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Cities and architecture in the context of global migration
Polimeni, Beniamino; Toler, Michael (2022-06-30)Since the origins of human society, communities have dealt with migration issues as established settlements grappled with how to deal with new arrivals. As societies became larger and more complex and human movement became ... -
‘Find the Gap’: can a multidisciplinary group of university teachers influence learning and teaching practice?
Jarvis, Joy; Thomas, Rebecca; Rosella, Tony; Smith, Jayne; Nimmo, Susan; Hodgkinson, Julia; Glass, Lesley; Clark, Karen; Barlow, Janet; Baker, Thomas (2017-07-20)This paper describes and analyses a year’s project undertaken by a small, multidisciplinary group of academic staff in a UK post -1992 university. The purpose of the group was to: take a scholarly and inquiring approach ... -
How can teaching focused staff contribute to creating an institutional strategy for ongoing professional learning in teaching?
Jarvis, Joy; Clark, Karen; Thomas, Rebecca; Smith, Jayne; Nimmo, Susan; Barlow, Janet; Rosella, Tony; julia, Hodgkinson (2016-06-28) -
Human-Centered Design and Co-design Methodologies for Mass Customization in Housing: A Case Study Using Cloud Computing Applications.
Vidal Calvet, Miguel; Carta, Silvio; Lago-Novás, Juan (Springer Nature Link, 2021-11-01)This research paper presents Turing: an innovative tool that approaches mass-housing design and demonstrates how cloud computing and generative design can be conjointly used via an accessible webbased application to achieve ... -
MEASURING RESILIENT COMMUNITIES : An analytical and predictive tool
Carta, Silvio; Turchi, Tommaso; Pintacuda, Luigi (2022-04-15)This work presents the initial results of an analytical tool designed to quantitatively assess the level of resilience of urban areas. We use Deep Neural Networks to extract features of resilience from a trained model that ... -
MOVE: a fun Playground
Pintacuda, Luigi (2023-04-27)“Most people, talking of their happiest childhood experiences, will describe places that were wild, overgrown, mysterious, hidden from adult eyes; trees where they built houses, undergrowth where they created smugglers' ... -
On the Move: Michel Écochard, Migration, and Transdisciplinary Exchange in Urban Design
Polimeni, Beniamino; Toler, Michael (2022-06-30)Trained as an architect, archaeologist, and urban planner, Michel Écochard was both a prominent proponent of Modernist architecture and a conservation architect with a deep appreciation of traditional construction methods ... -
QRES, A QGIS plugin to calculate resilience based on proximity of urban resources
Pintacuda, Luigi; Carta, Silvio; Turchi, Tommaso; Sabiu, Mauro (Institut d’Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya (Iaac), Spain, 2023-11-28)This study presents our latest development of a plugin for QGIS to help designers and planners to calculate resilience values for specific areas in urban contexts. Instead of radial distance, the proposed approach considers ... -
RECOMM. Measuring resilient communities: An analytical and predictive tool
Carta, Silvio; Turchi, Tommaso; Pintacuda, Luigi; Jankovic, Ljubomir (2023-09-30)We present initial findings of our project RECOMM: an analytical tool that evaluates the resilience of urban areas. The tool utilises Deep Neural Networks to identify characteristics of resilience and assigns a resilience ... -
Resilient Communities: A Novel Workflow
Carta, Silvio; Pintacuda, Luigi; Owen, Ian; Turchi, Tommaso (2021-11-16)This study presents a novel workflow to define how resilient communities can be analysed and improved through the optimisation of sustainable design principles through quantitative methods. Our model analyses successful ... -
A Shift in Teaching Architectural Design Studio: Adaptative Reuse and Retrofit as the Main Focus to Prepare Students for Complex Challenges of a Changing Profession
Pintacuda, Luigi; Dimka, Nenpin; Trail, Thomas; Cherry, Monica; Polimeni, Beniamino (2023-04-28)“The greenest building is the one that already exists”, Carl Elefante stated in 2007). In the last few years, this statement has been strengthened and the approach to sustainability in architecture has been focused more ... -
Taking a Passivhaus certified retrofit system onto scaled-up zero carbon trajectory
Jankovic, L.; Basurra, Shadi (2016-09-09)The paper describes collaboration a between industryand academia in enhancing a Passivhaus certifiedsystem for retrofit and putting it onto a zero carbontrajectory. The system was initially developed for onsite stick ...