an official journal of: published by:
an official journal of: published by:
Editor in Chief: RAFFAELLO COSSU
Home

 

GO TO

ARCHITECTURE AS A DEVICE: THE DESIGN OF WASTE RECYCLING COLLECTION CENTRES

  • Maria Luna Nobile - DiARC Department of Architecture, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy

DOI 10.31025/2611-4135/2018.13654

Released under CC BY-NC-ND

Copyright: © 2018 Cisa Publisher

Abstract

Thinking about the architectural project as a broader process first requires reflecting on the role of architecture in urban transformation. The current debate’s main actors are theoreticians and architects, demonstrating that it is possible to direct one’s gaze to a new way of conceiving architecture as a device. The proposed topic is related to research conducted on the architecture and design of public spaces for waste recycling collection centres in the Department of Architecture of the University Federico II in Naples, Italy. The main idea is to conceive waste recycling collection centres not only for their service function but for public spaces in the city. The waste collection centres can have new associated functions, such as laboratories, markets, exhibition areas and rooms for educational activities. According to the guidelines of the Campania Region, a recycling collection centre is an area located in the city, and the number of centres is proportional to the number of citizens. According to these guidelines, the project wants to demonstrate that it is possible to avoid the NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) effect and to integrate this inconvenient function within the city centre, connecting these centres with other activities intended for community use that can be integrated with the size and the function of the recycling collection centre. This functional contamination does not mask an inconvenient function but increases the social value of these places. The case studies for designing waste recycling collection centres were developed according to the guidelines of this research and are described in this article.

Keywords

Editorial History

  • Received: 17 Jan 2018
  • Revised: 16 May 2018
  • Accepted: 19 Jun 2018
  • Available online: 30 Jun 2018

References

Aa. Vv., (2011) Re-cycle, Electa, Milano

Ábalos, I. & Herreros, J. (1999) “Ecomonumentalidad=Ecomonumentality” in Quaderns. No. 224, Destellos = Flashes. Barcelona

Ábalos I. & Herreros J., (2000) Reciclando/Recycling Madrid. Actar Ed. Barcelona

Amirante R., (2006) (a cura di), Le isole ecologiche, un tema di architettura, Editoriale Franco Alfano, Nocera Inferiore

Amirante R., Scala P., Piscopo C. (2016). La bellezza per il rospo / Beauty according to the toad, Clean, Napoli

Avermaete, T., Hooimeijer F., Schrijver L. (2006). Urban Formations and Collective Spaces. Oase. Architectural Journal 71

BIG, (2011). Yes is more, Taschen, Khöln

Brown H., (2017) Infrastructural Ecologies: Alternative Development Models for Emerging Economies, MIT Press

Brown H., (2014) Next Generation Infrastructure: Principles for Post-Industrial Public Works

Corbellini G., (2000) Grande e Veloce. Strumenti compositivi nei contesti contemporanei, Officina, Roma

La Cecla, F., (1993) Mente Locale, Eleuthèra

Kara H., Asensio Villoria L., Georgoulias A., (2017) Architecture and Waste, a (re) planned obsolescence, Actar Publishers, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Koolhaas, R., (1995). S,M,L,XL , The Monacelli Press, 1995

Marini, S., Santangelo, V. (2013). Recycland (a cura di), ARACNE editrice S.r.l., Roma

McDonough, W., Braungart, M., (2003). Dalla culla alla culla. Come conciliare tutela dell'ambiente, equità sociale e sviluppo, Torino, Blu Edizioni

MVRDV, (2005). KM3 Excursions on capacities, ACTAR, Barcelona

Sejima K. (2010). La Biennale di Venezia. 12a Mostra Internazionale di Architettura. People meet in architecture. Catalogo della mostra, Marzilio Editore, Venezia.

Viale G., (2000) La civiltà dei rifiuti e i rifiuti della civiltà, Feltrinelli, Milano

Viale G., (2010) La civiltà del riuso, Edizioni Laterza, Bari

http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/40/the-missing-link-architecture-and-waste-management

https://urbanage.lsecities.net/conferences/shaping-cities-venice-2016

http://www.dezeen.com/2016/01/13/alejandro-aravena-interview-pritzker-prize-laureate-2016-social-incremental-housing-chilean-architect/

http://www.metropolismag.com/uncategorized/waste-not/

http://www.arpajournal.net/efficiency-as-design/

Related Contents