153 research outputs found
Atmosfera
No full textHere is the paper Elisabetta Canepa and Valter Scelsi submitted to the tenth Forum ProArch promoted by the Italian Scientific Society of Architectural, Urban, and Landscape Design Professors. The conference, entitled "Le parole e le forme" ("Forms and Images," in English), took place in Genoa, November 16-18, 2023. Their proposal reconstructs the genealogy, evolution, and semantic geography of the word “atmosphere,” mapping a taxonomy of definitions and design approaches to atmosphere forged over time by the architectural culture
Atmosfera
No full textHere is the abstract Elisabetta Canepa and Valter Scelsi submitted to the tenth Forum ProArch promoted by the Italian Scientific Society of Architectural, Urban, and Landscape Design Professors. The conference, entitled "Le parole e le forme" ("Forms and Images," in English), took place in Genoa, November 16-18, 2023. Their proposal reconstructs the genealogy, evolution, and semantic geography of the word “atmosphere,” mapping a taxonomy of definitions and design approaches to atmosphere forged over time by the architectural culture
Commissione II - Premio Piranesi - Landscape Award
No full textBreve testo descrittivo del progetto vincitore del Premio Piranesi - Landscape Award 200
Scelsi en la corriente convencional : una consideración acerca de su Trío à Cordes
No full textResumen: partiendo del estudio del Trío à Cordes de Giacinto Scelsi el autor intenta demostrar cómo, contrariamente a lo que generalmente se afirma, dicho compositor se encuentra profundamente enraizado en la tradición musical occidental. Para ello se lo vincula con el realismo estético y el significado filosófico y musical del concepto de los opuestos.Abstract: Taking the Trío à Cordes by Giacinto Scelsi as a starting point, the author tries to demonstrate how the composer finds himself deeply enrooted in western musical tradition, as opposed to what is generally believed. For this purpose he is linked to aesthetic realism and the philosophical and musical significance of the conception of the opposites
Neurocosmos: The Emotional and Cognitive Correlates of Architectural Atmospheres
No full textThrough its inherent spatial presence, the architectural action instills an emotional potential in the physical environment, shaping the ground for the architectural atmospheric perception. The term “atmosphere” defines a state of resonance and identification (sensorimotor, emotive, and cognitive) between an individual and their surrounding built space. Human subjects can feel empathy for inanimate rooms when they interiorly establish an embodied simulation of some architectural features as form, proportions, rhythm, materials, light and shade, temperature, sounds (that is the so-called “generators of atmosphere”). Performing an experimental test, we propose to verify the existence of an empathic reactivity in subjects put into contact with architectural settings, loaded by variable arrangements of atmospheric tension. The goal is to determine which architectural features ignite the atmospheric perception, based on emotional sensitivity and if this supposed empathic performance is shared among subjects and gradable as a model in architectural theory, according to the scientific principle of objectivity and replicability. The test is based on observation of reproductions of architectural settings designed about their atmospheric skills. These settings, modeled in VR, are showed to engaged subjects, who have to draft a self-assessment questionnaire, aimed at analyzing the multicomponential nature (emotive and cognitive) of the architectural atmospheric perception. The sample is founded on 205 individuals, of mixed-sex, aged 20-35, and collected from the same sociocultural milieu. Their dispositional empathy is preliminarily examined by a brief form of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (B-IRI). Every experimental session employs 21 digital settings, composed of a standard element and 20 variations on the theme. The case study is the spatial unit of the corridor, inflected with five categories of design parameters. In the questionnaire the first questions rate the subjective measure of the atmospheric emotive component, using a self-report visual analog scale (VAS), based on arousal and hedonic valence. Following questions explore the cognitive dimension, asking the participants to describe with an adjective the emotional experience lived, extracting a tag from a prearranged set of “atmospheric features” (emotive qualities) and “objective features” (physical and geometrical properties)
Atmospheres: Feeling Architecture by Emotions
No full textWhat is architectural atmosphere? To answer this question, we propose a paradox: a precise definition of the inherently vague and ambiguous concept of atmosphere that satisfies, as so far as possible, scientific criteria and methodology. We suggest that the term atmosphere, understood in an architectural context, defines a state of resonance and identification (sensorimotor, emotive, and cognitive) between an individual and their surrounding built space. Human beings can empathise with inanimate rooms when they interiorly establish an embodied simulation of certain architectural features. Thus, atmospheres might be determined, mapped, and measured through quantitative methods tracing emotional, cognitive, and neurophysiological responses of individuals to spatial conditions.The exploratory study illustrated attempts to test this hypothesis, by undertaking an experiment informed by phenomenological and embodied cognition theories. We analysed the spatial unit of the corridor, altered in twenty-one variations. We modified one potentially atmospheric parameter at a time, and collected emotional responses of participants. Subjects interacted with immersive virtual-reality settings. Our findings demonstrate that an experimental approach is applicable to evaluating atmospheric perception and suggest which architectural features seem to interplay with the empathic sensibility of the perceiver (i.e. colours and material patterns) and which ones do not (i.e. lighting qualities).Qu’est-ce que l’atmosphère architecturale ? Pour répondre à cette question, nous proposons un paradoxe : pour un thème intrinsèquement vague et ambigu, nous avons forgé une définition exacte, obéissant autant que possible à des critères scientifiques. Nous avons décidé que le mot atmosphère indique un état de résonance et d’identification (sensorimoteur, émotionnel et cognitif) entre un individu et l’espace construit qui l’entoure. Les sujets humains peuvent établir un contact empathique avec l’espace inanimé lorsqu’ils déclenchent intérieurement une simulation incarnée avec certaines caractéristiques architecturales. L’atmosphère peut donc être définie, numérisée et mesurée grâce à des méthodes quantitatives capables de détecter les réponses émotionnelles, cognitives et neurophysiologiques d’individus aux configurations spatiales.L'étude exploratoire présentée tente de vérifier cette hypothèse en réalisant une expérience scientifique éclairée par les théories phénoménologiques et les théories de la cognition incarnée. Nous avons analysé l'unité spatiale du couloir en le modifiant en vingt-et-une variations. Nous avons modifié un paramètre atmosphérique potentiel à la fois, et nous avons recueilli les réponses émotionnelles des participants. Les sujets ont interagi avec des modèles tridimensionnels simulés dans la réalité virtuelle. Nos résultats démontrent que l'approche expérimentale est applicable pour évaluer la perception atmosphérique et nous suggèrent les caractéristiques architecturales qui semblent interagir avec la sensibilité empathique du percepteur (par exemple les couleurs et les matériaux) et celles qui ne le font pas (par exemple l'illumination)
Gaps of evidence in pulmonary arterial hypertension
No full textThe authors discuss the main gas of evidence in the field of diagnosis, risk stratification and therapy of PAH patient
Un modello di danno fragile per mezzi porosi: esempi di applicazione
No full textSi presenta un approccio accoppiato per modellare il danneggiamento indotto da sollecitazioni idrauliche e meccaniche in ammassi rocciosi. Il danneggiamento del materiale è legato alla formazione a scala microstrutturale di diverse famiglie di fratture parallele, annidate una nell’altra, ciascuna caratterizzata da una propria orientazione e spaziatura. La semplicità della geometria delle fratture permette di esprimere analiticamente la variazione di porosità e di permeabilità causate dal progressivo danneggiamento del materiale. Si illustrano alcune simulazioni, sia a livello di punto di volume sia come problema al contorno, per mettere in evidenza i potenziali campi di applicazione del modello, tra i quali si individuano la stabilità di perforazioni in roccia e l’ottimizzazione di processi di fratturazione idraulica
Raynald Arseneault : une musique pour l’âme
No full textL’auteur retrace l’évolution musicale et spirituelle des compositions de Raynald Arsenault, décédé en 1995. Tout en soulignant le caractère métaphysique et humain de sa démarche, il décrit ses diverses sources d’inspiration religieuse et l’importance de Scelsi sur son écriture.The author retraces the musical and spiritual evolution of Raynald Arseneault (d. 1995). While emphasizing the metaphysical and human character of his artistic path, the author describes the various sources of religious inspiration and the important influence on his work of Scelsi
Inevitabile analogia
No full textBook Review
Author: Valter Scelsi
Title: Osservazioni su architettura e analogia
Language: Italian
Publisher: Quodlibet
Characteristic: 176 pages, dimensions 14 x 3.4 x 21.4 cm
ISBN: 9788822920522
Year: 2022Recensione del libro
Autore: Valter Scelsi
Titolo: Osservazioni su architettura e analogia
Lingua del testo: italiana
Editore: Quodlibet
Caratteristiche: 140x215 mm, brossura con bandelle, illustrazioni bn.
ISBN: 9788822920522
Anno: 202
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