在第十届罗马全球研讨会上, 环境设计 students embarked on a summer field course, exploring the rich culture and historic urban 景观s of both Rome and Syracuse, 意大利. The immersive studio challenged students to examine how cultural, behavioral and environmental factors shape the built environment. 通过讲座, 工作室练习, 素描会议和交流, participants gained hands-on experience in urban site analysis and design.
Design abroad offers an incredibly rich opportunity to reflect on cultural practices of both one’s home country and those visiting. The lens of one whose is not embedded in a culture of place can sometimes highlight or verbalize qualities that those who live there daily have become so accustomed to that they no longer see. New eyes or fresh eyes can often make acute observations that residents may have become veiled.
2024年夏天, 城市选址分析与设计全球研讨会, taught by Teaching Professor Marianne Holbert focused its course on both Rome and 西西里.
在这个工作室里, the new perspectives from the 博彩平台推荐’s Program in 环境设计 students are informing urban 规划 decisions in Ortigia 西西里.
The students began the course with an investigation of markets in Rome to better comprehend the cultural facets of market life in 意大利. This thread of cultural exchange through market life carried from both Rome to 西西里. The students began with four weeks in Rome taking Layers of Rome, 建筑史步行课程, 与建筑直接接触, urban infrastructures and monuments to learn more about the urban evolution of the city. 徒手画的草图, drawing and urban analysis were integral to both the studio course and the layer course.
Students in Holbert’s global seminar began research on their project site in Syracuse, 西西里, which resulted in design proposals for the town of Ortigia. 这些建议涉及城市设计等学科, 规划, 体系结构, 景观 体系结构 and environmental product design. The design proposals also highlighted elements that local architects are now in discussion with the local municipality for possible realization.
地点:
A small island called Ortigia in Italian off the coast of Syracuse in 西西里, 锡拉丘兹的古城. The island has a unique history with the passage between Greeks and was founded by the Corinthians between 734-733 BC. Its position on the Ionian Sea made it strategic for navigation and power. The island is surrounded by the Ionian Sea and its rocky cliffs and beaches.
There are two small bridges that provide access to the island. Upon arrival one is greeted with mayhem of tourist stations, 自行车旅游站, 一座庙宇和 Historic Ortigia Street Market, the farmer’s market by the sea.
古奥提吉亚市场结构:
The Ancient Market Building is a historical structure dating from the 1890s and designed to be the market structure. It was designed by Edoardo Troja, an engineer of the Municipal Technical Office. The internal rectangular courtyard has an ornamental fountain in the middle and a portico with 24 arches surrounded by shops. In 2000, the structure was renovated for historical re-use.
阿波罗神庙:
The building of the historic market structure is situated across from the ancient Greek Doric structure from 6th Century B.C., the Temple of Apollo, constructed as a prototype for the Parthenon in Greece.
建议范围(s):
Project proposals range in size and scope with approaches varying from urban 规划, 体系结构, 景观 体系结构 and/or environmental product design interventions. Proposals could utilize the Antico Mercato building as an adaptive re-use structure for covered market space, 或其他拟议的城市改善计划, 比如新的城市空间, 景观, 公园, enhance circulation and access of the existing market, and engage the street market and connection to the Temple of Apollo. Student designs proposals had the capacity to remove certain existing elements (railings, 墙, urban infrastructure etc…) and add to the existing infrastructure to enhance the area. Individuals selected the projects' function and programs, 以现场为指导进行分析和研究. 这个设计项目引起了文化敏感性, imagination and intellect to inform and enhance the area.
The student design interventions could relate to adaptive re-use of the Ortigia market, a covered market at the end of the nineteenth century, 到热闹的街市或附近的海边逛逛. The Ortigia market borders to the east of the archaeological area of the Greek-archaic temple dedicated to Apollo and near the perimeter of the island and the Ionian Sea. The building is currently minimally used by the local community. The market structure contains a large courtyard characterized by a four-sided portico with arches on columns and a basement with a cryptoportico.
“The architects who reviewed the students' work thought it was incredibly thoughtful. 这些画真的会说话.——玛丽安·霍尔伯特教授
