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Historical Analysis: the Sassi of Matera
The name derives from cliff, rocks, stone, ......
The first document dates from 1204 and mentions the word “Sassi” meaning “stony
neighborhood inhabited”.
The Sassi of Matera are a set of high quality both architectural and urban planning .They
are the expression about living in the cave, an example of urban structure unique in the world
heritage site. They are the final result of a long and complex process, which has developed
over time in the presence of particular conditions, geo-environmental and social.
The houses are overlap, they are placed one above the other without a definite order,
different for shape and size, some of the front, the other side, often organized into
neighborhoods, creating a fantastic vision.
In the Sassi you discover the absurd: you walk on the roofs of the houses;
“Li morti stanno sopra li vivi” e, “il cielo con le stelle sta sotto li piedi di homini et non
sopra la testa”. (Verricelli). [“The dead are above the alive and the sky with the stars are
under the feet of the men and not over their head”]
The Sassi have been developed in the two karst valleys at the foot of Civita. They are
calcareous material, furrowed by the waters of two streams, covered by dense vegetation,
they were areas of expansion outside the walls of the city.
During the prehistoric era, Hellenistic and Roman times, they were sparsely inhabited.
In the Middle Ages the population grew and pour out over the walls of the city, on one side,
near the port of Civita, appeared the “Casale”, on the other side appeared the neighborhood
“Pianella” in Sasso Caveoso, where, in 1500, was born a third neighborhood called
Casalnuovo.
There was another development with the creation of the Borgo on the eastern shore of
the Sasso Barisano.
Over time, the various districts expanded and merged together assuming that
characteristic intricate aspect. Over the years they increasingly crowded, and people began
to use the rooms for services: stables, cellars, neviere, woodsheds, tanks that did not have
the conditions of habitability.
This created an untenable situation for health and hygiene reasons, which led to the
emptying From 1950, with the transfer of the population in the neighborhoods specially
constructed.
Today we are facing a phase of recovery and reuse of the Sassi for the purpose receptive,
restaurant, cultural, craft and private.](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
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- 2. unMonastery Historical Analysis: the Sassi of Matera The name derives from cliff, rocks, stone, ...... The first document dates from 1204 and mentions the word “Sassi” meaning “stony neighborhood inhabited”. The Sassi of Matera are a set of high quality both architectural and urban planning .They are the expression about living in the cave, an example of urban structure unique in the world heritage site. They are the final result of a long and complex process, which has developed over time in the presence of particular conditions, geo-environmental and social. The houses are overlap, they are placed one above the other without a definite order, different for shape and size, some of the front, the other side, often organized into neighborhoods, creating a fantastic vision. In the Sassi you discover the absurd: you walk on the roofs of the houses; “Li morti stanno sopra li vivi” e, “il cielo con le stelle sta sotto li piedi di homini et non sopra la testa”. (Verricelli). [“The dead are above the alive and the sky with the stars are under the feet of the men and not over their head”] The Sassi have been developed in the two karst valleys at the foot of Civita. They are calcareous material, furrowed by the waters of two streams, covered by dense vegetation, they were areas of expansion outside the walls of the city. During the prehistoric era, Hellenistic and Roman times, they were sparsely inhabited. In the Middle Ages the population grew and pour out over the walls of the city, on one side, near the port of Civita, appeared the “Casale”, on the other side appeared the neighborhood “Pianella” in Sasso Caveoso, where, in 1500, was born a third neighborhood called Casalnuovo. There was another development with the creation of the Borgo on the eastern shore of the Sasso Barisano. Over time, the various districts expanded and merged together assuming that characteristic intricate aspect. Over the years they increasingly crowded, and people began to use the rooms for services: stables, cellars, neviere, woodsheds, tanks that did not have the conditions of habitability. This created an untenable situation for health and hygiene reasons, which led to the emptying From 1950, with the transfer of the population in the neighborhoods specially constructed. Today we are facing a phase of recovery and reuse of the Sassi for the purpose receptive, restaurant, cultural, craft and private.
- 3. unMonastery Historical Analysis LEGENDA Il Casale Casali Insediamenti religiosi Collegamenti Cinta muraria Torrente unMonastery is located in an area defined Casale, dating from the medieval period (XI - XIV c.). As we can see in the plan, the urban structure of the city was made of the up feudal Civita (political center-directional) and surrounding casali that were poorly connected with each other and with the upper town. The farmhouse is located on the slope of Barisan, at the foot of the city walls, on the edge of the road with steps leading down with a bend towards the bridge of S. Anthony Abbot, and climbed over the stream, return to S. Augustine (before William S.). The Casali were groups of houses, gardens and other rooms mostly hypogea, in the semi-rural character, or not fully urban, located around a religious settlement rocky and connected by a series of paths that from Civita walled down to the valley floor, bypassing the stream with bridges, and return the opposite slope in the direction of the plains and surrounding hills.
- 4. unMonastery System of rainwater collection: the Sassi of Matera
- 5. unMonastery Natural lighting system: the Sassi of Matera
- 6. unMonastery “Vicinato” spontaneus joining system - the Sassi of Matera
- 8. unMonastery State of Art - Ground Floor 4,00 m 4,00 m 4,00 m 4,00 m
- 9. unMonastery Photographic Survey - Ground Floor 5 1 4 5 2 2 6 1 3 9 6 8 7 3 7 4 8 9
- 10. unMonastery State of Art - First Floor
- 11. unMonastery Photographic Survey - First Floor 5 1 2 3 2 1 6 4 5 8 7 6 3 7 4 8
- 12. unMonastery Project - Ground Floor
- 13. unMonastery Project - Ground Floor Working Area Spaces for sharing Spaces for meditation “Pensatoio” Kitchen and Dining room Bathroom
- 14. unMonastery Project - Ground Floor - Kitchen and dining room Cooking Solution Conviviality Critter Mobile Kitchen by ELIA MANGIA Sustainable Furniture Flow Kitchen Studio Gorm FOLDABLE KITCHEN by David Derksen Resealable
- 15. unMonastery Project - Ground Floor - Space for sharing and meditation Sharing area Faber Academy Box (Pordenone) by Andrea Paoletti Thinking area Green elements EX FADDA , San Vito dei Normanni (Br) ‘AOL offices’ by studio O+A, Palo Alto, California Lego PMD by Rosan Bosch and Rune Fjord - Denmark Low cost materials
- 16. unMonastery Project - Ground Floor - Working area Un-conventional workspaces HUB - Amsterdam HUB - Milan Various works Laboratory Transportable furniture Atelierhouse by Harry Thaler Museion in Bolzano
- 17. Mediterranean Design Festival unMonastery Project - First Floor
- 18. unMonastery Project - First Floor Bedroom Filter Area Bathroom
- 19. unMonastery Project - First Floor - Filter Area ‘AOL offices’ by studio O+A, Palo Alto, California Hotel Superbude by DREIMETA Armin Fischer - Hamburg Relaxing area Reuse and recycle The HUB - San Francisco Google Campus by Jump Studios - London
- 20. unMonastery Project - First Floor - Bedroom Carro Lungi by La Clinica del Design Contemporary nomadism Basecamp by Atelier Takagi for Kvadrat Minimal Living Cube with Versatile Furniture by Ania Rosinke & Maciej Chmara exhibition : Nomadic Furniture 3.0 – New Liberated Living? - MAK, Vienna Integrated system Textile Storage, series London by Meike Harde Unconventioal materials
- 21. unMonastery Project - First Floor - Bedroom Atelierhouse by Harry Thaler Museion in Bolzano o bigode do rato, Lisboa Self - construction The Independente Hostel & Suites in Lisbon Handmade design Transportable forniture Atelierhouse by Harry Thaler Museion in Bolzano
- 22. unMonastery Moodboard CO-DESIGN SELF-CONSTRUCTION The Unmonastery’s space The users of Unmonastery and the furniture will be will participate in the designed involving its users construction of their space actively through processes with the contribution of of “bottom-up”. their own job. REUSE AND RECYCLE ECO AND BIO The spaces will be set by The spaces will be integrated reusing and recycling unused with plants (vegetable gardens, objects and materials. ornamental plants..) that will have not only the function of adornment of the spaces, but also of improvement of psychological well-being of inhabitants of Unmonastery.
- 23. unMonastery Moodboard Modularity and reversibility Modular elements that provide to the users of Unmonastery freedom of configuration and flexibility in the use of spaces. SHARING SPACES Spaces dedicated to the relationships between several subjects in a view of co-working and co-living. Connections among people will not take place only within the area of the Unmonastery, but also from the inside towards the outside and vice versa. PERSONAL SPACES Place usable by one or at most by two subjects, created for the care of itself, the decompression and intimate and personal relationships.
- 24. unMonastery Moodboard - Local Materials
- 27. unMonastery Moodboard - Color Study
- 28. unMonastery CREDITS Project and Design Arch. Addolorata Capozza Arch. Giuseppe Cerabona Arch. Antonio Elettrico Arch. Luigi Nucera