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The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in The Asia-Pacific
The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in the Asia-Pacific revisits the use, growth, and potential of the cultural landscape methodology in the conservation and management of culture-nature heritage in the Asia-Pacific region. Taking both a retrospective and prospective view of the management of cultural heritage in the region, this volume argues that the plurality and complexity of heritage in the region cannot be comprehensively understood and effectively managed without a broader conceptual framework like the cultural landscape approach. The book also demonstrates that such an approach facilitates the development of a flexible strategy for heritage conservation. Acknowledgi...
Green Infrastructure
This book analyses international Green Infrastructure (GI) planning and design strategies. The GI strategy is widely recognized for its multifunctionality (as a tool for ecological, economic and social enhancement) and multiscalarity. Starting from this assumption, the book intends to implement the concept of GI and blue networks in planning strategies and their linked urban projects. New urban and regional paradigms of the latest years, such as urban sprawl, ecosystem services, biodiversity, urban resilience, climate change and health emergencies, have made it necessary to rethink cities and territories and their related plans and projects. To satisfy these paradigms, worldwide plans and projects have started to focus both on short-term and long-term processes and strategies which integrate environmental, landscape and ecological elements. Chapters 1 and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Digital Draw Connections
This book stems from the seminal work of Robert Venturi and aims at re-projecting it in the current cultural debate by extending it to the scale of landscape and placing it in connection with representative issues. It brings out the transdisciplinary synthesis of a necessarily interdisciplinary approach to the theme, aimed at creating new models which are able to represent the complexity of a contradictory reality and to redefine the centrality of human dimension. As such, the volume gathers multiple experiences developed in different geographical areas, which come into connection with the role of representation. Composed of 43 chapters written by 81 authors from around the world, with an introduction by Jim Venturi and Cezar Nicolescu, the volume is divided into two parts, the first one more theoretical and the other one which showcases real-world applications, although there is never a total split between criticism and operational experimentation of research.
Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter
This book explores urban resilience through significant, original and rigorous academic research, utilising the experiences of town planners, architects and decision makers to create a charter on resilient communities. The second part of the book presents mini-essays discussing the strategic points of the paper, and enabling more casual readers with the ability to access information on urban resilience. The book then explores urban resilience through the work and understanding of the institutions responsible for regulating the professions of urban planner, educators, professionals, and those involved in communication. Providing numerous illustrations and examples, Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter will be of interest to researchers, postgraduates, architects, urban designers and planners alike.
How to Build Cities and Destroy Motorways
Over thousands of years, human beings have built habitats in response to their increasingly complex needs. The ultimate form of these habitats is the modern city: a feat in which the benefits are self-evident. However, the city has grown into a paradoxical phenomenon. Providing for the present compromises the ability to provide for the future. The unidirectional metabolism of the city is consuming the world’s resources and disrupting the climate system at a rate that is not sustainable. Cities need to undergo profound physical and systemic changes if they are to provide for the future needs of human beings. This book critically examines the implication of the environmental crisis on conventional methods of urban development and architectural thinking. In contention with conservative ‘green’ building schemes, this work undertakes a radical and systemic renegotiation of environmental, population, and life-quality issues in architecture and urban design.
Una storia nella Storia
Salvatore Castellana fu catturato dai Tedeschi in Montenegro dopo l’armistizio dell’8 settembre 1943, deportato in Polonia e liberato dagli Inglesi nel 1945, al termine della guerra. Con una scrittura sorvegliata ed efficace, la figlia Serafina rievoca i fatti salienti della sua infanzia sotto il regime fascista e degli anni del conflitto mondiale, fino al ritorno del padre. La seconda parte del testo è la trascrizione del Diario di Salvatore Castellana, redatto durante gli anni della prigionia, e costituisce un documento di indubbio valore storico, oltre che affettivo.
Edifici alti e grattacieli - Concept Design studio Form finding
Il presente e-book intende esaminare la forma di un grattacielo, spiegando le motivazioni alla base della genia del linguaggio formale di tali opere. Le forme non sono per nulla casuali e sono attentamente valutate, nonché ottimizzate, da architetti e ingegneri al fine di domare la forza dei venti, dei sismi, l'esposizione solare e il contenimento energetico. Basti pensare alla forma trilobata del Burij Khalifa e dell’erigendo Kingdom Tower, dettate appunto dall'esigenza aerodinamica di “confondere” il vento, utilizzando forme in grado di dissiparne l’energia eolica. Oppure, come nel caso della Shanghai Tower, di come gli strumenti parametrici (fra cui Grasshopper) abbiano permesso al team di progettazione di manipolare e perfezionare la geometria complessa del progetto in modo iterativo, definendo forma, struttura e facciata. Verranno esplicati questi temi tramite la presentazione di casi studio, descritti all'interno di sezioni dedicate, utili alla comprensione e alla valutazione di possibili soluzioni ai problemi sopra esposti. Saranno così svelate le ragioni che hanno condotto all'adozione di precise forme a scapito di altre durante le fasi di concept e design.
Edifici alti e grattacieli. Aspetti strutturali
Il presente e-book passa in rassegna 4 casi studio esemplari, costituiti da edifici alti di chiara fama, universalmente riconosciuti quali icone appartenenti ai Paesi in cui essi insistono. Il Burj Khalifa (838 m), a Dubai, Emirati Arabi Uniti, attualmente il primo grattacielo al mondo per altezza raggiunta; la Shanghai Tower (632 m), a Shanghai, Cina, ad oggi il secondo megatall per elevazione a livello mondiale; il One World Trade Center (541,3 m), a New York, U.S.A., il quarto high-rise sulla faccia del pianeta in termini di quote altimetriche; la Jamsil Lotte World Tower (554,5 m), a Seoul, Corea del Sud, che si accinge a divenire il sesto più elevato del globo. Si analizzano, in dettag...
I professionisti del BIM
Introdotto anche come misura raccomandata nel nuovo Codice Appalti, il BIM (Building Information Modeling) rappresenta la più importante innovazione in corso all'interno del settore AEC (Architecture, Engineering & Construction). Si tratta di una riformulazione evoluta e integrata del processo di progettazione, esecuzione e gestione, il quale va a mutare, oltre alle fasi del processo costruttivo, le stesse professionalità in campo. Architetti e ingegneri sono chiamati a riconfigurare, in modo fluido, i confini della propria attività e a sviluppare sempre più sinergie con figure ad hoc, quali i "BIM Specialist", i "BIM Coordinator" e i "BIM Manager". Se il quadro normativo appare lento ne...
