Layers e dispositivi regolatori. A nord dei Campi Flegrei. Dispositivi di progetto tra geografia, infrastrutture, reti e costruito

The extensive city expanding North-west of Naples metropolitan area lies onto a territory that was formerly endowed with peculiar identities, related to the agricultural use of soils and landscape. At the time Giuseppe Samonà was studying the development dynamics of the extensive city, this area was characterized by the horizontal agricultural landscape, whose background was the morphological structure of the plain and its borders, marked by geographical landmarks. A territory where Samonà???s wish for dialectics between the aspiration to build and the preservation of the natural landscape could have been very fruitfully fulfilled. This, however, did not happen. Onto the agricultural layout and the reclamation system, new networks have been overlapped, which support major or minor self-referring urban fragments along with infrastructural lines on a large scale. Through the physical overlapping of textures and uses of the territory, the fundamental geographical roots of landscape can still be recognized. Starting from this recognition, project-sites have been identified. The design works onto the fine-tuning of regulating devices, meant as elements for the re-figuration of the territory to build public space. In the site under analysis, two east-west cross sections are located, which are clearly marked by geographical peculiarities or infrastructural lines, where the elements of the extensive city can be re-interpreted, re-structured and re-used as design materials. The former cross section lies down in the Quarto Canal Basin, while the latter spreads out, as a delta, onto both sides of the Ripuaria road. In this context, regulating devices are drawn, which are tools and projects at the same time, red threads linking fragments to make them dialogue. The regulating devices aim to make up a formal structure that is capable to measure the extensive city; they are not meant to mend but rather to cut speechless bonds, to exhibit sections rather than façades.