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Social housing in Venice. The Giudecca housing estate by Gino Valle (1980-1986) and the challenges of change
No full textIn Venice in Italy, a multi-layered city with unique features, Gino Valle and Giorgio Macola built a social housing complex on Giudecca Island. It is a complex with a clear and compact shape, organised by transverse bands in harmony with the principle of development of the whole island. Rejecting the aggregative and typological schemes that the legislation of the time provided for public housing, Gino Valle designed a very rich range of typological variants with layouts based on three principles: individual access, vertical organisation of the homes around a courtyard (duplex and triplex units) and views over the lagoon. Module, type, grid, and repetition were design tools to generate a sophisticated and controlled system of variations with a “familiar” character to infuse the inhabitant with a deep sense of identification with the place. The paper seeks to bring out the importance of preserving the residential character of this social housing district within the social and economic dynamics on an urban scale of a city besieged by mass tourism leading to the depopulation of the lagoon and closure of commercial activities for residents, transforming the city into a sort of “amusement park”. While in the 1980s this neighbourhood was mainly populated by families, it is now made up of the elderly and single individuals, despite urban policies to favour young families. Unless controlled, they may lead to the transformation and even loss of an important masterpiece of Italian architecture of the late 20th century
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Construction Site of Prototypes of Binishells. From Innovation to Abandonment
No full textDuring nineteen fifties and sixties structural research, particularly into thin concrete
shells achieved results that are still unsurpassed. New materials, techniques and
methods of construction supported this typological and expressive innovation
characterized by a synthesis between structure and architectural expression. All
these researches adopted a highly pragmatic approach to the industrialization of
construction systems and optimal use of materials. This paper intends to investigate
the case of a construction site of prototypes realized between 1965 and 1967 by Dante
Bini in San Cesario sul Panaro near Modena in Italy. After the construction of the first
real scale prototypes of concrete thin shells in Crespellano, Pegola and Abano Terme,
Dante Bini tested his patents in this place called “Mushroom Field” by Mario Salvadori.
He built more than 10 concrete shells where he tested different patents of Binishells
system which will be used for thousands concrete shells all over the world. During
1990s the prototype site was turned into a dump and now it is a state of serious
abandonment. Even the local community has lost memory of the meanings of this
place that represents the innovation and experimentation of the Binishell systems (mix
designed, rebars, types of concrete, insulation, forms) and his research in the field of
industrialization of the construction process with pneumatic formworks. Highlighting
the values and meanings of these structures is the first step to avoid their loss and
demolition
Local estrogens for quality of life and sexuality in postmenopausal women with cardiovascular disease.
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Tanatogogia come sostegno a chi assiste il morente: risultati di una ricerca sperimentale policentrica
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