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“Inclusive Design for the conservation of built heritage: two examples in Matera, Italy”
Full text linkAs the future of residential architecture should include the restoration and re-use of inherited buildings and parts of cities, it seems necessary to develop more specific design and construction guidelines which assist the selection of the best option while ensuring that a balance of technical and cultural characteristics of the built heritage will be achieved in the process of its conservation and transformation.
In other words, there is a need to ensure that the rehabilitation project provides a balanced synthesis of the dichotomy between conservation, transformation and use. The design should meet the needs of an appropriate new function, which is compatible with the historical and technological characteristics of the built heritage, and the requirements of the current life style.
Therefore, it is evident that the central problem is the question of the heritage usability which can be addressed by developing an approach for comparing different design solutions in order to select the design which provides an inclusive environment. The aim is to provide an inclusive environment for “different people, social inclusion and equality” (Stockholm Declaration - 9 May 2004).
The above methodological approach has been tested on two recent interventions, Locanda di S.Martino and Hotel S.Angelo in Matera, different but at the same time similar in form and architectural features. The case studies have enabled the confirmation of the proposed method, demonstrating that the design of an inclusive environment guarantees the conservation of the heritage
“Knowledge development to improve the performance of the rehabilitated traditional architecture. The case of “Sassi di Matera”
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Quality is the ability of a building structure to meet the functional requirements. It is measured by identifying the level of performance of building components in relation to the requirements which have guided building concept, design and construction. Quality is not measured against an absolute set of criteria but in relation to the project objectives.
Flexibility is one amongst the fundamental criteria for defining quality. It is the intrinsic potential of any product to adapt to technical, technological and functional changes whilst meeting performance requirements. The need for flexibility leads to a different methodological approach in the design of new buildings and the rehabilitation of built heritage. In the case of the built heritage, the objective is “future proofing” through an appropriate re-use that goes beyond the concept of pure conservation towards planning for potential changes of the heritage use or its building services in the future.
This approach has been used in the conservation and re-use of the ancient Sassi neighbourhoods of cave dwellings in Matera, Italy. The criteria for assessing their architectural, technical and technological components which should be safeguarded have been developed, taking into consideration the required performances for new uses. The types of appropriate new uses of Sassi have also been recommended. The compatibility and suitability of the interventions undertaken in Sassi have been established by using the above mentioned criteria.
The methodological approach included the development of criteria for safeguarding the heritage values and planning adaptive re-use. The criteria can be considered as a knowledge base developed with the aim to ensure the usability of Sassi through improved performance. The appropriateness of the criteria has been verified through their experimental application on two Sassi neighbourhoods which have been converted into flexible spaces whilst the typology and the morphological-environmental equilibrium of the historical context have been preserved. This methodological approach enables an integral conservation of the historical built heritage by providing flexibility for technological and functional changes in the future, whilst ensuring the preservation of its cultural, historical and architectural values
Reinforced Concrete Condition Assessment in Heritage Buildings : The Lion Chambers (Glasgow, UK) and The Theatre E. Duni (Matera, Italy)
Full text linkThis small book discusses the use of the 'SonReb' method to asses the condition of reinforced concrete in two outstanding 20th century buidling: The Lion Chambers, Glasgow, UK and the Cine Teatro Duni in Matera, Italy
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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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