IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
How long does a space or an object have to last? If in the past an object or a building manufactu... more How long does a space or an object have to last? If in the past an object or a building manufacturing was designed to last as much as possible, nowadays it is designed to have a life related to the time in which it will be used. Flexibility is what characterizes a space, it's the ability to be variable and adaptable to changes in the lives of users or in relation to the use which these will make over time. The evolution of the labour market, the difficulty of inserting within it and the need to push more and more frequent move today in the trial of living space models increasingly flexible: people, especially young people, are forced to move on territory outlining a new condition to which the flexible nomadic dwellings offer an adequate response, ensuring high functional performance in confined spaces.
Nei vari paragrafi vengono esaminate le principali realizzazioni nel settore degli arredi, parten... more Nei vari paragrafi vengono esaminate le principali realizzazioni nel settore degli arredi, partendo dalle loro caratteristiche costruttive e strutturali ma evidenziando gli aspetti legati ai colori e alla finitura dei materiali costituenti. La rassegna offre un panorama delle soluzioni cromatiche nella produzione di arredi sia contemporanei che di un illustre passato nel settore del legno, delle materie plastiche e dei tessuti.
La pubblicazione analizza lo stile architettonico di Manrique che si basava sulla salvaguardia de... more La pubblicazione analizza lo stile architettonico di Manrique che si basava sulla salvaguardia della natura, ottenuta attraverso la costruzione in perfetta armonia con l'ambiente circostante. Gli interventi di Manrique sull'isola vanno dal decretare che il colore per tutte le costruzioni fosse il bianco (come da tradizione delle antiche case fatte con la calce) a vari interventi spettacolari dove la sua incredibile capacita di fondersi ed integrarsi con l'ambiente ha dato vita a veri e propri capolavori. Manrique proteggeva la natura, non la intaccava con le costruzioni. Ne sono un chiaro esempio il ristorante El Diablo progettato all'interno del Parco Nazionale di Timanfaya, perfettamente integrato nelle sue colorazioni esterne con l'ambiente arido dei vulcani, il Mirador del Rio sulla punta nord dell'isola realizzato all'interno della montagna, i Jameos del Agua, una serie di grotte scavate dalla lava fusa in cui si infiltra l'oceano dove Manrique e...
Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, 2020
Mechanization Takes Command is the title of a book written by Sigfrid Giedion in 1948, which can ... more Mechanization Takes Command is the title of a book written by Sigfrid Giedion in 1948, which can be considered the first essay on the history of technology, where great importance is given to the furniture too. It covers almost a millennium of inventions. Mechanical furniture helps us to save space, they can transform the rooms where we are living or working. Mechanization is a concept not only referred to an object. What I would like to analyse in this paper is the comparison of three levels of mechanization in housing projects, each able to modify and transform spaces, acting on the single room, on the internal volume and also on the façade.
Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, 2020
The mission to collect significant and valuable objects and to preserve them in a specially dedic... more The mission to collect significant and valuable objects and to preserve them in a specially dedicated place, assumes various and different characteristics over the centuries. Nowadays the museum, from a privileged place of conservation and exhibition, is increasingly establishing itself as a powerful medium of social communication and commercial and tourist enhancement.
Modern Environmental Science and Engineering, 2017
Living: today it's often linked to temporariness; the current situation of the housing market, th... more Living: today it's often linked to temporariness; the current situation of the housing market, the need of finding housing for moving users or users in temporary housing emergency has caused the city of Turin and other institutions to think a model of Nomadic Housing that aims to be at the same time an experimentation of a new way of furnishing and living interiors and also a new way urban regeneration of areas strongly affected by social problems. Thinking: Interiors and Exhibit Design course at Politecnico of Torino tested a didactic formula to use common spaces of temporary residence as a communicative model of themes related to the area where the building is located and at the same time to induce greater sharing of common spaces through temporary exhibitions.
Four archaeological sites in the city of Turin, three publicly owned and one privately, were anal... more Four archaeological sites in the city of Turin, three publicly owned and one privately, were analyzed from a point of view of issues relating to urban context, to the context of the archaeological site itself and to the exhibition. Because of its central location in the city and its proximity to the most important archaeological remains of Turin (Porte Palatine and the remains of the Roman wall, the Roman theater, the Roman ruins of the medieval courtyard of Palazzo Madama) the archaeological area of S.Salvatore near the cathedral, where the remains of an early Christian basilica lie, was taken into account. Around these remains operations to enhance the testimonies of urban succession events took place in the last ten years: the reconstruction of part of the ancient city walls in the new Archaeological Park, the Diocesan Museum housed in the lower church of the Cathedral, the glass coverage overlooking the mosaic of S. Salvatore, the entrance to the underground level of the Museum of Antiquities, overlooking the Roman theater, the recovery of Palazzo Madama moat with the reconstruction of the Medieval Garden. The research, starting from this premise, proposes to enhance all the area between Piazza Castello and Piazza della Repubblica. The hypothesised routes are the main paths to visit a great museum, largely in the open, and enhance the connections between the archaeological sites; the open areas, arranged along the main route of access as a sort of large windows, shall consist of the most important finds of the Porta Palatina, of the subterranean museum display of the remains of the Senate and the Roman theater. Premise of this enhancement is the accessibility to the whole area, which must be guaranteed by penetration axes to the area, primarily pedestrian; at the same time the area must rely on service areas and parking for cars and tour buses, and wishes to be better served in terms of the metro network. The museum system suggested in this first phase of the research aims to offer the public a wide range of exhibition situations, from the overlooking on remains that are not accessible to the underground tour, from museum spaces in the strict sense to the monuments which can be visited at ground level
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
How long does a space or an object have to last? If in the past an object or a building manufactu... more How long does a space or an object have to last? If in the past an object or a building manufacturing was designed to last as much as possible, nowadays it is designed to have a life related to the time in which it will be used. Flexibility is what characterizes a space, it's the ability to be variable and adaptable to changes in the lives of users or in relation to the use which these will make over time. The evolution of the labour market, the difficulty of inserting within it and the need to push more and more frequent move today in the trial of living space models increasingly flexible: people, especially young people, are forced to move on territory outlining a new condition to which the flexible nomadic dwellings offer an adequate response, ensuring high functional performance in confined spaces.
Nei vari paragrafi vengono esaminate le principali realizzazioni nel settore degli arredi, parten... more Nei vari paragrafi vengono esaminate le principali realizzazioni nel settore degli arredi, partendo dalle loro caratteristiche costruttive e strutturali ma evidenziando gli aspetti legati ai colori e alla finitura dei materiali costituenti. La rassegna offre un panorama delle soluzioni cromatiche nella produzione di arredi sia contemporanei che di un illustre passato nel settore del legno, delle materie plastiche e dei tessuti.
La pubblicazione analizza lo stile architettonico di Manrique che si basava sulla salvaguardia de... more La pubblicazione analizza lo stile architettonico di Manrique che si basava sulla salvaguardia della natura, ottenuta attraverso la costruzione in perfetta armonia con l'ambiente circostante. Gli interventi di Manrique sull'isola vanno dal decretare che il colore per tutte le costruzioni fosse il bianco (come da tradizione delle antiche case fatte con la calce) a vari interventi spettacolari dove la sua incredibile capacita di fondersi ed integrarsi con l'ambiente ha dato vita a veri e propri capolavori. Manrique proteggeva la natura, non la intaccava con le costruzioni. Ne sono un chiaro esempio il ristorante El Diablo progettato all'interno del Parco Nazionale di Timanfaya, perfettamente integrato nelle sue colorazioni esterne con l'ambiente arido dei vulcani, il Mirador del Rio sulla punta nord dell'isola realizzato all'interno della montagna, i Jameos del Agua, una serie di grotte scavate dalla lava fusa in cui si infiltra l'oceano dove Manrique e...
Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, 2020
Mechanization Takes Command is the title of a book written by Sigfrid Giedion in 1948, which can ... more Mechanization Takes Command is the title of a book written by Sigfrid Giedion in 1948, which can be considered the first essay on the history of technology, where great importance is given to the furniture too. It covers almost a millennium of inventions. Mechanical furniture helps us to save space, they can transform the rooms where we are living or working. Mechanization is a concept not only referred to an object. What I would like to analyse in this paper is the comparison of three levels of mechanization in housing projects, each able to modify and transform spaces, acting on the single room, on the internal volume and also on the façade.
Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, 2020
The mission to collect significant and valuable objects and to preserve them in a specially dedic... more The mission to collect significant and valuable objects and to preserve them in a specially dedicated place, assumes various and different characteristics over the centuries. Nowadays the museum, from a privileged place of conservation and exhibition, is increasingly establishing itself as a powerful medium of social communication and commercial and tourist enhancement.
Modern Environmental Science and Engineering, 2017
Living: today it's often linked to temporariness; the current situation of the housing market, th... more Living: today it's often linked to temporariness; the current situation of the housing market, the need of finding housing for moving users or users in temporary housing emergency has caused the city of Turin and other institutions to think a model of Nomadic Housing that aims to be at the same time an experimentation of a new way of furnishing and living interiors and also a new way urban regeneration of areas strongly affected by social problems. Thinking: Interiors and Exhibit Design course at Politecnico of Torino tested a didactic formula to use common spaces of temporary residence as a communicative model of themes related to the area where the building is located and at the same time to induce greater sharing of common spaces through temporary exhibitions.
Four archaeological sites in the city of Turin, three publicly owned and one privately, were anal... more Four archaeological sites in the city of Turin, three publicly owned and one privately, were analyzed from a point of view of issues relating to urban context, to the context of the archaeological site itself and to the exhibition. Because of its central location in the city and its proximity to the most important archaeological remains of Turin (Porte Palatine and the remains of the Roman wall, the Roman theater, the Roman ruins of the medieval courtyard of Palazzo Madama) the archaeological area of S.Salvatore near the cathedral, where the remains of an early Christian basilica lie, was taken into account. Around these remains operations to enhance the testimonies of urban succession events took place in the last ten years: the reconstruction of part of the ancient city walls in the new Archaeological Park, the Diocesan Museum housed in the lower church of the Cathedral, the glass coverage overlooking the mosaic of S. Salvatore, the entrance to the underground level of the Museum of Antiquities, overlooking the Roman theater, the recovery of Palazzo Madama moat with the reconstruction of the Medieval Garden. The research, starting from this premise, proposes to enhance all the area between Piazza Castello and Piazza della Repubblica. The hypothesised routes are the main paths to visit a great museum, largely in the open, and enhance the connections between the archaeological sites; the open areas, arranged along the main route of access as a sort of large windows, shall consist of the most important finds of the Porta Palatina, of the subterranean museum display of the remains of the Senate and the Roman theater. Premise of this enhancement is the accessibility to the whole area, which must be guaranteed by penetration axes to the area, primarily pedestrian; at the same time the area must rely on service areas and parking for cars and tour buses, and wishes to be better served in terms of the metro network. The museum system suggested in this first phase of the research aims to offer the public a wide range of exhibition situations, from the overlooking on remains that are not accessible to the underground tour, from museum spaces in the strict sense to the monuments which can be visited at ground level
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