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CATASTROPHES AND BUILDING ABUSES
2012
The contributions analyze the land's vulnerability and abusive built's vulnerability. It describes the risks related to natural and artificial disasters and also investigates the use of appropriate technologies to protect and preserve the existing assets.
ABUSIVENESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS
2012
In Italy abusiveness story is well known. It started with the rebuilding after the war. A destroyed and poor nation where the so called “needful abusiveness” dominated, it was often linked to the so called economical buildings, with the urgency to build the roof as to practically avoids demolition risk. And with the interest to escape also from the growing tax imposition on houses. We add to all this the contemporary phenomenon of urbanization that voided countries and asked for more living spaces in town, with the consequent building boom. Anyway, from the building by those who were directly interested, we passed very soon to real building speculation phenomena, sometimes possible thanks t…
Architectural Perspectives in the Cathedral of Palermo: Image-Based Modelling for Cultural Heritage Understanding and Enhancement
2015
Palermo off ers a repertoire of both artistic and architectural solid perspective of great beauty and in large quantity. This paper addresses the problem of the 3D survey of these works and their related study through the use of image-based modelling (IBM) techniques. We propose, as case studies, the use of IBM techniques inside the Cathedral of Palermo. Indeed, the church houses a huge and rich sculptural repertoire, dating back to 16th century, which constitutes a valid field of IBM techniques application. The aim of this study is to demonstrate the e ffectiveness and potentiality of these techniques for geometric analysis of sculptured works. Indeed, usually the survey of these artworks …
Antonino Sancho Arango, un arquitecto en el tránsito hacia la Valencia contemporánea
2016
The process of modernization that Valencia and its territory underwent during the central decades of the 19th century is intrinsically linked to the trajectory of Antonino Sancho Arango’s career. He is considered an important figure in Valencian urban planning of this century, but his works in the field of architecture are almost unknown. This article aims to complete the study of the Antonino Sancho’s work and to establish a biography that values his role in the changes experimented by Valencia, but also Sancho’s dedication to public projects. La modernización que experimentaron Valencia y su territorio durante las décadas centrales del siglo XIX es indisociable de la trayectoria profesion…
Sant’Eligio degli Argentieri: dialoghi sul destino di un rudere
2021
In meetings between the silversmiths Pietro Accardi and Silvano Barraja with Luciana Macaluso, professor of architectural design, the events that reduced the church of San Eligio in Palermo to ruins were retraced and a different destiny for the monument has been envisioned. The church was built by the silversmith confraternity in 1650 and dedicated to their patron saint, a silversmith of French origins. The earthquake of 15 January 1940 damaged the structure and, three years later, a bomb destroyed the roof of the main body. During the 1950s, the shops in the square of the same name multiplied to the point of occupying part of the church. The subsequent decline in craft activities and the g…
Acciones para mejorar la eficiencia energética en los edificios en Europa: estado del arte sobre los standards técnicos
2022
The paper is aimed at reviewing the state of the art of the European technical normative implementation during the last decades concerning the building energy efficiency. Indeed, it is well acknowledged that the present building stock is largely obsolete and inefficient: in the European context alone, around 75% of the buildings is not energy efficient and most are expected to be in use until 2050. Consequently, buildings require not only a general rehabilitation, to extend, or even avoid, its end-of-life time, but also a complete afterthought of their energy performance. That is extremely urgent to improve the overall sustainability of the construction sector that, alone, is one of the mai…
An innovative approach to manage uncertainties and stock diversity in the EPBD cost-optimal methodology
2018
The EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) 2010/31/EU is a step in the right direction to promote near zero energy buildings (NZEB) in a step-wise manner, starting with minimum energy performance and cost optimal thresholds for “reference buildings” (RBs) for each category. Nevertheless, a standard method for defining RBs does not exist, which led to a great divergence between MS in the level of detail used to define RBs for the EPBD cost-optimal analysis. Such lack of harmonisation between MS is further evident given the resulting large discrepancies in energy performance indicators even between countries having similar climate. Furthermore, discrepancies of 30% or higher betw…
orthoFind Facilitates the Discovery of Homologous and Orthologous Proteins
2015
Finding homologous and orthologous protein sequences is often the first step in evolutionary studies, annotation projects, and experiments of functional complementation. Despite all currently available computational tools, there is a requirement for easy-to-use tools that provide functional information. Here, a new web application called orthoFind is presented, which allows a quick search for homologous and orthologous proteins given one or more query sequences, allowing a recurrent and exhaustive search against reference proteomes, and being able to include user databases. It addresses the protein multidomain problem, searching for homologs with the same domain architecture, and gives a si…
Architettura emergenziale: buone pratiche esecutive
2022
This paper provides a comparative overview of different types of (temporary) shelters that have recently been used in various field locations in response to a forced displacement due to disastrous events. In particular, possible strategies useful to increase the sustainability of the humanitarian response and reduce the carbon footprint, while ensuring the adequacy and suitability of the shelters themselves, are here explored. This study investigates a systematic design framework that is often constrained by many obstacles such as the limited availability of low-cost materials, and a lack of local labour experience. To reduce the negative impact of a disaster, especially in the developing c…
Agent-Oriented Captology for Anthropocentric Systems
2001
Abstract Considering that anthropo centric systems are an adequate domain for captological approaches, and that interface agents are most natural interactants for the humans involved, the paper presents a broad-spectrum generic architectural framework to support developing flexible interfaces for industrial applications, based on synergetic correlation between persuasive technologies and polymorphic agents. The design space for agent-oriented captology is defined and several of its main dimensions are elaborated upon. The main mechanisms used are dynamic priorities, "flexible cloning" and fuzzy temporal windows. Some agent-oriented test-bench applications instantiating the generic architect…