The big development of the Regional World in the post-war period started in the the late 1960s with the foundation of the French new town of Port Grimaud. Conceived in a Provençal Style by François Spoerry, the new foundation inaugurated the renaissance of the Mediterranean age. After Port Grimaud it is possible to identify a true new typology of intervention where the Regional character is a key ingredient of the economic investment. It happens in Kemer, near Istanbul with the new town center designed at the beginnings of the 1990s by Duany & Plater-Zyberk as well as in Hammamet with the new Medina designed in 2001 by Tarak Ben Miled, in Marbella in the new village of Puerto Banus as well as in the island of Spetses in the new village of Pitiousas designed in 1994 by Demetri Porphyrios. This new concept of architectural intervention develops the idea of a profound respect of any region, by trying to extend into the new foundations the best elements of the local architectural tradition. If it is possible to state that today the entire area of the French southern coast is deeply infuenced by the Mediterranean culture with new traditional foundations in Pont Royal, Gassin, Aix-en-Provence, etc., a large presence of the new Regional culture is also the base for the development of the new town of Val d’Europe in the Ile-de-France Region. While the success of Port Grimaud has influenced the development of any tourist village since 1970, Val d’Europe represents the largest experiment of a Regional new town for 40,000 inhabitants fully equipped with social infrastructures such as a University, a Hospital, a TGV railway station and 2 regional metro-stations. Organically designed as an Ile-de-France traditional town, Val d’Europe adopts the Regional language for its architecture in order to give the new foundation a unique character that is able to anchor citizens to the place and create a true sense of community. In an age of accelerated globalization, the possibility to build a Regional World represents a new challenge for architects, developers, and public administrators. This new challenge offers the opportunity to extend the beautiful world of traditional European cities and villages to the new urban neighborhoods in a sense of continuity. It is not only a problem of creating an architecture truly expressing the character of the place, but primarly to build a world which respects the many differents traditions of the many different regions. An opportunity to develop local economies through craftmanship and smart light industry and contributing to limit the endless sprawl of sub-urbia through the use of the traditional concept of compact cities, towns, villages, and neighborhoods.
THE UNBEARABLE BEAUTY OF AN ORGANIC REGIONAL WORLD. FROM SEVILLA 1929 TO VAL D’EUROPE 2008
TAGLIAVENTI, Gabriele;BUCCI, Alessandro;DIOLAITI, Donatella;FINETTI, Francesco
2010
Abstract
The big development of the Regional World in the post-war period started in the the late 1960s with the foundation of the French new town of Port Grimaud. Conceived in a Provençal Style by François Spoerry, the new foundation inaugurated the renaissance of the Mediterranean age. After Port Grimaud it is possible to identify a true new typology of intervention where the Regional character is a key ingredient of the economic investment. It happens in Kemer, near Istanbul with the new town center designed at the beginnings of the 1990s by Duany & Plater-Zyberk as well as in Hammamet with the new Medina designed in 2001 by Tarak Ben Miled, in Marbella in the new village of Puerto Banus as well as in the island of Spetses in the new village of Pitiousas designed in 1994 by Demetri Porphyrios. This new concept of architectural intervention develops the idea of a profound respect of any region, by trying to extend into the new foundations the best elements of the local architectural tradition. If it is possible to state that today the entire area of the French southern coast is deeply infuenced by the Mediterranean culture with new traditional foundations in Pont Royal, Gassin, Aix-en-Provence, etc., a large presence of the new Regional culture is also the base for the development of the new town of Val d’Europe in the Ile-de-France Region. While the success of Port Grimaud has influenced the development of any tourist village since 1970, Val d’Europe represents the largest experiment of a Regional new town for 40,000 inhabitants fully equipped with social infrastructures such as a University, a Hospital, a TGV railway station and 2 regional metro-stations. Organically designed as an Ile-de-France traditional town, Val d’Europe adopts the Regional language for its architecture in order to give the new foundation a unique character that is able to anchor citizens to the place and create a true sense of community. In an age of accelerated globalization, the possibility to build a Regional World represents a new challenge for architects, developers, and public administrators. This new challenge offers the opportunity to extend the beautiful world of traditional European cities and villages to the new urban neighborhoods in a sense of continuity. It is not only a problem of creating an architecture truly expressing the character of the place, but primarly to build a world which respects the many differents traditions of the many different regions. An opportunity to develop local economies through craftmanship and smart light industry and contributing to limit the endless sprawl of sub-urbia through the use of the traditional concept of compact cities, towns, villages, and neighborhoods.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
