Search results for "Architectura"
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When is Architecture Not Design?
2019
If there’s nothing more to architecture than design, and to its attendant thinking processes than design thinking, then core dimensions of the enterprise from production and use angles have no special character over and above their counterparts in general design. Yet that does not appear to be true by the lights of architects or design specialists or the public at large. So what is it, at the core or periphery of the discipline or its objects, that makes architecture not design? The ways in which architecture and design constitute artistic enterprises, drawing on and promoting aesthetic interest, differ such that architecture is not, or at least not only, a branch of or variation on desi…
Ocho notas sobre la Casa Farnsworth de Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
2020
Mies was in the top of his career when he built the Farnsworth House. The analysis of this work shows some characteristics of his architectural thought: the relationships between architecture and nature, the definition of the pavilion type, his concept of architectural space, the role of structure and limits, the idea free plan and the meaning of construction
Assessment of Energy and Economic Effectiveness of Photovoltaic Systems Operating in a Dense Urban Context
2013
A methodology that permits testing the level of integration of the photovoltaic technology in urban areas is presented. The percentage of coverage of the electricity demand of grid-connected photovoltaic systems installed on the roofs of buildings were investigated in a district of the city of Palermo (Sicily). After classifying roofs according to their shape, orientation and pitch by means of satellite images provided by Google Earth, the ratio of the productivity of the PV systems and the consumption of electricity of the households was analysed. The results of the energy assessment have been screened considering the economic feasibility of grid-connected photovoltaic systems: the energy …
Progetti urbani per l'Area dello Stretto. Dissociazioni urbane
2008
Il dibattito sull’Area Metropolitana dello Stretto - descritta dal geografo Lucio Gambi negli anni sessanta, pianificata nelle proposte progettuali dei gruppi Samonà e Quaroni nel 1969 in occasione della consultazione sul collegamento stabile, indagata negli studi e nelle proposte susseguitesi in più di quarant’anni - non ha prodotto, almeno fino ad ora, la messa a punto di strumenti di pianificazione in grado di programmare per essa uno scenario unitario e plausibile. Gli studi sulla realizzazione del ponte tra le due sponde, ponendosi come occasione per la formulazione di un ridisegno totale dei due versanti, mancano di un piano integrato in grado di guidare gli interventi, captare le ris…
ELEMENTARE E COMPLESSO. La Città per isole. Grammatiche insediative per la città contemporanea
2020
Studiando il lavoro sulle “composizioni alla scala della città” che Antonello Russo ci propone attraverso le elaborazioni dei suoi studenti, appare subito evidente un pensiero sulla forma urbana. Si manifesta l’idea di costruire gli isolati residenziali come singole architetture, nuclei urbani concepiti come un’unica grande casa in cui gli spazi liberi fra gli edifici diventano luoghi del progetto. È in questi spazi che la città rivela il suo intento rappresentativo, che si rende riconoscibile, che diventa teatro della vita degli uomini. Il libro di Antonello Russo è testimone di un’idea di città in cui sono contenute le aspirazioni di una moderna cultura dell’abitare, un’idea di spazio dov…
“Ricomincio da tre”: continuare la città recente a partire da una scuola d’infanzia
2020
In the academic year 2015-2016, at the University of Palermo, a third-year architectural design course was dedicated to the theme of the kindergarten in Villaggio Peruzzo (Agrigento). Villaggio Peruzzo is an urban unit within an extensive system between the Valley of the Temples and San Leone; it is located near the confluence of the two rivers (S. Anna and San Biagio) in the Canale di San Leone (ancient Greek port); it is surrounded by farmland and made of public residential blocks around a square on which a church rises. Behind the parish, a school complex will be built. It is an opportunity to explore a settlement where a public neighbourhood, detached houses, agricultural fields shape a…
Comparing indoor performances of a building equipped with four different roof configurations in 65 Italian sites
2020
Abstract—Despite the increasing concern of institutions and technical organizations toward the improvement of the building energy (and, therefore, environmental) efficiency, the main goal of technicians should be also devoted toward the levels of internal thermal comfort that buildings are able to realize. As that, the relationships between energy performances and comfort conditions provided by the enclosures are of paramount importance in guiding designers in their work. In this paper, the influence of diverse roof construction typologies on energy and indoor performance of buildings has been investigated, in different Italian sites during heating and cooling seasons. In addition, it must …
Preservation of the artistic heritage within the seat of the Chancellorship of the University of Palermo
2006
The correct maintenance of artworks of historical and artistic value requires a wide and detailed analysis of all the information relevant for preserving them, such as identification of the main deterioration factors, knowledge of the climatic history of the object, set-up of measuring methods and statistics of the guide parameters, and definition of a set of recommended environmental aspects to be controlled within a stable climate condition linked to the particular kind of object or its surface. In Italy, the basic laws UNI 10829 and UNI 10969 impose a reference methodology for the in-field measurement and data analysis. This paper reports the first results of a measuring campaign, carrie…
Il tecnigrafo Tiburtino
2021
The essay is a development of Pier Federico Caliari's study for the Piazza d'Oro in Villa Adrina at Tivoli published in the magazine Ananke 84. Its subtitle is indeed Studio dal testo di Ananke 84. Some of Caliari's HYpothesis about the axial development of some parts of Villa Adriana are put in relation with geometrical tracement tools on one side and art of memory on the other side.
Experiments on the Virtual City: Three-Dimensional Reconfigurations of Missing, Never Realized or Destroyed Urban Areas
2011
We present two works on the "Virtual City" held at Palermo. They are about the three-dimensional reconfiguration of urban places that show evidence of "invisible" architecture, this is because in one case there were ancient monuments now destroyed, or in another case projects designed for the urban void and never made. The aim is to involve new forms of communication for the development of cultural tourism.