<p>Some of the most powerful contemporary works of art addressing issues related to the representation of the environment, its exploitation and degradation, the ecological crisis, and glob-al warming are those that draw on eco-feminist thought through eco-art, starting with the pro-found insights and knowledge of the so-called First Nations. The article aims to outline the cur-rent graphic scenarios of eco-feminist thought and the connections between action strategies and the most emblematic images, starting with some of the visionary projects that have often led to changes in governmental policies and practical applications, expanding the dialogue on previously unexplored issues.</p><p>The aim is to help facilitate, through images, the recognition of the binomial – much debated today – human/non-human, the integration of graphic forms of a heterogeneous nature used in environmental analysis, and the critical reading of the cultural approaches this vision of Nature offers to all species in terms of psycho-physical well-being. The iconographic review proposed within the article aims to bring these landscape visuals to light through the composition of the image, becoming a vehicle for communication, dissemination and eco-feminist activism, reaffirming the connections between the instrumentalisation of nature and the acquisition of scientific knowledge.</p><p>DOI: https://doi.org/10.20365/disegnarecon.33.2024.21</p>
Unplanned urbanization has hindered the full utilization of Demre district’s tourism potential. This study integrates natural and cultural factors using a systematic, multi-criteria planning approach to identify spatially suitable areas for tourism-oriented accommodation facilities in Demre. Data was obtained from open-access geographic sources. The weights of nine criteria—slope, aspect, elevation, land use, proximity to roads and water resources, ecological value, infrastructure availability, and accessibility—were determined through the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) based on expert judgment. A weighted overlay analysis was performed in ArcGIS to produce suitability maps. The analysis revealed that 0.03% of the total area exhibits high suitability, 71.26% is suitable, 13.65% is moderately suitable, and 0.03% is of low suitability. Southeastern areas of the district were identified as optimal for tourism-oriented accommodation facilities due to favorable topography, accessibility, and minimal ecological constraints. These findings provide a scientifically grounded framework to guide policymakers and urban planners in enhancing tourism potential while conserving ecological and cultural values.
Earthquakes are among the natural disasters that leave behind severe psychological, sociological, and economic damage. The significant earthquakes that struck our nation on February 6, 2023, with their epicenter at Kahramanmaraş, resulted in numerous fatalities and destruction of property. All kinds of entrepreneurs are essential to the post-disaster recovery process because they offer creative fixes and advancements. Within the framework of the Interior Architecture Project-IV course, an online workshop on "Temporary Foldable Children's Socialization Spaces After the Earthquake" was conducted with students from Selçuk University Faculty of Architecture and Design, Department of Interior Architecture. A three-stage systematic approach for design-oriented learning is employed, comprising stages for implementation, creative decision-making, and analytical comprehension. The outcomes of the workshop show that students studying interior architecture are capable of coming up with original solutions to design issues. Foldability has been highlighted as a key idea that influences form choices in function solutions and has given students the capacity to design at various scales, ranging from space design to equipment design.
This paper presents the results of the research commissioned by Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS (Institute for Scientific Hospitalisation and Treatment) in Rome and conducted at the Department of Architecture and Design, Sapienza University of Rome. The study aimed to define the minimum dimensional standard for hospital inpatient rooms with two beds and one bed, excluding toilet facilities, located in Complex Operational Units for Highly Specialised Neurorehabilitation. The methodology used in the research was based on the collection of qualitative and quantitative data. Given the analysis of the complexity of the activities performed and the overall space required, the final result identifies the minimum surface area standard of 20 sq.m. per bed for neurorehabilitation inpatient rooms.
Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying, Architectural drawing and design
Bilgi ve iletişim teknolojilerinin ilerleyişi kullanıcı konforunu, sağlığını ve güvenliğini ön plana alan sistemlerin yaygınlaşmasına imkan sağlamaktadır. Günümüzde sürdürülebilir bir yaşam için akıllı binalar şehirlerde önemli örnekler teşkil etmeye başlamıştır. İnternetin ve bilgisayar teknolojilerinin gelişimi mimari tasarımda ve yapı sektöründe yeni sistemlerin kullanılmasına, akıllı binaların inşa edilebilmesine olanak sunmuştur. Dünya genelinde kaynakların verimli kullanımına, yaşam ve kullanım maliyetlerinin azaltılmasına, sağlıklı, güvenilir ve çevre dostu yapılara duyulan artan ihtiyaçlar bu gelişmeleri hızlandırmıştır. Bu çalışmada akıllı binaların gelişimine kadar olan süreçte toplumsal ve ekonomik unsurlar özetlenmektedir. Akıllı binaların tasarımında bilgi ve iletişim teknolojilerinin önemi ve desteği teknik olarak vurgulanmaktadır. Akıllı binaların değerlendirilmesinde başlıca kriterler ana başlıklar altında aktarılmaktadır. Araştırmada 2000 yılından sonra kullanıma açılan dünyanın farklı lokasyanlarından başarılı uygulama örnekleri olarak 5 farklı bina seçilerek incelenmektedir. Bu akıllı binaların, bilgi ve iletişim teknolojilerinden faydalanarak ortaya çıkan ortak özellikleri, tasarım kriterleri, sürdürülebilirlik uygulamaları ve yaşam kalitesini artırmaya yönelik katkıları belirlenerek çalışmada değerlendirilmektedir.
In this study, architectural style and “Ornament is Crime” motto of Adolf Loos, being against of the nineteenth century Vienna’s architectural style, especially after the Industrial Revolution, will be examined. It is revealed that Adolf Loos’s most known motto “Ornament is Crime” has deeper meanings and Loos designed various buildings throughout his career according to his evolution. When his designs analyzed chronologically it is understood that Loos had a great change that is Loos reflects his true thoughts more and more in his designs as time goes on.
When Adolf Loos said his famous motto, “Ornament is Crime” in Vienna’s nineteenth century, Vienna was changing, urbanizing and developing very intensely with the effect of the industrial revolution. Loos and many architects, painters, artists opposed the mass production and devaluation of handmade materials brought by the industrial revolution, but Loos has always been in a different position than others.
Although Adolf Loos seems to advocate simplicity, he did not avoid the use of expensive materials in the interiors of the spaces he designed. In other words, Loos has supported the mask metaphor by simplifying its design that is visible to the outside world.
In much of the recent literature covering the interaction between religion and aesthetic modernity, modern ‘sacred’ architecture has been understood as an initiative to safeguard an autonomous, separate notion of ‘sacred space’ against the reifying effects of a technocratic modernity. Within this historiographic lens, modern ‘sacred’ architecture is placed in opposition to what the historian of religion Mircea Eliade refers to as the ‘junk space’ of modern profane architecture. However, when examining the conceptual interactions between the Benedictine monks of Collegeville in Minnesota and the Bauhaus-trained architect Marcel Breuer during the course of their collaborative project for an Abbey Church in their religious community (1953 – 1961), a more nuanced picture of the interaction between ‘functionalist’ (modern) and ‘symbolist’ (pre-modern) ideas emerges. Drawing on a key series of documents Breuer collated in a binder throughout the course of the project, this article unpacks the way in which key terms such as ‘functionalism’ and ‘symbolism’ were negotiated across this cultural divide. The first part of the article examines the extent to which Breuer’s architectural design at St John’s could be considered ‘symbolic’. The second part interrogates the reasons behind the rejection of a design for the main window by fellow Bauhäusler, Josef Albers. The article concludes with a coda on how the arguments mobilised throughout the collaboration questions key tenets of much of the historiography which has informed discourses on modern ‘sacred’ architecture.
In March 2015, an activist movement ‘Rhodes must fall’ from the University of Cape Town initiated a new form of global socio-political protest, which spread in cities worldwide and was characterized by spatial practices of occupying, modifying and pulling down monuments in public space. Presenting key theoretic points of this special feature in City, this introduction explores the phenomenon of ‘urban fallism’–the ways in which the action of contesting, transforming and/or removing a monument from urban space operates as a means of political struggle and as a form of political engagement in urban contexts. It outlines and integrates the contributions to this special feature, which covers a range of historic and contemporary cases in different urban, geographic and socio-political contexts, including: post-colonialism in Africa and the Americas; post-communism and post-imperialism in Europe and Asia; and wars in the Middle East. Drawing on original research and analyses from the fields of archaeology, history, art history, heritage studies, architecture, urban design, and sociology, the papers in this special feature highlight how the fall of monuments operates as a tool for political resistance against marginalization, discrimination and exclusion, a catalyst for democracy and social justice, and a means of dealing with contested heritage. As such, contributions of this special feature speak about the urban politics of race and identity and raise questions about the role of collective memory in the struggle of opposing and/or marginalized social groups for their right to the city and their place and recognition in society.
Abstract Innovative technologies help automate the work of the designer. A 3D model of the building can be used to calculate the required values. This will also allow you to create associative sections that, when changing the geometry of the 3D model, automatically adjust the drawn elements on the resulting 2D drawing. Information technologies enable participants from all over the world to work on one project and, thanks to the BIM (building information modelling) method, to design buildings during their life cycle more efficiently. At present, critical studies are published on interoper-ability in BIM and its lack of coordination or amount of information that is misinterpreted, etc. However, working in BIM is the most effective way to use computer technology to design buildings. There is a lot of information about the building in the 3D model itself, which can also be used for purposes other than construction (building management, reconstruction). But how to process a large amount of information in a 3D model? Many buildings already have their 3D models shared on cloud platforms, these contain information that could help, for example, find solutions for green construction using artificial intelligence (AI). We meet with AI every day. It supports internet search engines, predicts auto-completion words as you type. AI can also be found in architecture – not only as visions at exhibitions, but also in research on process optimization in BIM.
This brief discourse on “the variable city” tends to demonstrate that urban planning is and will be a series of problems (and problems that cannot be solved either in technical, administrative or aesthetic terms) as long as this complex manifestation is not considered a spontaneous, natural and constant commitment of all citizens: just as it happens with the individual dwelling to which, however modest it may be, each “host” devotes some care.
The essay explores the “contamination” of knowledge, through the figure of Steven Holl, by interweaving theoretical reflection and architectural design with the definition of appropriate and innovative disciplinary tools. The new syntax of the relationship between composition and function, tested by Holl, free from codified and prescriptive archetypes, allowed a reflection on the possibility of encouraging new ways of use and multiple functional contamination. By analysing some works, we identify possible “generalizable” themes in the relationship between the project and the τέχνη of “know-how”, even compared to Cedric Price. Critical texts by Luciano Anceschi and Walter Benjamin concur to verify the real essence of some recurrent terms in the contemporary debate.
Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying, Architectural drawing and design
Abstract The normative assumption holds that a product’s structural and functional elements are fixed pre-production to support manufacturing efficiency. Firms servitizing are faced with delivering resources for customers in context and absorbing contextual variety presents a number of challenges. This paper examines shortcomings of modular design and whether additive manufacturing can efficiently provides high variety that meets emergent user demand. A case study is undertaken, drawing upon design change data and in-depth interviews with industry experts. Findings show that introducing design changes to modular products through life creates complexity in the product architecture and the supply chain. We find that AM can act as a supply chain solution, managing complexity and allowing products and supply chains to efficiently and effectively absorb contextual variety. Existing theory must expand beyond the normative assumption that the physical product is fixed, to include cases where the tangible product can absorb variety to meet the emergent need.
This paper undertakes an analysis of the “smart school” as a building that both senses and manages bodies through sensory data. The authors argue that smart schools produce a situation of ubiquitous sensation in which learning environments are continuously sensed, regulated, and controlled through complex sensory ecosystems and data infrastructures. This includes the consideration of ethical and political issues associated with the collection of biometric and environmental data in schools and the implications for the design and operation of learning environments which are increasingly regulated through decentralized sensor networks. Working through a relational and adaptive theory of architecture, the authors explore ways of intervening in smart schools through the reconceptualization of sensor technologies as “atmospheric media” that operate within a distributed ecology of sensation that exceeds the limited bandwidth of the human senses. Drawing on recent projects in contemporary art, architecture, and interaction design, the authors discuss specific architectural interventions that foreground the atmospheric qualities and ethical problematics of sensor technologies in school buildings.
Ana Laura Elorza , Ernesto Morillo, Fani Balcazar
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Este articulo aborda la gestión en el territorio del Plan Provincial de Gestión Territorial por Cuadrantes del gobierno de la provincia de Córdoba, tomando la experiencia del consejo barrial desarrollada en el Cuadrante Yapeyú de la Ciudad de Córdoba. En especial, nos interesar profundizar sobre dos aspectos: primero, las diversas estrategias de relacionamiento y demandas que los actores implementan en su relación con el estado, que nos permite ver la acción de los actores locales en la trama de contradicciones intraburocráticas, y segundo, la implementación de diversas estrategias del estado en torno a una problemática o territorio, intervenciones que muchas veces son contradictoria y conflictivas entre sí.
La metodología empleada es cualitativa, con lectura y análisis de fuentes secundarias (documentos de la política analizada) y análisis de entrevistas realizadas al promotor social y referentes de organizaciones sociales que participan en el consejo barrial del cuadrante de Yapeyú. Recuperamos los sentidos y prácticas de los sujetos en torno al espacio multiactoral, a las estrategias de gestión de las organizaciones territoriales y al modo de intervención estatal en las problemáticas que surgen en el marco del caso analizado.
Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying, Architectural drawing and design
In this paper, we will discuss the question of landscape representation as a crossing between art and design as from the project Drawing the Place’s Soul. Underlying the project is the idea – that serves as an argument for landscape representation – of drawing as a visual language and as project’s matter (medium). In the field of Visual Studies, images and, in this case, drawing are an unavoidable presence of the 21st century, as an iconographic bond, politically participative in the ethical valorization of people and territories. The choice of the medium (drawing) promotes craft as a bodily action, also deeply associated with the landscape.
Methodologically, it was sought that the experience, free of constraints, would be able to provide information for the internal evaluation of the territories and for the way they are disclosed. The initial experiment was carried out in three territorially and circumstantially differentiated villages (whose territory is deeply deserted and which, in summer 2017, was hit by violent forest fires) and will be presented and analyzed here from a perspective that sees landscape as a purpose for the interception of art and design through the practice of drawing.
Drawing. Design. Illustration, Architectural drawing and design
In 1973, when recalling the experience of designing the ENI residential village in Gela, Edoardo Gellner wrote: “One could not forget that it was acting within a land of deeply rooted, ancient urban traditions. A land where cities and the countryside are always formally separate, where the clusters in which community life takes place are a substantially built mass, almost an island of radical humanisation in the rural landscape [...]. And there we present certain ways of configuring the urban landscape of Sicilian cities: the articulation of altimetry; the junctions utilizing steps; the strictness in alignment; a sort of ‘rigidity’ in the composition of volumes.”
In Palermo, in the square named after Ruggero Settimo, in front of Politeama Garibaldi theatre designed by Damiani Almeyda “CHANGING ARCHITECTURE landscapes and towns, the value of architecture” takes place, as a celebration of the 90th anniversary of the Register of Architects of the Province of Palermo in collaboration with Fondazione Arch of Ragusa. The principal value that moved towards this exhibition's realisation was to bring Architecture to the town and its citizens and not just to insiders: setting the exhibition in an urban scenery made Architecture be the witness and the actor of its value.