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Suomi Seven. Architetti emergenti in Finlandia
No full text“Finland Cool”, questo è lo slogan scelto dal Paese scandinavo, ospite principale della Fiera del Libro di Francoforte del 2014, ad affermarne, o meglio a ribadirne, la capacità di essere una nazione al passo coi tempi, dal volto giovane e dinamico. È per questo che per la mostra “Suomi Seven”, contenuta al suo interno, sono stati selezionati sette studi emergenti nel settore dell’architettura, di età media inferiore ai quarant’anni. La scelta di proporre alla prestigiosa manifestazione tedesca questa “meglio gioventù” è in linea con l’attenzione che da sempre è riposta in Finlandia alla formazione dei giovani architetti, cui sono riservate numerose possibilità di crescita e affermazione professionale, su tutte l’istituto del concorso. Il concorso viene percepito come luogo privilegiato per lo sviluppo di idee e proposte progettuali, in grado di stimolare il dibattito architettonico attraverso la partecipazione diretta o mediata di una pluralità di protagonisti. L’articolo vuole pertanto ripercorrere quali scenari architettonici è possibile tracciare dalla selezione svolta dagli organizzatori della mostra
LOW-COST 4D BIM MODELLING: A COMPARISON BETWEEN FREECAD AND COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE
Get PDFThe paper aims to investigate the potential inherent in a FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) approach for the 4D BIM modelling using Freecad. In order to reach this goal it shows a comparison of Freecad features with those of commercial software, considering the evaluation of the effective application of this Open Source software in the professional environment, and highlighting the progress in the FOSS BIM area, that still represents an unexplored study field if compared to the vast publications related to BIM modelling that occurred in the last two decades. To this end, the study has been carried out on a singular case study, a steel canopy which has been designed for the urban renewal of a public space in Teramo. Despite its size, the canopy required the definition of complex details. Its structural system has addressed the study to compare Freecad with some software dedicated to steel structures or particularly suitable for the modelling of this specific structural typology: Tekla Structures and Sketchup. Starting from a concise historical reconstruction of the FOSS spread, the paper introduces a brief overview of the potential of Freecad in terms of BIM modelling - also proposing an operational modality to facilitate the drawing of BIM elements within the software - and finally reaching to the examination of three simulations which has been carried. This comparison can be useful to establish the current state of development of Freecad in the field of 4D BIM
HBIM AND THE 20TH CENTURY STEEL BUILDING HERITAGE. A PROCEDURE SUITABLE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION HISTORY IN ITALY
Get PDFThe use of steel technologies in Italian architecture still represents an unexplored field of research, characterised by limited and
fragmented episodes that reveal important design experimentations and relevant architectural results of the 20th century. For this
reason, the aim of the research consists of defining a HBIM methodological approach addressed to the study of modern steel
architectures, considering their specific features and their hybrid constructive nature. Indeed these buildings are often characterized by a high level of industrial production of building components merged with the recovery of a craftsmanship tradition, particularly appearing at the scale of structure and envelope details. The balance between standardization and traditional techniques in production processes, leads to the definition of a HBIM method composed of three steps: an operational tools for existing buildings of 20th century made of steel that could support the construction of building digital archives, the organisation of maintenance programs and possible transformative actions, avoiding the loss of this heritage sometimes caused by bad interventions that deeply change original and valuable features of these architectures
The factory for workers. Olivetti in Spain
No full textAdriano Olivetti, the “Italian Rathenau”, was the author of an ambitious industrial plan that had no equals in the productive scenario of the country, managing to balance between the scientific organization of the work, proposed by the models of Fordism and Taylorism, and the social issues that focused primarily on the working class conditions. A new conception of production spaces, an original configuration for the underdeveloped Italian context, was crucial for the fulfilment of Adriano’s plan: he conceived a factory as a cosy place which was able to accommodate the arrangement of new assembly lines, experimented by the company located in Ivrea near Turin, and to guarantee at the same time comfortable and suitable spaces for the workers. With a view to subverting the mechanistic alienation induced by the Taylorism, well stigmatized by Chaplin in his movie “Modern Times”, Adriano assigned a key role to architecture and in particular to the proposals of Modern Movement, that could support the conception and the development of a new form of factory.
These are the reasons that led to the construction of the new complex in Ivrea designed by Figini and Pollini in the early 1930s, followed by other realisations a few years later, like the big factory in Barcelona, designed by Italo Lauro and Josep Soteras i Mauri. The Spanish industries, built for the new company branch Hispano Olivetti, were innovative buildings, designed with environmental parameters and equipped not only with systems and work spaces, but also with canteens, sport facilities and other services for workers, that certainly improve their work-life in this urban microcosm. The same arrangement was followed for the other industries involved in the great expansion plan directed by Adriano Olivetti that led to the construction of several factories beyond the borders of Italy, like the industries built in Argentina and Brasil after the second world war with the projects of Marco Zanuso.
The contribution retraces the history of Hispano Olivetti, trying to focus on the differences and the similarities between Italian and Spanish factories built by the Piedmontese company, in order to understand how corporate policies inspired and guided the project of meaningful modern architectures, developed far from the well-known epicentres of the Modern Movement, but still used nowadays in their cities, after the abandonment and the reconversion of the buildings due to the intense downsizing of the company in 1990s
Riuso tra antico e moderno. Dalla trasformazione di Palazzo Ardinghelli al ripristino della Colonia Montana a Roio
No full textThe reconstruction of L’Aquila is an outstanding issue, rather than a long-awaited conclusion. Therefore it seems untimely to propose a detailed report on the outcomes reached up to now; however, reasoning about what happened, could be useful to understand the dynamics that have characterized the rebuilding phase. The events of almost ten years are iconic representations of a technological and building scenario that has been often addressed only to reasons of building seismic reinforcement, mainly marked by the uncritical use of intervention measures and materials, which despite their ostensible innovation and conformity to building regulations, have not triggered an incisive reflection concerning the “unwritten” congruence principles of architectural restoration. The few proposals, that have tried to take a position against this trend, seem to be more meaningful than others, accepting the design challenge arranged to achieve a better and more rational reorganization of spaces, to reconfigure spatial and functional layouts, according to fitting and updating logics. Among them, the experimental design dealt by some professors of the University of L'Aquila open to an "other" path, based on a methodological approach to functional refurbishment, which is suitable both to interventions on the antique and modern architectures. They are organized on univocal operating phases defining adaptive and resilient strategies in relation to different conditions of the operational and technique context. The paper proposes two case studies: the Palazzo Ardinghelli, and the summer holiday camp “Colonia elioterapica” in Roio, near L’Aquila. In these re-use projects, the space-functional reconfiguration chooses different intervention strategies: in the case of the antique they are based on adaptive logic, which are open and updatable according to different needs of use; in the case of the modern architecture they are connected to a re-proposal of their own logic, in order to reconstruct consistent and compatible ways of use. According to guidelines provided by different clients, the interventions on the eighteenth-century architecture concern single parts in the perspective of a controlled and balanced transformation of the building, while the choice of full preservation of the building for the summer holiday camp entails the inclusion of underground additions. From this point of view chosen strategies would seem to contradict current restoration practices, but they find an intrinsic congruence in the methodological assumptions which have been assumed as a basis for reuse interventions
Declinazione della leggerezza dalla tradizione alla contemporaneità: le cupole a struttura metallica in Italia
No full textIl contributo propone una riflessione sull’evoluzione tecnica delle cupole in Italia, a seguito dell’introduzione dello scheletro metallico. A partire dall’Ottocento l’aspetto tradizionale di questo particolare elemento di copertura muta infatti, a favore di nuovi caratteri distintivi che declinano i temi della trasparenza e della leggerezza, come evidente in alcune realizzazioni tra cui i teatri palermitani Massimo e Politeama e le gallerie Vittorio Emanuele II e Umberto I, rispettivamente a Milano e Napoli. Se la cupola metallica ottocentesca ricorre alla ghisa e, solo per alcuni elementi, al ferro, reiterando schemi statici della tradizione, la volontà di sfruttare le proprietà dell’acciaio, apre nel secondo Novecento all’introduzione di sistemi resistenti di nuova concezione e avvia una sperimentazione tecnologica che approda ad esperienze significative, - quali il Palasport di Genova, la Bolla sul Lingotto di Torino e la Biosfera sul porto genovese - punto di svolta che apre a nuove sfide raccolte dalle cupole del terzo millennio, improntate alla ricerca di una complessità morfologica esasperata e di una flessibilità tecnologica, perseguita mediante le potenzialità dei sistemi di produzione contemporanei
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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