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Towards the Preservation and Dissemination of Historical Silk Weaving Techniques in the Digital Era
2019
Historical weaving techniques have evolved in time and space giving as result more or less fabrics with different aesthetical characteristics. These techniques were transferred along the main silk production centers, thanks to the European Silk Road and creating a common European Frame on themes and techniques. These had made it complicated to determine whether a fabric corresponds to one century or another. Moreover, in order to understand their creation, it is necessary to determine the number of weaves and interlacements that each textile has, therefore, mathematical models can be extracted from these layers. In this sense, three dimensional (3D) virtual representations of the internal s…
Documenting carved stones from 3D models. Part II - Ambient occlusion to reveal carved parts.
2021
10 pages; International audience; Revealing carved parts in rock art is of primary importance and remains a major challenge for archaeological documentation. Computational geometry applied to 3D imaging provides a unique opportunity to document rock art. This study evaluates five algorithms and derivatives used to compute ambient occlusion and sky visibility on 3D models of Mongolian stelae, also known as deer stones. By contrast with the previous companion work, models are processed directly in 3D, without preliminary projection. Volumetric obscurance gives the best results for the identification of carved figures. The effects of model resolution and parameters specific to ambient occlusio…
En viaje con los estudiantes por las ciudades del mundo
2023
The overall vision of the journeys made in over twenty years together with the students of the University of Palermo outlines an idea of the architecture of the world and returns a map of the cities of the world. The intent of the trips was aimed at the sensory experience of space and the understanding of modernity in particularly interesting contexts for experimenting with linguistic and constructive solutions of architecture, the knowledge of the world and the education of students to feel like citizens of the world. Traveling with the students was a way of proposing a didactic linked to the recognition of beauty (knowing that architecture must be sought and conquered) and to the educatio…
Digitization and Preservation of Cultural Heritage Products
2017
Cultural heritage encompasses various aspects of a nation's history. Cultural heritage artifacts are considered as priceless items that need special care. Since the wide adoption of new digital technologies, documenting and storing cultural heritage assets became more affordable and reliable. These records are then used in several applications. Researchers saw the opportunity to use digital heritage recordings for long-term preservation. They are considering cultural heritage artifacts as products, and the history behind them as a product lifecycle. In this paper, we present the research progress in cultural heritage digital processing and preservation, highlighting the most impactful advan…
New Technologies for Adaptive Architecture
2019
Since the 1980s, the bioclimatic architecture has had the historical merit of having raised public and experts’ awareness on the importance of designing buildings with the purpose of solving the problem of energy saving. Nowadays, in the light of the most recent energy strategies policies, in force on an international and European scale, codified in EC Directive 31/2010 concerning the implementation of the Nearly Zer-Energy Buildings (NZEB), (Deru et al. 2006), the need for a new approach to redevelopment that focuses on environmental, climate and energy objectives with innovative technological solutions emerges, aimed at optimizing the passive bioclimatic behaviour of a building. In the wo…
INNER AREAS
2022
Inner areas, as defned in the Italy’s National Strategy (SNAI), are part of the territory that plays a central role in the cultural and social fabric of our communities, are an essential component of our society, economy, and environment. However, they are still often neglected and overlooked, resulting in deterioration, abandonment, and social exclusion.For this reason, it is crucial that the felds of architecture, restoratio and architectural history and urban and territorial planning are committed to revitalizing and enhancing inner areas. These disciplines have the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to create sustainable and innovative solutions that can transform these territories …
Non muri sed mentes. Progettare, trasgredire e tutelare
2018
Due differenti esperienze di ricerca e di didattica hanno posto l’accento sul ruolo che il progetto di architettura può avere nella difesa del paesaggio agrario e di rilevanti aree archeologiche. Tali riflessioni hanno consentito la messa a fuoco di alcuni concetti che mostrano, forse con maggiore precisione, in che modo l’architettura riesca a fare emergere la parte resiliente dei luoghi e a interagire positivamente con la tutela del suolo. Quest’ultimo, per troppi anni, è stato visto – secondo un’ermeneutica errata del Movimento Moderno – come un sinonimo del piano cartesiano e, quindi, come una superficie omogenea ed isotropa, trasponendo in maniera ideologica l’invenzione di René Descar…
Dalla costruzione alla verità dello spazio
2020
Nel progetto di architettura si compie la riconciliazione tra realtà fisica e luogo, ovvero tra un contesto stratificato e molteplice ed un sistema ordinato e dotato di senso che ne esplicita una particolare declinazione estetica. Il progetto è lo strumento capace di governare il dualismo visibile/invisibile da cui scaturisce il movimento che procede dalla materialità della costruzione all’immaterialità dello spazio: la composizione dell’architettura, lungi dal pretendere di cristallizzare tale dinamica in forma, ne deve ricercare la rappresentazione più autentica. Ivi la tragedia della finitezza della forma e la speranza senza fine della vita si contrappongono e contemporaneamente si autor…
Conservare e raccontare / Preserving and telling,
2017
A partire dal progetto per il restauro e la valorizzazione dell'ex-chiesa di San Biagio a Cammarata (Agrigento), il saggio approfondisce una metodologia che intende il progetto come luogo di elaborazione per la riscoperta del senso dell’abitare. A fondamento del processo si collocano la lettura e l’interpretazione dello spazio esistente, per poi procedere verso l’attribuzione di senso (che a volte i luoghi hanno perduto o non hanno mai posseduto) e ad affermare la qualità responsabile del valore estetico ed etico dello spazio. Nello specifico, si riafferma il valore di un metodo che tende a svelare le qualità che il luogo o il manufatto già possiedono; che opera con misurati e semplici gest…
La necesidad de la teoría
2021
The need for theory is particularly necessary in our time, uncertain due to the crisis of foundations and knowledge for which architecture itself has become complex, full of contradictions, marked by infinite paths and sometimes unstable. The project cannot be entrusted to the contingencies of each case; creativity itself, daughter of intuition and chance, needs to be "worked" within the law, which is born from the mind and is built with logic so that the forms are appropriate and that everything is in the right place and to the extent. Especially in the Project Courses/Workshops of the first years, which constitute an "initiation" to the project, facing the theoretical moment is necessary …