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Housing, street and health: a new systemic research framework

Paola Viganò, Stéphane Joost, Dusan Licina, Idris Guessous, Derek Pierre Christie, Anna Pagani, Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon, Mathias Lerch, Catarina Wall Gago

As the world’s population grows in cities, urban dwellers spend a large amount of time inside their home, making housing health ever more important. Critical for residents’ health, the interactions between indoor residential environments and outdoor enviro ...

2023

The condition of urban agriculture in a Chinese global city: evidence from the field

Paola Viganò

Urban agriculture (UA) encompasses different practices and dissimilar agendas, not all environmentally and socially savoury, ranging from food security to leisure and recreation. Although there is a wealth of literature on UA, little research has investiga ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2022

Transcalar prospects in climate crisis : architectural research in re/action

Jo François Taillieu, Paola Viganò, Martin Fröhlich, Tommaso Pietropolli, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Lara Monti

As humanity grapples with the escalating challenges of climate change, the discipline of architecture finds itself at a critical juncture. The urgency of the situation demands that schools of architecture not only contribute to envisioning more serene futu ...

Lars Müller Publishers2024

Rethinking Urban Form: Switzerland as a "Horizontal Metropolis"

Paola Viganò, Elena Cogato Lanza, Martina Barcelloni Corte, Chiara Cavalieri, Christian Arnsperger

In light of the rapid population growth forecast for the coming years and the powerful transformations already occurring throughout its whole territory, today's Switzerland stands in urgent need of critical reflection on its urban future. A novel set of co ...

Cogitatio Press2017

Designing Horizontality

Paola Viganò, Tommaso Pietropolli

This paper is divided into three parts. The first introduces a trilogy of concepts and figures of the discourse. The concept of isotropy, as opposed to hierarchy, evokes the same conditions in all directions. The concept of porosity tackles the fluidity an ...

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2021

Territory Subject: Designing Human-Environment Interactions in Cities and Territories

Paola Viganò, Qinyi Zhang, Sylvie Tram Nguyen

A brief critique of the evolution of ecological perspectives surrounding the current environmental crises in the age of climate age and Anthropogenic impacts is highlighted across the inter-disciplinary fields of landscape, urbanism, and ecology. First, re ...

Springer Cham2023

Genealogy, Tradition: An Anthology

Paola Viganò

The Anthology concludes the series of publications on the “Horizontal Metropolis,” a research and an oxymoron whose strength resides in expanding the traditional image of the metropolis to a larger territory where urban and non-urban elements live side by ...

Springer2022

Palimpsest Metaphor: Figures and Spaces of the Contemporary Project

Paola Viganò

What are the consequences of the use of the palimpsest metaphor on the construction of the contemporary project? The metaphor casts criticism on the modern project and opens to the long-term (longue durée). The investigation of territorial rationalities br ...

2020

The Horizontal Metropolis. The Anthology

Paola Viganò, Martina Barcelloni Corte

This book draws together classic and contemporary texts on the “Horizontal Metropolis” concept. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it explores various theoretical, methodological and political implications of the Horizontal Metropolis hypothesis. Assemb ...

Springer2022

Strada e progetto

Paola Viganò

2019

Le sol de la ville-territoire. Projet et production de connaissances/The soil of the city-territory. Project and Knowledge Production

Paola Viganò, Martina Barcelloni Corte, Antoine Vialle

Les exigences politiques actuelles en matière d’aménagement du territoire appellent à la convergence de plusieurs regards interdisciplinaires sur un nouvel objet : les sols fortement transformés par l’homme, dont une part significative est située dans le m ...

2020

Beyond the radio-centric Metropolis: City-territory and network pluralities in The Great Geneva

Paola Viganò, Flore Jeanne Marie Andrea Guichot

HRC-EPFL2024

OASE 110: The Project of the Soil

Paola Viganò, Martina Barcelloni Corte

Inspired by Bernardo Secchi’s 1986 text “Progetto di Suolo,” this issue of Oase offers critical analyses of how soil, as an intermediary entity between surface and subsurface, can further the practices of urbanism and urban design. ...

NAi Publishers2022

Interpretative Concepts and Visions: Introduction

Paola Viganò

The second part of the Anthology reconstructs a more recent and empirical tradition of thought that emerged in the twentieth century between the 60s and the beginning of the 90s from the direct observation of different contexts and case-studies developed b ...

Springer2022

The Modern Project: A Research Hypothesis

Paola Viganò

The project of the industrial modern city comprises many heterogeneous paths and stories, in particular those regarding the CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne) Functional City. They all come together in a discourse that links the architect ...

2019

Viewpoint II. The Atlas of four landscapes: Thick landscape as socio-ecological medium

Paola Viganò

This contribution explores the collective experience of building up the Atlas of Paris Landscapes, exploring this city as a landscape, produced by nature and man-made actions, culturally perceived in the intersection of everyday practices of the metropolit ...

Taylor and Francis2024

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Housing, street and health: a new systemic research framework

The condition of urban agriculture in a Chinese global city: evidence from the field

Transcalar prospects in climate crisis : architectural research in re/action

Rethinking Urban Form: Switzerland as a "Horizontal Metropolis"

Designing Horizontality

Territory Subject: Designing Human-Environment Interactions in Cities and Territories

Genealogy, Tradition: An Anthology

Palimpsest Metaphor: Figures and Spaces of the Contemporary Project

The Horizontal Metropolis. The Anthology

Strada e progetto

Le sol de la ville-territoire. Projet et production de connaissances/The soil of the city-territory. Project and Knowledge Production

Beyond the radio-centric Metropolis: City-territory and network pluralities in The Great Geneva

OASE 110: The Project of the Soil

Interpretative Concepts and Visions: Introduction

The Modern Project: A Research Hypothesis

Viewpoint II. The Atlas of four landscapes: Thick landscape as socio-ecological medium

Space for a New Biopolitical Project

Exploring the Soil: Not a Sentimental Journey

Abitare paesi, città, e metropoli orizzontali

The Mystery of American Reality: Exploring the Edge of the Megalopolis