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Our research, even despite its apparent fragmentary appearance, firmly believes in the idea that information science tools and the On-Line System should be utilized in innumerable ways in the various independent stages of an architect's learning itinerary, but that they can never totally replace the maieutic aspect of master-pupil relations, even if the masters, due to the extraordinary capacities of computer science, can be themselves multiplied, since, even though distant in space, they can be visibly and audibly next to us in a shared environment, even interacting with our own designs. We ourselves are spectators with other students gathered from all over the world to share together the m...
International openness is one of the fundamental characteristics of the DiAP Department of Architecture and Design, which sees its members active in 57 bilateral collaboration agreements (without counting the Erasmus agreements) with countries in which today there is a demand for architectural design that looks at Italy as a model, not only for studies of historical architecture, but also for contemporary architecture designed in the existing city and for the new building, including complex landscape and environmental systems.
This multi-disciplinary volume presents information on the state-of-the-art in the sustainable development technologies and tactics. Its unique amalgamation of the latest technical information, research findings and examples of successfully applied new developments in the area of sustainable development will be of keen interest to engineers, students, practitioners, scientists and researchers concerned with sustainability. Problem statements, projections, new concepts, models, experiments, measurements and simulations from not only engineering and science, but disciplines as diverse as ecology, education, economics and information technology are included, in order to create a truly holistic vision of the sustainable development field. The contributions feature coverage of topics including green buildings, exergy analysis, clean carbon technologies, waste management, energy conservation, environmental remediation, energy security and sustainable development policy.
Architectural institutions are reviewing modes of learning and practice of architecture to reflect the changing professional landscape. Schools confront the ever-acute tensions between critical thinking and the market. The training of architects who will likely be working in different contexts requires new frames of reference and paradigms. What competencies should the practitioner of architecture possess to bridge technical and managerial specializations in light of competitiveness and nuances of culture? How do the practices and performances of the profession take into account the hybrids and collaborations that define the broad scope of projects? The dilemma of competency lies in the rigorous study of the conditions and processes of architecture, configuring and situating skills and capabilities.
Cities are not made only of stone: they harbor ways of life, practices, movements, moods, atmospheres, feelings. Yet the ineffable nature of affects has long deprived human passions of a meaningful role when it comes to observing urban space and envisioning its future transformation. With this book, we explore the contemporary city and its transitional conditions from a different perspective: a quest to understand how the space of collective life and the feelings this engenders are connected, how they mutually give form to each other. In an interdisciplinary collection of essays, The Affective City means to open a discussion on the “soft” presences animating the world of urban objects: beyond the city built out of mere things, this book’s focus is on the forces that make urban life emerge, thrive, flourish, but also wither, and sometimes die. A task crucial for the survival of cities as human habitats, in an urban world that – with every passing day – seems to draw closer a crisis.
This open access book addresses the pressing need for sustainability in urban development and the use of technology, with cities to serve as the main stage for strategies that seek to meet the targets and the cross-sector priorities indicated in the EU’s Next Generation program, all in pursuit of a solid recovery on the part of the European economy, along lines of ecological transition, digitalization, competitiveness, training, and inclusion to overcome social, territorial, and gender differences. The international study encounter is meant to promote visions shared by architectural technology and other disciplines, which, though they may appear to differ, are closely interconnected, with the aim of achieving an open, interdisciplinary integration capable of proposing concrete projects regarding topics held to be of strategic importance to the future of the built environment. These are identified to draw up evolving scenarios of architecture and cities suited to reflection, at various levels, on innovative models of process and product.
L’Associazione Italiana per il Patrimonio Archeologico Industriale (AIPAI), in occasione dei suoi 25 anni, ha promosso i Secondi Stati Generali del Patrimonio Industriale. Per tracciare un bilancio ed elaborare strategie e visioni ha posto le condizioni per l’incontro tra gli addetti ai lavori e il confronto tra i molteplici ambiti operativi, di ricerca e istituzionali coinvolti. Ci si è riuniti a Roma e a Tivoli con la consapevolezza che il primo lascito dell’età industriale siamo noi, la nostra società con i suoi pregi e le sue contraddizioni, le incredibili conquiste degli ultimi secoli. La risposta è stata ampia e tra i numerosi contributi presentati in questo volume, si posson...
Il volume affronta il tema della rigenerazione dei grandi quartieri di Edilizia Economica e Popolare realizzati negli anni ‘70-’90 nei sobborghi delle maggiori città europee, e propone un disciplinare tecnico per il recupero del piano di Zona Quartaccio in Roma, che accompagna il progettista nell’approfondimento di soluzioni sociali, tecnologiche e ambientali che contribuiscano a definire un nuovo modello di abitare e l’immagine di una periferia finalmente integrata e complementare alla città. This volume addresses the issue of the regeneration of large affordable housing districts built in the 1970s and 1990s in the suburbs of major European cities and proposes a technical specification for the renewal of the Quartaccio Zone Plan in Rome. This tool aims to accompany designers in the deepening of social, technological and environmental solutions that help define a new model of Housing and the image of a suburb that finally integrates and complements the city.
Con il testo della conferenza "Percorsi nell'architettura" di Franco Purini la Facoltà di Architettura di Sapienza intende riprendere e rinnovare la tradizione di pubblicare i contenuti delle Lectiones Magistrales tenute, su invito, negli spazi della facoltà. Con la novità, tuttavia, della pubblicazione non a stampa ma in formato elettronico, un instant e-book, che intende rispondere all'esigenza di fornire un prodotto più agile, maneggevole, e anche più moderno, del classico volumetto cartaceo.Quella a cui Franco Purini si è volentieri, anche se forseinconsapevolmente, sottoposto è una sperimentazione i cui esiti sono ancora da comprendere a pieno tenuto conto che, a differenza degli studenti tutti ormai born digital, i docenti sono a volte meno abituati a questo genere di innovazione.
Il dibattito circa il futuro della Tangenziale Est di Roma inizia nell'autunno del 2003, quando un gruppo di cittadini romani scrive una lettera aperta al sindaco Walter Veltroni per invitarlo a prendere in considerazione l'ipotesi di non demolire il Mostro di San Lorenzo ma di trasformarlo in un parco lineare pensile. Come spesso accade in questi casi, la lettera ha prodotto un dibattito iniziale intenso e molto acceso durato alcuni mesi. Poi, in assenza di clamorosi sviluppi dovuti innanzitutto alla non urgenza della questione, la notizia non è stata più di attualità e un lento, morbido appannamento ha cominciato fatalmente a discendere sull'intera questione. Ma nel giugno 2007, su iniz...