Interpreting Basic Building: Architectural Composition and Building Typology

Gianfranco Caniggia, Gian Luigi Maffei ; Translated By Susan Jane Fraser ; Revision, Karl Kropf And Brenda Scheer ; Coordination And Critical Glossary, Nicola Marzot. FOREWORD - Gian Luigi Majfei BUILDING INTERPRETATION AND ISUF - J.W.R. Whitehand INTRODUCTION - Anne Vernez Moudon PREAMBLE PARTE PRIMA: INTRODUCTION: MOTIVES AND PROPOSITIONS 1.1. THE CRISIS IN THE PRODUCTION AND TEACHING OF BUILDING 1.2 SPECIFICATION OF TERMINOLOGY AND BASIC DEFINITIONS SPONTANEOUS CONSCIOUSNESS CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS YIELD TYPE BUILDING TYPE TYPOLOGICAL PROCESS PHASE PARTE SECONDA: INTERPRETATION OF BUILDING STRUCTURES 2.1 BUILDING AS HISTORIC (SPATIAL ANDTEMPORAL) INDIVIDUATION OF THETYPOLOGICAL PROCESS FROM ELEMENTARY MATRIXES TO COMPLEX DERIVATIONS INTERPRETATION COPRESENCE DERIVATION DEGREE OF ORGANICITY SERIAL ORGANIC SCALAR COMPONENTS: ELEMENTS, STRUCTURES, SYSTEMS, ORGANISM 2.2 CRITICAL-OPERATIVE FORMATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF BUILDING DEVELOPMENT ON FOUR CONCURRENT DIMENSIONAL SCALES, COINCIDING WITH FOUR MOMENTS-PHASES OF PROGRESSIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT 2.2.1 Buildings as individuation of building types DIATOPY AND DIACHRONY OF TYPOLOGICAL PROCESSES SYNCHRONIC VARIANTS BASIC BUILDING TYPES ROW HOUSES AND IN-LINE HOUSES PERTINENT AREA MATURE ROW HOUSE PROGRESSION OF ROW TYPES BASE TYPE LEVEL OF SPECIFICITY BASE TYPE CHARACTERISTICS ANTECEDENTS OF THE BASE TYPE ELEMENTARY CELL TYPE GROWTH: SPECIALIZATIONS OF ROOMS AND FUNCTIONS DIFFERENT TYPOLOGICAL PROCESSES: GENOA FLORENCE AND ROME DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN BASIC AND SPECIALIZED BUILDING TYPOLOGICAL SERIES TYPE, BUILDING AND MODEL BUILDING AND TYPE: SPECIFICATION OF THE SPECIFICITY LEVEL 2.2.2 Aggregates as individuation of typical tissues URBAN TISSUE BASIC AND SPECIALIZED TISSUES ROUTES TISSUE MODULARITY AND BUILT LOT PERTINENT STRIP NODAL POINTS AND POLARITY BUILDING ALONG A MATRIX ROUTE PLANNED BUILDING ROUTE CONNECTING ROUTE BLOCK CONTRADA BASE TISSUE BREAK-THROUGH ROUTE INFILL BUILDING INFILL TISSUE COMO TISSUES GENOESE TISSUES TISSUES OF ROME AND FLORENCE 2.2.3 Settlement and urban organism as individuation of typical connections between aggregates URBAN ORGANISM AND SETTLEMENT ORGANISM SETTLEMENT, PROTO URBAN NUCLEUS AND URBAN NUCLEUS BASIC SETTLEMENT ORGANISM CENTRALITY AND PERIPHERALITY ELEMENTARY URBAN NUCLEUS AND BASIC URBAN ORGANISM HIERARCHIES OF COMPONENTS HIERARCHY OF URBAN ROUTES CENTRALIZING AXIS AND DIVIDING AXES PUNCTIFORM NODALITIES COUNTER-RADIAL BOUNDARIES AND AXIS SUCCESSWE DOUBLING LAW SPECIALIZED BUILDINGS AND URBAN ORGANISM URBAN AXES AND POLES: ROME ROME 2.2.4 Territorial organism as individuation of typical connections between route, settlement, productive and urban organisms ROUTE SETTLEMENT PRODUCTION PROTO TOWN AND URBAN NUCLEUSES FIRST CYCLE: SYSTEM FIRST PHASE: RIDGE-TOP ROUTE SECOND PHASE SECONDARY RIDGE-TOP ROUTES AND PROMONTORY SETTLEMENT THIRD PHASE: LOCAL CROSS-RIDGE-TOP ROUTE POSITIONING OR PROTO URBAN NUCLEUSES FOURTH PHASE: SYNTHETIC CROSS-RIDGES POSITIONING OF A URBAN NUCLEUS IMPROPER SYNTHETIC CROSS-RIDGES VALLEY BOTTOM SECOND CYCLE OF CONSOLIDATION: FIRST PHASE OF VALLEY MAIN VALLEY BOTTOM ROUTES SECOND PHASE THIRD PHASE FOURTH PHASE THIRD CYCLE: SYSTEM RECOVERY FOURTH CYCLE OF RESTRUCTURING TERRITORIAL TYPE BASIC TERRITORIAL TYPE RELATIVELY IMPASSABLE BOUNDARIES CULTURAL AREA CULTURAL AREA AND TERRITORIAL TYPE TERRITORIAL TYPOLOGICAL PROCESS TERRITORIAL ORGANISM MODULARITY 2.3 CONCLUSIONS. HOW HISTO RICAL-TYPOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT ACTUALLY WORKS CRITICAL GLOSSARY - Nicola Marzot Spontaneous consciousness (Coscienza spontanea) Critical consciousness (Coscienza critica) Yeld (Rendimento) Type (Tipo) Building type (Tipo edilizio) Base type (Tipo base) Foundation type (Tipo di base) Typological process (Processo tipologico) Phase (Fase) Interpretation (Lettura) Organicity, degrees of (Organicita, livelli di) Scalar components (Componenti scalari) VariantlMutation (Variante/Mutazione) Synchronic variant (Variante sincronica) Diachronic variant (Variants diacronica) Syntopic variant (Variante sintopica) Diatopic variant (Variante diatopica) Building (Edilizia) Building language (Linguaggio edilizio) Basic building (Edilizia di base) Specialized building (Edilizia specialistica) Typological series (Filone tipologico) Level of specificity (Livello di tipicita) Elementary cell (Cellula elementare) Urban tissue type (Tipo di tessuto urbano) Built lot (lotto edilizio) Pertinent area (Area di pertinenza) Pertinent strip (Fascia di pertinenza) Node-Nodal points (Nodo-Nodalita) Pole-Polarity (Polo-Polarita) Route (Percorso) Matrix route (Percorso matrice) Planned building route (Pereorsi di impianto edilizio) Connecting routes (Percorsi di collegamento) Break-Through route (Percorso di ristrutturazione) Block (Isolato) Contrada (Contrada) Settlement organism (Organismo insediativo) Urban organism (Organismo urbano) Urban Organism type (Tipo di organismo urbano) Territorial type (Tipo territoriale) Ridge-top route (Percorso di crinale) Promontory settlement (Insediamento dipromontorio) Cross-ridge route(Percorso di mezzacosta/Controcrinale) Synthetic cross-ridge route (Percorso dicontrocrinale sintetico) Valley bottom route (Percorso di fondovalle) Diagonal route (Percorso diagonale) Project (Progetto) Matter (Materia) Material (Materiale) Tabernization ( Tabernizzazione) Insulation (Insulizzazione) Courtyard house (Casa a corte) Pseudo row house (Casa a pseudoschiera) Row house (Casa a schiera) Pseudo in-line house (Casa a pseudolinea) In-line house (Casa in linea)