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Beyond the screen
2021
The didactic experiences in the field of architectural design, in courses that have always had a strong workshop character, have been varied in recent years and have been carried out in different variants that, when considered as a whole, allow us to reflect on the problems and the challenges faced during the pandemic. Indeed, a didactic normally conducted with compulsory attendance suffered in a sudden andunexpected way from the cancellation of physical presence, the loss of contact with people and the “corporeality” of the project. Moreover, the absence of the physical space of the classroom (a scene inherent to the laboratory) soon led to the search for new tools and appropriate methods …
Metamorfosi
2015
Insegnare architettura-fare architettura è il carattere che Vincenzo Melluso riconosce alla Scuola di Palermo e che da anni lui stesso porta avanti. Una didattica del progetto che parte dalla lettura del grande libro del paesaggio abitato e dalle sue mutazioni, per contaminarsi poi in altre discipline e diventare infine forma architettonica Teaching architecture and making architecture is a trait of the Palermo School, says Vincenzo Melluso, who has been putting it into practice for years by first having students peruse the big book of the inhabited landscape and its mutations, then intersecting the discipline with other ones, and finally asking them to create architectural form
Re-generating the cities
2011
Even when they seem closer to the end or they experience moments of crisis, cities have the quality to regenerate. As history testifies, their tracks, streets, monuments become the seed of a new life: they born on the ruins of other big cities which continue to preserve memory. The new takes origin from what was already there, alternating end and rebirth in which fragments, spaces, shapes emerge as a program for perpetuity, urban forms that survive the change of the functions and new phenomena. This reflection leads us to think that the reading and perception of built form continues to be an indispensable tool, even if on operating plan, to update methods and strategies able to express aest…
Perspectives of a possible horizon
2018
The contemporary landscape expresses in itself all the contradictions of present time, marked by the lack of a coherent thought on the transformation of places and of a clear aesthetic elaboration. So, the project must reflect not only on the relationship between man and the landscape but above all on the importance of taking care of the physical present, on the need to return to a way of dwelling that respects the places. Architecture, looking for the complete sense of the landscape, plays a fundamental role in the reconstruction of coherence of places and reveals their latent beauty.
“Eight houses”
2011
In the cycle of the conferences that took place in the Open City-Piacenza International Summer School, the Portuguese architect Manuel Aires Mateus introduced eight projects of isolated houses in Portugal. The projects, that were displayed at the last Venezia Architecture Biennale, People meet in architecture , born from the idea of composing an architecture capable of telling the new ways of life through the space as a mean for expressing the thinking on the contemporary society.
Nuovi media per il progetto di fruizione e valorizzazione
2011
Digital media allows the exploration of architectural space and direct control of its transformations in all phases of the project. Therefore the designer’s skills increase and the quality of the project is benefitted by this. Representing the reality that surrounds us, land or built, landscape or archaeological evidences the opportunity is provided model to all the factors used to describe the same reality. Through current modeling software you can achieve more complex forms of representation. Indeed they add up to traditional graphics media and an additional system of information is available. It becomes a stimulus to our conceptual skills, activating them to govern the complexity and to …
“Architecture and infrastructure: the road between trace and artefact”
2012
the paper analyses the relationship between architecture and infrastructure in the development of the modern city in the 20th century.
Architectures for a creative city
2015
The particular attention to the creative regeneration of the abandoned spaces is the core of the book, that orients the attention to the opposition between Tradition and Innovation, focusing on the transformation of architectural, urban and territorial contexts in terms of recovering and reuse of the resources. Starting from the urban creativity is opened Milano Expo main event 2015, with a constant relationship, both real and virtual, on the contamination among architecture and resources’ use. In this line, the theme chosen for the International Exhibition «Feeding the Planet. Energy for Life» is a reference corner-stone, assuming the architectural and urban design as more and more tied wi…
Editors' note
2015
The book, aimed to give a point of view, collects both the answer given by the students and the theoretical thoughts of scientific directors, professors and tutors who have guided the students during the fifth edition of the OC Open City International Summer School of Piacenza: "Architecture for the Creative City".
Cap Rate as the Interpretative Variable of the Urban Real Estate Capital Asset: A Comparison of Different Sub‐Market Definitions in Palermo, Italy
2017
Real estate capital is in constant competition with other capital assets due to its different and complementary economic functions such as direct use, productive investment, and speculative investment. These features and the resulting opportunities cannot be easily deduced from direct observation of the real estate markets, so some further insights need to be carried out in order to highlight the relationship between prices, rents and performances. This study aims at providing a multifaceted perspective of a specific urban real estate market to overcome the difficulties arising from opacities and informative asymmetries that hinder the decision of investors, by facilitating the comparison o…