Il Cielo in una Stanza

Il testo, nato nell'ambito del progetto "Noi come voi, mission impossible?" patrocinato dall'Università degli Studi di Palermo, è un racconto illustrato concepito come una guida per accompagnare bambini e ragazzi nella visita dei tesori artistici della città. Al centro del percorso è la "stanza delle meraviglie", che è stata recentemente scoperta in un edificio ubicato fra il Palazzo dei Normanni e il mercato di Ballarò." La scommessa", scrive Giuseppe Zanniello, "è stata quella di ritenere che i bambini delle scuole primarie potessero migliorare la propria autostima riflettendo sui tesori artistici che sono fisicamente presenti accanto alla loro scuola e alle loro abitazioni, ma ai quali e…

Connessioni e stratificazioni della forma urbana. Le tracce degli anfiteatri romani e le loro risignificazioni

Starting from the survey of the remains of Termini Imerese Roman Amphitheater and considering both its virtual reconfiguration and the architectural events that have seen the succession of different urban stratifications and re-significations, we have concentrated our interest on the cases that have determined the changes in shape and the archaeological sedimentations of some amphitheatres in Italy and Europe. From these preliminary operations the investigation work was carried out on Palermo, wanting to verify - through the survey and the redrawing of the urban fabric - the compatibility of the most recent hypotheses of location of the buildings for spectacles in the Panormus of the Roman …

A 3D reworking of the urban transformations of Palermo in recent history for a hypothesis of a "City Museum" based on digital visualizations

The objective that drives this research is given by a multitude of information which, in addition to the contribution of technology, allows us to study, analyze, verify and remodel the sites, monuments and evolutions of the city through graphic processes of perspective restitution that start from the analysis of historical photos. The drawing methods, the digital graphic rendering and through the aid of geometric techniques, contribute to the reconstruction of projects and architectures that are now lost, this is possible thanks to the methods of perspective, axonometry and three-dimensional restitution. This remarkable photographic heritage belonging to Palermo, but also to any other city …

Ernesto Basile e le Esposizioni Agricole Siciliane dei primi anni del ‘900

In 1891 the IV Italian National Exposition was held in Palermo, the first to have a southern city as its protagonist. The area on which the pavilions were built, obtained from the expropriation of the land belonging to the Prince of Villafranca, lent itself from the following year to accommodate the housing development and new buildings to complete the Via della Libertà, a high-bourgeois boulevard that already in 1850, by cutting the same "Firriato" of the Villafranca family, had marked the expansion towards the north of the city and seen the construction of the first buildings on its eastern front. Ernesto Basile was one of the main designers of the event and future urban creations. Althou…

Il Gioco dell'Arte alla scoperta della città. Una esperienza di laboratorio di educazione all'immagine

Mappe stellari e geometria sacra nel disegno delle città medioevali di Sicilia. Un’ipotesi archeoastronomica su Erice

Already in his studies on the Middle Ages cities E. Guidoni suggested the possibility of an urban design governed not only by precise astronomical alignments, but by a figurative conception, of a zoomorphic or anthropomorphic type, whose aim was to reproduce on the ground the zodiacal constellations. The envelopes and sinuosities of the plots that distinguish the medieval cities would be dictated by an iconographic program in which certain emergencies (churches, towers, domes) and the main connection roads would be arranged in a mirror-or perspective-view of the celestial maps with respect to certain observation points at the meridian or on the horizon of the place. Some examples would be e…

Redrawing the Past, reimaiging the Future. Gamification project for the reinterpretation of historical architecture

The objectives of the work we present concern the reinterpretation of architectural traces of the past with a "gamification" project for educational laboratories to be activated in schools of different order and grade. The methodology used starts from the 3D-reconstruction of disappeared architectures, urban plots where the stratification lends itself to different interpretations, based on the documentary information found and the hypotheses that can be spent directly from reading the artefact. Then it translates everything into diversified outputs to tell the evolution of the monument and the site and its conjectural reconfiguration: from immersive 3D visualization to 3D printing of modula…

La colonna dell’Immacolata e la Piazza Imperiale di San Domenico a Palermo

L’area presa in oggetto come campo di sperimentazione è la piazza San Domenico a Palermo, della quale abbiamo effettuato una riconfigurazione tridimensionale della forma originaria. Si tratta di un sito che ha mutato, nel corso delle epoche, il suo assetto urbano in maniera radicale. L’attuale configurazione della piazza è relativa a un intervento di sistemazione urbana dell’epoca barocca (XVIII sec.) che però è stato stravolto dal taglio della via Roma degli inizi del XX sec. L’apertura della nuova strada carrabile ha modificato profondamente la spazialità dell’involucro urbano e ne ha ribaltato i suoi significati. La storia del sito è però antecedente al progetto della piazza barocca, ed …

Il Cielo in una Stanza