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Sistemi cibernetici per la ri-definizione dello spazio architettonico. Cedric Price e i laboratori del cambiamento
No full textThis paper investigates the introduction of the cybernetic approach in architecture, through the key-role of N.
Wiener, G. Pask and their influence on the projects of Cedric Price in the Sixties. The analysis of two of his most
representative projects, such as the Fun Palace and the Generator, aims to individuate the informatics influence
brought to the spatial composition. Furthermore, the article will clarify the visionary though of the British architect
concerning the impact of digital infrastructures on the prefiguration of the most recent responsive and interactive
approaches in architecture
Campus Asia “Cinema Paradise” 2021. “Above the clouds”: Un progetto temporaneo per la Valle di Bolognetta
No full textIn the frame of the international winter school organized by Campus Asia, the Valley of Bolognetta has been chosen by the LabCity Architecture group as the official site for an architectural competition. On the 30th anniversary of the Academy Award to Maestro Giuseppe Tornatore, Campus Asia promoted “Cinema Paradise” as main theme to design an architectural project that is envisioned as strictly connected to the people and to the environment. The project “Above the cloud”, presented by LabCity Architecture Team from the University of Palermo, joins nature and architecture through the design of a performative event
Schiavo F., Schiavo M. (a cura di, 2019). Lettere dall’America. 1930-1932, Torri del Vento Edizioni, Palermo
No full textSul carattere dell’architettura resiliente adattiva. Come la resilienza influenza il progetto degli ultimi trenta anni
No full textThe paper presents a doctoral research in Architecture which aims to address the relationship between adaptive resilient architecture and the compositional invariants of the project through the influence on the evolution and innovation of architectural characters. By referring to projects designed or built in the last thirty years, the
research has explored the spatial transformability of the building with respect to changing external climatic conditions.
The hypothesis lied wanted to affirm the possibility of reformulating the characters of adaptive and resilient architecture on two levels: by updating the Vitruvian triad and by exploring the possibility of naming a new triad
Towards a More-than-digital architecture
No full textThe transition from the Age of Information to the Digital Era has been a shifting paradigm from anonymous mass consumption to individual customization, that has today become the most common model in the society (Negroponte, 1995). Because of its attitude of translating the values that each society exploits with a time-and-space-specific point of view, architecture has incorporated the digital transition, or the so-called Second Digital turn, trying to adapt its methodology to an exclusively technologically-driven approach. The old dichotomies ‘architecture-science’ and ‘man-machine’ have become in the last decades more profound, especially with the introduction of AI and Generative Adversarial Network processes. The use of Big Data, together with these two semi-automatic approaches, has stressed the point of the influence of form-finding process -instead of the ‘problem-understanding’ and ‘question-asking’- in the com-position of the architectural design. The evolution of digital technologies seems to be going faster every day, whilst architecture has often passively absorbed the results carried out by the digital world (Carpo, 2017). Our homes are becoming so increasingly embedded and filled with Iot devices and elements that, architectural design may incorporate not just the technologies brought up by these devices, but the broader sense of digital diffuse networks that allow defining a relationship with them (Ratti, 2016). From the micro-scale of the technological components to the macro-level of the city (or the infrastructure), passing by the scale of the building, a project that is able to adapt to the needs of its users and that can collaborate with them, will explore the potentiality of a newer way to conceive the mingling of architecture and techno-science in the whole design com-position process
Cose dell'altro mondo
No full textEmigrato negli anni Trenta da Palermo in America, Ferdinando Sesti Lojacono fu corrispondente del Giornale di Sicilia con la rubrica "Lettere dall'America". A quasi cento anni di distanza, il volume curato da Flavia e Maurizio Schiavo consegna ai lettori una serie sorprendente di scritti sofisticati, ironici e profondi, che mettono in prospettiva nuove forze economiche, trasformazioni sociali e urbane, modi di abitare, mestieri e desideri. Cose dell'altro mondo, attraverso le quali situare in una prospettiva leggermente più ampia altri celebri racconti europei dell’America, da Le Corbusier a Baudrillard, sino alle narrazioni più recenti che utilizzano New York come metafora eterna di desideri da attuare attraverso la trasformazione dello spazio che abitiamo
FLUX CITY HOUSE: re-immaginare il futuro di Manhattan. La centralità del programma nel progetto di New York 2030-2050-2100
No full textIn the future, architecture and the city will no longer be a place, but a condition of co-transformative and shared sustainability. In the era of increasing global warming, ecological and energy transition, architecture creates a new balance through the project, at the intertwining of multiple of many fields of knowledge. Sustainability will lead to new perspectives of urban regeneration, as social perspective and a new way of living, consuming and producing, in a broad reverberation of innovations on the ethical and political level of the relationship with societies.
Within this frame, the project Flux-city House, winner of the first prize at the “SUAE Asia Winter School Campus: SoHo rezoning, NYC 2022”, suggests a critique of the New York City Municipality Plan (2021) for the Manhattan district. In contrast to the proposed excessive densification in height and the absence of innovative functional programmes, both for the buildings and for the urban landscape, the project sugests a strong symbolic value to the future of the SoHo neighbourhood, introducing a new, adaptable and flexible architectural type, oriented towards a profound modification of the city's ways of living. The building incorporates energy production and intensive hydroponic agriculture to the residential and service functions, and is declined on the three-time horizons 2030, 2050 and 2100
International distance learning design experiences. Above the clouds, a project for a temporary event in the Bolognetta valley
No full textThe health emergency due to the spread of COVID-19 has required a methodological and technological adaptation to the entire world of teaching and researching, in order to define in a brief time new methods for designing and teaching. In consideration of this, Campus Asia1 decided to organize one of the key events of its educational offer in a distance learning form, an international winter school with overn eighty participants and five international guest universities. Together with Kyushu University (China), Tongji University (Japan) and Pusan National University (South Korea), the edition held between 15 and 26 February 2021 saw the participation of two European partner universities, the Università degli Studi di Palermo2 and the Vienna University of Technology (Austria)
Above The Clouds: LabCity_Architecture
Full text linkThe Winter Workshop “Cinema Paradise CAMPUS_Asia: SUAE_Asia 2021” brought to the attention of 14 teams and 5 Universities the challenge of contemporary architectural design in relation to a site of great naturalistic importance. In fact, the Bolognetta Valley, and in particular the location of the cave and the San Nicola waterfall, are located in the Sicilian hinterland, not far from the city of Palermo, in a context-free from the human presence.
Here it is strong the necessity to find a design approach that can constitute a mediation between the built and the natural elements. The presence of the Milicia river then is also central to the whole understanding of the site, due to the restriction caused by the presence of the two promontories of Monte Torretta and Pizzo Cicero that allow the formation of natural waterfalls. The project presented by the LabCity Architecture Team aims to find a definition of this place, starting from its potentialities and proposing fun and experiential activities for enhancing and enjoying
the site
Living the transition in the inner areas of Sicily. Valledolmo 2030: Summer School Workshop Campus Asia 2023
No full textThe energy, ecological and digital transition is strongly emerging in the European cultural and social landscape, influencing local practices and policies, and redefining some of the architectural design’s themes. Within this frame, the paper focuses on the theme of transition through the continuity of the research-action by LabCity Architecture (DARCH-UNIPA) in synergy with the Municipality of Valledolmo, fitting into a broader program of transformation of the Minor Centers within the territories included in the Trasversale Sicula.
Addressing the topic of housing transition in the Minor Centers in Sicily allows to deepen the specific issues of temporary housing, in order to develop modalities, methodologies and design approaches through the experimentation of Social Housing Community, a new way of thinking about the dwelling within the idea of a social and changing community. This kind of innovative urban project aims to improve and enhance the existing material and cultural heritage, along with public space. By contributing to the definition of new ways of living that can support ecological and energy transition, the projects elaborated combine open space- layouts together with residences, for a renewed community, as to accommodate migrant families, self-sufficient elderly people, and young returning graduates to live temporarily in Valledolmo
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