BOOK
WEEK
DIDA
RESEARCH
A walk through
the research
paths of the
Department of
Architecture
of Florence
2018
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Dipartimento di Architettura Università degli Studi di Firenze Susanna CerriStefania Aimar Federica Giulivo Simone Spellucci
In February 2018, the Department of Architecture of the University of
Florence (DIDA) promoted an open and public analysis and evaluation of
the research carried out by the Department during its first five years of
existence in order to define its strategy, the relationship with third and
second cycle education, the role of experimental research and the
DIDA-LABS laboratory system, as well as of research units and inter-university
research centers.
The objective of the DIDA Research Week, through the documentation,
communication and evaluation of the activites carried out by the
De-partment in national and international research projects or in individual
or exploratory projects, is an analysis and an in-depth reflection on the
research activites at all levels carried out during the first five years of
the Department: a wide and transparent reflection which communicates
what the research carried out by DIDA is in all its different forms,
call-ing the most qualified colleagues in Florence, Italy and abroad to discuss
and to evaluate it and to contribute to the identification of future goals,
strategies and actions.
The transparency strategy in scientific communication developed by the
Department plays a central role not only concerning the dissemination of
knowledge but above all for the effective evaluation by the entire
scien-tific community, certainly more effective than the current assessment
procedures.The increasingly international dimension of research and
ed-ucation requires the maximum possible transparency and accessibility of
research results.
The Department’s commitment to supporting scientific journals, the
DIDAPress publishing, the Communication Laboratory and the first DIDA
Research Week itself aims to meet this need.
DIDA RESEARCH WEEK 5 YEARS OF RESEARCH BY THE DEPARTMENT DIDA 2013-2017:
AN ASSESSMENT FOR THE FUTURE PROGRAM.
19-23 February 2017
Santa Teresa, via della Mattonaia 8, 50121 Florence
Monday 19 February
Disciplinary research
Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research
Tuesday, February 20
Competitive research, horizon 2020, industrial research, design research,
research for the third mission
Research communication, magazines and scientific publishing
Wednesday 21 February
The Ph.D. Course in Architecture
Thursday 22 February
Research, training and profession. DIDALABS, Research Units and Research Centers
Applied research experiences
Round table: Research, training, profession: DIDA Open perspectives
Friday 23 February
Research, training and profession in the design area:
scenarios and strategies for the design and project area
DIDA RESEARCH WEEK
BOOK 2018
INTRO
DIDA Research Week. Overview of DIDA research environment from 2013 up to 2018
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Saverio Mecca
Map 1 Research Map
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DIDA RESEARCH STRATEGY | A general view
Projects and relations between fi elds of knowledge
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Giuseppe Lotti
Towards an innovative doctorate
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Giuseppe De Luca
Didalabs. Clusters and applied research
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Giorgio Verdiani
Map 2 DIDAlabs. Inside Research
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Understanding research through communication. Concept, methodologies and tools of DRW
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Susanna Cerri
Setting Connections. Inter-university Centres
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Roberto Bologna, Paola Gallo
Map 3 Internationalisation of research
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DIDA RESEARCH MAP | 2013-2018
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DIDA Research Systems
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Inter-university centres ABITA_CIST_TESIS
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ABITA
TESIS
Laboratories
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A&P - Architecture & Project cluster
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Architecture and Auto-construction | LAA
Prato Laboratory | Laboratorioprato
Technologies for the Mediterranean Area Laboratory |TAM Lab
Theatre | Architecture Laboratory | TEARC Lab
Urban Design Laboratory | UD
AHCV - Architectural Heritage Conservation and Valorisation cluster
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Architectural Heritage Restoration and Conservation | LARC
Architectural Survey Laboratory | LRA architecturalsurveylab
Cultural Heritage Management Laboratory | CHM_Lab
Heritage City Laboratory | Heritage City_Lab
Materials and Structures Testing Laboratory | LPMS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
table of contents table of contents
DSI - Design and Sustainable Innovation cluster
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Communication Laboratory | didacommunicationlab
Design for Kids
Italian Design for the train | DIT lab
Ergonomics & Design Laboratory | LED
Modelling Laboratory for Design | LMD lab
Multimedia Architecture Interaction Laboratory | mailab
Reverse Engineering Interaction design | Rei Lab
Sustainable Design Laboratory | sustainabilitylab
ICT - Information Communication Technologies cluster
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Informatic Laboratory of Architecture | informaticlab – LiA
Cartography Laboratory | LCart
Photography Laboratory | LfA
Architectural Model Laboratory | LMA
Architecture Video Laboratory | VI.D.A. lab
TEL - Territories, Ecosystems and Landscapes cluster
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Critical Planning & Design
Laboratory of Sociological Research on Design, Architecture and Planning | LabSo
Landscape Design Lab
Laboratory of Ecological Design of Settlements | LaPEI
Plans and Projects for the City and the Territory | PPCT
Regional Design Lab
PhD Programs
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Architectural and Environmental Survey and Representation
Design
History of Architecture and the City
Landscape Architecture
Technology of Architecture
Urban and Regional Planning and Design
Research Units
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Cities and Regions Across Local Boundaries | A.VAST Area Vasta
COmmunities REsilience | CORE
Documentation and Management of Small Historical Settlements | DM_SHS
Exploring Landscape Architecture | ELA eu.med.
Florence Accessibility Lab | FAL
Heritage and Euro-Mediterranean Design | Dar_Med
International Group on Urban and Architecture Design | INTEGRO_UAD
Landscape, Cultural Heritage. Project | PPcP
Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Innovation | INN-LINK-S
Projects on Environment, Cities and Territories in the South | ProjECTS
Urban Bioregion Project | PROBIUR
Sustainable Urban Projects & Research | SUP&R
Technology for the Project | TxP_R
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Scientifi c Journals
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Firenze Architettura
Contesti
Territori
Scienze del Territorio
Opus Incertum
Ri-Vista
DIDA Research Programs
359
A&P - Architecture & Project
363
Archtecture & Project
346
AHCV - Architectural Heritage Conservation and Valorisation
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Architectural and Environmental Survey and Representation
486
Conservation of Architecture and Cultural Heritage
572
History of Architecture and the City
604
Materials and Structures
648
DSI - Design and Sustainable Innovation
697
Design
698
Technologies of Architecture
714
TEL - Territories, Ecosystems and Landscapes
745
Landscape Architecture
746
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research map | research map | dida research systemDocumentation and Management
of Small Historical Settlements
DM_SHS
Scientifi c Coordinator Alessandro Merlo Address room L3 Santa Verdiana piazza L. Ghiberti, 27 Firenze Date of Establishment April 2, 2014 Research Group UNIFI | DIDA Andrea Aliperta Alberto Bove Riccardo Butini Paola Gallo Gaia Lavoratti Alessandro Merlo Emanuela Morelli Iacopo Zetti UNIFI | SAGAS Giuseppina Carla Romby UNIROMA ‘Tor Vergata’ | SPFSAntonino Meo Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore sede di Piacenza | LEL Sandro Danesi MiBACT | SABAP Firenze-Prato-Pistoia Franco Filippelli Museo della Carta di Pescia Massimiliano Bini External Collaborators Margherita Cricchio Simone De Fraja Serena Di Grazia Stefania Franceschi Leonardo Germani Cinzia Jelencovich
Small historical settlements (SHS), typical of the EU urban landscape, require specific
analysis and management tools. The close link with the morphological and geological
as-pects of their landscape, the proximity to agricultural land or forestry, the need to adapt
their buildings to contemporary housing needs, the relationships with local economic
ac-tivities, and the development of public-private partnerships are just few aspects that
must consider when undertaking their conservation, management, enhancement and
promotion.
The Research Unit Documentation and Management of Small Historical Settlements
aims to promote the knowledge of historical, environmental, social and economic
trans-formation processes of SHS, in order to support project proposals, that may help job of
the dedicated administrations. Specifically, the RU deals with the morphometric
docu-mentation of the SHS, the creation of virtual urban models (SIUR) that support the
gov-ernance, the dissemination of the project outcomes, the provision of economic, financial
and urban feasibility studies for specific interventions, the provision of commercial and
tourism development plans for the promotion and enhancement of cultural heritage, the
evaluation of public funding opportunities at various level.
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CONTEXT
RESEARCH PROJECTS
ORGANIZED CONFERENCES
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THEMATIC SEMINARS
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SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
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SPIN-OFF / START UP DM_SHS: Cristoforo Project
Spin Off course inside the Florentine University Incubator - CsaVRI (preliminary project)
Project scope: enhancement of cultural landscapes
Scientific Coordinators | Alessandro Merlo (DIDA); Gaio Cesare Pacini, (DISPAA)
Research Group | Alessandro Merlo, Gaio Cesare Pacini, Sandro Dane-si, Margherita Santoni, Andrea Aliperta, Marco Corridori, Mattia Genu-ini, Gaetano Parisi.
The project goal is the restoration of the building heritage of Bivig-nano, creating a receptive structure supported by a farm. This hold-ing will manage the land adjacent to the historic settlement and the other plots owned by the I.D.S.C. (Diocesan Institute for the Mainte-nance of the Clergy) of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, which are located in the immediate neighbourhood, in the valleys of the Padonchia and Cerfone creeks. The I.D.S.C. will give the Spin Off assets free of charge for the number of years necessary to complete the redevelopment and to achieve the pre-set economic results; subsequently it will guaran-tee its use at the same Spin Off, behind a previously agreed rent, for a period to be determined.
TRAINING ACTIVITIES Thematic Seminars
Inhabiting the landscape of history
From survey to project: la plaza de la Constitución de Yátova (Academ-ic Year 2016-2017).
Inhabiting the landscape of history
Participatory path for the redevelopment of Piazza Ghiberti in Pelago (Academic Year 2015-2016).
Reverse Engineering and Cad Modelling for the study of historical ar-chitecture (Academic Year 2014-2015).
Masterplan for the new museum of the city of Florence (Academic Year 2014-2015).
PUBLICATIONS
Alessandro Merlo (a cura di), La piazza Ghiberti di Pelago. Storia e
forma di uno spazio urbano, DIDAPress, Firenze 2016.
Alessandro Merlo, Riccardo Butini (a cura di), La cartiera Bocci di
Pie-trabuona. Documentazione e valorizzazione, DIDAtesi n.1, Firenze
2014.
Alessandro Merlo, Gaia Lavoratti (a cura di), Pietrabuona. Strategie
per la salvaguardia e la valorizzazione degli insediamenti medioevali,
DIDA Workshop, Firenze 2014.
Riccardo Butini, Stefania Franceschi, Leonardo Germani,
Conser-vazione e valorizzazione delle castella della Valleriana, in
«L’Univer-so», novembre-dicembre 2014, numero 6, anno XCIV, I.G.M., Firen-ze 2014.
Cinzia Jelencovich, Epigrafi, simboli e segni di lapicidi nelle castella
della Valleriana, in «L’Universo», settembre-ottobre 2014, numero
5, anno XCIV, I.G.M., Firenze 2014.
Alessandro Merlo, Andrea Aliperta, Metodi e strumenti per il rileva-mento, in «L’Universo», luglio-agosto 2014, numero 4, anno XCIV, I.G.M., Firenze 2014.
Giuseppina Carla Romby, Tipologie e caratteri dell’architettura nelle ‘castella’ della Valleriana, in «L’Universo», maggio-giugno 2014, nu-mero 3, anno XCIV, I.G.M., Firenze 2014.
Alessandro Merlo, Gaia Lavoratti, Fabrizio Mari, Struttura e forma
delle castella della Valleriana, in «L’Universo», marzo-aprile 2014,
numero 2, anno XCIV, I.G.M., Firenze 2014.
Alessandro Merlo, Emanuela Morelli, Caratteri identitari e
struttu-rali del paesaggio della Valleriana, in «L’Universo», gennaio-febbraio
2014, numero 1, anno XCIV, I.G.M., Firenze 2014.
Duccio Troiano, Alessandro Merlo, Andrés García-Morro, Eduardo Vendrell-Vidal, From a model of a city to an Urban Information
Sys-tem: the SIUR 3D of the castle of Pietrabuona, in Marinos Ioannides,
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Eleanor Fink, Roko Žarnić, Alex Yian-ing Yen, Ewald Quak (a cura di), Digital Heritage. Progress in
Cultur-al Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection, Lecture
Notes in Computer Science LNCS 8740, Springer, Heidelberg (Ger-many) 2014.
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The early Medieval
settlement of Bivignano
Arezzo
In 2014 the Diocesan Institute for the Support of Clergy, owner of the rural settlement of
Bivignano (Arezzo), stipulated an agreement with the DIDA in order to realize the
digi-tal survey of the entire village and to propose some recovery and re-evaluation formula.
The fortified settlement of Bivignano is part of a larger system of castles, developed
be-tween the XI and XII century in a minor valley of the Cerfone river, an affluent of the Tiber
river. Founded by the family of the Count of Bivignano, the castle has a noble residence (a
‘tower-house’ typology) and the church of Santa Maria (rebuilt in the XVII century on the
original early medieval chapel). The rest of the buildings consist of housing and service
areas, which have been in use until the mid-seventies. Today the castle is in decline due
to the continuous raid it of its architectural elements, easily re-usable elsewhere, which
accelerates the processes of weakening.
In the last few years, the renewed interest for these scenarios gave the research group
the possibility to assess new strategies for the protection and the enhancement of this
priceless heritage, as through the introduction of entrepreneurial activities, linked to
ag-riculture.
Scientifi c Coordinator Alessandro Merlo Agreement details Agreement between Istituto Diocesano per il Sostentamento del Clero and DIDA (rep. 23/2014, prot. 1662 III/19 del 29/04/2014) Research Group Survey and restitution Alessandro Merlo Gaia Lavoratti Andrea Aliperta Marco Corridori Mattia Genuini Giacomo Fabbri Stefano Giusti Isabella Russo Marianna Sangiovanni Restoration Leonardo Germani Stefania Franceschi History of Architecture Giuseppina Carla Romby Archaeology Clara Nerucci Filippo Diara Architectural and urban project Riccardo Butini Architectural technologies and building’s structures Alberto Bove Geology Serena Di Grazia
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RENOVATION
DOCUMENTATION AND
CONSERVATION AND
REPRESENTATION
DEVELOPMENT
AGRICULTURE
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Survey and historical analysis
Palazzo della Missione is located in Florence, in Santo Spirito district, whose heart has
al-ways been the homonymous church. The building was founded around the 11th century
by its original owner, the Frescobaldi family. Over the centuries it underwent many
trans-formations and changes of ownership: today it presents a 17th century Baroque façade,
the only one of its kind in Florence. The history of this building is deeply intertwined with
that one of the city, firstly because of the existence of an ancient access to the Arno, the
“porticciuola d’Arno” now lost, and secondly because of the events related to the
con-struction of the bridge in Santa Trinita, wanted by the Frescobaldi family.
The reconstruction of historical-architectural events, based on a detailed morphometric
survey, has been possible thanks to the collaboration of DIDA with the Metropolitan City
of Florence, the current owner of the building, currently hosting the Machiavelli-Capponi
International High School. The combination of historical research and
three-dimension-al modelling created a video (by the Multimedia Service Centre of the University of
Flor-ence) that illustrates, in a new way, the changes and the historical evolution of the Palace.
Scientifi c Coordinator Alessandro Merlo Agreement details Agreement between Città Metropolitana di Firenze and DIDA (rep. 86/2014 del 04/04/2014) Research Group Survey and restitution Alessandro Merlo Gaia Lavoratti Andrea Aliperta Marco Corridori Francesco Frullini Elisa Luzzi History of Architecture Margherita Cricchio Archaeology Antonino Meo
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DOCUMENTATION AND
INVESTIGATIONS
REPRESENTATION
TECHNOLOGIES
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research map | research map | dida research systemSurvey and decay analysis
of the walls in Siena
From Porta Romana to Porta Pispini
The agreement between the Municipality of Siena and DIDA, concerning the section of
the Sienese walls between Porta Romana and Porta Pispini, measured the
morphome-try and the apparent colours of the walls, the state of conservation, the survey the
ex-isting degradations, and the evaluation of the static behaviour. The survey, conducted
in April 2016, had the goal to obtain graphic drawings able to show the geometry of the
building, and Orto photos highlighting the phenomena of decay and the state of
crack-ing. The data acquisition has been organized in a way to respect the requests of the
Mu-nicipality: the acquisition of a point cloud with RGB values and relative graphic
restitu-tion, to be developed for both sides and the top part of the walls.
Scientifi c Coordinator Riccardo Butini Agreement details Agreement between Comune di Siena and DIDA (rep. 261/2016, prot. 113320, pos. III/19 del 9/08/2016) Research Group Survey and restitution Alessandro Merlo Gaia Lavoratti Marco Corridori Mattia Genuini Riccardo Montuori Denise Fresu Pietro Gallori Topographic survey Francesco Tioli Restoration Stefania Franceschi Leonardo Germani Angela Luci Structural aspect Alberto Bove
RESEARCH
RESTORATION
DOCUMENTATION AND
CONSERVATION AND
REPRESENTATION
ANALYSIS
TECHNOLOGIES
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