Densify / Scale Down. The archipelago as a response

Abstract

The escalation of the health conditions concerning the recent emergency amplifies the problems already expressed by the evolution of the urban organism. The alternation between the appropriate need for confinement of the inhabitants in limited groups and the policies of social distancing aiming at stemming the spread of contagion of a virus that is as lethal as it is peculiar, proposes, in these current times, a general reflection on the composition of the forma urbis to refine settlement grammars that, in the face of the expansion and dispersion of the informal city of the twentieth century outlines, on the other hand, in the concentration and discontinuity of the built-up areas, in the identifiability of a finished figure of the settlements, in the control of the void as the primary space of agricultural production and sociability, the operational conditions to define the characters of a plausible urban dimension.