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Sharing Experience: the Space of Spectatorship
No full textThe paper focuses on the spectatorship experience in Paesaggi condivisi. The audience has an active role in the performing arts in nature's macro-category. The spectators are asked to take part in the show actively by using their perception or activity (walking, doing gestures, lying down etc.). In this sense, trying to understand their past experience, and their cognitive categories according to the show, helps us to create a parallel map of the lived event. On the other hand, we can also consider the impact of a single performance on the audience for what concerns the idea of linking the landscape with the performing arts in terms of enhancing the territory and individual places
L’architettura nell’epoca dell’iperspecializzazione
No full textRicerca e didattica al Politecnico di Milano ogg
Architectural Affordances_Atlas 10_Pousada de Viseu
No full textThe Hospital de Sao Teotónio, located in Viseu, Portugal, opened in 1842. Belonging to the NGO Santa Casa da Misericórdia, it served the city until 1996 when the state regional hospital was built. It was then sold to become part of the national chain of heritage hotels “Pousadas de Portugal”, under a design by Gonçalo Byrne Architects, opening its doors in 2009. The architect preserved the building’s skeleton with its thick granite structural walls, the main staircases in stone and the entire cloister area, adding for functional reasons and compliance with the safety regulations, four columns of equidistant stairs,
Two lifts and another one for hotel services only. The design proposed replacing the existing roof with a very horizontal floor, creating a line of shadow on the four sides. The central cloister was covered with a system of skylights for interior comfort. This allowed the perimeter windows to be removed from the corridor wings, recreating an open circulation overlooking the old cloister, now turned into a large lounge area lit from above, enhancing its centrality
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