La crisi della città: scelte tecnologiche e strategie progettuali

The individual, as the community, in the settlement places suitable to their needs, manipulating the environment, both natural and built it, because of their lifestyles. If in the past, these actions were carried out in balance with the environmental system by adjusting the characters in the context of human need, consistently using the potential offered this without compromising the resources, now this ability to inhabit the places has been lost. Contemporary culture, influenced by the greater availability and greater technical and economic independence from natural resources, has made and performs actions processing more and more destructive to the environment but fail to meet the needs of urban quality and comfort for the inhabitants.
Today the new needs of contemporary life calls for architecture and cities means that the project to become an interpreter of the places and the needs of residents through appropriate technological solutions.
The STOA research group that I belong is often interested in the development of strategies for the transformation of the urban environment issues facing the new needs of the contemporary city with the belief that the works of renewal of urban areas can not fail to be guided by the knowledge the complexity of natural phenomena and, by extension, of all social services.