Daniel DiLorenzo

Thesis in Architectural Design

The Trieste Seafront. Complex[c]ity: Evolutionary Dynamics and Intervention Strategies in Portovecchio

Thesis by Danilo Di Lorenzo
Contact Email: d.diLorenzo1977@libero.it

University of Chieti - Pescara G. D'Annunzio
Faculty of Architecture - AA 2005 - 2006
Speaker: Prof. Giangiacomo D'Ardia
Co-supervisors: Arch. Barbara Falcone - Arch. Giovanni Palermo

The study of the city of Trieste highlights many of the problems related to Port-Cities: traffic, decommissioning, degradation, demographic thinning. The Thesis examines the possibility of managing the multiplicities at play by means of a minimum number of elements, variable in time and space. The overall project is managed by a mathematical-compositional System that acts as a substrate for a future software for managing the urban transformation of Trieste. The conceptual elaboration of this System draws on recently developed fields:
_Fractal Reality and the Science of Complexity.
Based on these concepts, the elements of the project, divided into Fixed (connection structures and equipped paths) and Mobile (temporary reception/exhibition structures), invading the interstitial spaces between the historic buildings (Urban void), enter into a short circuit, continuously touching on the possibility of creating a Mutable, Sustainable and continuously e_Volution city.