Lugares simbióticos entre ciudad y arquitectura: Un caso práctico

Abstract

Giovanni Battista Nolli sketched the Nuova pianta di Roma in 1748. From his graphical analy­sis is possible to argue that the Lombard surveyor valued not only the separation between public and private space, but graphically incorporated the interior of sacred buildings to the public domain. In the XIX century, the philosopher Walter Benjamin discovered the change occurred in modern Paris due to the creation of commercial passageways and, inspired by Baudelaire, explained in his book Das Paris des Second Empire bei Baudelaire how much modernity was linked to concepts of romantic walk in nineteenth metropolis. In both historical periods, private architecture (churches or commercial passageways) transformed the city by incorporating its inner spaces to the public system. However, in the XX century the efforts were mainly in the improvement of collective housing, the reconstruction of cities after war disasters or the creation of big complexes for leisure time where the use of spaces is subordinated to the inducted consume. At present time, the crisis caused by the excessive urban expansion requires to focus the debate on two types of public spaces: those generated by urban standards, in which the most important issue is to achieve the landscaped area required in the regulations; and the interior spaces of the densified historic city increasingly most degraded and in depopulation process. In the last ones, any piece of architecture (new or refurbished) is an unmissable opportunity to propose places open to citizenship. In the University of Navarra, students have dealt with the insertion of new buildings in city areas with high deficit of public space. As a conclusión, the required contribution of the new architecture to the collective, from the point of view of the dissolution of limits between public and private domains, or between the specific use and the urban activity.