GENOA SUMMERSCHOOL 

July 2014 

http://www.genoasummerschool.it

Two-week of intensive program exploring the possibility of an approach based on architectural, environmental and economic knowledge. The field of application of the design will be the two great Asylums located in the Genoese metropolitan area: Quarto dei Mille in the eastern side, and Pratozanino in the western side. These scenarios are characterized by the presence of the waterfront and urban, or peri-urban, landscapes, both great port cities and small villages, both rural and industrial areas.

In Italy the hospitalizations to the Asylums stopped abruptly in the 1978, when the Law 180 (Basaglia Law) introduced significant changes in the provision of psychiatric care. From there, the two Mental Hospitals of Quarto and Pratozanino were gradually empty and patients discharged into the community.


City of wellness

The area of Quarto dei Mille is located in the east district of the city, along the highway (corso Europa) that connects Genova to the villages of the Riviera di Levante.

The project area extends over a hill located between the highway, that cuts the territory making a gap between the two different parts (northern and southern) of the neighbourhood and the sea.

The place is strongly characterized by the presence of the Asylum and the near area of the Gaslini Children's Hospital.

The program of the project lies all in the Wellness City idea. In particularly, the workshop will focus on the re-qualification of the complex that will be deigned to offer the people the possibility to enjoy, at the same time, several activities and the open air living.


City of Sport

The area of Pratozanino is located on the hills in the northern Cogoleto, a sea village near Genova. Today, the importance of the architectural complex lies also in its extension and in his relationship between the environment and the surrounding landscape. Therefore, this area requires to be transformed from its current state of degradation to a renewed identity, through an intervention of regeneration.
In this area the goal of the work is designing a City of Sport. A district to facilitate community sport development, with the aim of enhancing access to sport and recreation programs and services in the province of Genova.

In each area every teacher can define a functional program that includes any typology which may serve the purpose.
The projects represent a free modification of the existing architectural complexes that today are falling into ruins, for the most part. It is not allowed the total demolition and reconstruction of the area.