DESCRIZIONE: These projects can be distinguished by different registers in different contexts. The sites, the contexts, the cities dealt with represent...

These projects can be distinguished by different registers in different contexts. The sites, the contexts, the cities dealt with represent developed, extreme, paradigmatic case studies of cities intended as a border of globalized modernity. The urban form: it is founded on the dialectics between the regular Cartesian organization typical of the historic damier of lots of colonial and non-colonial settlements, and the Labyrinthe, which characterizes the spontaneously arisen settlements, result of autochthonal cultural, often very ancient contributions, and, in Guadalupe such as in Nigeria, in contraposition to the urban drawing of European origin governments. The two models live together within the project and determine the upturn of that pedagogical "exclusion" from the territory and natural context which was at the basis of the city planning and therefore of the life of colonial cities with their inclusive interaction. The perception of the places: it allows to radically modify the definition of the spaces of connection, infrastructures, "road", creating a modification process which, with its strength, catalyses the attention and neutralizes, or at least makes the absence of the quality of pre-existing material secondary. The energy of the architectural project allows the stratification of a complex system of functions and activities interactive among themselves, typical of the contemporary city. The symbolic and metaphorical dimension gives a configuration to the form as a colossal horizontal totem, an urban door which is in one of the transition points between the more openly suburban and the more densely residential areas. The infrastructural projection proposes a rearrangement of the flows, a new relationship between road and district, a new interaction between a structure of metropolitan connection and architectural fabric.