New Types / One Type. Complex Buildings and public space in the new rural settlements of Agro Pontino.

Complex Buildings can be defined as such from their spatial syntax, characterised by a promiscuity of antithetical spaces - indoor/outdoor, public/private - which involves both architectural and urban dimensions. They can thus be understood as counter-spaces, where the physical dematerialisation of pre-established architectural boundaries generates actual heterotopias. The subject has recently been taken up by scholars, with particular attention to the typological aspects of Complex Buildings. In line with this approach, the present text examines the new building types implemented in the context of rural modernisation of the Pontine Plain.