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Hemp: past, present, future for a Sustainable Architecture
2020
Cannabis, so classified by the botanist Linnaeus in 1753, is a plant with a long and tormented history. It has been a source of subsistence for many peoples who, since the dawn of time, have exploited its enormous and almost infinite potential. Hemp has survived eighty years of prohibition and the fierce attacks of the chemical, pharmaceutical, textile and other industries, which over the years have monopolized the world economy, contributing significantly to the process of ecosystem degeneration of the planet. Today, in the light of the compelling and urgent intervention actions, aimed at contrasting environmental emergencies, hemp returns to peep globally to help create a sustainable mode…
Techniques de construction traditionnelles et techniques romaines dans le théâtre d’Althiburos et les monuments de spectacle de l’Afrique Proconsulai…
2023
The contribution aims to study the relationship between the traditional construction techniques of the territories of Proconsular Africa and those imported by the Romans and used in the construction of entertainment buildings, in particular theaters and amphitheatres, also taking into account the importation of typological models, starting from the “case study” of the theater of Althiburos. During the 1st and 2nd centuries AD there is a gradual introduction of Roman construction techniques, such as the opus caemaenticium, especially in the construction of substructures and vaults, sometimes with the importation of urban models, of techniques but also of Italic workers (just think of the opu…
Rebuilt the space using stone or brick vaulted systems: catching the contemporary challenge of construction tradition
2019
In the recovery and restoration sites, as well as in the versatile word of university research about construction history, its not infrequent to study stereotomy for the re-proposal of stony or tiled vaulted systems, sometimes complex for their constitutive geometry, equipment, preliminary/subsidiary carpentry works. It represents a didactic study-key also in Engineering and Architecture Schools, through laboratories that teach to future designers a know-how that can be easily spent in their professional repercussions.
Il terremoto del 1823 in Sicilia settentrionale: danni e ricostruzioni
2016
Il 5 marzo 1823 si verificò un terremoto che investì gran parte della Sicilia settentrionale. Numerosi danni si verificarono a Palermo, nelle aree limitrofe a sud e ovest della capitale, in alcuni centri delle Madonie e nelle zone situate lungo il litorale e l’immediato entroterra tirrenico da Palermo a Patti (in particolare a Naso). Il contributo intende indagare, attraverso lo studio delle opere degli autori coevi al sisma e soprattutto di una copiosa documentazione archivistica, le modalità attraverso le quali ci si raffrontò con i problemi determinati dal terremoto, dalla gestione dell'emergenza, all'analisi dei danni e delle successive ricostruzioni. Dal quadro tracciato emerge in part…
Restoration of the feudal castle of Ventimiglia family in Castelbuono (PA)
2014
This paper concerns the restoration of the castle of Ventimiglia family in Castelbuono; the initial part, come from the medieval period (XIVth century), underwent considerable transformations in the XVth century by Giovanni Ventimiglia, Count of Geraci. He transformed the old castle, which is primarily defensive, in their own home and restored the chapel dedicated to S. Anna, then reconfigured in 1683. Since the XIXth century the castle had a progressive deterioration and in 1920 it was purchased by the Municipality of Castelbuono. The postwar years were characterized of a further deterioration of the castle; it was remedied with partial actions since 1978. These interventions have been coo…
Public wash-houses in Portugal: spaces of aggregation and sanitary aid. The case of study of the city of Aveiro
2019
This paper investigates the typology of the Portuguese public wash-houses that represents a very important sanitary aid and a space of social aggregation. More particularly, the most common features of such a typology will be outlined: architectural configuration, materials and technology, constructive characteristics, hydraulic equipment, historical evolution. These simple but highly functional little buildings are spread across the whole country and had been extremely important for the population since the middle age. In the last two centuries, new wash-houses were built, also following the scientific advances and the novel health requirements that spread in Europe between the XIX and XX …
Traditional Architecture and seismic security. Earthquake in the Madonie inner mountain area of Sicily: damages and construction techniques
2017
Tra il 1818 e il 1819 una serie di centri siciliani concentrati nell'area montuosa delle Madonie, furono colpiti a più riprese da una sequenza di scosse sismiche che provocarono numerosi danni all’edificato storico, sia diffuso che di pregio. Il contributo intende indagare i danni e le conseguenti ricostruzioni, con particolare riferimento alle tipologie edilizie e alle tecniche costruttive adottate prima e dopo il sisma. L'azione di verifica e monitoraggio delle condizioni delle fabbriche e i conseguenti interventi di consolidamento e riparazione sono efficacemente documentati in testi a stampa e nei report coevi al sisma e –soprattutto- da una copiosa documentazione archivistica. Si ident…
The muqarnas ceiling of the Palatina Chapel in Palermo
2018
St. Peter’s Basilica inside the Royal Palace of Palermo, known as the Palatina Chapel, is one of the most popular medieval monuments in Sicily. Built between 1130 and 1163, it contains interesting wooden framings that represent both bearing and finishing structures. Studies about the Arab-Norman church have often concentrated on the very rich and suggestive decorative mosaic apparatus of walls and floorings, as well as the pictorial cycle of wooden ceilings. Knowledge about the constructive techniques adopted and, in particular, about the realization of the coverings, is very limited: there are wooden floors built at different levels, vaults and wooden ceilings and among these is the portio…
L'utilizzo del ferro a Palermo dopo il terremoto del 1726
2016
La ricerca, basata essenzialmente sullo studio di una consistente mole di documenti emersi attraverso nuove indagini archivistiche, mira a indagare gli aspetti tecnici legati agli interventi sul patrimonio architettonico di Palermo successivi al terremoto del 1726, approfondendo il ruolo degli architetti e dei maestri coinvolti nel processo di ricostruzione delle fabbriche colpite e ponendo particolare attenzione alle tecnologie messe in atto facenti ricorso all’uso ferro, indagate attraverso lo studio di alcuni casi esemplificativi. Questo materiale, infatti, trovò in questa occasione diverse applicazioni. L’intervento più frequente fu relativo all’inserimento di catene in ferro in corrisp…
La stereotomia nella cattedra di Architettura statica di Carlo Giachery
2014
La scuola di architettura di Palermo, sin dalla sua fondazione nel 1779, con la creazione della cattedra di Architettura civile affidata a Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia, era divenuta inevitabilmente il luogo di verifica e talvolta di esplorazione dei temi legati alla pratica professionale e, quindi, all’arte del costruire. Giachery, Professore di Architettura statica e civile dal 1837 al 1865, è il primo ad avvertire, da docente, la crisi profonda del sistema didattico della scuola di architettura di Palermo isterilita dalla ricerca di astratte idealità neoclassiche e straniatasi dal processo evolutivo della cultura architettonica europea dopo la morte dei “maestri” Marviglia e Gentile. Secon…