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Cities' Identity Through Architecture and Art

2018

Intended to be a guide for academics, scholars, and interested leaders, this book was designed to critically assess issues related to architectural identity, the city as a scene, the city as an organism, the city as a subject, and the planning or rather approaching of one. A pressing issue for many researchers in the field, the book discusses the negative repercussions resulting from globalization. Studies have indicated that globalization, despite all the positive effects, has resulted in a loss of identity within a city. As a city develops over time, its identity is evolving as well and may even be lost due to rapid and constant changes it is subjected to. Discussed as well are examples a…

Arts Behavioral Sciences Built Environment Economics Finance Business & Industry Geography Urban PlanningSettore ICAR/21 - Urbanistica
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Strategie ecosistemiche e infrastrutture verdi in simbiosi con il costruito

2022

Il numero 11 di AGATHÓN raccoglie saggi, studi, ricerche e progetti sul tema Vegetazione | La sua Simbiosi con il Costruito richiamando il ruolo che la Natura in generale e la Vegetazione in particolare possono svolgere nel breve periodo per affrontare l’attuale sfida del surriscaldamento globale e dei cambiamenti climatici causati da deforestazioni e incendi boschivi, urbanizzazioni selvagge, uso indiscriminato di materie prime non rinnovabili e incremento delle emissioni di anidride carbonica, tutti fattori che determinano un impatto devastante sul nostro ormai fragile ecosistema, sulla società e sull’economia. Se Simon aveva intuito già nel 1969 il potenziale di una ‘nuova ecologia’ in c…

Ecosystem strategies green infrastructures symbiosis with the built environmentStrategie ecosistemiche infrastrutture verdi simbiosi con il costruitoSettore ICAR/12 - Tecnologia Dell'Architettura
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Ethics and Politics of the Built Environment: Gardens of the Anthropocene

2017

This book is a reflection on the role of gardens in our thinking about our environments, and on the role of urban gardening in our acting and for our environments. More generally, it is an exploration of the ethical and political station of individuals in the Anthropocene - this new epoch in which the Earth is being remade by human activity. The book argues that, in the new epoch, urban gardens and gardening are to become 1) conceptual models for reflecting on the human station within the wider workings of things; 2) contexts and practices of stewardship that enable the fulfillment of individual moral obligations against important global challenges - including food security, climate change,…

Gardens Cities Built Environments Anthropocene Ethics Politics Climate Change
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Informative Design. Innovazioni di processo per una progettazione integrata

2020

The article aims to explore the main possibilities that Building Information Modeling is offering these days, in terms of methods and processes. BIM’s typical informative methodology is deeply modifying the approach to the architectural design. In fact, it influences every single phase of the building process, imposing also a profound rethinking regarding the concept of time. Furthermore, the article outlines how the application of the BIM approach on existing buildings, both civil (EBIM) and historical (HBIM), is possible. Finally, a focus is placed on the difference that an informative design can make in managing and maintaining existing buildings.

Innovation process informative design built environmentSettore ICAR/12 - Tecnologia Dell'Architettura
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Strategies for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in Urban Areas: The Erice 50 Charter

2017

The Erice 50 Charter titled "Strategies for Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion in Urban Areas" was unanimously approved at the conclusion of the 50th Residential Course "Urban Health. Instruments for promoting health and for assessing hygienic and sanitary conditions in urban areas", held from 29th March to 2nd April 2017 in Erice, at the "Ettore Majorana" Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture and promoted by the International School of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine "G. D'Alessandro" and the Study Group "Building Hygiene" of the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health (SItI). At the conclusion of the intense learning experience during the Course…

Planning and Designing StrategiesUrban HealthHealth PromotionUrban Health Public Health Built Environment Planning and Designing Strategies Health PromotionPrimary PreventionItalyPlanning and Designing Strategiebuilt environment; health promotion; planning and designing strategies; public health; urban health; public health environmental and occupational health; infectious diseasesHumansUrban Health; Public Health; Built Environment; Planning and Designing Strategies; Health promotionHealth promotionPublic HealthBuilt EnvironmentBuilt Environment; Health Promotion; Planning and Designing Strategies; Public Health; Urban Health; Health Promotion; Humans; Italy; Primary Prevention; Urban Health
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PRINCIPI CONCETTI E METODOLOGIE DELLA RIGENERAZIONE RESILIENTE

2021

The idea of regeneration is the one that best adheres to an inclusive practice of architecture, capable of accepting the continuous change, made of adaptations and contradictions of the built environment we have been given, and of processing its inputs. We can certainly start from an established awareness, that the success of regeneration projects is strongly related to the ability to govern the processes of which they are part. These concepts and actions are at the basis of every regeneration intervention and of the urban transformation modalities that it brings to the built environment, including the new complex elements of the socio-economic processes taking place in the contemporary wor…

Resilient design regenerative design built environment technological designSettore ICAR/12 - Tecnologia Dell'Architettura
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Sine cura. Verso il ri-ciclo dell'architettura del secondo Novecento

2019

Gli argomenti discussi nel saggio interrogano il destino che il Codice dei Beni Culturali (2004- 2011) determina per le opere del secondo Novecento. Nella costruzione del futuro di questi manufatti, che per funzione, tecnologia e cicli d’uso sono spesso segnati dall’obsolescenza e dall’abbandono, le ambiguità e le incongruenze delle attuali procedure legislative sollecitano profondamente il ruolo culturale delle esperienze di ricerca che usano metodologie meta progettuali. Il confronto fra alcuni casi italiani ed altri europei rimarca il ruolo del progetto nella costruzione di una prospettiva di tutela trasformativa per il costruito del secondo Novecento. Nel quadro di azione marcato dall’o…

Settore ICAR/14 - Composizione Architettonica E UrbanaThe essay questions the future's possibilities to operate on the buildings of the second half of the twentieth century according to the Italian Code of Cultural Heritage (2004-2011). When arguing how to encourage the re-use of these artifacts which are often marked by short-life technology cycles obsolescence and abandonment the ambiguities and inconsistencies of current legislative procedures deeply stress the cultural role of research experiences that use project-oriented methodologies. The comparison between some Italian and other European cases highlights the role of a design approach in the construction of a transformative protection perspective for the built matter of the second half of the twentieth century. In a framework aiming to encourage a reconciliation between the recent built environment and the new paradigms of sustainability and circular economy architecture must recognize re-cycle practices as a main theoretical and procedural node. To modernize the late Modern built environment with contemporary construction components is not simply a matter of technical knowledge and expertise: but a theme with theoretical density aesthetic and ethical values. The architectural project in this field today must ask for greater congruence between the bureaucratic and administrative levels and the real consistency of this corpus. It is a matter of identifying strategies to equip it with capabilities meanings and contents remembering that demolition wastes have unsustainable environmental costs and uncertain results concerning the necessary new attribution of political and semantic meaning that these places await.
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Built environments and inherited landscapes: culture, signs and bionimetic models of the resilient city / Ambienti costruiti e paesaggi ereditati: cu…

2018

La cultura è "memoria ereditaria di una collettività ed esprime un sistema determinato di segni e di modelli". Vi sono segni e modelli materiali e immateriali finalizzati alla comprensione e all’interpretazione di un determinato ambiente costruito. Gli ambienti costruiti “ereditati” sono la scena di trasformazioni culturali e storiche eterogenee e sono formati da un numero illimitato di segni e di modelli in reciproca connessione e “interferenza”. Tra le forme dello spazio naturale e quelle dello spazio costruito c’è materialmente una aggregazione. Talora questa aggregazione è coesa mentre altre volte risulta discordante. Molti paesaggi ereditati sono caratterizzati da una incompatibilità p…

Technology Bionimetic Built Environment Environmental DesignSettore ICAR/12 - Tecnologia Dell'Architettura
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“Unauthorized building” as a factor of crisi. Analysis, strategies and plans for sustainable development - L’edificato abusivo come fattore di recess…

2011

Abstract. Come invertire la rotta della svendita indiscriminata del territorio? Quale sviluppo promuovere in accordo con le esigenze ambientali ed economiche? Con l’obiettivo di porre le basi di un effettivo superamento delle criticità determinate da abuso o uso improprio del costruito, l’Università di Palermo ha promosso: il Progetto APRAE (Analisi, Prevenzione e Recupero dell’Abusivismo Edilizio), il Progetto HERA (Habitat Edilizia Recupero Ambiente) e il Progetto Egeo_Med sorto dalla virtuosa collaborazione con il Ministero della Cultura Ellenico (Grecia). Le ricerche hanno ap- profondito da una parte la struttura fenomenologica dell’abusivismo e gli squilibri apportati al «sistema abita…

Tecnologia Recupero Riquali cazione Tutela Valorizzazioneunauthorized building built environment environmental technology.Settore ICAR/12 - Tecnologia Dell'Architettura
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La Seconda Vita dell'Ambiente Costruito

2021

Il contributo inquadra i saggi, gli studi, le ricerche e progetti pubblicati sul numero 9 di AGATHÓN su ‘La Seconda Vita dell’Ambiente Costruito’, tema di interesse per il mondo accademico, delle professioni e dell’industria. Cambiamenti climatici, eccessivo consumo di suolo e di risorse non rinnovabili, produzione sempre crescente di rifiuti, emergenza pandemica e crisi socio-economica globale sono entrati di fatto nel nostro quotidiano: seppur drammatiche, per certi versi, tali questioni possono essere colte come un’opportunità per ripensare il modo e il mondo in cui viviamo. In questo contesto di ‘rivoluzione’(Floridi, 2020) e di ‘policrisi’ (Losasso, 2020), e con riferimento specifico a…

The contribution frames the essays studies research and projects published in issue 9 of AGATHÓN on ‘The SecondLife of the Built Environment’ an interesting topic for universities businesses and industry. Climate changes excessive use of soil renewable resources ever-increasing production of waste the current pandemic emergency and the global socio-economic crisis have in fact entered our daily life. Even if these are tragic issues they can be somehow seized as an opportunity to rethink the way we live and our world. In this ‘revolutionary’ (Floridi 2020) and ‘polycrisis’ (Losasso 2020) context specifically referring to the building industry the Academy the Research and Industry worlds are called to give answers – based on sustainability and the principles of the Green Deal but also and mostly of the new Bauhaus – that can encourage reconsiderations and re-orientations of processes and products new projects on places buildings objects and materials able to positively affect the governance of the global change that our planet and humanity need able to give a ‘new life’ to the built and/or transformed environment at any scaleSettore ICAR/12 - Tecnologia Dell'Architettura
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