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This paper reports on the opening intervention of the Workshop: the title, objectives and structure are explained. The study day was proposed as a multidisciplinary comparison of the relationship between architecture and autism. The starting assumption was that this is not merely a relationship necessary to improve the living conditions of autistic people and their families, but also potentially useful to broaden the possibilities and viewpoints of architecture rather than limiting them. Some theoretical references are presented to support this hypothesis, which could guide the new technical possibilities which engineering and technology can make practicable to enrich the sensitive responsiveness of architecture. Il paper riporta l’intervento di apertura del Workshop: vengono motivati il titolo, gli obiettivi e la struttura. La giornata di studi viene proposta come un confronto multidisciplinare di indagine sulla relazione tra Architettura e Autismo. L’assunto di partenza è che si tratti non solo di una relazione necessaria a migliorare le condizioni di vita delle persone autistiche e delle loro famiglie, ma anche potenzialmente utile ad ampliare le possibilità e i punti di vista dell’architettura più che di limitarli. Vengono esposti alcuni riferimenti teorici a supporto di questa ipotesi, che possano orientare le nuove possibilità tecniche che l’ingegneria e la tecnologia rendono praticabili per arricchire la reattività sensibile dell’architettura.

Through sheer determination and courage, Kahn has researched the nature of concrete. Each of his renowned works in exposed concrete is itself an important chapter in the history of architecture for the exploration into concrete’s formal expression, beyond the lesson of Le Corbusier. Kahn’s obsession on concrete fabrication processes, and the values of joint, growth and ornament, are systematically examined in the paper. Moving through the many construction systems experienced by Kahn, from the discovery of exposed concrete in the form of béton brut at the Yale Art Gallery, the paper culminates in the reconstruction of the artistic and technical characteristics of two great worksite, the Salk Institute and the Dhaka Parliament. Kahn’s path to the true ‘nature of concrete’ and the main techniques and poetic discoveries such as the ‘liquid stone’ of the Salk Institute and the expression of ‘growth’ at the Dhaka Parliament, are examined.

This paper concerns a new type of buildings, called “colonie di vacanza”, appeared in the Italian coasts during the Thirties. The objective is to show the typological organization and the original architectural issues of Italian “colonie di vacanza” (here translated as “holiday colonies”) as outcomes of the educational programs and as a reflect of changing ideas about coastal landscape. These extraordinary shaped buildings were conceived for the holidays of children, temporary separated from their family and taken to a healthy place, where they could expose themselves to the benefits of marine water, fresh air and sunlight. This experience was developed from the middle of the 19th century to the last decades of the 20th century. Medicine, Propaganda, Pedagogy, and Leisure are the key words of an extraordinary experience of tourism that involved many generations of Italian people. As a social phenomenon, the Holiday Camps are not especially Italian: as they are a direct outcome of industrial society, they are diffused in many countries. But the Italian experience is characterized by the quality of its architectures, representing a real field of experimentation. In the Italy of the fascist regime, the holiday colonies experience was over its original starting point - the fighting against the tuberculosis and the development of a moral pedagogy against the diffusion of the socialist thought among young proletarian people -, and it was characterized by the specificity of the social program and by the quality of its architectural issues. After sketching out the three times that characterized the Italian experience – the battle against tuberculosis before WW1, the “colonie di vacanza” as a propaganda tool in the Thirties, and the discovery of education by leisure in the Sixties -, the paper shows the typological organization of Italian Holiday Camps during the Thirties as an outcome of the educational programmes, and its original architectural issues as a reflect of changing ideas about coastal landscape. The actual key words that describe the holiday colonies experience during the Thirties are neither Leisure nor Medicine, but Propaganda. The text analyses the relationship among the “colonie di vacanza” and the great investment on children’s holidays as a way to strengthen social consensus made by the fascist regime, the image of modernity transmitted by their architectural shapes, the different kinds of architectural references that we can recognize in the buildings (the iconography of imperial rhetoric of arch and columns; the search for the expression of industrial culture; the transfiguration of buildings in “mechanical toys” (giochi meccanici); the references to Modern Architecture); and finally their relationship with the natural landscape. Once isolated Monuments in the Seashore, and now enigmatic presences in the contemporary tourist resorts, the Italian Holiday Colonies manifest the search for a positive relationship with landscape at the time of Modernity, but they also question the future relationships among City, Sea and Human Life.

Interior design studios are still too little concerned with designing for autism, instead, these issues are left to building regulations, accessibility manuals, supportive technology, or linked to the prescriptive application of guidelines. However, this approach to the design of living environments cannot suffice, since it does not take into account the multiple facets of autism in many aspects of life. In this paper, some examples will be described of design experiences of architects all over the world who have been able to mediate between the generalizations needed to build guidelines and the study of specific preferences. Gli studi sull’architettura degli interni si occupano ancora troppo poco della progettazione per l'autismo, lasciando invece questo tema a regolamenti edilizi, manuali di accessibilità, tecnologia di supporto, o vincolato all'applicazione prescrittiva di linee guida. Tuttavia, questo approccio alla progettazione non può essere ritenuto sufficiente, poiché non tiene conto delle molteplici sfaccettature dell'autismo in molti aspetti della vita quotidiana. In questo articolo verranno descritti alcuni esempi di esperienze progettuali di architetti di tutto il mondo che hanno saputo mediare tra le generalizzazioni necessarie per costruire linee guida e lo studio di preferenze specifiche.

This concept paper aims to destabilize the limits and delineations of conventional architectural thinking by disclosing its ambiguities and contingencies through the centralization of the inhabitation-displacement nexus and, by extension, the figure of the inhabitant. Building upon our January 2019 workshop at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Germany, entitled: Inside Out – Outside In: Shifting Architectures of Refugee Inhabitation, its keynote interventions by Prof. Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and Prof. Romola Sanyal, together with the vast array of topics and methodologies brought to the table by our presenters, we primarily argue towards the concept of inhabitation as an epistemic shift of both the site and the subject of architectural (knowledge) production. Shifting our focus particularly to the sites and subjects of displacement (i.e., ‘the refugee’/ ‘the migrant’ and beyond) enabled us to centralize the concept of inhabitation as a modality of the architectural spatial production of an otherwise through the prime subject figure of architectural authorship: the inhabitant.

IL CONTRIBUTO ESPONE l RISULTATI DELLA RICERCA TU-CULT, OGGI IN CORSO, CHE MIRA AD ACQUISIRE, ARCHIVIARE, ELABORARE E DIVULGARE DATI RELATIVI A DUE MONUMENTI DELLA CITTÀ DI PADOVA: LA CHIESA DI S. MARIA DEl SERVI E LA BASILICA DI S. GIUSTINA. ATTRAVERSO IL TEMA DELL'ARCHITETTURA NASCOSTA E DELLA SUA RIVELAZIONE MULTIMEDIALE, LA RICERCA VUOLE COSTITUIRE UN SUPPORTO ALLA CREAZIONE DI SISTEMI INNOVATIVI DI DIFFUSIONE MULTILIVELLO DEL BENE CULTURALE, AFFRONTANDO SPECIFICI TEMI NEL CAMPO DEL RILIEVO, ELABORAZIONE 3D, VISUALIZZAZIONE E ARCHIVIAZIONE INTERATTIVA DEL DATO E FRUIZIONE DEL BENE. THIS PAPER SHOWS THE RESULTS OF THE ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECT ENTITLED TU-CULT, WHICH HAS THE PURPOSE TO ACQUIRE, STORE, PROCESS AND DISSEMINATE DATA REGARDING TWO MONUMENTS OF THE CITY OF PADUA: THE CHURCH OF S. MARIA DEl SERVI AND THE BASILICA OF S. GIUSTINA. FOLLOWIG THE THEME OF THE HIDDEN ARCHITECTURE ANO ITS MULTIMEDIA REVELATION, THE RESEARCH AIMS TO SUPPORT THE CREATION OF INNOVATIVE MULTILEVEL USES OF THE CULTURAL HERITAGE, DEALING WITH SPECIFIC TOPICS IN THE FIELDS OF RELIEF, 3D PROCESSING, INTERACTIVE DATA ARCHIVING ANO VISUALIZATION, AND ACCESSIBILITY OF THE GOOD.

The paper presents the results of geophysical surveys carried out in three large monumental complexes in Hierapolis to document their still-buried structures. in particular, different geophysical techniques (Ground-Penetrating radar, electrical resistivity Tomography, Magnetometry and Seismic refraction Tomography) were integrated to collect new data for the reconstruction of the layout of the porticoes surrounding the civil agora and the Gymnasium. Furthermore, in the apollo Sanctuary, combining the geophysical techniques and the recently acquired architectural data, it was possible to better understand the tectonic context of the sacred site and to document the relationship between the seismic fractures and building a, whose podium rested on them.

thanks to systematic sampling and pre-existing knowledge of the composition of the three orders of the theatre, the paper presents a detailed study of the criteria adopted for the procurement of marbles used in the construction of the scaenae frons. the building site of this monument has been the object of many studies, given its exceptional state of conservation, the dedicatory inscription mentioning the Dokimeian marble and the assumed involvement of aphrodisian craftsmen in the decoration process. the present research offers new data regarding (i) the first phase of the scaenae frons (augustan and Julio-Claudian era), (ii) the chronological development of the severan building site (early to late severan period), (iii) the provenance of the marbles used the logeion and the three orders (mainly from Marmar tepe and thiounta quarries), and (iv) the distribution of white and coloured marbles (both local and imported) aimed at emphasising the central section of the scaenae frons.

This paper is the result of collaborative work and joint construction. Our intention is to explain the utterly uncertain and always debatable connection between architecture and philosophy. Namely, this is an elucidation of the reconstruction of the connection between philosophy or theory on the one hand, and architecture on the other, by making reference and explaining “The Architectural Philosophy” (Eisenman’s concept), thereby introducing a few premises that would regulate the status and form of the copula “and” between these respective fields. The first premise could regard the various kinds of inspiration that philosophy or theory has produced in the field of architecture, or even the results of various encounters and dialogues between philosophers and architects. Indeed, today the philosopher is awakened in the architect. On the other hand, it seems to us, and this is our second premise, that it is indeed possible to explain the uncertainty of the encounter between an architect and a philosopher through the example of their collaboration or exchange. Gli autori intendono proporre le premesse necessarie al chiarimento del rapporto, incerto e da sempre dibattuto, che lega architettura e filosofia attraverso il riferimento al concetto di “Filosofia architettonica” proposto da Peter Eisenman. Una prima premessa riguarda le varie tipologie di approccio alla filosofia riscontrabili nel campo dell’architettura, fino a delineare una forma di consapevolezza filosofica nell’architettura contemporanea. La seconda premessa riguarda la possibilità di spiegare il rapporto tra filosofia e architettura attraverso i casi di collaborazione concreta tra architetti e filosofi.

Two strong concepts like “geometry” and “architecture” can be enhanced if they are correlated to each other, especially if the link between them is the word “construction”. From the abstract form of the first concept to the tangible physicality of the second one, the distance seems really short.The assume is confirmed both for the traditional representation and the digitally expressions: it constitute the foundament of the architectural formation and production. This is valid for the architectural dimension but also for the urban one. In this context the treatises can be considered as a source not inedit but still with great disciplinary and interdisciplinary implications: a distillate of knoledge coming from multiple cultural matrices. The paper wants to demonstrate that the territory can be read and confirmed in the fortified city, which for centuries has been considered the prevailing urban model., Due concetti forti come “geometria” e “architettura” possono risultare vieppiù rafforzati se insieme correlati, specie se il legame è costituito da un terzo termine: “costruire”. Dalla costruzione della forma astratta del primo concetto alla fisicità tangibile del secondo, il passo può risultare davvero breve. Che si parli della geometria nella rappresentazione tradizionale, o nella più attuale espressione digitale, questa è sempre il fondamento della formazione e della produzione dell’architettura (e non solo). In tal senso la trattatistica costituisce una chiave di lettura sicuramente non inedita, ma ancora densa di implicazioni disciplinari e interdisciplinari: un distillato di saperi di varie matrici culturali, fino alle teorie della composizione: il valore della costruzione geometrica del territorio si legge e si conferma con grande evidenza nella città fortificata., DISEGNARECON; Vol. 5, n. 9 (2012) - Geometria - Costruzione - Architettura, a cura di Riccardo Migliari; 161 - 166

Wherever we live, in the affluent West, in emerging economies or in the poorest countries, the increasing presence of waste is a common experience that triggered many design experiments. Environmental sustainability is obviously the narrative glue which keeps together these researches, but it does not explain alone the attitude of waste and its recycling strategies (both in a material and conceptual sense) to become the engine of design and get so compelling solutions. Though the ethical intentionality is an integral part of these proposals, their aesthetic effectiveness lies more plausibly in the ambiguous relationship between past and present triggered by the very idea of recycling: between the reassuring continuity of the known and the threatening return of the removed, between nostalgia for the familiar and its inevitable estrangement. [This paper has been written and published within the PRIN 2007 research program "Waste Archipelagoes. Investigation on the Relationship between Waste and Design".]

This paper presents the key steps of the digitazation project of the Digital Palladio project of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura (CISA) Andrea Palladio. Goals of this project have been the collection, enhancement and accessibility of the whole of visual items documenting the activity of the architect Andrea Palladio, through the digitization and storing of more than 33.000 items. Our work aimed to operate within this framework, in order to define a basic methodology regarding the digitization of the most relevant items of the whole of materials representing the documental system on the Andrea Palladio works that can be summarized in six dimensionally and typologically different documental subsystems: photographs, Palladio’s own hand drawings, modern surveys, archival documents, ancient maps, printed XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries books.

The change in life rhythms and styles of the contemporary society has brought to a parallel change in the housing features, entrusting a more and more important role to night and day living buildings. Commercial premises, fitness and sport centers, cinemas and theatres, nurseries and meeting areas, offices and administrative services are located in macro-structures, where, with an accelerated cadence, the individual is brought to spend the whole day, putting in diubt the role of the traditional housing spaces. Starting from the accurate study of the functional and constructive features of the three buildings mentioned, ther paper aims to allow a wider consideration about social structures, unstable balancing between fiction and reality to be, for which innovation, technology and sustainability have a preference valence.