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Architettura e second digital turn, l’evoluzione degli strumenti informatici e il progetto
2021
La condizione digitale che ha gradualmente ibridato le nostre esistenze, trasformando atomi in bit, si è oggi cementificata sulla nostra società, arricchendone la postmodernità e determinando una nuova liquidità acuitasi con l’avvento di internet. Un momento storico segnato da una nuova maturità del digitale, evidente nel nostro diverso rapporto con i dati, e nella diffusione di metodi di machine learning avanzato, che promettono una nuova capacità di comprensione della complessità contemporanea e nel frattempo contribuiscono alla propagazione dell’apparato tecnico sul mondo. Questi cambiamenti, tanto profondi da toccare la nostra cultura, stanno modificando il nostro modo di interpretare e…
Architetture del divenire. Innovazioni contemporanee/Emerging Architecture. Contemporary Innovations (presentazione di Giuseppe Pellitteri) - Quadern…
2014
La posizione assunta dall'architettura all'inizio del ventunesimo secolo è ambigua e così la forma degli edifici che ambiscono a convogliare significati. Il processo di radicale trasformazione dell’architettura, avvenuto sin dal primo Novecento, quale conseguenza della graduale sostituzione delle tecniche edilizie tradizionali con le tecniche “moderne”, ha subito un notevole slancio nell'ultimo ventennio, per effetto del crescente mutamento tecnologico. I materiali, le tecniche costruttive e l’innovazione tecnologica hanno condizionato sensibilmente ed irreversibilmente il pensiero architettonico, producendo in questi ultimi anni nuove espressività linguistiche del tutto “insolite” rispetto…
The Digital change. Reasons and meanings of a new architectural expressivity
2014
The entry of computing in architectural has produced a real revolution in architectural scenario, changing the designer's arsenals and producing new expressive trends. However, up to now it is unclear how designers have actually taken advantage of the use of software to develop new styles, it is unclear what is the relationship between programs, operations and tools provided by them, and the formal configuration of new architecture. Moreover, the only element to identify digital influence on design seems to be only what designers or critics say-so. Then, the goal of the research was to actually identify these digital influences on architectural designs by developing a framework for identify…
L’archetipo cupolato: dalle chiese di Costantinopoli alle moschee di Sinan
2015
Il saggio, facendo riferimento agli spazi cultuali delle chiese di Bisanzio/Costantinopoli e alle principali moschee ideate dall’architetto Sinan, nell’individuare le differenze più evidenti tra bizantino e islamico, prova a tracciare lo sviluppo di un’idea architettonica, l’idea sicuramente dominante in ambito orientale. Si cercherà così di evidenziare la forza di «archetipo» rappresentato dalla pianta centrica a perimetro quadrangolare dominata da una cupola centrale. Questo archetipo, nei secoli radicato e richiesto dalla liturgia ortodossa (che rifiuterà invece quasi del tutto quello basilicale tanto diffuso in occidente) verrà a confrontarsi in maniera quantomai interessante con le att…
Dalla porta, verso la libertà
2023
There is a cat meowing at the door: it wants to go out for a walk. The owner of the office where that door is located gets very nervous: he spends his time opening and opening and closing it because the animal is constantly coming and going and he, who is in poor health, does not tolerate draughts. The cat would like the door always open. He always closed. Hence these constant meows, on the one hand, and these constant opening and closing, on the other hand, with the associated angry and collective shrieking. What a stress.
Porte e finestre
2019
the contribution identifies and analyzes the success and operational repercussions in Sicilian architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the models for doors and windows disseminated through the press. Some engravings have arrived in loose sheets, such as those attributed to the painter from Viterbo Tarquinio Ligustri. The success in Val di Noto of this almost unknown repertoire continued until the early eighteenth century, but it followed and developed at the same time as that of the models contained in the books by Sebastiano Serlio, Domenico Fontana and Vignola. Alongside the classic treatises of the sixteenth century and of the seventeenth century, the printing of eng…
Context-sensitive distraction warnings : effects on drivers' visual behavior and acceptance
2016
In this study, we investigated the effects of context-sensitive distraction warnings on drivers' in-car glance behaviors and acceptance. The studied prototype warning application functions on a smart phone. The novelty of the application is its proactive and context-sensitive approach to the adjustment of warning thresholds according to the estimated visual demands of the driving situation ahead. In our study, novice and experienced drivers conducted in-car tasks with a smart phone on a test track with and without the warnings. The application gave a warning if the driver's gaze was recognized to remain on the smart phone over a situation-specific threshold time, or if the driver was approa…
La costruzione del paesaggio ibleo: reti deboli, segni forti
2017
The contribution deals with the theme of the dry stone walls’ landscape which characterizes the rural “Koinè” of the Hyblean plateau in South-Eastern Sicily. The essay analyses the main political-economic, social-territorial, constructive and typological features which make the dry walls network the landmark of the Ragusa province. Because of the modification of the economic-cultural context that produced it, the loss of knowledge of the construction techniques and the lack of public resources, the definition of an axiology of the contemporary landscape as premise for the establishment of adequate terms of value for the safeguard of this heritage is required.
Kinetic Solutions for Responsive and Communicative Building Skin
2018
Theskinof buildings represents the first level of communication between construction, man and environment. In this relationship, the concept of communication acquires different values, because it can be applied both to the architectural field in relation to the shape, and to the perceptive and communicative sphere, aimed to transmission of messages or even to the interaction of the architectural envelope with the user and the environment. This brings us back to the energy and sustainability aspects, since the primary role as a separation and filter layer of the building façades is that of shielding. The solution with a kinetic façade constitutes not only a possibility of climatic mediation …
Statistical properties of general Markov dynamical sources: applications to information theory
2004
In \textitDynamical sources in information theory: fundamental intervals and word prefixes, B. Vallée studies statistical properties of words generated by dynamical sources. This is done using generalized Ruelle operators. The aim of this article is to generalize sources for which the results hold. First, we avoid the use of Grotendieck theory and Fredholm determinants, this allows dynamical sources that cannot be extended to a complex disk or that are not analytic. Second, we consider Markov sources: the language generated by the source over an alphabet \textbfM is not necessarily \textbfM^*.