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Studio della facciata. Metodi e strategie compositive: Capuano, Carpenzano
No full textL’interesse per lo studio della facciata nasce dopo la sua trasformazione radicale durante il XX secolo. Nel periodo premoderno la facciata aveva un triplice ruolo; il primo ruolo era quello di chiudere il perimetro esterno e di garantire il benessere termoigrometrico, il secondo era quello di garantire la stabilità dell’edificio e l’ultimo aveva a che fare con la comunicazione del linguaggio architettonico. Durante il movimento moderno, invece, con i principi architettonici sanciti dalla carta di Atene, la facciata si stacca dalla parte strutturale diventando così un elemento libero che dà più libertà compositiva all'architetto. In questo periodo la facciata rimane ancora come un elemento opaco che svolge alcune funzioni analoghe a quella premoderna, che toccano la sfera energetica comunicativa. Con la caduta del modernismo e la scomparsa delle meta-narrazioni, il corpo edilizio subisce la sua più grande trasformazione: se prima il manufatto veniva considerato come un corpo inviolabile e puro, nel postmodernismo esso diventa una macchina ibrida, trasformando così anche la sua manifestazione nel contesto tramite l’involucro. Per questa particolare trasformazione che accade nel secolo
scorso è di grande rilievo indagare oggi la situazione in cui si trova il rapporto tra la facciata, la comunicazione architettonica e il contesto dove l’edificio si inserisce. In questo saggio si cercherà di dare un riassunto generale ed un inquadramento di due dissertazioni molto importanti nel dibattito sull'argomento.The interest in the study of the facade was born after its radical transformation during the 20th century. In the pre-modern period, the façade had a triple role; the first role was to close the outer perimeter and to ensure thermo-hygrometric well-being, the second was to ensure the stability of the building and the last had to do with the communication of architectural language. During the modern movement, however, with the architectural principles enshrined in the Athens card, the facade is detached from the structural part thus becoming a free element that gives to the architect more freedom of composition. In this period the facade remains as an opaque element that performs some functions like that premodern, that touch the communicative energy sphere. With the fall of modernity and the disappearance of meta-narratives, the building body undergoes its greatest transformation: if the artefact was first regarded as an inviolable and pure body, in postmodernism it becomes a hybrid machine, thus transforming its manifestation in the context through the casing. For this particular transformation that took place in the last century it is of great importance to investigate today the situation in which the relationship between the façade, the architectural communication and the context where the building fits lies. In this essay we will try to give a general summary and a framing of two very important dissertations in the debate on the subject
I fronti urbani dell'architettura abitativa albanese - lettura dei principi costitutivi della composizione della facciata e panorama delle sue diverse tipologie
No full textLa dissertazione affronta come tema centrale la lettura dei fronti urbani dell’architettura abitativa albanese e l’analisi tipologica della facciata in tre periodi storici rilevanti per il paese, dal periodo prima del 1945, quello tra il ‘45-‘90 fino al periodo dal 1990 ad oggi, con lo scopo di creare una sorte di atlante che comprende alcuni dei principi formativi di essa sia quelli permanenti, trasformati o scomparsi tramite la comparazione di regole compositive. Nell’analisi dei principi costitutivi e compositivi del fronte urbano albanese si cerca di trattare sia i principi di maggiore che di minore importanza in modo da costruire un quadro generale completo per i scopi della ricerca. Lo studio di ricerca si svolge attraverso la campionatura di differenti morfologie architettoniche che caratterizzano l’architettura abitativa dei fronti urbani albanesi in diversi momenti, analizzando alcune vie centrali delle principali città prese in esame come Gjirokastra, Berat, Scutari, Korça, Kavaja e Tirana. Per via della forma del terreno, uno dei fattori più importanti che ha condizionato in modo notevole la composizione urbana dei vari insiemi di edifici, le città prese in esame sono divise in due grandi gruppi, quello delle città in altura e il gruppo delle città in pianura. Queste città, caratterizzate da diverse condizioni sociali e culturali, spaziali e materiali collegati nel tempo, esprimono nella loro rappresentazione tramite i fronti urbani un patrimonio architettonico inestimabile e ancora del tutto non esplorato. La ricerca mira a svelare i caratteri specifici dell’intero fronte urbano e del singolo edificio dove le qualità dei manufatti, raccolte secondo delle regole diversificate in relazione alle scale e ai metodi di indagine e di classificazione e catalogazione, compariranno negli elaborati di disegno tramite opportune codificazioni e schemi grafici. Obbiettivo ulteriore che questa ricerca vuole raggiungere, è quello di poter creare una linea guida alla continua trasformazione che la città del futuro deve suscitare sul patrimonio architettonico del passato
Voskopoja conservation camp 2012 - Construction technology approach
No full textThis article tries to explain the "construction technology" approach used in the restoration project "Dormition of Saint Mary Church". The aim of the entire project and the various interventions is to evidence the measures undertaken by traditional skills through direct restoration work done by professional experts of the Institute of Cultural Monuments in Tirana, and by the valuable help of the students of Polis University from both Architecture and Art-Design Studies. The author aims at describing the potential of the great cultural and historical resource of the Voskopoja Church and the use of traditional crafts, materials, and techniques in order to better understand the various typologies of the construction technology approach. The author aims at describing the potential of the great cultural and historical resource of the Voskopoja Church and the use of traditional crafts, materials, and techniques in order to better understand the various typologies of the construction technology approach
[re] Appropriation Of The Property Limit
No full textThis article talks about an exhibition created by the same author on the occasion of Tirana Architecture Week in Tirana explaining the main idea. The idea of this exhibition was to [re] appropriate the property limit in Tirana which is one of the problems that we encounter in almost every road or private property in our city and especially in the suburbs. This was an exhibition of photos taken by students or staff during activities like walking the city. The exhibition was inspired by the Agueda Case in Portugal or even Kotorr (Montenegro) where sometimes simple elements of everyday life can be transformed into show-stoppers, art installations which create surrealistic atmospheres and attract people’s attention. Prior to the day of the exhibition, the students worked hard on the construction of the umbrella’s supporting grid and the carton boxes exhibition wall. The exhibition is a guide through the typology of walls used in our city as traditional enclosure walls during the first half of the 20th century, the 1945-1990 period, and finally the typology of walls from the 90’s until the present day in our country. The exhibition discusses the re-appropriation of the walls that limit the property throughout our city. The achievement of the exhibition was to incite the participants to create a critical opinion in the public masses and to contribute with a qualitative dialogue regarding the recognition and renewal of the qualities of public spaces. The main goal was to stimulate the participants’ imagination on how to definitely change the medieval mentality of using fortresses instead of more functional, aesthetic , and appropriate solutions
A general view on the architecture and the elements that increase the aesthetic value of Berat's porched dwellings
No full textThe aim of this article is to recall and highlight the architectural values of Berat's porched dwellings as the most significant typologies of traditional dwellings in Albania, focusing also on the definition of the elements that play an important aesthetic role. Another striking architectural value of the Albanian traditional dwellings is precisely the perfect combination of the composing materials such as stone and wood as an identification tool used at a maximal advantage by the period’s artisans as well as the architectural treatment of the component environments of the Albanian dwellings including those of Berat.These facilities are also enriched with decorative features made of wood elements which increase their aesthetic value. It is worth noting that the decoration used in the interior as well as in the exterior of the house, especially in Berat’s dwellings, has been reduced with time thus increasing the aesthetic values in the Albanian traditional architecture
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
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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