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This essay concerns the processual study of the Porto historic centre conducted in 2018, through the urban morphology tools, aimed at demonstrating how a contemporary “reading” of consolidated fabrics is possible. That is, to verify how the critical interpretation of the built reality does not precede but is itself the substance of the design proposal. The experience was carried out by a research group from Sapienza, coordinated by Prof. Giuseppe Strappa and by the writer, within the European Erasmus +/Epum program. The work also aimed to verify the use of different analysis methods (in particular, in addition to the processual method, the Space Syntax one) in the spirit of the Epum (Emerging Perspective in Urban Morphology) program. This program aims at sharing and integrating various approaches to urban reading and the development of new tools for teaching the discipline. Researchers and PhD students had the opportunity to carry out a simplified analysis (according to a workshop possibility) not comparable with what is usually used in the faculties of architecture, especially in Italy. During this experience, they have understood the generative character of the processual urban morphology studies. This approach shows as a finite number of elements (object recognized in the urban reading) can produce an infinite number of outcomes (potential of the object) among which the designer identifies the solution or possible solutions (critical evaluation of the subject). The experience was also aimed to constitute a test of how the urban morphology tools can have a foundational value for teaching Architecture intended as a “didactic organism” that sees different systems, theoretical and practical, collaborate for the realization of the built form at different scales. Doctoral students have been able to understand the meaning of the historical phases’notion. They have also elaborated the results of those methods deal with the visible and quantifiable aspects of the city compared to the current urban configuration and that studies instead interpret the form as a process in progress, resulting of the diachronic action of successive civil transformations. The author believes that the interaction between apparently so different approaches is not only possible but useful for the development on unprecedented reflections and innovative research in urban morphology.
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