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Ma-space/time
No full textMA: the natural distance between two or more things existing in a continuity" or "the space delineated by posts and screens (rooms) or the natural pause or interval between two or more phenomena occurring continuously. Thus the word MA does not describe the West's recognition of time and space as different serializations. Rather, in Japan, both time and space have been measured in terms of intervals. Originally, the ideogram for MA consisted of the pictorial sign for "moon" - not the present day "sun” - under the sign for "gate". This ideogram, depicts a delicate moment, when the moonlight streaming can be seen from the doorway. The aesthetics of the MA, translatable with the ambiguous terms of "break”, “between”, therefore indicates a portion of two-dimensional space, closed in the door, but also a portion of time, in which the moon appears, because, as noted by the same architect Arata Isozaki, "the space was perceived only in relation to the flow of time." The traditional Japanese concept of MA (literally space / time) is reflected in the Japanese culture, from building system to martial arts and the isometric representation of physical space, this provides a different way of reading the architecture and the landscape
AHFE 2021 Best Paper Award
No full textA growing trend in healthcare is the notion of Acuity-Adaptable care /Universal Care patient room that is compelling hospitals to abandon the traditional approach to care where patients are transferred from unit to unit in search of the proper level of care with negative effects on healthcare quality. This paper reviews key design elements that support the success of an Acuity-Adaptable care /Universal care patient room, in particular, focusing on design solutions that attempt to adapt the patient room to the pathology level through the position of the ‘life support system’; balancing technological complexities with the human dimension; improving the organization of the staff’ work through the decentralization nurse stations
Strategie per la flessibilità spaziale e tecnologica
No full textLa progettazione dello spazio abitativo, si confronta oggi, con un con- testo estremamente incerto, dominato da rapidi processi di obsolescenza funzio- nale e tecnologica dei modelli abitativi ereditati. Il progetto dello spazio abitativo dovrebbe in primis occuparsi dell'ottimizzazione del progetto rispetto alla durata dei sub-sistemi e alla capacità di contrastare i processi di obsolescenza, relativi sia all'uso di materiali e componenti pensati per fallire dopo il breve periodo, sia di modelli spaziali rigidi incapaci di adattarsi alla variabilità nel tempo delle esigenze del nucleo familiare. La ricerca indaga la flessibilità come un requisito fondamen- tale da incorporare nel ciclo di vita dell'abitazione, attraverso strategie che inci- dono sia sulla forma che sull'apparato tecnologico che governa la sua struttura
RESEARCH AGENDA FOR DESIGNING FLEXIBLE ARQUITECTURE TO HINDER THE FUNCTIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL OBSOLESCENCE
No full textTime, uncertainty, flexibility and resilience are the four sides of the same coin around
which this paper revolves. Hallmark of all complex systems is uncertainty, seen as the
lack of full knowledge of current or future evolution of a system. There are various
types and sources of uncertainty, but notably the incorrect knowledge of the
environment which operates it determines obsolescence technological and functional of
the system. Systems that have the longest life span, are able to cope with the
unpredictability of their contexts, rigid and unchanging systems have a shorter lifespan.
Uncertainty, traditionally seen as a negative aspect of the system, must therefore be
regarded as an opportunity, an incentive to design flexible systems able to absorb
changes in the environment in which they operate, in order to create added value for
users. The development of "Advanced" systems able to prevent that uncertainty
generates diseases, commonly referred to as "risks," this is not new, the selection
process of species of Darwin or the reflections on the life of capital goods of Terborgh,
have shown that there are living organisms, human artifacts or, resilient complex
systems, better equipped to adapt to changing environments compared to rigid systems
incapable of reacting to the change. In other words flexibility reduces the exposure of a
project uncertainty, provides a solution to mitigate the market risks and also the risks
associated with technological obsolescence, then it???s that property that makes the
system resilient able to absorb the shock and/or disturbance without undergoing major
alterations in its functional organization, in its structure and in its identity
characteristics. In the paper, the flexibility is therefore seen as a fundamental property
for designing a generally complex system, and particularly in architectural design,
through the identification of design criteria for the implementation of this requirement,
that influence on architecture (form more technology) of the system
FLEXIBILITY IN HOUSING DESIGN: NEW STRATEGIES TO HINDER THE FUNCTIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL OBSOLESCENCE
No full textOne of the main problems of the house that in recent decades have intertwined reflections design and theorical, but generally of all technological systems, is the risk of becoming technically or functionally obsolete. This is partly due to the fact that interventions on housing construction, oriented themselves toward the Optimal Point logic Design (OPD), which is to achieve a single goal, living in the more traditional sense of the term, thinning out therefore all the capabilities that are not required to comply with those specific features. As a result, once removed excess potentialities to improve the main goal of the system, this results rigid towards new tasks. It is obvious, that in the building sector, the inability to handle the uncertainty of social and economic context, the changing needs of users and environmental, tends to make the system obsolete and to reduce its useful life.
If flexibility is the ability of a system to be easily modified and to respond to changes in the environment in a timely and convenient, then the flexibility can be considered the antidote to obsolescence, or the characteristicof the system that guarantees slippage over time.
The paper provides a critical assessment in the implementation of the requirement of flexibility starting on four lines of action in which it is possible to classify projects which throughout history, have integrated the flexibility in the design of house: Spatial Flexibility with constant surface, spatial Flexibility evolutionary, technological Flexibility relating to construction techniques, technological Flexibility concerning the plant maintainability. The research therefore proposes the project strategies, cross- cutting to these four-way directions, aimed at ensuring the survival over time of the building, thanks to the ability to implement several cycles of use of body building, confront the ability to reconfigure the internal structure and intervene in a simplified way on the technological system that governs the space
Prospettive della logica e della filosofia della Scienza. Atti del Convegno Triennale della SILFS
No full textPer un archivio dei materiali da demolizione nei territori della ricostruzione / A repository of recovered materials from post-earthquake reconstruction areas
No full textFollowing the series of 'severe' seismic events that began in 2009, Italian legislation classified demolition debris as urban waste, despite Directive 200898EC calling for the reuse/recycling of 70% of all waste from human activities by 2020. This choice will produce a technical, cultural, environmental and economic impoverishment in territories already under heavy strain. Considering the convergence between the paradigms of the Circular Economy and Smartness, the essay identifies possible technological innovations for creating repositories of recovered materials. Collective activities and spatialities tied to processes of selection, reuse and recycling can generate forms of social-organisational-collective resilience required to confront the losses and damages suffered by a community
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