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Reviving earthen architecture in Palestine: The added significances of the building sustainability and an opportunity for the future
2016
Several attempts have emerged recently in Palestine aiming to find an economical-environmental alternative building material beside the widely-used natural stone as a main building material, due to some factors related to the cost and the negative effects of stone mining areas on the local environment. Similar attempts had a certain response to the peculiar social needs and economic situation there. The efforts led to revive earthen architecture on organizational and individual levels, producing a certain number of earthen buildings in the last few years. In order to evaluate the appropriateness of earth as an alternative raw material in Palestine, the paper outlines the general advantages …
Luce e colori sulle rovine. Strategie museografiche per la comunicazione dell'archeologia
2012
La ricerca indaga sugli aspetti di illuminazione per i siti archeologici o parte di essi. Il fascino di un sito archeologico o di un monumento deriva dalla percezione di tutto il suo intero contesto ambientale, sia per quanto riguarda l'illuminazione funzionale che artistica. Lo scopo della monografia è quello di descrivere il ruolo della luce nel processo di sviluppo della conoscenza e la comunicazione dei beni archeologici, con particolare riferimento ad una possibile integrazione tra permanenza (tradizione) e innovazione. La ricerca presenta lo studio di un campione di casi di studio italiani e internazionali, visto nei loro aspetti storici, archeologici e museografici. L'attenzione è po…
MICROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES (SEM AND OM) AND ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO CHARACTERIZE CONSTITUTIVE MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUE OF THE WOODEN FRAMES IN SICILY
2015
Nowadays artworks traditionally included in the category of applied or decorative arts are considered at the same level of fine arts getting over the old definition of minor art. According to this consideration an increasing number of studies and paper deals with the decorative arts and the Observatory for Decorative Arts in Italy “Maria Accascina” (OADI) was settled within the University of Palermo in order to study them. Nevertheless most studies deal with artistic and historic issues of applied arts and just few concern with the technique used, at least in the southern part of Italy. This paper is a systematic research concerning the constitutive materials and the executive techniques of…
Study on the Acceptability of an ICT Platform for Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment
2020
EhcoBUTLER is an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solution funded by the European Union (H2020; ID: 643566) and intended especially for elderly people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to improve their health, independence and quality of life, particularly at the social level. The purpose of this study is to assess the acceptability of ehcoBUTLER based on a survey delivered to potential users and actors involved in their care, exploring their expectations and preferences, while anticipating the system’s functional requirements. The survey was delivered online to 313 participants (11% end users, 25% informal caregivers, 48% formal caregivers and 16% administration/management…
Designing ICTs for Users with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Usability Study
2020
Background: Research has supported the cost-effectiveness of cognitive training tools enhanced by information and communication technologies (ICT) in several populations, including individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and age-related cognitive decline. The implementation of ICTs in this population, however, is sometimes challenging to their cognitive and age characteristics. Ultimately, this might compromise the effectiveness of ICT-enhanced therapies in this population. The aim of this study is to test the usability and acceptability of a European project prototype for elderly care, in an attempt to explore the ICT design needs of users with MCI. Methods: Participants were 28 i…
La ricerca del value for money nei progetti di opere pubbliche
2012
The search of value for money in the field of public works is now an indispensable element to improve the relationship cost effectiveness of all investments that involve the use of resources of the communities. The article, based on the European Economic situation analyzes the evolution of evaluative methodologies in Italy and Europe showing, through some case studies, the elements that contribute most to the success of the evaluation both in terms economic and social benefits.
Il ruolo del management per la qualità del costruire
2012
Tra le sfide che deve affrontare oggi il settore delle costruzioni vi è il perseguimento della qualità attraverso l’utilizzo di sistemi di gestione capaci di ottimizzare ogni fase del processo produttivo. Il percorso intrapreso grazie alle recenti normative in tema di sicurezza, certificazione energetica, certificazione dei prodotti e dei processi, la legge quadro in materia di lavori pubblici va nella giusta direzione ma molto rimane ancora da fare. In particolare il processo edilizio, a causa dell’aumentata complessità e della sua suddivisione, insieme al coinvolgimento di diversi attori con ruoli e responsabilità più o meno definite, ha perso l’unitarietà del controllo, determinando prob…
Recupero e conservazione: qualità e sostenibilità passano dalla gestione
2013
The need to recover the quality of the built-up environment (seen as a particularly complex and vulnerable arrangement) demands a systemic approach that can tackle what are among the main causes of failure in terms of projects and programmes. In spite of significant advances, the normative, managerial, cultural and economic system in Italy is often unable to come up with adequate answers, owing to the complexity of procedures, relationships and performance. An attempt as been made to recover the accumulated delay, to comply with European directives and to confront the situation of ever-decreasing funding, through a process of modernization of norms from the 1990s onwards, allied to systems …
Proposition du Project APER pour un entretien programé du Quartier hellénistique-romain d’Agrigente / Proposta del Progetto APER per la manutenzione …
2014
The article puts forward a proposal for the planned maintenance of the Sicilian study case chosen by the APER Project: House IA-B in Agrigento’s Hellenistic-Roman Quarter. After a few brief considerations regarding maintenance work on buildings and on architectural heritage, specific details concerning the maintenance of archaeological sites are illustrated. The article proposes a coding system specially applied to domestic Punic, Hellenistic and Roman architecture, designed to identify maintenance units, meaning parts of the archaeological built environment that can be the object of effectively planned maintenance work because they feature similar shapes and materials. This proposal should…
Prefazione. Conservare nel tempo. Tecnologia e programmazione per i Beni Culturali
2011
In questo testo Antonella Cesaroni raccoglie le ricerche e gli studi condotti sul Santuario del SS. Crocifisso in Treia, architettura eclettica dei primi anni del 1900 dell’architetto romano Cesare Bazzani, ma fornisce un “pretesto” per valorizzare della Tecnologia quell’attitudine al controllo che la definisce una disciplina applicata e che trova attuazione in quelle fasi del “processo conservativo” indirizzate specificatamente al progetto di adeguamento, di riuso e di manutenzione cui un manufatto, come quello di Treia, è sottoposto nel corso della sua vita. La conservazione del patrimonio architettonico, sia esso antico o moderno, è inoltre da ritenere affidabile solo riconoscendo al “pr…