46 research outputs found
RURBAN BIO LAB in Nexto Masterplan. Una visione per Torino
No full textGREEN INNOVATION HUB. Completare Spina 3
Titolo progetto: RURBAN BIO LAB
Progettisti: Arch. Danilo Iannetti (capogruppo), Arch. Chiara Cugini, Arch. Danilo Iannetti, Arch. Amir FaridKhou,
Arch. Filippo Fiandanese, Arch. Paolo Martini, Arch. Maicol Negrello, Arch. Luca Troglia, Federica Zaino.
Consulenti: Flavio Bertinaria (agronomo
Le caserme dei Vigili del Fuoco: un trait d'union tra architettura contemporanea, "welfare alpino" e paesaggio
No full textOltre l’agricoltura: il carattere resiliente del paesaggio urbano simbiotico
No full textThe environmental and health crisis has challenged the role and potential of green space.
The bottom-up actions of re-appropriation of this space represent the incredible tenacity of citizens to create an urban environment that meets the new biophilic needs of closeness to nature, but also of social cohesion and urban resilience. The paper illustrates some European experiences in which, through the care of the environment expressed with an agricultural approach of permaculture and alternative cultivation, regenerative processes of both the urban and social fabric have been triggered
Architettura, cibo e agricoltura: assaggi della città autosufficiente
No full textA Milano, la terza edizione di "Seeds&Chips. The Global Food Innovation Summit" ha affrontato il tema della produzione agricola urbana e non, focalizzandosi sulle crescenti necessità di trovare soluzioni per la città autosufficiente: le urban vertical farm
Ritratti di città. Così Montréal ripensa la downtown
No full textLa città canadese si rimette in gioco e investe sugli spazi pubblici per un ambiente urbano più vivibile, più verde e a misura d’uomo. Il caso dell’ambizioso intervento per Rue Sainte Catherin
NATURE-BASED REGENERATION. FIVE STORIES OF ARCHITECTURE THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD
No full textWhat if cities and architecture once again behaved like living organisms? Nature-Based Regeneration calls for a holistic, reflective, and site-specific design practice, extending from the construction detail to the neighbourhood, “from the spoon to the city.” It revives the grounded intelligence of vernacular architecture, attentive to climate, soils, water, and materials, and weaves it together with the social and cultural fabric of place. Embracing a more than human approach, it maps people and other species within the same space, addressing climate challenges through contemporary design tools.
Through five European stories - Barcelona, Copenhagen, Paris, Montpellier, and Rønde - the book proposes not static icons but living prototypes: green networks that stitch the city together, porous architectures that breathe, façades that become habitats, roof gardens, sponge courtyards, living soils, and blue and green infrastructures that make cities cooler, more livable, and regenerative.
The result is a clear and transferable method based on listening and co-design, in-situ testing, appropriate materials, and shared stewardship. The volume concludes with practical frameworks, including guidelines, key questions, and project sheets, offering public agencies, designers, and communities the tools to shape concrete, beautiful, and just interventions, starting from the knowledge already embedded in each place
Campi di cemento. Verso un’economia circolare: agricoltura locale per la tutela e la valorizzazione del territorio
No full textThe climate change effects on the environment are particularly perceived in the urban habitat due to excessive soil cementation; moreover, there are negative consequences that affect those lands allocated to agriculture. Despite the crisis of the Italian construction industry, cities and suburbs continue to steal useful land for agricultural purpose, destroying a valuable resource. Fertile soil is, in fact, an exhaustible common good, a fundamental asset to achieve a more sustainable balance between the city and the country. Investing in the recovery of rural areas would induce a virtuous process of circular economy, based on local agricultural production, small-scale community relationship, valorization and reclamation of the territory, and the enhancement of rural property heritage. Such economy would be a possible solution for a more resilient, durable and sustainable territory
Progettare l'agricoltura del futuro. Architetture e agricoltura: le smart technologies per la nuova produzione agricola urbana
No full textNegli ultimi dieci anni sono stati sviluppati
innovativi devices che ora rendono possibile
fare agricoltura urbana all’interno di
edifici, in condizioni ambientali controllate,
senza necessità di suolo e luce solare, con
consumi idrici ridotti e con una produzione
continuativa per tutto l’anno. Questi dispositivi
hanno in parte rivoluzionato e mutato
il concetto più tradizionale di agricoltura
urbana, trasformandola in un vero business.
Ne deriva che questa produzione sta
generando tipologie architettoniche ibride
che potrebbero essere sempre più comuni e
diffuse in ambiente urbano.*
As result of the last ten years of technological
innovations, new devices make
now possible practicing urban agriculture
inside buildings, in controlled environmental
conditions, without soil and sunlight,
using the 80% less of water and with an
“all-year-long production”. These devices
have partly revolutionized and changed the
more traditional concept of urban agriculture,
even turning it into a real business.
It follows that this production is generating
hybrid architectural types that could
become increasi
Agricoltura urbana indoor: dalla sperimentazione progettuale innovativa alla norma
No full textLa necessità di riconfigurare i modelli attuali di approvvigionamento per far fronte ai futuri scenari climatici e demografici ha spinto ricercatori ed investitori a sperimentare innovativi sistemi produttivi che hanno riconnesso la produzione agricola al luogo di consumo, ovvero le città. L’accelerazione tecnologica dell’ultimo decennio ha portato alla nascita di nuove architetture e metabolismi urbani che spesso si sono potute realizzare tra vuoti normativi e limiti normativi, dovuti all’obsolescenza di piani regolatori o regolamenti edilizi. Il paper traccia lo stato dell’arte dell’evoluzione dell’innovazione tecnologica e di come essa e il progetto abbiano riscritto le norme
“Agricultural factory”: industrial reuse for innovative production towards more sustainable cities
No full textThe tissue of cities is getting increasingly dense and compact, however, according to the current development models, the demand for living space per person, for industrial and commercial activities, for the transport infrastructure, requires more and more lands, often to the detriment of agricultural fields, that surround cities. The occupation of agricultural lands has significant impacts on the resilience of cities to the effects of climatic changes; in fact, permeable land and green areas play a fundamental role on the mitigation of climate (avoiding heat waves, floods) on the quality of life and on the ecosystems. The soil is a precious resource for the common weal, hence, the EU Commission is committed to reducing land (ab)use and aim to “no net land take by 2050” initiative, that would imply that all new urbanization will either occur on brownfields, used lands, ex-industrial buildings or that any new land used will need to be compensated by the reclamation of artificial land. Starting from those premises, the topic of this paper is addressed to show how is it possible to avoid new land use, re-using the industrial legacy to produce food more efficiently, to be more productive and to guarantee food safety through innovative indoor technology, such as hydroponic systems. By exploring and analyzing the experiences of different case studies, set in European and North American cities, I aim to investigate and illustrate, through some architectural projects, how “agricultural factories” can be considered a replicable sustainable model of urban regeneration to improve urban food production and city-life quality
