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La riconversione di architetture tra il militare ed il civile, come le antiche prigioni civiche: il caso del carcere austriaco di Busto Arsizio (VA)
No full textSi può equiparare un antico carcere civile all’architettura militare? Valutato il ruolo “difensivo”, atto al tutelare l’esterno da chi è rinchiuso al suo interno, la risposta può essere positiva. Molte strutture militari (fortezze e castelli) sono divenute nel tempo prigioni, per le loro specificità
costruttive, che sono state riprese anche in edifici più recenti. Ne è esempio l'antico carcere austriaco di Busto Arsizio, chiuso nel 1984. Ultimo edificio civile lasciato alla città dal governo austriaco, fu costruito nel 1854, con aspetto e qualità proprie di una fortezza militare. Per quanto non grande, l’edificio sorge oggi in centro alla città ed è prossimo ad un recupero.
La forte parcellizzazione funzionale che le caratterizza rende difficile il reimpiego delle antiche carceri, così come la scelta di un’idonea nuova destinazione; pertanto un loro progetto di recupero impone un accordo tra le istanze legate alla loro storia, alla tutela delle tracce della loro originaria funzione e quelle legate alla nuova, con le esigenze imposte dalle odierne norme e criteri di accessibilità.
La presente relazione s’incentra sull’opportunità offerta da un edificio storico unico nel suo genere, come il carcere di Busto e sullo studio, con finalità didattica, che ha rilevato il buono stato di conservazione delle strutture e come si possa evitare la compromissione dell’edificio su un piano costruttivo-strutturale e storico, individuando la nuova funzione più idonea, senza perderne l’essenza
Il calzaturificio Borri di Busto Arsizio: rileggere il passato per tramandare la storia industriale della città. The Borri's shoe factory of Busto Arsizio: rereading the past to pass down the industrial history of a city.
No full textSince the mid-nineteenth century, the city of Busto Arsizio has always been identified with its industrial reality, especially textiles, so as to deserve the nickname of "Manchester of Italy". The strong presence of the textile and related industries has created a production sector where also the shoe factory Giuseppe Borri stood out. This factory has been in almost a century of history the site of a production of fine quality footwear, on a national and international scale. Nowadays, the building, which has been in public ownership for almost twenty years, is now awaiting refurbishment, which would also involve a large area, part of the city centre. Unfortunately, many buildings linked to this historical and glorious period of the city have already been lost and the restoration of the Borri’s factory could be an opportunity to enhance a unique environment, as it is the last ancient shoe factory almost intact in the North Milan area and an industrial environment of the 19th century distinguished by an architecture in line with the Art Nouveau era in which it was built by arch. C. Crespi Balbi. In the context of Busto Arsizio, there are already two other examples of old factories recovery implemented in 1992-1997: the Cotonificio Bustese (Cotton mill of Busto), now the Museum of Textiles and Industrial Traditions and the old Molini Marzoli Massari, seat of public offices and university classrooms
Investigation of the structural response through simple numerical models derived automatically from LiDAR scanning: the case of masonry vaults in historical buildings
No full textStructural response of masonry vaults is closely connected with their geometric shape. LiDAR scanning has created a new possibility for a fast surveying of their complex geometry. The aim of this paper is to investigate the use of an approximated surface created from a registered point cloud to develop a structural model for the fast analysis of masonry vaults. The study combines scanning with LiDAR sensor, automatic surface recon-struction methods and structural analysis with the finite element method. The results highlight that the simpli-fied models created in a short time, although preliminary, allow to give important results on the structural re-sponse of masonry vaults as the magnitude of forces in the system, the force flow or damage predictions. The elements of a future methodology are developed alongside the case of the church of St. Marta, located in the town of Arona, in the shores of Lake Maggiore in Italy
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Reuse of the richly significant buildings: disused churches
No full textThe paper deals with the problem of the re-use of churches that have lost their main function: the religious cult. A religious building cannot be the object of an indiscriminate adaptive re-use, disregarding the historical-material stratification, capitalizing on its location, often central in a town, and using it only as a container. The re-use of a church must not become a mere exploitation, but the opportunity to revalorize it, giving a new life that preserves its social role, without masking its historical value and original function.
Two Italian examples are presented here, among the many examples that could be listed: the first case is a correct conservative restoration with a re-use project that was able to safeguard the cultural value and the historical-material testimony. The second case urgently requires a suitable project to guarantee a new social life, before neglect and the passage of time extinguish this hope. The two examples are presented as an opportunity to invest in durable existing structures, conveying not only something tangible, but also of cultural significance, rich in history and local tradition: a genius loci that should not be ne- glected, because once lost it is not possible to recove
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Numerical modeling of shear bond tests on small brick-masonry assemblages
No full textAn experimental and numerical investigation has been carried out in Milan for
the characterisation of the materials of a two storey, full-scale, brick masonry building
prototype set up at the University of Pavia. Among other tests, shear bond tests have been
carried out on triplets. The displacements in the vertical and horizontal directions have been
carefully measured on bricks and mortar joints under different normal stress levels. For the
numerical interpretation of the material behaviour, a Mohr-Coulomb type failure envelope,
calibrated on the experimental results, was applied to the brick/mortar interfaces of. a FE
model in plane stress conditions. Contact elements with finite sliding capacities under large
displacements have been used to model the test
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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