Performative Architecture: New Semantic for New Shapes?

Two innovations have more deeply changed the building process: the operational continuity of the design and construction phases and the software allowing not only the representation but also the autonomous creation of complex shapes never before thought, just because they could not be represented. This last innovation introduce to a "Performative Architecture" that addresses to emerge a new kind of architecture. Building performances (structural, environmental, energetic) are guiding design principles, adopting new building performance-based priorities for the design of cities, buildings and landscape. This emerging architecture places broadly defined performance above form making; It utili…

The Architectural Envelope: an Assistant for Components Design Choices

Il sistema giunto nelle pareti VEA (Vitrages Extérieurs Attachés)

Which new semantic for new shapes?

There are two innovations which have drastically changed the building process: the operational continuity of the design and construction phases, and the software allowing not only the representation but also the autonomous creation of complex shapes never before thought of just because they could not be represented. This last innovation gave rise to a new design paradigm whose tools, according to their supporters, are the most advanced fields of mathematics and information science. Some ways of using these new possibilities gave rise to a radical, problematic, change in the relationship net between the designer’s intentions, the shapes through which they express them (invented or self-gener…

UNA SPERIMENTAZIONE PROGETTUALE: L'ADEGUAMENTO DI UN OSPEDALE PALERMITANO ALLA NUOVA CONCEZIONE DELL'EDILIZIA OSPEDALIERA

Architectural shapes generated in 3D Geobrowser through environmental constraints

Formare e rappresentare: protagonismi incrociati

The Digital design for constructing architectural envelope elements

La decostruzione nell’insegnamento dell’architettura

Digital Architectures Generated Using Forces in Urban Environment

A paper, a description of a software application is given, which allows to generate tridimensional models of buildings, directly inside a geo referential context, following a parametric approach, in which the volume of the building is put in direct relation with forces/law bonds emerging from the urban context. The user is, therefore, able to interactively operate within a project process, in which by changing the parameters values and by verifying in real time, the results of the changes, he/she is able to evaluate all possible infinite scenarios. The system,thought for Trento’s (Italy) urban context, may also be applied on other cities.

VEA double skin facade: a contribution to sustainability

Distance Collaboration. A comparative analysis of tools and procedures

Innovazioni e mutazioni nel progetto dell’involucro architettonico

Architettura Digitale = Nuova Architettura?

Involucro, crocevia di segni, mode e tecnologia

The word “envelope, involucro” has, in Italian, two meanings. First, it denotes the physical object that envelops something else of which it hides and substitutes the appearance. The second meaning, metaphorical, identifies a set of concepts and thoughts. In architecture, the envelope expresses both meanings, gives physical body to the first, and, in the same time reveals intentions and cultural premises of the architect. Specially innovative are the works of the so called top few architects. Their projects present three main reasons of interest, if observed from a designer’s point of view. The first: the procedure of generating shapes, tightly linked with the representation possibilities a…