611 research outputs found
Raccordare Napoli con una linea obliqua: il segno che inventò l’idea
No full textLa città obliqua is a pilot project conceived in the 1980s by a Neapolitan architect, Michele Cennamo, an urban planner with a passion for music and for Naples. The project offered the community a structured and organic development program, supported by in-depth surveys and a census of forgotten urban pieces. La città obliqua took on an iconic value, reflecting a cultural trend that was developing at the time in the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Naples, anticipated, in a futuristic dimension, an idea that is still the subject of debate in scientific and social contexts
Tradurre il discorso istituzionale pubblico: una riflessione sulla traduzione come mediazione interculturale
No full textAdvances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture
No full textAt a time dominated by the disappearance of Future, as claimed by the French anthropologist Marc Augé, Utopia and Religion seem to be two different ways of giving back an inner horizon to mankind.
Therefore this book, on the one hand, considers the importance of utopia as a tool and how it offers an economic and social resource to improve cities’ wealth, future and livability. On the other, it explores the impact of religious and cultural ideals on cities that have recently emerged in this context.
Based on numerous observations, the book examines the intellectual legacy of utopian theory and practices across various academic disciplines. It also presents discussions, theories, and case studies addressing a range of issues and topics related to utopia
Structural failures due to anthropogenic sinkholes in the urban area of Naples and the effect of a frp retrofitting
No full textThis work is about the hypothesis of structural health monitoring of architectural heritage in masonry exposed to collapse risk in the city of Naples. We analyze the collapse mechanisms in static terms relating the planimetric layout of the underground cavities of Naples with some recent collapses of structures that occurred in the city. The present work focuses on the relationship between these collapses and the presence of underground cavities. Constructions in masonry, contrary to common opinion, are structures that provide comparatively level of safety depending on to the strength of materials and construction techniques adopted, together with the fact that they are able to settle and to find a new equilibrium configuration; in other words they embody the prototype of resilient structures. The main critical issue able to put in crisis a huge masonry building is the subsoil subsidence. In fact, the structure reaches the collapse for the creation of cavities or chasms under it, which literally remove the support surface of its foundation. In particular, the present work aims to analyze the collapse of two buildings of the Department of Veterinary Medicine of Federico II, that occurred in Naples last December and, starting from a real case of the collapse of a masonry building, the research aims to correlate this collapse with one of the cavities present in the subsoil of Naples and evaluate the possibility that the cause of the collapse to be related the corresponding cavity (or to a newly formed) situated below a corner of the building. The effect of a possible retrofitting intervention, consisting in three FRP strips glued to the surface of the structure, is also considered
ABOUT THE OPTIMAL DESIGN OF ISOLATION SYSTEMS FOR ELASTIC STRUCTURES SUBJECT TO SEISMIC ACTION
No full textTHE 2ND EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON STRUCTURAL CONTRO
Robustness-Oriented Design of a Panel-Based Shelter System in Critical Sites
No full textThis paper deals with the design and off-site construction of particular buildings for critical and emergency situations (e.g., natural disasters such as hurricanes, landslides, floods, and earthquakes; war sites; and desert areas), in which challenging requirements have to be fulfilled. The panel-based system of the ES-KO corporation, which is a major player in this particular market, is described from both the architectural and the engineering points of view. Beyond the classical advantages of off-site systems (e.g., lightness and ease of assembly, speed of construction, transportation, and modularity), specific capacity-design rules can provide high standards of safety durability and structural robustness. Many of these rules can be found in nature, such as exoskeletons, parallelization, redundancy, and compartmentalization. These design issues are suited to particular situations, such as settlements, strong wind, earthquakes, and explosions, because they exploit particular strategies not commonly envisaged in structural design. Moreover, durability ensures the possibility of reusing the modules in different places, reducing the environmental footprint and costs. After describing the architectural modular design of panel-based buildings, which is itself oriented to raise structural performance, an overview of the modern robustness-oriented structural design philosophy is put forward, and its application to ES-KO panels is briefly outlined
Risposta sismica di strutture non lineari sottoposte agli accelerogrammi di progetto compatibili con la OPCM 3431
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Genetic and ultrasound study of abnormalities of the optic nerve head.
No full texthe authors, after reviewing the literature, particularly the classification of optic nerve-head abnormalities, describe several clinical cases dealing especially with the notable diagnostic possibilities of ultrasound examination
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