Silent mutation in desindustrial areas

Locally,  on  the  outskirts  or  into  the  European  cities,  the  productive  activity  has  filed  over  time  a   series  of  buildings  and  complexes  consisting  of  open  and  closed  spaces,  that  are  repeated  with  more  or  less  frequency.  Within  an  overall  view,  these  objects,  often  disused,  originate  a  kind  of  landscape of ruins whose spatial sequences characterize entire sectors by rhythms based on vanished requirements. In these areas, when not subjected to replacement based urban transformation processes, the absence of function has triggered spontaneous, silent, microscopic mutations, sporadically recorded by official data, which expresses a demand of latent  city  and  set  up  innovative  types  of  collective  spaces.   As through a process of metabolism, the set of small transformations change the meaning and the  behavior  of  the  entire  sector  offering  scenarios  that  find  compromises  between  apparently  not  reducible  pairs:  security/permeability,  shape/use,  private/  collective.     The district of Gianturco, located in eastern Naples, offers itself for size/location/history as an ideal case study. Known for being home of important companies now abandoned, this area is currently  place  of  productive  activities  related  to  the  high-­‐tech  sector  that  stimulate  significant  upgrades for what concerns the use of the space. Learning from Gianturco means to seek an interpretation  that  identifies  the  genetic  code  of  the  transformations  in  act.     It means at the same time to verify the opportunities and the effectiveness of the methods of relief/  return  and  update/communication  of  what  exists/happens  and  think  about  the  meaning,   roles,  opportunities  of  the  project.