Alessandro Dalla Caneva

• Research fellow at University of Padua

Il luogo di studio presentato, piazza del Duomo a Padova, rientra tra i temi approfonditi nell’attività didattica svolta presso il corso di “Composizione architettonica e urbana 2” del Corso di laurea in Ingegneria Edile al Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile, Ambientale dell’Università di Padova. L’insegnamento era specificamente orientato ve...

Abstract The town of Pedavena is situated in the Province of Belluno not far from Venice and its redevelopment of the urban space of the piazza has been a particular subject of reflection by the local authority. The town of Pedavena was studied by a research group from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the Univ...

The paper concerns a relevant area, named Piazzale della Lana, close to the historic city of Feltre. This is an area located in a strategic site of the city that has suffered transformations over time, not coherent today with the morphology of the place. Piazzale della Lana is on the edge of the historic city in a peripheral position with respect t...

Urban regeneration studies aimed at interpreting morphological and historical values, and responding to current needs through an innovative and sustainable way, had carry out, in the Montebelluna (Treviso) case study, to original design proposals capable to recover and transorm disused industrial areas into new ones social and productive unctions...

This paper concerns the redevelopment of an urban space within the historic walls of Feltre, an ancient city located in the province of Belluno, not far from Venice. It is particularly focused on the disused Oratory of the Canossian Friars, at the top of the medieval city. The site is now abandoned and degraded, devoid of function and unresolved in...

This paper concerns the redevelopment of an urban space within the historic walls of Feltre, an ancient city located inthe province of Belluno, not far from Venice. It is particularly focused on the disused Oratory of the Canossian Friars,at the top of the medieval city. The site is now abandoned and degraded, devoid of function and unresolved in f...

The debate centred on the regeneration of large cities helps to inspire urban planning strategies. In this case, however, we examine a smaller settlement, the river village on the Piovego canal in the territory of Noventa Padovana. This is the area where the population lived that was originally carrying out work activities near the bridge and the p...

The authors studied the design of a prototype for a mobile medical testing unit in a specific historic urban context. The initiative was a response to a request made by the University of Padua to its professors and technicians for the generation of ideas suitable for combating the Covid-19 pandemic during the worst period of this medical emergency....

Questo volume presenta parte dei risultati di un laboratorio di-dattico svolto nell’ambito di un’apposita convenzione stipulata tra il Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile, Ambientale dell’Università di Padova e il Comune di Pedavena. Sono qui raccolte le proposte progettuali aventi l’obiettivo di formulare ipotesi di intervento ri-guardanti il...

This contribution regards the town of Peraga, in the province of Padova, not far from Venice. Specifically, it refers to the redevelopment of the disused and abandoned buildings and courts of the Agricultural Consortium, which has been given consideration by the local administration. Peraga has been studied by our research group in the Department o...

Noventa Padovana is a town in the province of Padua, located a short distance from Venice. This contribution considers the wide area, today in degraded conditions, including the ruins of a kiln for the production of tiles and bricks which was built at the end of the 19th century by the Morandi family. The furnace was definitively closed in the 1960...

Questo contributo riguarda Noventana, una frazione situata in Italia nella regione Veneto, e specificamente considera la chiesa di Sant’Antonio da Padova. Il proposito di recuperare l’area centrale del borgo dove sorge la chiesa è stato a lungo oggetto di discussione da parte delle autorità locali. Il borgo di Noventana è uno dei temi recentemente...

One of the most important issues in current urban regeneration policies is the recovering and transformation of the industrial heritage in small Italian towns. The city of Montebelluna in the province of Treviso, especially the hamlet named Biadene-Pederiva, is still today a significant example of the numerous disused industrial areas, which the lo...

Meolo is a small town in the Metropolitan City of Venice, crossed by the river of the same name. Its flat territory is located between the courses of the Piave and Sile rivers. The work we propose concerns the redevelopment of the central part of this town. The analysis carried out led to the finding that the space in front of the Town Hall was, an...

Questo libretto nasce dall’idea di consegnare nelle mani dello studente, che si inizia alla conoscenza dell’architettura, di un manuale di facile consultazione, e con finalità per lo più a carattere didattico. Sintetico nella spiegazione non per banalizzare concetti complessi, ma per facilitare al contrario l’apprendimento dei rudimenti di un pensi...

In Montebelluna, a town at the foot of the mountains in the province of Treviso, the most important production activities are concentrated near the railway station. Today, we can still see precise evidence of these buildings from the beginning of the 20th century, including the former Montecatini complex and the former Monti spinning mills. The ar...

This work concerns Sottomarina, a village located in the Venetian lagoon, and it specifically refers to the demolished Church of San Martin Bishop. The idea of restoring the central area of the village where the Church rised has long been the object of discussion on the part of local authorities. The village of Sottomarina is one of the subjects re...

This work considers the small towns of the Veneto region, Italy, as a case study, concentrating analysis and proposals for a new urban design on areas that has been affected by a rapid post 2nd world war reconstruction and by following building speculation, thus losing their organic unity with the surrounding parts. The violence that often characte...

Questo libretto nasce dall’idea di consegnare nelle mani dello studente, che si inizia alla conoscenza dell’architettura, di un manuale di facile consultazione, e con finalità per lo più a carattere didattico. Sintetico nella spiegazione non per banalizzare concetti complessi, ma per facilitare al contrario l’apprendimento dei rudimenti di un pensi...

Questo libro nasce dall’idea di rimaneggiare e raccogliere in un testo unico una serie di scritti composti in tempi e occasioni diverse prevalentemente nati da contributi su riviste, convegni, testi che, accomunati da una stesso pensiero informatore, invitano a pensare l’architettura come disciplina che si occupa dello spazio. Non c’è alcuna pretes...

Esiste una convinzione profonda, da parte di chi scrive, che lega la qualità della vita pubblica nella città alle scelte formali assunte nel progetto. Ovvero l’idea che sia possibile rintracciare una relazione stretta di identificazione tra la comunità e le forme d’architettura che costruiscono e costituiscono il senso di appartenenza a quei luoghi...

This paper focuses on the opportunity to build new architecture next to relevant monuments constructed during past centuries. The theme was carried with reference to several famous works by the well-known Italian architect Andrea Palladio, who lived in the XVI century. The Basilica Palladiana, Palazzo Chiericati, the Palazzo del Capitaniato are art...

The early decades of the twentieth century represented a period of particular turmoil for the Netherlands as the country underwent a cultural transition that culminated in the search for a new social order to counteract the chaos generated by the Great War. The Dutch art world, which had always felt the need to play a role in society, now felt a pr...

This paper investigates the composition of heterogeneous fragments, excerpts from the inventory of collective memory, and the resulting unpredictable architecture in an urban context. The freedom to assemble figures or fragments, to place them in another context, highlighted the effectiveness and decisiveness of a reading of urban design in which t...

Questo libro tratta di progetti che attengono al mio lavoro come architetto. In particolare questa pubblicazione contiene alcuni lavori sul tema della casa. Un buon progetto d’architettura si misura sempre con un’idea. Questo per dire che la bellezza di un’opera costruita è tale se in essa riconosciamo la rappresentazione di un’idea. Se ciò non acc...

This paper discusses the theme of the urban regeneration of historic Italian centers using the university teaching experience at the Faculties of Engineering of Padua and Bologna Universities as a starting point. The methodology compares small to medium sized urban environments in the Po Basin, the most dynamic area of Italy socially and economical...

This work is about the central area of Quero, village located in the in the province of Belluno, part of the Municipality of Quero Vas whose territory extends on both banks of the Piave river and several close-by valleys. In the old part of the village of Quero, which was destroyed during the First World War, two disused commercial spaces, one of t...

This work considers the small town of Quinto Vicentino located not far from Vicenza in the Veneto region, Italy, as a case study, formulating proposals for a new urban design focused on the historic piazza. The piazza of Quinto Vicentino is characterised by the presence of Villa Thiene whose architect was Andrea Palladio, and which has housed the t...

Nel corso di ‘Composizione architettonica e urbana 2’, di cui è titolare il professor Enrico Pietrogrande, nell’ambito del corso di laurea magistrale a ciclo unico in ‘Ingegneria Edile – Architettura’ erogato dall’Università di Padova, viene condotta un’attività di ricerca basata sullo studio delle modalità possibili di rigenerazione delle aree dis...

The Aldo Rossi's project study has progressively made the writer develop the idea of a composition that moves on the level of fantasy according to a fantastic interpretation that goes beyond its obvious literary meaning. Indeed, one can consider fantastic the reality that fantasy transfigures into unreal and improbable shapes obtained by arbitraril...

The work we propose concerns the theme of the recomposition of public spaces in the ancient town when compromised by old and recent speculative interventions. The methodology looks at the city as a product of functional systems (political, social, economic), but overall contemplates the urban form as a result of its spatial structure. The life of t...

Il contributo considera un luogo urbano collocato al limite del tessuto storico della città di Vicenza, nell’antico quartiere denominato Berga. In particolare l'area, a ridosso del perimetro delle mura difensive veneziane, si relaziona oggi con la stazione ferroviaria della città. La presenza dei resti dell’antico e oggi abbandonato monastero bened...

Portobuffolè è un piccolo e antico centro della regione Veneto circondato dal verde, nel nord-est d’Italia. Il paper riguarda un’area situata sul bordo del borgo, che da un lato confina con la piazza principale, dall’altro guarda la ricca vegetazione esterna all’abitato. Su quest’area insiste una fabbrica di grandi dimensioni che per tipologia, des...

Vicenza is an ancient city located in the Veneto region, not far from Venice, in the north-east corner of Italy. This work specifically refers to the area of the Eretenio theatre on the bank of the River Retrone. The theatre was bombed and destroyed in 1944. Intimately part of the historic center of Vicenza, this abandoned area gradually lost its f...

Vicenza is an ancient city located in the Veneto region, not far from Venice, in the north-east corner of Italy. This work specifically refers to the area around the former monastery of Santa Corona, which today hosts the local Archaeological and Naturalistic Museum. Intimately part of the historic centre of Vicenza, this area gradually lost its fu...

The thermal insulation system that involves wrapping the building with an insulating layer, generally called coat, is a commonly used method aimed at saving energy and therefore protecting the environment. This practice uses increasingly diverse materials and technologies. However, the decision to use such a coating is often taken without critical...

The southern limit of the Prato della Valle space in the southern part of Padua's historical centre, in Italy, was continuously delimited by the boundary wall of the Santa Maria della Misericordia convent until the early twentieth century. Its presence was one of the elements that more than a century ago inspired the enlightened proposal by Domenic...

Come è accaduto a molti, anche Alvar Aalto, figura autorevole nel panorama dell’architettura Novecentesca finlandese, partecipa ad una tradizione, tutta europea, che vede nel viaggio in Italia l’occasione per conoscere la classicità. Il mito della cultura mediterranea, così lontana geograficamente e per questo misteriosa e remota agli occhi del mon...

This paper investigates the composition of heterogeneous fragments, excerpts from the inventory of collective memory, and the resulting unpredictable architecture in an urban context. The project focuses entirely on the city of Rome, its classical antiquities, its Renaissance and Baroque works and different branches of modernism found there. The fr...

The San Carlo neighborhood with the church of San Carlo at its center is a degraded area in the northern outskirts of Padua, a city located near Venice in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy. Once marked by a distinctive identity, this part of the outskirts of Padua has gradually lost its social and functional character. The idea of restoring t...

In 1925, Dutch architect Jan Frederik Staal takes part to a national competition for the construction of an Opera House in the Museumplein in Amsterdam. e project should represent the artistic and cultural values of the entire nation. e aim of this contribution is to investigate the relationship between the history of the place and the project, thu...

This paper investigates the composition of heterogeneous fragments, excerpts from the inventory of collective memory, and the resulting unpredictable architecture in an urban context. The project focuses on the city of Venice, its medieval urban tissue, its Renaissance and Baroque works. The freedom to assemble figures or fragments, to place them i...

This work concerns Vicenza, a city located not far from Venice in the north-east corner of Italy, and it specifically refers to the abandoned convent of San Biagio on the banks of the Bacchiglione river. Once intimately part of the city’s historic center, the area gradually lost its functional and social identity. The idea of restoring that degrade...

This work concerns Vicenza, a city located not far from Venice in the north-east corner of Italy, and it pecifically refers to an area situated on the outskirts of the city’s urban fabric between the perimeter of its ancient walls and the banks of the Bacchiglione river, in the shadow of the abandoned monastery of St. Biagio. The idea of restoring...

The work concerns the theme of the recomposition of public spaces in the ancient village of Pontemanco, near Padua. The village was born around two old mills built on the sides of the Biancolino, the canal that unifies and devides the little community. The spatial aspects and formal image of the transformations in Pontemanco are studied as a premis...

The idea of collecting several papers dedicated to specific aspects of the architecture of Louis Kahn occurred to me some years ago during the academic year 2011-12 in connection with the exercises on my Urban and Architectural Composition course dedicated to the Twentieth century master*. At that time I and other members of the teaching group had...

Ho trovato il tempo, in questa calda estate, di fissare alcuni pensieri di architettura. Pensieri appena abbozzati che attendevano da tempo l’occasione di essere trascritti per dare ordine e senso a riflessioni rimaste incompiute. Nessuna pretesa di parlare di cose nuove, ma solo di rivisitare e riattualizzare, per meglio comprendere, cose già dett...

This paper focuses on the historic town of Abano Terme located 10 kilometres south-west of Padua at the foot of the Euganean Hills. Once a small rural hamlet of poor houses arranged around the church, Abano Terme has grown significantly since World War 2 because of the natural thermal spa waters that flow from springs and has become the first place...

L’architetto olandese Jan Frederik Staal partecipa nel 1925 ad un concorso nazionale per la costruzione di un teatro dell’Opera nel Museumplein di Amsterdam. Il concorso, voluto da una libera società di cittadini amanti della musica, è l’occasione per ridefinire il ruolo urbano di un luogo simbolico della città su cui insistono i principali monumen...

The theme of this paper is the recomposition of public spaces in the ancient town when compromised by old and recent speculative interventions. The working method is based on the belief that, in the study of urban morphology, is basic to analyse the history of the city, clarifying the relationship between permanent structures on the one hand and te...

The work we propose concerns the theme of the recomposition of public spaces in the ancient town. The working method is based on the belief that, in the study of urban morphology, is basic to analyse the history of the city. The history becomes an indispensable tool to know the deep reasons of the urban structure which is the memory and the image o...

Monumentale e pittoresco, il piano di espansione di Hilversum considera la crescita della città coerente con il suo sviluppo, le sue forme e la sua storia. Questa impresa dal carattere esemplare dimostra che non c’è bisogno di dichiararsi estranei alla città storica per essere moderni. In questo senso la posizione di Dudok all’interno del dibattito...

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L’architetto olandese Willem Marinus Dudok realizza ad Hilversum, nella seconda e terza decade del novecento, una serie di edifici o complessi scolastici dal valore esemplare per il ruolo urbano che svolgono all’interno di un più ampio piano di espansione della città, centro urbano destinato a diventare un importante polo nell’entroterra olandese....

The work concerns the recomposition of public spaces in the historic centre of Isola Vicentina, an ancient town near Vicenza, that presents significant alterations occurred during last century. It is part of a more general research about the urban structure in the little cities of Veneto region, in the North-East of Italy. The method adopted is bas...

This paper examines the recomposition of public spaces in the historic city. The working method is based on the belief that analyzing the history of the city in the study of urban morphology forms the basis of clarifying the relationship between permanent structures on the one hand and temporary ones on the other. The methodology looks at the city...

In many cases in Italy the outcomes produced by building speculation in the immediate post-war period have compromised the quality of historical urban cities. This contribution reflects on the opportunity to recompose the lost unity of the public space using a method that in finding out the reasoning underlying the city, makes history an indispensa...

Le migliori opere degli antichi maestri ci invitano considerare con energie nuove il senso vivo e non formale della tradizione. Che significa ammettere quanto le istanze di novità espresse dal progetto di architettura non possano che realizzarsi pienamente nella continuità con le forze vitali del passato. Dunque il rapporto con la tradizione non si...

The theme of this paper is the design of new housing types and new public spaces in the historic medieval center of the city. The method adopted is based on analyzing the history of the city to understand the urban morphology. Only an understanding of the relationships that link unchanging monuments and temporary parts of the city will result in co...

Nato come struttura sospesa sull’acqua con mero valore funzionale il molo è destinato ad esprimere nel tempo la sua vocazione ludico-ricreativa soprattutto nelle coste balneari inglesi e americane del diciannovesimo secolo. Alla originaria caratterizzazione funzionale legata al ruolo di semplice struttura per l’attracco navi, per lo scarico e caric...

Recomposition of public spaces in the medieval city compromised by war damage and speculative development. The working method is based on the belief that analysing the history of the city is fundamental to the study of urban morphology, clarifying the relationship between permanent structures on the one hand and temporary ones on the other. History...

La proposta si riferisce ad un progetto che mira a tutelare e valorizzare il contesto naturalistico, paesaggistico e storico culturale del promontorio di Monte Argentario, in Toscana, al fine di migliorare le potenzialità ricettivo-turistiche del luogo. Il progetto recepisce le indicazioni strategiche previste dal Nuovo Piano di Indirizzo Territori...

The urban areas which link the historical center of Padua with the city’s suburbs, in particular, contain some unresolved neighborhoods on the border with the old urban fabric that have resulted from the construction of a system of roads at the end of the 19th century to create a direct connection between the center and the surrounding territory, t...

Il piano di Amsterdam Sud costituisce il punto di approdo alle conquiste urbanistiche maturate in Olanda nel primo decennio del ventesimo secolo e si pone, pertanto, come tappa inevitabile per la conoscenza della natura e identità della città dalla quale le successive e ulteriori sperimentazioni non possono prescindere. Esso rappresenta le fatiche...

Negli anni in cui l’International Style realizza una serie di opere magistrali, capisaldi di una nuova cultura architettonica, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, nel pieno della sua maturità e da tempo all’apice della popolarità dopo il gesto esemplare della Borsa di Amsterdam all’inizio del secolo, riesce ancora a stupire realizzando un altro capolavoro di a...