Heritage and design historic building renovation architecture and interior design, revitalizing villages in southern japan architecture and urban design, cross-cultural design japanese and italian architecture anti-seismic housing

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BOOK

WEEK

DIDA

RESEARCH

A walk through

the research

paths of the

Department of

Architecture

of Florence

2018

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BOOK

WEEK

DIDA

RESEARCH

A walk through the research

paths of the Department of

Architecture of Florence

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Printed on pure cellulose paper Fedrigoni Arcoset

didapress

ISBN 9788833380629 graphic design

didacommunication lab

Dipartimento di Architettura Università degli Studi di Firenze Susanna Cerri

Stefania Aimar Federica Giulivo Simone Spellucci

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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.

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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

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DIDA RESEARCH WEEK

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INTRO

DIDA Research Week. Overview of DIDA research environment from 2013 up to 2018 15

Saverio Mecca

Map 1 Research Map 18

DIDA RESEARCH STRATEGY | A general view

Projects and relations between fi elds of knowledge 23

Giuseppe Lotti

Towards an innovative doctorate 27

Giuseppe De Luca

Didalabs. Clusters and applied research 31

Giorgio Verdiani

Map 2 DIDAlabs. Inside Research 34

Understanding research through communication. Concept, methodologies and tools of DRW 37

Susanna Cerri

Setting Connections. Inter-university Centres 41

Roberto Bologna, Paola Gallo

Map 3 Internationalisation of research 44

DIDA RESEARCH MAP | 2013-2018

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DIDA Research Systems 55

Inter-university centres ABITA_CIST_TESIS 57

ABITA TESIS

Laboratories 97

A&P - Architecture & Project cluster 99

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 113

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

ARCHITECTURE

& PROJECT

A&P

DIDA Research

Programs

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Architecture & Project

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research map | research map | dida research programs

RESEARCH AGREEMENT Architects

Andrea Innocenzo Volpe Giuseppe De Leo Yoichi Sakasegawa Collaborators Nicola Tenerani Salvatore Zocco 3D Digital Survey Giorgio Verdiani Survey Collaborators Martina Carrara Stefano Lami

“The architecture of the past and that of the present are not opposed to one another but on a par, resembling each other in the fundamental conditions through which they have been produced”. With these words Ignaci de Solà Morales introduces the architec-tural work of Giorgio Grassi, focusing on projects which pursue a clear continuity with his-torical buildings or locations. Not just restorations neither just new designs, those works by Grassi represents the peculiarities of our Italian architectural culture at its best. Like-wise we consider the relationship between our cultural heritage, architecture design and restoration projects as integral components of architectural practice, in which interest in the cultural, site-specific and material aspects is central. This research has been con-ducted over the specific case study of the expansion of the Civic Archaeological Museum of Camaiore. Enlarged with a new underground level, the Archaeological Museum interi-ors have been totally redesigned integrating new contemporary materials and forms in-to the preserved features of the 16th_{century fully restored palazzo. As a further step a}

15.000€ worth research agreement has been set up between the city of Camaiore and our Department in order to start the digital survey of the ruined castle of Montecastrese and the production of a series of touchable models for blind visitors based on such digital data then included in the museum display.

Heritage and design

Historic building renovation,

architecture and interior design

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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP Coordinators

Andrea Innocenzo Volpe Toru Ajisaka Makiko Masudome Tutors Edoardo Cresci Yoichi Sakasegawa Students Yuko Kitanosono Hirotaka Matsuda Shogo Motoyama Alexander Palagano Valentina Raggi Mayu Sasaki Michele Tobia Partnership City of Kimotsuki

The Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering at Kagoshima Universi-ty, Japan, has been working on preservation of local architectural heritage for many years. Kyushu island and Kagoshima prefecture are particularly rich of traditional homes in-deed, mostly set in progressively abandoned countryside villages. An important archi-tectural patrimony condemned to decay and oblivion since the status of protected cul-tural asset is not very easy to get in Japan. Lack of preservation laws, high costs of main-tenance and prohibitively expensive inheritance taxes induce the owners to sell their homes to developers rather than to restore and protect them. This architecture design workshop developed together with Kagoshima University colleagues has sought effec-tive solutions to correct this apparently relentless process introducing a new vision for the economical redevelopment of such regions. The village of Koyama, in the Kimotsuki area, has been the first case study. Three undergraduate students and one PhD student from our Department have worked with four Master class ones from KU to design a pos-sible reuse for an old dismissed railway line. The proposal imagines the former infrastruc-ture as a new bicycle path linking the village to Kanoya city and to the regional public transformation system. Conceived as the pivotal element of the new linear park, Koyama finds through a series of punctual interventions of restorations and architecture projects a new image and a new life.

Revitalizing villages in Southern Japan

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UNIVERSITY-FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECT EX 60%

Architects

Andrea Innocenzo Volpe Yoichi Sakasegawa

Collaborator

Uema Ayaka

Partnership

Sanyo House L.t.d.

Conceptually fluctuating in the uncertain territory where Far Eastern and European iden-tities can meet, this house is the built outcome of a research based on the compara-tive study of two important building traditions. As Bernard Rudowsky sustained in the 1938 February issue of Domus, the ideal home is the combination of the Italian and Jap-anese architecture. According to this statement this project explores the possibility of an ‘Italian’ mass produced low cost house for the Japanese market, built with a name-ly traditional anti-seismic wood structure walled with sandwich wood panels: a combi-nation offering a thickness of ten centimetres only. The research has been further de-veloped through the analysis of a series of iconic examples of houses built and designed by Japanese and European architects during the first years of the 20th century. The book Promessa del Dorico (Dida Press, 2017) exposes such series of case studies focusing on a theoretical design approach conceiving simplicity (wabi in Japanese) as the keyword for a sustainable contemporary building strategy.

Cross-cultural design

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9 788833 380629 ISBN 978-8833-38-062-9

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Heritage and design historic building renovation architecture and interior design, revitalizing villages in southern japan architecture and urban design, cross-cultural design japanese and italian architecture anti-seismic housing

BOOK

WEEK

DIDA

RESEARCH

A walk through

the research

paths of the

Department of

Architecture

of Florence

2018

BOOK

WEEK

DIDA

RESEARCH

A walk through the research

paths of the Department of

Architecture of Florence

didapress

didacommunication lab

DIDA RESEARCH WEEK

INTRO

DIDA RESEARCH STRATEGY | A general view

DIDA RESEARCH MAP | 2013-2018

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARCHITECTURE

& PROJECT

A&P

DIDA Research

Programs

464

Heritage and design

Historic building renovation,

architecture and interior design

466

Revitalizing villages in Southern Japan

468

Cross-cultural design

DIDA, the Department of Architecture of the

Univer-sity of Florence, performed an open and public

analy-sis and evaluation of the scientific research carried

out during the first five years of activity since its

establishment, in order to define its research

stra-tegies, their relationship with the 2nd and 3rd cycle

education, the role of experimental research and the

system of labs at DIDA (DIDALABS), as well as the

role of research units and interuniversity research

centers.

The aim of the DIDA Research Week Book 2018 is

to communicate the results of such research, in all

the aspects which were carried out at DIDA during its

first five years of activity.