New centralities in the sprawl city

In recent decades, we have witnessed the seemingly unlimited expansion of our suburbs, a phenomenon which has resulted in an undifferentiated and irregular urban growth that has generated forms that are difficult to ascribe to the morphological repertoire of the traditional city. Difficult to classify through consolidated urban analysis studies, therefore, these recent conurbations end up gravitating, without having any internal autonomy in terms of public and collective spaces, around the historic centers which, however, still preserve places of this type. The consequence of this phenomenon thus becomes an inequality relating not only to the mere urban quality but also to the quantity and quality of the services offered by the center and the suburbs which only an alternative model to the monocentric city can overcome. The didactic experimentation conducted with the students of the ARC 5UE degree course of the DiARC_ Department of Architecture of the University of Naples “Federico II”, was developed in the Buffer zone of Villa Adriana, already the subject of a competition organized by the Accademia Adrianea - Piranesi Prix de Rome in 2018, experimenting with settlement hypotheses capable of dealing with nature, architecture and archeology.