joubani, Airin;Vanaei, Mahnaz
2025/2026
Abstract
This thesis uses a combination of design-research methodology based on multi-scalar analysis and section-based interpretation to examine how Rottofreno’s urban landscape has changed in relation to processes of settlement expansion, infrastructural development, and agricultural and ecological fragmentation. The project argues that understanding the relationship between settlements, infrastructure, agricultural lands, and ecological systems requires architecture and landscape design to operate beyond the scale of an individual building. Boundaries are viewed as spatial nodes, not fixed physical elements. Rottofreno is located in a larger metropolitan context of Emilia Romagna, very close to Lombardia. Part of studies include a series of interpretive cartographies created at different scales. In addition, planisezione analysis consisting of systematic sections throughout the area is used to understand the elements of the territory. These analyses indicate the strategic areas of the project as well as a green–gray–blue framework integrating water-based systems, controlled settlement expansion, and ecological continuity. These areas later, during the design phase, translate into a structure with territorial axis, nodes, buffer zones, and public and common spaces. The final design proposes a metropolitan landscape border that limits urban sprawl, protects farmland loss, re-establishes the relationship between the settlements and the rivers, reinforces the social life.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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