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archiDOCT 19 | Temporalities-ii
No full textAs announced in the editorial of the previous issue, the 19th issue of ArchiDOCT presents a second collection of papers that explore the theme of ‘temporality’ in architecture and the built environment from a theoretical or an applied standpoint. Once more, a variety of approaches, insights, and opportunities for research that arise from considering time in its heterogeneous dimensions and manifestations such as time, speed, rhythm, sequence or horizon have been handled.
The concept of temporality is, undoubtedly, an inexhaustible source of suggestive lines of research ranging from the more theoretical to the more applied and linked to contemporary problems. [...
MANY CITIES IN ONE. ENCLAVES AND MICROCOSMS IN THE GENERAL STRUCTURE OF THE CITY: THE CASE OF PRAGUE’S GHETTO
No full textThe sustainable house: psychology vs technology
No full textIn this Digital Era (Industry 4.0) characterised by a great number of IT innovations, the questions are: which changes will there be in our future daily home life? Which kind of house will be appropriate to help us to find a balanced relationship between virtual spaces and physical ones? That is, between our mind (more and more supported by information technology) and our body (that ancestrally needs to feel well in contact with Nature)?
This contribution aims to underline the natural and human characteristics that can inspire architects during their composition processes of a sustainable house.
We are often used to thinking about a sustainable house only as a passive house. We care about the technological components and we rarely care about the psychological ones, that have to be connected with the context where the house will be built, so in a city we have to find the correct network of relationships between domestic spaces and urban ones.
Only a progressive transition from public spaces to private ones can offer the inhabitants a sense of urban well-being and identity. The concepts of “in-between” and “thresholds” have been abundantly studied in the past by famous authors of architectural theories but today those concepts are rarely used during the design process of a house in an urban context
Circular Economy and Reuse of Architectural Heritage in Fragile Territories
No full textThis paper aims to investigate how the architectural culture, and in particular the space design disciplines, can incorporate the paradigms of the Circular Economy in their principles and practices. The objective is to understand which theoretical postulates are valuable for defining disciplinary approaches applicable to abandoned historical contexts which need to be reactivated.
The object of the research is the Italian inland areas (SNAI – Strategia Nazionale Aree Interne - National Strategy of Inland Areas), which occupy about 60% of the Italian territory. These areas are characterised by the abandonment of architectural heritage and fragile cultural landscapes. However, these under-utilised places are an extraordinary resource and possess a historical-artistic heritage that offers various opportunities for territories and communities. Their significance is able to produce a cultural, economic, social and environmental impact that can be achieved through a sustainable development strategy. The political commitment is to create a common path for the enhancement of the local economy, but also to introduce innovations into public services such as schools, health and mobility. Among interdisciplinary theoretical speculations required for the creation of a strategic approach to sustainable architectural and urban regeneration projects, this ongoing research relies on the concept of Circular Economy as a theoretical reference (Ellen MacArthur Foundation), shaped into the notion of reuse defined in the cradle - to - cradle approach (McDonough, Braungart
2002) and extended to the model of the “3Rs” and “Design for Reuse”.
The result of this work is to argue that in order to define new lifecycles, avoiding tactics of high energy cost recycling, down-cycle and linear economy, it is necessary to implement a “Design for Reuse” strategy. This is a design concept in which other possible uses for products, architectural artefacts and parts of the city can be planned. Therefore, the outcome is not to find conclusive answers but to open up questions and to hypothesise partial answers for the ongoing research
Adaptive reuse in fragile contexts. Combining affordable housing solutions, new job opportunities and regeneration of urban peripheries
No full textThe proposed contribution considers living spaces in relation to the themes of affordable housing, work accessibility, adaptive reuse of existing heritage, and regeneration of peripheral areas. It presents the first results of ongoing research by design experience, undertaken at Politecnico di Milano’s Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, within the “Territorial Fragilities” Project, and bringing together two lines of research dedicated to contemporary housing solutions and to town and city peripheries. The research is also developed through teaching activities as part of the “Affordable Housing” Final Thesis Studio (MSc in Architecture – Built Environment – Interiors). The aim is to define innovative housing solutions obtained from adaptive reuse of non-residential, underused or abandoned public assets (offices, schools, hospitals, depots, barracks). The
architectural solutions will seek answers to profound socio-economic-demographic changes (transformation of family structure, labour market insecurity, migration) and the criticalities they trigger (inadequate space, functional rigidity, lack of targeted services, poor affordability). Housing access is often conditioned by unemployment, therefore the research challenge consists in producing scenarios where a building can become
not only a home but also contribute to reactivating the finances of people who are in need of a life experience that goes beyond just a roof over their heads. In this perspective, housing is seen as a tool for starting empowerment processes – of people and buildings – that define new
space and type solutions able to produce effects, especially in fragile contexts when supported by special policies. The contexts touched upon by the research are fragile areas: buildings and neighbourhoods found in town and city peripheries. The intervention aims to reinforce economic and relational networks already present within the context, impacting the surrounding public spaces and encouraging an alternative way of living
HERITAGE AS A RESOURCE, MEMORY AS A PROJECT. RESPONSIBLE NETWORK-BASED DESIGN STRATEGIES
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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
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
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
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