342 research outputs found
Documenting Vernacular Heritage to preserve diversity and sustainability
No full textDuring the last decades around the world many things have changed and sometimes lost in many historic centres. Residents want to update their own houses with the most modern features and, in many cases, there is the need to improve living standards.
In Jodhpur, within the vibrant environment of its historic centre, inhabitants are trying to find more contemporary spaces for themselves by adapting the existing ones. While their love for these old settlements has not diminished, some of the residents have moved towards the new areas of the city in search of a modern lifestyle and more urban facilities such as schools, public transportation, etc. While the Jodhpur municipality wants to protect the vernacular heritage of the city, it is also clear that preservation policies must take into account that changes in the physical structure of old settlements are inevitable (and indeed have been continuing from ancient times).
This, quite recently, has stressed the need to maintain control over these changes, driven not only by social inputs but also by economic activities. It’s always a matter of knowledge: on one hand preserving our vernacular heritage aims to conserve our cultural and social variety and transmit it to future generations, on the other hand we still have to fully understand the lessons that could be learnt from the study of these buildings and that can then be applied to contemporary settlements.
It doesn’t have to be development versus conservation: the two issues should work together. It’s an uneasy path, full of economic and cultural obstacles, but still viable if we really want to preserve this important cultural heritage
Giovani progettisti tra ricerca e innovazione. Il Premio Italiano Architettura Sostenibile
No full textIl volume raccoglie i migliori progetti selezionati tra i partecipanti al Premio Italiano Architettura Sostenibile Fassa Bortolo.
Questo premio da quasi venti anni incentiva e promuove progetti di architettura che sappiano rispettare la natura e coesistere con l’ambiente circostante, che considerino la sostenibilità come punto di partenza dell’azione progettuale, avendo coscienza dell’uso delle limitate risorse del nostro pianeta.
Sono descritti nel volume 80 contributi, solo una piccola parte dei tanti pervenuti nelle singole edizioni e analizzati dalle diverse giurie, poco meno del 10% del totale. Sono infatti quasi un migliaio le proposte inviate negli anni per partecipare al concorso per progetti elaborati come tesi
Research Innovation and Internationalisation. National and international experiences between identity and inclusivity
No full textDuring the Restoration and Cultural Heritage Days held in Ferrara on the 29th March 2023, it was organized the fifth edition of the Unione Italiana Disegno UID (Italian Association for Drawing) Symposium dedicated to the internationalisation and innovation of research entitled: “National and international experiences between identity and inclusivity”. The aim of the Symposium was to put together research experiences related to international strategies and to introduce the innovation roadmap on some specific topics at the centre of the current ICAR/17 disciplinary debate, as an outcome of the work of the “International relationships” and
“Innovation” UID Committees.
The 2023 Symposium was focused on research, technology transfer, outcomes and processes from different approaches to the heritage documentation and digital data management at different scales, by comparing national and international experiences.
The fifteen contributions described by this book of proceedings explore different topics, all of them related to the concept of “identity” and to different approaches to “inclusivity” of Cultural Heritage, by exploring new ways to make assets more and more accessible, understandable and knowledgeable. Different dimensions of innovation and/or internationalisation run through all the works collected
Research Innovation and Internationalisation. National and international experiences in Cultural Heritage digitisation
No full textDuring the Restoration and Cultural Heritage Days held in Ferrara on the 24th March 2022, it was organized the fourth edition of the Unione Italiana Disegno UID (Italian Association for Drawing) Symposium dedicated to the internationalisation and innovation of research entitled: “National and international experiences compared. Technology transfer, products and processes”. The research projects presented are the result of both competitive tenders and experiences triggered by scientific relations between research centres and institutes from countries of three continents: Africa, America, and Europe.
Once again the event was presented as the fruit of the joint work of the two commissions, “Innovation” and “Internationalisation”, of the scientific association. The annual symposium aims to highlight applied research, carried out by groups in which UID colleagues are either coordinators or members of interdisciplinary teams, aimed at the development of innovative products or processes.
The aim of this publication on the association's international research and innovation activities is to update the catalogue of the experineces and enhance them by publishing a report animated by a strong project spirit that, through discussion, can explore opportunities and channels for the promotion and strengthening of activities on the research, teaching, seminar and conference at an international level
Between History and Memory, the Blue Jodhpur: Experiences of integrated documention and survey techniques
No full textThis book describes the outputs of a cooperation path between the Department of Architecture of the University of Ferrara and CEPT University of Ahmedabad, India.
When we started this experience, in 2013, we firstly identified the crucial features of a possible educational approach in dynamic and changing contexts such as those of Global South Countries. In order to address this topic, this book presents the results of the educational project developed in the Blue City of Jodhpur (India) as an academic cooperation involving professors, researchers and young students from the two countries, local authorities and professionals.
The book aims at examining the role that heritage documentation and representation can play in emerging countries such as India if they are implemented as joint activities involving different stakeholders.
Jodhpur, the so-called “Blue City”, is an outstanding example of the extremely relevant role of mixed research and documentation methods applied in a context where tangible and intangible heritage are closely linked and in a great risk of loss, due to population pressure, growing tourism and other threats.
The book presents several on-field approaches concerning visions about cultural heritage documentation in terms of research, future directions, methodologies and working tools in the field of education for heritage preservation and enhancement.
As the reader will understand the workshops experience have been organized over a period of five years, consisting in research and on-field surveys carried out by the group of students supervised by professors coming from the two institutions.
During the last year the workshop was open to students with a background of design coming from the University of Ferrara as well as to students of urban management of CEPT University. In these workshops, different urban areas of the historical city center have been analyzed and surveyed, setting up a methodology able to meet the main needs of knowledge, understanding, refurbishment and conservation. In this direction, integrated survey processes were tested and applied in order to provide tools for an overall “reading” of the uniqueness of the local heritage and to point out possible conservation strategies
Digital Toolkit for the Representation, Survey, Preservation and Enhancement of 20th Century Buildings in Brazil and India
No full textThe contribution deals with the elaboration of a digital methodology to be applied on 20th century buildings in Brazil and India as toolkit for their conservation and enhancement. The research has gone through a careful planning and guided process able to integrate all information related to the geometry with details concerning materials, phases of realization, technical characteristics, and environmental. The undertaken research path has shown that the application of technologies used through appropriate methodologies can be an effective approach for the preservation and enhancement of 20th century architectures in “global south countries” and for the transmission of this heritage to future generations all over the world
Il ruolo delle comunità nella documentazione digitale e preservazione dello scenario urbano storico: una proposta di approccio inclusivo
No full textThe essay describes an approach developed by the author in different international realities in order to make communities aware of the importance of digital documentation and preservation of historical agglomerations, constituted prevalently by vernacular architectures of very high sociocultural value.
With this purpose in mind, the concept of historic urban landscape is introduced, which identifies the whole territorial context it is set in, thus going well beyond the simple definition of historic centre and leading to the determination of an ensemble composed of characteristic features such as patterns, spatial organisation, visual relations.
Interventions of contemporary architecture at world level, have undermined the urban scenario of many historic sites, marring them with projects out of scale and of dubious quality, for the last two decades.
The text deals with the suggestions arisen from years of educational research conducted in extremely lively and mutable environments such as the historic centres of some Asian Countries, with an in-depth study on the case of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. In order to treat this topic the paper presents the feedback results of awareness raising projects developed in different historic centres, including academic cooperation, involvement of professors, researchers, local authorities, professionals and young intellectuals.
The research stressed the importance of different visions on the documentation and representation of cultural heritage, which acquires different meanings based on local culture and traditions, in order to define future directions, low cost methodologies and working tools in the field of education for the conservation and enhancement of the historic fabric.
The digitalisation techniques, also shared with a less specialised audience, were essential tools for setting up a methodology capable of meeting the main requirements of knowledge and comprehension.
The activities and experimentations carried out have identified functional methods for the analysis, representation and diagnostics of vernacular contexts, demonstrating the potential of interdisciplinary activities implemented in fragile but at the same time extremely stimulating environments.
The involvement of local communities showed to be a conditio sine qua non to achieve the objective of a shared and more aware preservation of the historic urban landscape
Brasilia World Heritage Site
No full textUn gesto semplice e simbolico, il segno della croce fatto dagli esploratori alla scoperta di un nuovo territorio come buon auspicio per una nuova e fiorente civilizzazione; con queste parole nella relazione di progetto al concorso per la progettazione della nuova capitale Brasiliana l’architetto e urbanista Lucio Costa spiegava l’idea generatrice della sua proposta. Un gesto si è detto, due assi che si incrociano perpendicolarmente, il maggiore che si inarca per adattarsi alla topografia di una vasta area inabitata ed arida e che disegnano sul terreno un forma simile a quella di un aereo. Era il 1957, in questo modo l’avventura urbanistica più avvincente mai tentata stava per spiccare il volo sulle ali della sagoma disegnata da Costa nel cuore del Brasile.
Le capitali sono generalmente legittimate dalla forza politica ed economica di una regione, ma in questo caso non fu così. La nuova capitale di un Brasile moderno che si affacciava con prepotenza sul palcoscenico internazionale dei paesi industrializzati, fu voluta dall’allora presidente Juscelino Kubitschek con lo scopo di attirare lavoratori nell’immenso e arretrato territorio centrale spostandoli dalle grandi agglomerazioni della costa
The National Assembly for Wales Richard Rogers Partnership, Cardiff, Galles
No full textL’edificio dell’assemblea nazionale del Galles
si affaccia sulla Cardiff Bay discretamente,
proponendosi come parte integrante del tessuto
urbano nonostante l’alta sicurezza richiesta dalla sua
funzione di contenitore del potere politico locale.
Ciò che infatti più colpisce di quest’opera di
Richard Rogers è la capacità di far parte del
progetto di riqualificazione dell’area portuale della
città rimanendo soltanto uno dei tanti tasselli che
compongono l’intero puzzle del progetto. Un felice
inserimento nel waterfront gallese, dovuto ad un
design calibrato e sensibile, lascia lo spettatore
spaesato, come se in realtà non si trovasse di
fronte ad un edificio governativo che ospita un
parlamento (solitamente luoghi protetti nascosti
alla vista del “comune” cittadino) ma ad un edificio
completamente aperto al pubblico
Una pelle pneumatica adattabile Sperimentazione di strutture pneumatiche nella periferia di Teheran
No full textLa continua volubilità dell’aria che plasma strutture
costituite da materiali innovativi è alla base di una
interessante ricerca sull’utilizzo di oggetti pneumatici
in architettura sviluppata presso la prestigiosa
Architectural Association School di Londra in occasione
di una tesi di laurea.
Il presupposto dell’intero lavoro è stata la rifl essione
che strutture gonfi abili spesso vengono utilizzate in
natura sia per scopi strutturali che adattativi da diversi
organismi
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