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PROXIMA CITY. SHARING THE UTOPIA

PROXIMA CITY. SHARING THE UTOPIA

The architect and urban planner Joseph Di Pasquale goes on with his reflections on major themes of contemporary architecture and in particular on the approach to the project for urban areas and the individual living experience in city contexts. The latest result of his careful and thoughtful research path is Proxima City.

 

Proxima City is an open conceptual platform that aims to substantially evolve people's living experience in urban contexts. Proximity and relational density are the key qualitative urban parameters on which Proxima City aims to define a new idea of the city and represents the ability of urban architecture to generate relationships, to increase the number and quality of interactions between people and to foster new individual and collaborative behaviors by designing frameworks of urban proximity.

The reflection starts from an only apparent paradox: emptiness is more important than fullness. The space between things becomes more important than things themselves, because space allows things to enter into relationship thanks to the physical characteristics of their proximity.

Intimate space and collaborative space are the two terms that in the Proxima City platform interact at all scales of urban design, from the housing campus to the housing pod, through a gradual relational proximity that modulates the relationships between the individual and the public space.

 

Public space is that area where individual actions and behaviors matter as they relate to each other. Starting from this assumption, Proxima City aims to redefine a different spatial, typological and management configuration of the physical world of the city at a theoretical and experimental level to make it consistent with current urban living behavior.

THE STRENGTH OF SHARING

With this in mind, designers, sociologists, web designers, managers and developers are invited to share their ideas and contribute to the growth and dissemination of this platform which is totally and structurally open, since ideas are by their nature contagious, while the individual applications of the conceptual platform developed by each designer are and remain his/her property.

Anyone can join the collaborative community of Proxima City and be inspired by the contents of its conceptual platform, sharing its principles and aims and helping to make it grow and evolve further

 

“It is not impossible to think - comments Joseph Di Pasquale - and indeed it is highly desirable that other planners in the future will share and further develop these conditions to generate new projects moving in the same direction”.

 

The goal is to go beyond the concept of condominium and to overcome the collective imagination and the now deeply deteriorated behaviors deriving from it, to completely reconfigure the DNA of the city's living texture, through the triggering of a contagious process of micro-regeneration, allowing a behavioral transition capable of generating a new positive model of living together.

So far, the PROXIMA CITY platform has supported the experimentation contents of housing projects which constitute Joseph Di Pasquale's contributions to the growth of interest and consensus around the new urban parameters inspired by the concepts of proximity and relational density. These are the three competition projects within the Reinventing Cities initiative in the city of Milan (Proxima via Serio, Proxima City Crescenzago, Hostel via Doria) and Chorus Life, the digital district currently under construction in Bergamo.

 

READ THE CHANGE IN REAL TIME

The unique moment we are experiencing allows for the first time to 'read' how housing models and relational geometries change while the change is taking place and to monitor in real time the trend of desires, needs and expectations of individuals in relation to living space, new ways of working and, consequently, different mobility and transport systems.

 

"It is precisely in the greater capacity that we have to understand the dynamics of these changes - underlines the architect - and to elaborate culturally based strategies on them, that we can - as designers and architects - make our contribution to the construction of a more beautiful and prosperous city and, above all, one where people can live better and longer.”

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