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The work concerns the theme of the recomposition of public spaces in the ancient village of Ponte... more The work concerns the theme of the recomposition of public spaces in the ancient village of Pontemanco,
near Padua. The village was born around two old mills built on the sides of the Biancolino, the canal that unifies and
devides the little community. The spatial aspects and formal image of the transformations in Pontemanco are studied
as a premise for the design of the new architecture that completes the existing buildings. The working method is
based on the belief that, in the study of urban morphology, is basic to analyse the history of the city. The history
becomes an indispensable tool to know the deep reasons of the urban structure which is the memory and the image
of the community. The methodology contemplates the urban form as a result of its spatial structure. The life of the
urban form is investigated in its physical specificity, the only one able of giving reason of its special nature over every
social, economic and political aspect, certainly important but not sufficient. Our teaching at the University of Padova
(Italy) is based on fundamental 1960s studies about typological analysis. The old village of Pontemanco is one of the
subjects investigated by our students, thought as an opportunity to reconfigure the lost unity of this very symbolic
and representative place were the waters of the Biancolino Canal flow.
The work concerns the theme of the recomposition of public spaces in the ancient village of Ponte... more The work concerns the theme of the recomposition of public spaces in the ancient village of Pontemanco,
near Padua. The village was born around two old mills built on the sides of the Biancolino, the canal that unifies and
devides the little community. The spatial aspects and formal image of the transformations in Pontemanco are studied
as a premise for the design of the new architecture that completes the existing buildings. The working method is
based on the belief that, in the study of urban morphology, is basic to analyse the history of the city. The history
becomes an indispensable tool to know the deep reasons of the urban structure which is the memory and the image
of the community. The methodology contemplates the urban form as a result of its spatial structure. The life of the
urban form is investigated in its physical specificity, the only one able of giving reason of its special nature over every
social, economic and political aspect, certainly important but not sufficient. Our teaching at the University of Padova
(Italy) is based on fundamental 1960s studies about typological analysis. The old village of Pontemanco is one of the
subjects investigated by our students, thought as an opportunity to reconfigure the lost unity of this very symbolic
and representative place were the waters of the Biancolino Canal flow.