Producing project, the new scenarios of technological design (ebook scaricabile)

Leggere oggi Producing project significa rimettere in discussione il progetto e la professione stessa dell’Architetto. È evidente, anche a seguito dell’emergenza sanitaria in corso, che siano in corso processi di trasformazione antropica dei territori e delle città, e che sia pertanto necessario rivedere il portato culturale e tecnico del “progettare”.

Il volume offre ottimi spunti di riflessione sulle trasformazioni indotte sull’attività progettuale dalle molteplici sfide poste dalla crisi economica, dai cambiamenti climatici e dalle emergenze ambientali, insieme con l’impatto del Web e delle ICT sui sistemi sociali e produttivi, evidenziano numerose criticità, ma anche significative prospettive di aggiornamento relativamente a luoghi, forme, contenuti e modalità operative del “fare architettura”, a tutti i livelli e le scale di intervento.

La tradizione culturale e l’identità disciplinare della Tecnologia dell’Architettura offrono in questo contesto visioni ed efficaci prassi operative caratterizzate da nuove modalità di gestione e controllo del processo con la definizione di ruoli, competenze e contenuti rapportati alle filiere produttive dell’economia circolare/green e a simulazioni performative reali e virtuali: dai sistemi GIS/BIM alla Industrial Mass Customization, dalla Off-site Manufacturing 2.0 alla robotica e Industria 4.0, fino alla On-site Production e al 3D Printing.

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Producing project. The transformations created about the design activity by the several challenges started by the economic crisis, climate change and environmental emergencies, together with the impact of the Web and ICT on social and productive systems, highlight many critical issues, but also significant prospects for updating concerning places, forms, contents and operating methods of “making architecture”, at all levels and scales.

These challenges point out the need to review the cultural and technical significance of design, according to its repositioning within the processes of anthropogenic transformation of territories and cities.

In this context, the cultural tradition and disciplinary identity of Architectural Technology provide visions and effective operating practices characterized by new ways of managing and controlling the process with the definition of roles, skills and contents related to the production chains of the circular economy/green and to real and virtual performance simulations: from GIS/BIM systems to Industrial Mass Customization, from Off-site Manufacturing 2.0 to robotics and Industry 4.0, up to On-site Production and 3D Printing.

The volume collects the results of the remarks and research and experimentation work of members of SITdA – Italian Society of Architectural Technology, outlining scenarios of change useful for orienting the future of research concerning the raising of the quality of the project and of the construction and for the rethinking of the forms of knowledge and the statutes of the project, within a broad and open comparison in the various institutional, political and technical contexts.

Producing projects, Editors

Massimo Lauria
Associate Professor of Architectural Technology at dArTe Department, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria (Italy). His research activities deal with Building Construction with specific interest about existing building management and maintenance. He is Treasurer for SITdA – Italian Society of Architectural Technology, member of Board of Techne Journal and Director of II Level Master “BIM”. Scientific Responsible for BIG srl Academic Spin-off.

Elena Mussinelli
Full Professor of Architectural Technology at ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano (Italy). Vice-president for SITdA – Italian Society of Architectural Technology. She carries out training, research and consultancy activities about environmental project issues in urban regeneration interventions, with particular interest to the ecosystem quality and use of public space.

Fabrizio Tucci
Full Professor of Architectural Technology, Coordinator of Doctoral degree in Urban planning, design and architecture technology at PDTA Department, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). Coordinator of the Cluster Nearly Zero Energy Building and Delegate for Relations with Institutions of SITdA – Italian Society of Architectural Technology. Coordinator of the International Group of Experts of the Green City Network, States General of the Green Economy.

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