The group
The group was formed in 2010 around the issues of the relationship between Architecture and Place. It wants to underline that tradition of architectural culture which is strictly connected to the characteristics of the contexts, both in urban and naturalistic environments and for new architecture or the transformation of existing buildings. Attention to the history of a place is considered essential to create that necessary process of continuity between collective memory and contemporary innovation.
Research activity
The group deals with three main areas of research: the temporary use house between architecture and neuroscience; the sustainable enhancement of disused military sites; the concept of micro-architecture.
Since 2001, relating to needs of the human being with the critical issues of modern dwelling and basing on the concepts of “threshold”, “in-between” and “uncanny”, studies the new ways of dwelling in European cities of the 21st Century.
Recently, it is dealing with the analysis of threshold spaces to manage health emergency situations and the relationship between housing and neuroscience.
Since 2011, in collaboration with Italian and foreign institutions, the group has studied disused military complexes built before and during the First World War and the Cold War, in Italy and in other European countries.
Since 2014, it has used the concept of micro-architecture to insert new services in historical sites where the architecture must have a low environmental impact, both from the aesthetic and energy consumption points of view.
Keywords
- Dwelling,
- Agricivismo,
- Architecture,
- Disused areas,
- Boundaries,
- Place,
- Micro-architecture,
- Post-domestic,
- Sustainability,
- Waterfront.
ERC sectors
- SH3 - Environment, space and population
- SH3_10 Urbanization, cities and rural areas
- SH5 Cultures and Cultural Production
- SH5_11 Cultural heritage, cultural memory
- SH5_7 Museums and exhibitions
- SH6 The Study of the Human Past
- SH6_1 Archaeology, archaeometry, landscape archaeology
- PE8 - Products and Processes Engineering
- PE8_11 Sustainable design (for recycling, for environment, eco-design)
People
Olivia Longo
Silvia Dalzero
Umberto Minuta
Salvatore Rugino
Davide Sigurtà
Virginia Sgobba
Paolo Vincenzo Romeo
Websites
Link to the website of the groups of Architecture, Landscape, Project
Link to the webpage of the group on the site expertise.unibs.it