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“Fusta Robotica”: Generic tools for complex structure through the performances
No full textThe contribution aims to examine, through the study of a prototype scale 1:1 realized within the program IaaC OTF1, innovations that robotics manufacturing and digital computing may introduce in architecture through the use of natural materials available locally. Thanks to those strategies is possible to change the "mass production" paradigm which still represents the construction sector and initiate a transformation process able to maintain the same efficiency in terms of cost and time of construction but based on structural, material and environmental performances of the architecture. The "Fusta Robotica" prototype has been realized starting from a complex design informed on the quality of the used material, low quality Catalan wood, and on the robotic manufacturing process able to produce infinite different components through a digital customized process. This process allows to create "informed" and optimized architectures, made through the use of generic machines of industrial origin as the robot, where the "performance" concept becomes fundamental in the initial phase of the project.The contribution aims to examine, through the study of a prototype scale 1:1 realized within the program IaaC OTF1, innovations that robotics manufacturing and digital computing may introduce in architecture through the use of natural materials available locally. Thanks to those strategies is possible to change the "mass production" paradigm which still represents the construction sector and initiate a transformation process able to maintain the same efficiency in terms of cost and time of construction but based on structural, material and environmental performances of the architecture. The "Fusta Robotica" prototype has been realized starting from a complex design informed on the quality of the used material, low quality Catalan wood, and on the robotic manufacturing process able to produce infinite different components through a digital customized process. This process allows to create "informed" and optimized architectures, made through the use of generic machines of industrial origin as the robot, where the "performance" concept becomes fundamental in the initial phase of the project
Sostenibilità ambientale nell'era dell'Antropocene. Un nuovo paradigma tra ambiente, tecnica ed etica
Full text linkL’era moderna, definita da Paul Crutzen come “antropocene”, caratterizzata da un forte impatto antropico al quale vengono attribuite le responsabilità maggiori per ciò che riguarda i cambiamenti climatici, territoriali e ambientali ci spinge a rivalutare l’approccio al progetto a tutte le scale. In merito a ciò, l’articolo intende analizzare il nuovo protocollo Living Building Challenge 3.0 (Lbc) e la sua applicazione nel processo progettuale al fine di definire un nuovo paradigma che interessi tutte le fasi del progetto in relazione a un diverso concetto di sostenibilità. Davanti a problematiche sempre più profonde e interdisciplinari, l’architettura si trova ad affrontare una “sfida” sempre più ardua al fine di individuare soluzioni in grado di ridurre l’impatto dell’uomo sull’ambiente costruito e allo stesso tempo restituire un valore culturale ed educativo al progetto architettonico.Modern times, defined by Paul Crutzen as "anthropocene", are characterized by a strong human impact to which are assigned the greater responsibility for climate, territorial and environmental change, this urges us to reevaluate the approach to the project at all scales. About this matter, the article will analyze the new protocol Living Building Challenge (Lbc) 3.0, proposed by the International Living Future Institute, in order to define a new paradigm that interests all phases of the architectural design in relation to a new concept of sustainability. Facing more and more deep and interdisciplinary problems, from energy to social inequity, architecture is dealing with a "challenge" that finds more and more difficult to identify solutions able to reduce the impact of man on built environment and at the same time to give back a cultural and educational value to the architectural project
Sustainability 2.0: place, energy, water, health+happiness, materials, beauty and equity. Towards a new paradigm for architecture.
No full textModern times, defined by the Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen as "Anthropocene" are characterized by a strong human impact to which are assigned the greater responsibility for climate, territorial and environmental change, this urges us to carefully reevaluate the approach to the project for both new construction and urban and environmental regeneration. About this matter, research will study and analyze the new protocol Living Building Challenge (LBC) 3.0, proposed by the International Living Future Institute, and its application in the design process, through the analysis of studied case, in order to define a new paradigm that interests all phases of the architectural design in relation to a new concept of sustainability. Facing more and more deep and interdisciplinary problems, from energy and economic crisis to social inequity, Architecture is dealing with a"challenge" that finds more and more difficult to identify solutions able to reduce the impact of man on built environment and at the same time to give back a cultural and educational value to the architectural project. From this point of view LBC protocol, in addition to constituting a rigid certification program represents an attempt to apply logic to the interdisciplinary project of architecture, among all scales of intervention, trying to go beyond the mere principle of energy conservation. More specifically, the protocol consists of seven main categories called "petals" which are: place, energy, water, health + happiness, materials, beauty and equity and a number of requirements pertaining to each macro category: the achievement of all requirements, with their specific areas of influence, allows to get certified LBC. Nowadays, a lot of projects around the world have achieved this certification and is growing the network of professionals that through seminars, workshops and conferences are trying to spread this new type of interdisciplinary approach that seeks to combine energy resources savings with cultural and social logic. The research wants to underline the innovative aspects of the Protocol LBC in particular the macro areas, "petals", seeking to overcome the most popular programs of certification processes (eg LEED): issues such as happiness, beauty and equity represent new paradigms to be pursued in order to make the architectural project 360 degrees "sustainable". Talking about sustainability, in fact, means adding to energy and environmental aspects, with no doubt essential if we analyze the consumption for the entire building process and the lack of resources, social and economic aspects in order to bring man to the center of the process and the project.Modern times, defined by the Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen as "Anthropocene" are characterized by a strong human impact to which are assigned the greater responsibility for climate, territorial and environmental change, this urges us to carefully reevaluate the approach to the project for both new construction and urban and environmental regeneration. About this matter, research will study and analyze the new protocol Living Building Challenge (LBC) 3.0, proposed by the International Living Future Institute, and its application in the design process, through the analysis of studied case, in order to define a new paradigm that interests all phases of the architectural design in relation to a new concept of sustainability. Facing more and more deep and interdisciplinary problems, from energy and economic crisis to social inequity, Architecture is dealing with a"challenge" that finds more and more difficult to identify solutions able to reduce the impact of man on built environment and at the same time to give back a cultural and educational value to the architectural project. From this point of view LBC protocol, in addition to constituting a rigid certification program represents an attempt to apply logic to the interdisciplinary project of architecture, among all scales of intervention, trying to go beyond the mere principle of energy conservation. More specifically, the protocol consists of seven main categories called "petals" which are: place, energy, water, health + happiness, materials, beauty and equity and a number of requirements pertaining to each macro category: the achievement of all requirements, with their specific areas of influence, allows to get certified LBC. Nowadays, a lot of projects around the world have achieved this certification and is growing the network of professionals that through seminars, workshops and conferences are trying to spread this new type of interdisciplinary approach that seeks to combine energy resources savings with cultural and social logic. The research wants to underline the innovative aspects of the Protocol LBC in particular the macro areas, "petals", seeking to overcome the most popular programs of certification processes (eg LEED): issues such as happiness, beauty and equity represent new paradigms to be pursued in order to make the architectural project 360 degrees "sustainable". Talking about sustainability, in fact, means adding to energy and environmental aspects, with no doubt essential if we analyze the consumption for the entire building process and the lack of resources, social and economic aspects in order to bring man to the center of the process and the project
Post-industrial robotics: the new tendency of digital fabrication for exploring responsive forms and materials through performance
Full text linkThe contribution proposes the experimental results of research on robotics manufacturing issues for the realization of informed architectural organisms on a 1:1 scale. The pavilions
Fusta Robotics and Digital Urban Orchard and the technological system In.Flux represent the results of tests in which material, environmental and structural performance inform the computational process and the consequent materialization. The two pavilions, both wooden, constitute the physical implementation of different functional programs realised through a
collaboration with industrial partners. Fusta Robotics is the result of a collaboration between industry and universities for the tectonic experimentation derived from the use of local non-engineered material. Digital Urban Orchard is the formal expression of a complex functional program arising from the relationship amongst form (shape), function and context for a new
concept of socialization space and food production within the agenda at the self-sufficiency in Barcelona. Finally, through the In.Flux prototype, we investigated the relationship among formal generation, structural analysis and robotic manufacturing for the realization of concrete free-form structures. The analysis of the prototypes opens the debate on the role of IT in the post-digital era when the design process manifest through the control and management of the flow of information affecting the digital computation and fabrication and the material
behaviour. The resulting theoretical assumption considers the architectural form as the result of a diagram of forces where the achievement of the performance is the driving parameter for the formal geometric exploration. The continuous variation resulting therefrom is informed by performance parameters that define a new aesthetic which represents together the manifestation of objectively measurable performance parameters and the power of the tool through which the form is generated
Post-industrial robotics: esplorazione di architetture informate nell'era post-digitale
Full text linkThe prototypes, made in collaboration with industrial partners, represent the results of transdisciplinary experiments in which environmental, structural and material performances inform the computational process and the robotics manufacturing. Fusta Robotica, is the result of a tectonic exploration deriving from the use of non-engineered material, Digital Urban Orchard is the formal expression of a complex functional program arising from the relationship amongst form (shape), function and context. The analysis of processes, in addition to the definition of the limits and potentialities of the design approach, opens the debate on the role of technological experimentation in the post-digital era, characterized by the process information that includes digital computation, materials and fabrication
Tangible computing
No full textThis paper explores the process of digital materialization through robotic
fabrication techniques by presenting three wooden projects. The analysis of the
case studies is oriented to underline the impact that computation had on
architectural construction due to its methodological and instrumental innovations
over the last decades. The absorption of computing and digital fabrication logics
within the discipline is explored from either an architectural point of view and
from the improvements related to automation of the constructive process. On the
one hand the case studies are caught because of the desire to expand material
complexity and, on the other hand because of the integration with other
technological systems. The narrative allows gathering pros and cons in three
different investigative macro areas: material culture, methodological oversights,
and operative setbacks coming from digital machine and communicational
constraints. This analytical investigation helps the definition of a new pathway
for future researches, looking forward the assimilation of digital materiality
learning in building construction.This paper explores the process of digital materialization through robotic
fabrication techniques by presenting three wooden projects. The analysis of the
case studies is oriented to underline the impact that computation had on
architectural construction due to its methodological and instrumental innovations
over the last decades. The absorption of computing and digital fabrication logics
within the discipline is explored from either an architectural point of view and
from the improvements related to automation of the constructive process. On the
one hand the case studies are caught because of the desire to expand material
complexity and, on the other hand because of the integration with other
technological systems. The narrative allows gathering pros and cons in three
different investigative macro areas: material culture, methodological oversights,
and operative setbacks coming from digital machine and communicational
constraints. This analytical investigation helps the definition of a new pathway
for future researches, looking forward the assimilation of digital materiality
learning in building construction
Adaptive forms and materials for energy efficient buildings skins
No full textThis research aims to develop an innovative methodology and the related computational workflow to design
energy efficient buildings equipped with climate responsive building skins able to respond dynamically (thanks
to their form and materials) to environment conditions changing over the time.
This methodology, called adaptiveB&S (Building & Skin), is applicable in different climate zones and consists
in a computational form finding method oriented to the optimization of energy performance of buildings also in
changing environmental conditions. This theme is the topic of different actual researches, but the
innovativeness of adaptiveB&S lies in the fact that its application is not limited to the building skin. Indeed, the
developed “fluid path” starts from the micro urban-scale with the design of the site and of the building (e.g.
building ́s shape, orientation towards the cardinal points, positioning in the lot, presence of green spaces etc.),
goes to the building-scale (windows-to-wall ratio in the different orientated façades) and finally comes to the
skin-scale (façade geometry, materials). In addition, the goal of all this design process is not just the reduction
of the energy demand for heating and cooling of the building, but also the improving of the level of the
environmental comfort in the indoor spaces and also in the outdoor areas nearby.
Applicability and functionality of adaptiveB&S has been tested in the design of office buildings located in
Berlin. Results of this application are presented in this paper. At the moment, this working methodology is
tested in different climate regions of the world to design energy efficient buildings characterized by a climate
adaptive skin
London farm tower 2050: new way of living beetwen innovations and trasformations
No full textThe research aims are the investigation of the living phenomenon in relation to the population growth, the gradual urbanization of the world population and the need for new technologies for food production in urban consolidated centers. To outline the problem you need to analyze some figures: in 2050 the world population will count up to 9.9 billion people, of which 71% will live in urban areas. It will also be necessary to cultivate 1,000,000,000 acres to meet the need for food. All this inevitably has an impact on metropolitan areas development: city becomes widespread and productive places diminish. City consumes but does not produces. This "forces" us to reflect on the regeneration of urban spaces that can be defined "empty" and on the development of new models able to cope with the problems listed above. The purpose of the research, considering the above data, is to study a new housing model that can squeeze a city portion and make it live on his own relationships, human and economic, in continuous connection with the outside world: the city, like a software can be updated through plug-ins. The experimentation takes place at the Tower of London in London, an area affected by recent urban expansion projects, which can be defined as "urban emptiness". The social housing becomes common thread between the parties: an "urban emptiness" to densify through an "open" system, ready to reconnect to other empty spaces and leaving permeable contact with the surrounding urban web. The creation of a social network made up of houses, space between the houses and productive places is seen and developed as a urban "component" required to respond to the problems listed above. Housing becomes the instrument through which "rethink" residential housing system by introducing temporal and social set of variables so far unknown as a unique opportunity to define a "new habitat" not only able to provide a service but to ensure human and social relationships,. For this "new urban model" an intensive production of housing would not be enough if it wasn’t based on a complex urban public space. Considering all this I can state that this research wants to be an opportunity to define a methodology of intervention in the established urban centers responding to the rapid urbanization arising problems, and to initiate a radical debate on the listed issues.The research aims are the investigation of the living phenomenon in relation to the population growth, the gradual urbanization of the world population and the need for new technologies for food production in urban consolidated centers. To outline the problem you need to analyze some figures: in 2050 the world population will count up to 9.9 billion people, of which 71% will live in urban areas. It will also be necessary to cultivate 1,000,000,000 acres to meet the need for food. All this inevitably has an impact on metropolitan areas development: city becomes widespread and productive places diminish. City consumes but does not produces. This "forces" us to reflect on the regeneration of urban spaces that can be defined "empty" and on the development of new models able to cope with the problems listed above. The purpose of the research, considering the above data, is to study a new housing model that can squeeze a city portion and make it live on his own relationships, human and economic, in continuous connection with the outside world: the city, like a software can be updated through plug-ins. The experimentation takes place at the Tower of London in London, an area affected by recent urban expansion projects, which can be defined as "urban emptiness". The social housing becomes common thread between the parties: an "urban emptiness" to densify through an "open" system, ready to reconnect to other empty spaces and leaving permeable contact with the surrounding urban web. The creation of a social network made up of houses, space between the houses and productive places is seen and developed as a urban "component" required to respond to the problems listed above. Housing becomes the instrument through which "rethink" residential housing system by introducing temporal and social set of variables so far unknown as a unique opportunity to define a "new habitat" not only able to provide a service but to ensure human and social relationships,. For this "new urban model" an intensive production of housing would not be enough if it wasn’t based on a complex urban public space. Considering all this I can state that this research wants to be an opportunity to define a methodology of intervention in the established urban centers responding to the rapid urbanization arising problems, and to initiate a radical debate on the listed issues
London Farm Tower 2050: New way of living between innovations and transformation,
No full textThe purpose of the research, considering the above data, is to study a new housing model that can squeeze a city portion and make it live on his own relationships, human and economic, in continuous connection with the outside world: the city, like a software can be updated through plug-ins. The experimentation takes place at the Tower of London in London, an area affected by recent urban expansion projects, which can be defined as "urban emptiness". The social housing becomes common thread between the parties: an "urban emptiness" to densify through an "open" system, ready to reconnect to other empty spaces and leaving permeable contact with the surrounding urban web. The creation of a social network made up of houses, space between the houses and productive places is seen and developed as a urban "component" required to respond to the problems listed above. Housing becomes the instrument through which "rethink" residential housing system by introducing temporal and social set of variables so far unknown as a unique opportunity to define a "new habitat" not only able to provide a service but to ensure human and social relationships,
Innovation and stratification in modern times: the concept of "new" from refurbishment to radical avant-garde
No full textLe categorie di tipo, modello e tipologia hanno attraversato la storia delle trasformazioni del pensiero e della cultura del progetto. Al di là delle sovrapposizioni e delle differenze concettuali delle tre parole, tipo, tipologia e modello hanno partecipato come elementi primari a regolare le sperimentazioni progettuali, come a decostruire e costruire le forme e i linguaggi, oppure a riconoscere ed includere le pluralità dei contenuti. Per quanto il progetto si presenti come una realtà complessa da decodificare e sicuramente troppo fragile per essere classificata, è senz'altro importante riaprire una riflessione sull’attualità delle tre parole nella costruzione dell’ambiente artificiale in cui viviamo, dalla piccola fino alla grande scala. Questa riflessione investe ancora tutte le figure che sono deputate ad interpretare i bisogni immateriali e materiali dell’uomo, ancora ‘disegnando’ lo spazio e le forme, che siano topiche o atopiche, oppure che utilizzino strumenti classici o moderni.The goal of the essay is reflecting on some aspects of the concept of 'new' and what might be the limits in relation to the context. Defining the theme often takes naively to relegate the adjective
‘new’ to too narrow or too wide fields.
Analyze the concept of
‘new’ can mean deeply work
to realize a renewal and a modification in order to put an additional layer always different from the previous as condition of negation or
reductio ad absurdum
. But 'new' is also one of the many layers dealing with common roots dictated by history, a sort of method to enhance the existing. We can't speak knowingly of 'new' if we don't know the past as history and metamorphosis of the object, both if we want to trace or estrange it, in order to project the work into the future. Trying to understand the decli
nations of the concept of ‘new’ on investigation fields diametrically
opposed might help to reflect on testing methods acting on the common platform of the context, different methodologies that have taken place over the last hundred years, as presented at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, highlighting the importance of the cultural background in different countries. Looking at the Italian Pavilion, designed by architect Cino Zucchi, we can see how experimental research has permeated many fields of architecture, from new design to old built refurbishment which also has strong historical and artistic values, starting from every building stairs to the urban environment. Moving then to radical areas, for example the Swiss Pavilion designed by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the existing built is still an alive and constant factor declined in its purely social significance. Experimentation, therefore, as interpretation or re-interpretation of the existing built, working on the 'limit' between what it's already here and what's the modern times demand
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