SD Vision - Halyps Cement
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was linked together, that the fl ow<br />
of the lagoon had to be respected.<br />
Construction must be «sustainable» for<br />
people in their environment. A town is<br />
primarily a place for exchanges between<br />
people who spend there a signifi cant<br />
part of their life and between these<br />
residents and others who come and go.<br />
Everything must be imagined around<br />
these people, these exchanges which are<br />
the basis for society and the economy.<br />
But today we must put together two<br />
dimensions, that of the physical space<br />
and that of the digital space, that of<br />
the Internet enabled neighbourhoods.<br />
The physical city cannot be designed<br />
regardless of the e-city. Internet is a tool<br />
that both strengthens communication<br />
with the world at large and with the local<br />
environment and also promoting local<br />
life through communication amongst<br />
residents and visitors. Venice municipality<br />
initiatives’ regarding fi bre-optic<br />
networks and Wifi hotspots is a good<br />
example of both. Multidisciplinary<br />
cross-industry skills must be developed.<br />
Planners, architects, designers should be<br />
more humble and listen more carefully<br />
to future inhabitants, look through their<br />
eyes. In any trade, and in construction<br />
in particular, listening is the best<br />
source of creativity and avoids many<br />
blunders. It is always indispensable to<br />
listen to other specialists to complete<br />
an urban planning project. It cannot be<br />
tolerated that brilliant architects who<br />
are not technicians, engineers who may<br />
not always know all the alternatives,<br />
including aesthetic, offered by modern<br />
materials, abstract computer scientists,<br />
offi cials who administer regulations,<br />
sociologists, coming in too late to<br />
explain why dangerous and costly urban<br />
pathologies emerge, work in isolation.<br />
We are not machines, we have<br />
a vital need for immaterial<br />
goods, love, friendship and also<br />
beauty. Building a beautiful<br />
living environment is also a part<br />
of environmental and social<br />
innovation.<br />
A good example is set by men like<br />
Francesco di Giorgio Martini, at the<br />
same time a painter, engineer and<br />
architect, Filippo Brunelleschi who<br />
has better defi ned the geometric<br />
perspective and has served as a<br />
manager and a teacher to complete<br />
the construction of Florence’s Duomo.<br />
A good general education is essential<br />
for specialists to elaborate, through<br />
dialogue, a true collective intelligence<br />
in urban planning projects to create<br />
living environments respecting the<br />
surroundings and promoting people’s<br />
development.<br />
Living environments must live, they<br />
must be deigned to evolve over<br />
decades. They are not world expos<br />
intended for quick destruction… And<br />
this brings us back to the economy<br />
of functionality. It is hard to stick to<br />
the obvious. «Useful» functions do<br />
not only refer to rational or material<br />
needs. Man does not follow Maslow’s<br />
hierarchy of needs according to which<br />
we must satisfy our material needs<br />
fi rst and then, only, our immaterial or<br />
spiritual needs. Because we are not<br />
machines, we have a vital need for<br />
immaterial goods, love, friendship and<br />
also beauty. Building a beautiful living<br />
environment is also part and parcel of<br />
environmental and social innovation.<br />
Over the long term, it is economically<br />
sound too, as a population that lives<br />
in beautiful surroundings is stimulated<br />
and becomes more creative in all areas;<br />
it becomes also more demanding in its<br />
social and public behaviour.