Search results for "Landscape design"
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Fake Landscapes
2016
L'articolo affronta i risvolti architettonici del camuffamento strategico effettuato per scopi militari durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Si tratta di una pratica particolare messa in atto soprattutto in California nascondendo con enormi teloni dipinti interi edifici o capannoni facendolo apparire come altre cose e quindi evitando il riconoscimento da parte dei bombardieri. Si trattava quindi di fatto di ampie operazioni di land art o di un ambito dove l'architettura del paesaggio incontra la scenografia. Camouflage was a strategic technique used during the Second World War mainly in California but aslo elsewhere. It consisted in a massive operation on the landscape. The essay analyses it…
Re-build landscape. Design for the reuse of abandoned quarries
2021
Looking at the history of our geological and mining heritage, we can see the evolution of the role played by underground mining sites over the centuries. However, if the activity of quarrying stones is as old as the presence of humans on earth, the issue of the territorial regeneration, based on the recovery and re-functionalization of abandoned quarries, is one of the central arguments of the contemporary debate. The extractive activity that on one hand constitutes an important economic resource for numerous territories, on the other hand requires particular attention to the environmental impact it causes. The theme is that of the so-called drosscapes, soils and residual spaces, once margi…
False problems about landscape - Falsi problem di paesaggio
2016
È un'intervista in un volume in cui sono espressi punti di vista diversi sul progetto architettonico e urbano. Infatti, le interviste sono organizzate e condotte in modo da far affiorare differenze e analogie, contrasti e accordi tra gli studiosi coinvolti. In "Falsi problemi di paesaggio" sono affrontate, sostanzialmente, tre questioni: che cosa si intende per paesaggio; quali sono i rapporti tra la legislazione italiana vigente e il progetto di paesaggio; qual’è lo stato del ricerca. It's an interview in a volume in which there are expressied different points of view on the architectural and urban design. In fact, the interviews are organized and conducted in order to bring out difference…
The Halaesa landscape (III B.C.) as ancient example of the complex and bio-diverse traditional Mediterranean polycultural landscape.
2014
Southern Europe and the whole Mediterranean area are distinguished by landscape types whose characters result from countless, long and complex cultural and historical processes that developed in an equally complex and varied environment. The Mediterranean rural landscape would keep these same distinctive characteristics until the crisis of the mixed-crops, and the phenomena of urbanization in the nineteen-sixties/ seventies. This paper identifies the characteristics of the Mediterranean polycultural and polyspecific (coltura promiscua) landscape, characterized by the presence of trees (both wild and cultivated), starting from a historical overview of the central Mediterranean. The analysed …
The Study of the Scale through Space. Teaching Innovation Experience among Architecture Schools: Malaga, Seville and Palermo
2018
The educational innovation project object of this communication focuses on the scale problems that arise in the projects of territorial planning carried out in architecture schools, but also in the loss of the scale concept related to thought and drawing. The project involved collaboration among the Schools of Architecture of Malaga, Palermo and Seville with the aim of carrying out a practical exercise among the students of two subjects that, working on different scales, addressed similar concepts. In particular, following an PBL methodology based on collaborative projects, the planning of the N-340 road in the city of Nerja (Málaga) was carried out. Firstly, the territorial scale is addres…
Effect of landscape structure on common vole (Microtus arvalis) distribution and abundance at several space scales
1996
This paper aims to answer the following question: are the fluctuations of abundance of Common Vole (Microtus arvalis) specific to different types of landscapes? The research was carried out in landscapes where grassland was dominant. The sampling method was based upon a partition in both landscape types and landscape units. Tracking of vole indices was used to evaluate their relative abundance. Six landscape transects were sampled during two successive years. Results show that population variation and diffusion of demographic states are closely related to landscape types. The possible causes of this are discussed. The landscape units can be used as global variables to assess outbreak risk a…
Mining Landscapes in Sicily: Problems, Strategies and Perspectives
2015
Sicily has been characterised by a striking mining activity throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. It deeply changed the appearance of the internal areas of the Island, transforming natural and agricultural landscapes into industrial ones. When the extraction activities finally came to an end, the industrial landscape started to be regarded from another point of view, as a cultural and touristic value. However, mining landscape is today a wasted opportunity. Large parts of machines, railways and chimneys are disappearing due to carelessness and abandonment. Anyway, the crisis which is affecting Europe will eventually force us to look back at these territories as a possible resource to over…
Against Landscaping
2022
Cultural assets are mostly located within big cities. Landscapes are almost absent from cities. This condition is reverted in inner areas where the primacy of landscapes is overwhelming. Furthermore towns and villages are strictly intertwined with their surrounding landscapes. Yet conservation laws and procedures tend to consider built forms and landscapes as disjointed. The same unsuitable conceptual separation of buildings from the surrounding areas happens by means of the design procedure labelled as “landscaping”. Integration is instead pursued by Landscape Urbanism.
Paesaggio, piano, progetto: problemi lessicali e altro
2012
The notion of landscape and the techniques for landscape design must necessarily be based on two principal regulatory provisions, the European Landscape Convention and in Italy the law on cultural heritage and landscape. Consideration must also be given to what is meant by the term ‘landscape' in normal and specialist parlance and to the nature of the training of landscape architects, because it is from all this that the ambiguities and misunderstandings that surround the notion of landscape originate. Consideration must also be given to the relations between planning and real and local transformations, because the contents and procedures for the formulation of designs depend on them. Lands…