Libri di Architettura, design, territorio

Adaptivity of the urban open spaces to face the climatic, socio-ecological, multicultural and health challenges, raises questions with multiple design implications, which cannot be solved only with the functional, formal, and technical rethinking of the space. Today, the metropolis of Dubai is characterized by an extreme climatic-environmental conditions and, at the same time, by an almost infinite capacity to regulate the living spaces through the most innovative technologies. The theme of adaptive design of open urban spaces has been contextualized in some case-study areas of Dubai. The results outlined a complex framework of different development trajectories, both for the designing innovation of the urban open spaces, and for the launch of new teaching methods of architectural, technological, and urban project.

Augmented Reality (AR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are technological domains that closely interact with space at architectural and urban scale in the broader ambits of cultural heritage and innovative design.
This essays, by reintroducing the combination of Augmented Reality (AR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), explores its new frontiers. The ambitious goal of this second step was to explore the new boundaries that AR and AI mark in the fields of cultural heritage and innovative design, opening to international studies.

This book deals with re-manufacturing, recondition, reuse and repurpose considered as winning strategies for boosting regenerative circular economy in the building sector. The book investigates the most promising strategies and organizational models to maintain over time the value of the environmental and economic resources integrated into manufactured products, once they have been removed from buildings, by extending their useful life and their usability with the lower possible consumption of other materials and energy and with the maximum containment of emissions into the environment.

In a time when profound sociocultural and technological changes are affecting the design discipline, this book presents a number of consolidated and emerging issues in product design under four dominant perspectives: technical, human, digital and social. Different perspectives underlying modifications and adaptations of the design concept, together with the fixed elements that have characterized product design since its inception during the Industrial Revolution, are the subjects of analysis and discussion in the present book.

Le pastoralisme de montagne, défini comme l’ensemble des activités d’élevage valorisant par un pâturage extensif les ressources fourragères spontanées des espaces naturels montagneux, joue un rôle non négligeable dans la production de produits de qualité. Toutefois, des pressions d’ordre économique, politique et environnemental viennent aujourd’hui défier cette activité. Ce mode d’élevage extensif souffre ainsi par exemple des conséquences du changement climatique avec notamment des sécheresses impactant la végétation présente en altitude. Cette étude vise donc à explorer la littérature de la résilience et des systèmes socio-écologiques afin de déterminer si les activités pastorales de montagne en France détiennent des caractéristiques de résilience.

The book explores the radical transformation of living and working spaces, in which the hybridization of interior and exterior requires a new vision able to interpreter renewed people’s behaviours and needs, a challenging issue for the design discipline that has a multidisciplinary nature as well as a multiscale approach for both research and practice. Our ambition is to re-launch an aesthetic, sustainable, design-based approach to improve dwelling conditions, trying to implement care into different well-being dimensions – mental, physical, social, and global.

Il 43° convegno UID, tenuto a Genova, ha come tema il dialogo; praticato e spesso anche portato a dibattito su tanti temi fondamentali per la nostra vita all’interno della società, così complesso e non ancora risolto. Genova propone una riflessione sul valore del confronto e sui possibili frutti per la comunità, come docenti, ricercatori e divulgatori della conoscenza, ovvero sulla disciplina della rappresentazione in tutte le sue possibili accezioni e sul suo dialogare con gli ‘altri’ in tre macro ambiti: la Storia, la Semiotica, la Scienza/Tecnologia.

Il volume illustra le Radici del paesaggio della Valmalenco, in particolare descrive l’evoluzione del manto vegetazionale, sulla base delle fonti documentarie e degli archivi naturali. Descrive lo stretto rapporto tra pietre, opportunità economiche, architettura vernacolare e volto dei luoghi, affronta le radici dell’insediamento e il ruolo del castello di Caspoggio fulcro territoriale della valle. Il risultato è l’emergere di una forte integrazione tra sistemi antropici e quelli naturali.

Il volume raccoglie gli esiti di uno studio sulle potenzialità dell’integrazione del BIM (Building Information Modeling) nei processi di documentazione, comunicazione e gestione del patrimonio costruito, indagando l’estensione del concetto di modello digitale rispetto alla stratificazione della conoscenza resa possibile dall’approccio HBIM (Heritage Building Information Modeling). La sperimentazione affronta questi problemi in relazione a diversi casi di studio appartenenti all’architettura rinascimentale e al razionalismo italiano.