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From limit to centrality. Regeneration of the Genoa's port area through architectural and urban design
2012
This survey’s core is the case study of the regeneration of the port area and of the urban waterfront of the city of Genoa, as an emblematic example where the architectural and urban design plays an important role, oriented to the transformation of the port area and to the modification of the relationship that exists between the harbour and the city. In particular this will deepen the possibility, to reverse the condition of limit that characterizes the port area into a new centrality, through the design, passing by intermediate steps that redefine the modalities of access and of connection between city and port, breaking the condition of isolation that ports usually present. As a matter of…
Resilient cities and sustainable urban mobility in Sicily
2018
The global crisis that in recent years has been investing our planet at different levels - social, economic, political, cultural, environmental - has determined a constant change in the quality of life in the cities. Cities, unfortunately, increasingly vulnerable characterized by insecurity, uncertainty, unpredictability due to mistakes made in the past. This is why, today, urban planning is called to satisfy the new needs of the community through a planning that must be adapted to change. In this scenario, urban centers - in order to ensure high levels of quality of life and responsible management of territorial resources - they must re-examine their governance, their strategies for expans…
MAPS Project
2019
From 2016 to 2018 OC OPEN CITY Research Group of Politecnico di Milano / Dastu Department was involved within the European Program MAPS (acronymous for Military Assets Public Space), part of URBACT, financially supported by the European Union. The program was leaded by the Municipality of Piacenza, as city leader of a group of 10 European cities which shared the architectural and urban topic of neglected military assets’ regeneration. Together with associations and citizens, Politecnico di Milano research group worked on ideas and visions for reuse of Laboratorio Pontieri area (one of the case-study of OC2018) with an open and participatory approac as player of ULG (Urban Local Group). For …
Use and Identification of Components in Component-Based Software Development Methods
2000
New software systems are needed ever more but to keep up with this trend software developers must learn to create quality software more efficiently. One approach is to (re-)use components as building blocks of the new software. Recently there has been more interest to create component-based software development methods to support this. In this article we first set out requirements for reuse-based software development and then evaluate three component-based methods, namely Catalysis, OMT++, and Unified Process. As a conclusion we argue that evaluated methods produce prefabricated components and that component-based means that software developers can change better components to existing syste…
Research and Projects for the Recovery of the “Tifeo” Power Station in Augusta, Sicily
2016
The buildings of the Tifeo Augusta Power Station (SR) significantly tell us, even today, the history of the Sicilian industrial dream at the end of the Fifties. However, with the passing of time, it revealed the underlying contradictions still present today in Augusta together with polluting and oppressive petrochemical plants built during those times. Regardless of any recovery theory about the Augusta Power Station, it is clear that an open and multidisciplinary look cannot be ignored, locating the power station in the actual and future setting of the vastest territory in which it is sited. The past, the present and, of course, the future of the Augusta area are tightly connected to the s…
Architettura storica: conoscenza obiettiva e rifunzionalizzazione
2010
Il progetto di restauro è basato sulla conoscenza obiettiva dell'architettura e il contributo mostra il percorso metodologico per accrescere la quantità di informazioni che supportano l'elaborazione del progetto. L'obiettivo dell'intervento, nel rispetto del carattere storico dell'edificio, è la definizione di una utilizzazione compatibile. The restoration project is based on objective knowledge of architecture and the contribution shows the methodological approach to increase the amount of information that support the development of the project. The goal of the intervention, in accordance with the historic character of the building, is the definition of a compatible use.
Ethics of restoration and conservation science: the completion and reuse of the former Mother Church in Santa Margherita di Belice (Sicily) / Ética d…
2016
Restaurare l’architettura significa conservare la sua essenza autentica e le stratificazioni storiche, rispettare il criterio della distinguibilità e attualizzare le funzioni che racchiude. Questo moderno indirizzo culturale e metodologico ha sostanziato il progetto di restauro e di rifunzionalizzazione della ex chiesa madre di Santa Margherita di Belice, in Sicilia, che oggi ospita il “Museo della Memoria”. L’istinto progettuale conservativo si è manifestato fin dalle prime ipotesi d’intervento, quando è stata rigettata la possibilità di riproporre “nuovamente” le masse murarie del monumento, sconquassate da un violento terremoto nel 1968. Si è scelto, infatti, d’attuare un’operazione raff…
(Di)segni contemporanei
2018
Il contributo intende presentare criticamente alcuni interventi di restauro allineati alla più moderna ed evoluta cultura della conservazione. I due interventi sono compiuti in Sicilia sui resti di due monumenti distrutti dal terremoto che danneggiò la vallata del fiume Belice nel 1968. Il tema della reintegrazione della lacuna nei volumi strutturali degli edifici storici è realizzata attraverso il procedimento per "astrazione volumetrica", con esiti sorprendenti e d'elevata qualità conservativa. The contribution intends to critically present some restoration interventions aligned with the most modern and evolved culture of conservation. The two interventions are carried out in Sicily on th…
Regional Industrial Restructuring
2020
This chapter studies regional industrial restructuring and focuses on the role of the ecosystem for restructuring. The chapter examines more precisely how various types of ecosystems hold different preconditions for regional industrial change. The question is how various stages of the restructuring process are affected by the ecosystem. The chapter moves beyond traditional evolutionary economic geography by examining a wide range of actors, mechanisms, and outcomes. A particular focus is placed on the importance of asset modification for regional industrial restructuring. The chapter concludes by suggesting that thin regional innovation systems (RISs) mainly support the reuse of existing as…
Asset modification for regional industrial restructuring: digitalization of the culture and experience industry and the healthcare sector
2021
This paper researches how firm- and system-level asset modification and alignment underpin and direct new path development from digitalization. It suggests that asset reuse mostly promotes path extension or path upgrading, while asset creation and asset destruction will be more evident in the process of path emergence. The empirics support asset modification as a key mechanism for regional restructuring from digitalization, but suggest that the typology should be more nuanced. Specifically, the empirics demonstrate asset upgrading as a key mechanism. publishedVersion