23 research outputs found
Destiny (not Allegory): Re-Designing Samonà’s Mediterranean : An (im)Possible Mapping between the ‘Masserìa’ and the House
No full textThe world of Giuseppe Samonà is a world of profound destinies, of furrows that mark the surface of the island in order to move along the marine routes of the Mediterranean and arrive to distant places. Palermo, Naples and Venice thus seem connected by an invisible trace that links childhood gazes to his academic and professional activities. The link between historical imaginary and geographic imaginary finds an echo in the world of the invisible and of architectural composition. A world of forms that clashes with a precise construction of the landscape as succession of thresholds and remembrances, of architectural memories.
In this system the space of the house, the domestic space, is recomposed as fragment and relation of the ancient Sicilian masserìe whose images and mappings persist intact in an elitarian and spiritual organism of compositional relationships. The traces unearthed by the author re-initiate an interrupted dialogue with the Sicilian territory, involving an archetypal adaptation that invests Mediterranean and Atlantic relationships in the re-founding of spatial hierarchies.
The article is to be understood as an exploratory document which, based on “provocation” as analytic tool, leads to a possible spacial codification. A device that plays with the role of the image and of construction as premises for a narrative of the architectural project
Habitaciones : Aldo Rossi y la casa en Ghiffa: símbolo, polvo y deseo = Rooms : Aldo Rossi and the house in Ghiffa: symbol, dust and desire
No full textAlong the road that runs along the coast of Lake Maggiore, beyond Verbania in the direction of the border, stands a small house which once belonged to Aldo Rossi. A house for resting after his long trips to the United States and Japan. A world has disappeared. The sequence of images that correspond to the passage of every threshold gather fragments of a precise genesis, a sequence of times and narratives taken from objects, colours and clocks. It is the dream of a lost villa, of something that has already become a myth among the faded Polaroids and the black and white photographs found in archives. Where have all the colours gone, the memories, the objects, their dust? Buried figures which re-emerge in a construction of film frames which alternate between memory and architecture, in that place – Ghiffa – which was the beginning and end in the life of an author
Knowledge of urban space through saliency maps and space syntax tools. Experimentation on historic center of Rieti
No full textThe 60s of the last century were characterized by a great cultural ferment on the theme of urban space and its transformations resulting from conurbation. The political, social, economic, and environmental implications of this phenomenon were notable, to which we attempted to give both a cultural and scientific response. An important aspect concerned the need to govern urban and territorial transformations, guaranteeing the quality of urban space but, at the same time, safeguarding the memory of the historic centers which, precisely in those years, were undergoing the strong pressure of conurbation dynamics. One of the key studies is undoubtedly The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch from 1960 in which the author analyzes the role of environmental images in the perception of the city and its space. These studies are followed by other equally famous contributions (Cullen, 1961; Rossi, 1966; Norberg-Schulz, 1979) which, by exploring the mechanisms of the individual’s perception of the environment, have given rise to a vast literature in the international field. Experiments in which the authors deal with urban reality, with its experience and the history of the traditional city in an attempt to develop codes to interpret and evaluate not only the characteristics of the physical city, but to look at urban spaces as spaces of relation. Subsequent studies were started from the theories developed by Lynch and Cullen which define different methodologies for analyzing the urban landscape, to support the planning of new interventions and the transformation of pre-existing urban areas. Between the 70s and 80s, a group of researchers from University College London laid the foundations of what is now defined as spatial syntax, also known as configurational theory, applied to studies and analyses of urban space
La biblioteca civica di Padova tra Ottocento e Novecento: da Andrea Gloria a Andrea Moschetti
No full textThe thesis explores the history of the Civic Library of Padua, highlighting its close connection with the Civic Museum and other related sections. The author emphasizes how this relationship has influenced the evolution and naming of the library over time.
The text places the origins of the Museum in the Restoration period, contextualizing its birth within the historical events of Padua after the fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797. It describes the succession of political regimes, culminating in Austrian domination from 1814 and annexation to the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, until the liberation of Padua and its union with the Kingdom of Italy in 1866.
The Museum, officially established in 1858, followed the model of other Venetian institutions, with a tripartite structure comprising Archive, Library, and Artistic and Archaeological Collections. In 1865, the Bottacin Museum of numismatics and medals was added.
The abstract highlights the crucial role of Andrea Gloria, the first director, in developing the Museum during the Austrian period. After Italian unification, the institute strengthened its identity as a guardian of civic memories, despite some difficulties due to the rapid growth of collections.
Finally, it mentions the significant contribution of Andrea Moschetti, director for over 40 years in the first half of the 20th century, who brought the Museum to great fame and development, overcoming the challenges of the First World War
Comme des œuvres musicales
No full textNos conversations sont orchestrées comme des œuvres musicales Chambre sourde, enregistrement de deux locuteurs. Jean-Claude Moschetti/CNRS, Author provided Roxane Bertrand, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) et Noël Nguyen, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) Que l’on soit au travail, entre amis ou en famille, en face à face ou au téléphone, la conversation orale est au cœur de notre vie sociale. Si la communication écrite connaît un essor considérable à l’heure d’Internet, des smartpho..
Is Internet addiction a psychopathological condition distinct from pathological gambling?
No full textAims: The behavioural-addiction perspective suggests that Internet addiction (IA) and pathological gambling (PG) could share similar characteristics with substance dependence. Despite the similarities between IA and PG, it is not clear whether these disorders share different or similar psychopathological conditions. The aim of the present study was to test whether IA patients presented different psychological symptoms, temperamental traits, coping strategies and relational patterns compared with PG patients. The hypothesis was that IA patients will show greater interpersonal disengagement than PG patients. Methods: Two clinical groups (31 IA patients and 11 PG patients) and a control group (38 healthy subjects) matched with the clinical groups for gender and age were enrolled. The clinical groups were gathered in a psychiatric service for IA and PG in a hospital. Anxiety, depression, coping strategies, attachment, temperament, and global assessment of functioning were measured. MANOVAs. ANOVAs and post-hoc comparisons were carried out in order to test the hypothesis. Results: Despite IA and PG showing similar differences with the control group on the levels of depression, anxiety and global functioning, the two clinical groups showed different temperamental, coping and social patterns. Specifically IA patients compared with the PG patients showed a greater mental and behavioural disengagement associated with an important interpersonal impairment The two clinical groups shared an impulsive coping strategy and socio-emotional impairments. Conclusions: Despite IA and PG patients presenting similar clinical symptoms, IA condition was characterised by a more relevant mental, behavioural, and social disengagement compared to PG condition. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Sustainable Business Models for Deep Energy Retrofitting of Buildings: State-of-the-art and Methodological Approach
No full textAbstractThe achievement of the sustainability goals within the building sector involves the adoption of sustainable business models (SBMs) and energy efficiency measures. On one side, traditional business models (BM s), aiming to express the business logic of firms, need to incorporate the triple bottom line, by embracing the economic, environmental and social dimensions. On the other side, the implementation of energy efficiency measures might occur through deep energy retrofits on buildings, considering their significant contribution to the decrease of greenhouse gas emissions and energy use. The measures of energy refurbishment are not only useful in reducing environmental impacts and saving building owners’ money, but might also represent a powerful source of business for other stakeholders, e.g., retrofitting service providers.This paper first illustrates the state-of-the-art of BMs for energy efficient retrofitting actions within the building field. Therefore, common BMs in this scope are described and compared in their main components, with an analysis of potentials and limitations. This leads to the identification of research gaps, with the formulation of a set of questions that need further examination. Afterwards, the paper presents a methodological approach regarding a possible way to incorporate quantitative sustainability analyses into BM s related to projects of energy efficient refurbishment in buildings. The aim is to provide the basis for empirical testing on case studies, with further development of the proposed methodology. Lastly, there is a critical discussion on how the presented methodological approach could fill the research gaps, with the indication of possible future research directions
Disabitare
No full textLa Mostra d’Oltremare che vediamo oggi è l’esito di un lungo processo di trasformazioni e stratificazioni, distruzioni e ricostruzioni, che arrivano a coincidere con la sua stessa storia. Le radici coloniali, i danneggiamenti bellici, le speculazioni sono altrettante tappe di un lungo e perdurante processo di rimozioni e censure, che sono state ogni volta il preludio a successive rinascite.
Ribaltando l’ordine gerarchico, questo universo pluralista apre la strada a un aggiornamento della disciplina, in cui l’assenza – materialmente predisposta – definisce nuovi confini del progetto. Diverso dal presente, il futuro della Mostra, per mezzo del progetto, non invoca una progressione, probabilmente impossibile, seppur concretamente pensabile. Tale futuro in cui le immagini verranno è composto da coesistenze, da nuovi dettagli in cui l’architettura si presenta quale dispositivo che tra le sue ragioni tiene «aperto l’imprevedibile»
Sailing and infinite ocean : Galile's geometrical physics and the problem of continuous
No full textOrientador : Fatima Regina Rodrigues EvoraTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências HumanasResumo: A conhecida passagem do Ensaiador (1623) sobre a linguagem geométrica da natureza pode ser considerada uma síntese do projeto galileano: dirigir-se à natureza sem conhecer essa linguagem é um inútil vaguear em um obscuro labirinto. Na defesa da necessidade do uso da geometria na filosofia natural, destaca-se o problema da tese tradicional da heterogeneidade entre a exatidão matemática e a matéria imperfeita. Para resolvê-lo (e para recusar essa heterogeneidade), o autor mostra que só a geometria permite a superação das dificuldades relacionadas com o contínuo. Tal discussão é assunto dos Discursos sobre as duas novas ciências (1638). Tanto o atomismo incomum presente na obra quanto as novidades referentes ao estudo do movimento dependem do tratamento geométrico dado ao problema do contínuo. Por outro lado, a tensão entre a exatidão matemática e a imprecisão dos dados da experiência, que é responsável por parte das controvérsias interpretativas que envolvem Galileu, é fundamental para que se compreenda sua proposta de uma nova físicaAbstract: The well-known quotation of The Assayer (1623) concerning the geometrical language of nature can be taken as a synthesis of galileo's project: turning to nature without knowing that language is an useless errantry on a dark labyrinth. The problem of the traditional thesis on the heterogeneity of mathematical exactness and the imperfection of matter is highlighted by Galileo in his defense of the necessity of using Geometry in Natural Philosophy. For solving it (and for refusing the heterogeneity), the author shows that only Geometry makes it possible to overcome the difficulties related to the continuum. This discussion is present in his Discourses concerning the two new sciences (1638). Both the uncommon atomism found in the book and the news related to the study of movement rely on the geometrical approach on the problem of the continuum. Otherwise, the tension between mathematical exactness and the lack of accuracy of the data from experience, wich causes controversies concerning Galileo, is fundamental for understanding his proposal of a new PhysicsDoutoradoHistoria da FilosofiaDoutor em Filosofi
