UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENTS AND URBAN MORPHOLOGY. THE CASE OF THE "PALAZZI SPUNTATORI"

The primary relationship between morphology and architecture is based on the orographical shape of the territory. Its features have strongly developed towards enhancing the specific architectural typologies, characterized by common design solutions, much to classify them into specific "families", typical of a site or a territory, so as to become autochthonous. Naples, owing to its morphological features, has been a prolific forge of architectural typologies. Among the others, we can certainly include such architectural typologies as the so - called “palazzi spuntatori”. With this definition - difficult to translate for different contexts - we identify a specific group of architectures, highly heterogeneous but all characterized by different accesses for different elevations.These buildings, thanks to the public use of private property, take up an infrastructural function like an oblique path that runs through the discontinuous orography of Naples. Although this paper, part of a larger research, deals with a widely - studied territory, a new methodical and comparative reading of these particular architectural typologies, implemented through the instruments of representation, provides new insights for a critical analysis about the urban development.