So when I talk about "integrated communal spaces" I'm talking about spaces designed while the project it self was designed. This means that the architects really wanted to create a connection among people an that they made this like the key word of their project. This is very similar to what happened with the "Villaggio Matteotti", Terni, Italy, designed by Giancarlo De Carlo in 1970-1975.
It consists in around 240 apartments and it has been the first italian example of a design born from the involvement of users. The complex is like a "village", in fact the street between each line of buildings are mainly pedestrian and cars can just pass along the perimeter of this area. Every single row of apartments is linked to the next one by a double route. One, visible in this picture, is higher and it consists in these sort of small bridges. The other one, not visible here but only venturing in the "village", is on the ground floor level: in fact there are some points in wich each line is passable.
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The section of the street is very narrow and the balconies look like invading the street with them selves and through nature. In this way there is also a dialogue between apartments in front of each other and between them and who passes through this path. Each bridge, connecting the rows, is connected to a staircase that gives an easy access to all the complex: in this way there is no need to circumnavigate the complex to reach the first staircase. But this is also allowed by the possibility to passthrough each line by a pedestrian passage. This pedestrian passage is not hermetic but in some cases, there are doors, terraces, passages and apartments facing on it.So that when you pass through it, is like passing thriugh a semi-public space. This sense is marked by the fact that very often you can find carpets or stuff of owners.
But to make this passage possible, it wasn't enough creating it. The architect had to add something by which inhabitants would have felt the need to pass though them. This has made possible adding a series of services like a kindergarten, shared open terraces, rooms to meet, play together and drink a coffee and a mini supermarket. So the question is do these connections necessarily need to be only horizontal?
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