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Urban Circular Metabolism as a Generator of Value and Resilient Communities. Creative Recycling of Industrial Architecture: The Case of Nordkraft (Aa…
2022
Aalborg has modified its urban metabolism to overcome the economic-industrial crisis and tackle climate change. The city, however, has not changed its DNA. Without distorting its identity as an industrial city, it has been able to respond to new and unpredictable needs through a process of architectural and urban exaptation. Nordktraft is a significant part of this regeneration process based on sustainability, both from an environmental and socio-cultural point of view, with a vision that is particularly focused on physical health and the growth of the relational life of the population. The vision that inspired the Nordkraft project is that diversity is the most powerful factor fueling resi…
Session details: Data for good - disaster response and resilience
2018
Investigating the Impact of Radiation-Induced Soft Errors on the Reliability of Approximate Computing Systems
2020
International audience; Approximate Computing (AxC) is a well-known paradigm able to reduce the computational and power overheads of a multitude of applications, at the cost of a decreased accuracy. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be particularly suited for AxC because of their inherent resilience to errors. However, the implementation of AxC techniques may affect the intrinsic resilience of the application to errors induced by Single Events in a harsh environment. This work introduces an experimental study of the impact of neutron irradiation on approximate computing techniques applied on the data representation of a CNN.
Color degradation mapping of rock art paintings using microfading spectrometry
2021
[EN] Rock art documentation is a complex task that should be carried out in a complete, rigorous and exhaustive way, in order to take particular actions that allow stakeholders to preserve the archaeological sites under constant deterioration. The pigments used in prehistoric paintings present high light sensitivity and rigorous scientific color degradation mapping is not usually undertaken in overall archaeological sites. Microfading spectrometry is a suitable technique for determining the light-stability of pigments found in rock art paintings in a non-destructive way. Spectral data can be transformed into colorimetric information following the recommendations published by the Commission …
Patrimonio Architettonico: progetto, qualità e buone prassi
2016
La SITdA, società scientifica che dal 2007 raccoglie i ricercatori italiani di Tecnologia dell’Architettura, nel 2012 ha avviato alcuni “Cluster”, per far convergere l’interesse su precise tematiche in modo più riconoscibile. In tale ambito, l’A. ha proposto l’attivazione del “Cluster SITdA Patrimonio Architettonico”, di cui è coordinatore protempore e di cui ha curato la relativa sezione nel volume che ha fatto seguito alla presentazione avvenuta presso la MadeExpo 2015 a Milano (redazione del saggio introduttivo, coordinamento dei contributi di giovani ricercatori e di qualificati stakeholders). Tale volume, edito in una collana con comitato scientifico, contiene testi in italiano con tra…
Adaptation vs fragility, rule vs exception: antinomies of the architectural heritage
2019
The positive meaning of the concept of resilience has actually been intensified, moving from the materials science (where it indicates the property of a material to absorb impacts without breaking), to psychology (where it indicates the capacity of individuals to face and get over traumas and difficulties). In the evolutionary vision, the ability of an organism to adapt to environmental mutations is a condition for survival. Similarly, in the technological field, the capacity of changing state, i.e. flexibility, is a system’s feature that permits its adaptive transformations, by increasing at the same time its performance standards. The positive meaning is also recognized when applied to na…
Scenarios of Climatic Resilience, Economic Feasibility and Environmental Sustainability for the Refurbishment of the Early 20th Century Buildings
2019
This paper aims to examine the theme of energy retrofit within the circumscribed field of refurbishment interventions on load-bearing masonry buildings built in the early 20th century. These include a remarkable share of the fabric of many European cities and, in particular, they can be found in geographical areas characterized by a Mediterranean (mild) climate. The main objective is to increase the climate resilience of the buildings by verifying the economic feasibility and the environmental sustainability of the interventions at the same time observing the specific architectural features of the buildings. We put forward alternative retrofit solutions carrying out synoptic comparisons of …
Computing methods for resilience: evaluating new building components in the frame of SECAPs
2019
Resilience represents a new important feature that the anthropic systems, and cities among them, are called to cope with. In fact, the increasing negative stresses to which urban contexts are exposed, and mainly the climatic pressures, call for the capability of adapting to these modifications and, possibly, to restore the ex-ante situations. The role of the buildings and their envelope components is of crucial importance to this aim. This paper analyses the features of resilience of the roofs of buildings by means of proper quantitative indexes. On purpose, the performances of green and cool roofs are compared. The possibility of adopting nonstructural solutions, like the windows shading d…
Architecture et communauté italienne en Tunisie pendant les vingt ans du fascisme
2011
Segmentato in cicli formalmente eterogenei, e però omologabili in base al comune denominatore della facies mediterranea, il filone delle architetture costruite negli anni Trenta dagli italiani a Tunisi, a Biserta, a Sousse, a Sfax e a Ferryville si mostra, dunque, principalmente tributario dei modi Déco della costa meridionale della Francia (con apprezzabili riferimenti all’edilizia coeva di Marsiglia e di Nizza). Succede pure che questo generale orientamento, limitatamente ad una ridotta aliquota di esempi di architetture ideate con maggiore respiro culturale, possa contemplare mediazioni con le espressioni più innovative di quella modernità accademizzante che nella Parigi di quegli anni a…
Nella leggerezza dell'artificio
2009
Il saggio è inserito nel supplemento della rivista Sicilia Foreste "Architettura per l'accoglienza". Indaga il rapporto tra Architettura e Natura attraverso una riflessione sul progetto. Esso consente l'esercizio della "misura" con la quale è possibile ricercare la coerenza dei linguaggi e l'autenticità dell'artificio.