Analogical assembly

The topic that we intend to propose is the possible transformation of historic centre Naples through analogical assembly. These analogical assemblies participate in the process of knowledge of the place directing the initial work analysis and construction of the project. Moreover, the use of different scales contributes to the choices made in the selection of projects used for the construction of analogical thinking. The research is in continuity with the thesis of the Neapolitan historian Renato de Fusco for the historic centre, which consists of the proposal to attribute to the ancient district the main features of the “citizen of studies” ( cittadella degli studi ) integrated with crafts and industry activities. He intends to keep the roas network, consisting of “decumani” or “planeai” and hingers or stenopoi, witch is the most powerful sign of the ancient city’s identity; while he intends to insert a modern intervention inside the isolates. Thea area obtained from demolition and consolidation of the smaller isolates, became the pretext for the design of an architecture based on the monastic complex model. In the 1974, Agostino Renna held the lesson “the city ad a lesson of architecture” in which he explained the reasons for the so-called analogical assemblies. They become a synthesis between theory, urban, analysis and analytical-additive process that allows to identify two different times of transformations. The first related to the monumental building, which are the “fixed points” and the second to the residence, which interpretes different ways of living and it’s more available to transformations. Regarding the project submitted to the “XV Triennal of Milano”, in which Agostino Renna replaces the Duchesca area with the “Monza-S.Rocco of A. Rossi and G. Grassi “ project, author claims in the “Essay of Naples”, that the main issue isn’t the design of the residential plot, but understanding the relationship that is going to be established, whith the design of this area, between residence and monument in the moment when the residential area changes. Here there is also a design of a city in the city. The monument doesn’t necessarily have to coincide with the single architecture, but it can consist of as Rossi addresses in the “Architecture of the city”, a combination of not only forius but also significance that characterize the city. In the case of Naples, the monument is represented by the greek mesh system considered UNESCO heritage, whitch must be considered as a fixed point, in the design of new every development project, not to be a museum but to refind its collective character of large road construction. A first exercise to measure the scale of the historic centre forsees through a planning of the city on the city, the identification of the road network as a monument, also together with complex convents, and the substitution of new residential parts. The attempt was to amplify the methods proposed by Agostno Renna , by inserting different architectural projects of the modern movement in substitution the residential fabric clearly in a state of degradation. Some of the buildings taken are: the convent of Santa Maria de la Tourette of Le Corbusier, the project of the Halles of A. Monestiroli, the MIT of Ludwing Mies Van der Rohe, the library for the Nou campus in Valencia of Giorgio Grassi, the residential complex in Algeri of Fernard Pouillon. Instead of the scale of the study area taken into consideration (the block of Mezzocannone) overlap failure occurs between the centre of the greek implant and the subquent interventions of nineteenth – century with caused a significant fracture of morphological nature within the rules of urban thistle. This variation has been translated into the next phase of the project research according to the thesis A. Renna through a design of a city in the city. The reference to the block of Mezzocannone is the city of Urbino for some formal significant similarities: the walls, convents and ducal palace. With this comparison, we regonize a hierarchy of routes with an increased emphasis on via Paladino and likewise it’s visible on the head of Mezzocannone pieces and parts even also in the Ducal Palace or layout for courts found in the convent of Urbino. In conclusion the aim of the project is to capture the peculiarities and differences of the historic center of Naples, deeping the theme in the discussion of the “Master of excellence design of the historic city” with takes place right in the partenopea city.