Técnicas construtivas tradicionais na usina Monte Alegre em Piracicaba-SP / Traditional construction techniques at the usina Monte Alegre in Piracicaba-SP

A cidade de Piracicaba, localizada no interior do estado de São Paulo em território brasileiro, fez parte do berço de grande importância para o desenvolvimento agrícola de toda a região. Por meio dessa cultura, assim como sua localização estratégica, ficou conhecida em todo o país, o que atraiu a atenção de produtores açucareiros e a criação de engenhos em seu território, assim como usinas de açúcar. A Usina Monte Alegre, fundada no início do século XX, foi um espelho para outras cidades de como as tecnologias voltadas à agricultura são importantes. A implantação dessas tecnologias foi tão bem sucedida que os proprietários criaram vilas operárias e infraestrutura para abrigar os milhares de funcionários nos arredores dessas indústrias. Atualmente, a usina está inoperante, tendo apenas parte de sua área ocupada por uma fábrica de papel e celulose, porém uma grande identidade visual e arquitetônica foi deixada em Monte Alegre, assim como grande potencial para novos usos e tecnologias. Com estudos necessários sobre patrimônios industriais, sustentabilidade e novos mercados internacionais, é possível fazer com que a UMA tenha mais uma vez seu momento de ascensão e crie diversos empregos e oportunidades para a região.

Le case di Pietro Lingeri sull’Isola Comacina

"After a long period of neglect, a restoration work completed in 2010 brought the three artist houses on the Comacina Island back to the function for which they were born: to host artists in a charming location, surrounded by nature and silence. In 1917 the island came into possession of the King of Belgium, and then of the Italian State. The houses designed by Pietro Lingeri were built after the failure of more ambitious plans for the creation of an artists’ colony. Born in Bolvedro di Tremezzo, Lingeri graduated from the Academy of Brera, the institution entrusted with the management of the island. Commissioned in the first months of 1933, his original designs for a hotel and seven houses for Italian artists and four for Belgian artists were rejected. Therefore, he conceived three simple small villas combining local materials and traditional construction techniques with a modern vocabulary. The article traces the history of the houses, completed at the end of 1940 by one of the most important architects of Italian Rationalism."

Evolution of Construction Systems

This chapter is going to deal with the evolution of structural systems; traditional structural systems, modern structural systems and more than traditional approach to the structural systems. Beyond this, even though this chapter is related with structural systems as an integral part of architectural design, it is also going to explore the link between culture, traditional structural techniques, and influence of culture, cultural beliefs and local materials, natural constraints as local available materials, climate effects and disaster risks as drivers affecting the evolution of structural systems. Structural principles of traditional construction techniques will be analyzed. The link between modern buildings and their structural systems and traditional construction techniques will be discussed by tracing modern buildings and structural systems in terms of their evolution. The subject matter will be approached in a descriptive manner. The examples given will be used to trace the link between past and present as a way of associating cultural effect with the architectural uniqueness.

Interaction and Intersection Between Digital Modelling and Design in Architecture

Parametric modeling, usually considered modeling tools, has been analyzed in this chapter in a different way: as design tools for architect. First the use of parametric design has been considered from different approaches. Starting from the approach of Kas Oosterhuis Architect, in the Saltwater pavilion (1997), or Peter Cook Architect in the Kunsthaus (2003), in which the parametric tools have been used as shapes generation tools. Until the approach of the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, in the Sunny Hills building (2013), where the parametric tools have been used to rethink traditional construction techniques in a parametric way, known as chidori. After the analysis of the different parametric approaches, a new perception on the architectural design will be provided. In particular, the analytic way and the creative way, are usually separated in the architectural design, and it will enhance their interaction, in some cases, they become the same thing. This approach makes explicit and evaluable parts of the design process, reducing the gap between concept and goal in the design.

A Classification Study on the Development Stages of Construction Technologies in Turkey

Developmental stages of construction technologies in Turkey followed various methods and showed differences in practice up to 20th century when the first examples of early-period reinforced concrete structures was created. Following the late 18th century, when traditional construction techniques were applied to new masses and building types, the use of modern bricks in vertical carrier elements together with the means of the 19th century was followed by an increase in masonry construction types of building structures. The paper emphasizes in the effects of traditional construction techniques applied with brick, steel, concrete materials on construction technology in Turkey. Traditional construction techniques are classified and detailed evaluations are made on the design principles of the buildings with historical characteristics.

Evolution of Construction Systems

This chapter is going to deal with the evolution of structural systems; traditional structural systems, modern structural systems and more than traditional approach to the structural systems. Beyond this, even though this chapter is related with structural systems as an integral part of architectural design, it is also going to explore the link between culture, traditional structural techniques, and influence of culture, cultural beliefs and local materials, natural constraints as local available materials, climate effects and disaster risks as drivers affecting the evolution of structural systems. Structural principles of traditional construction techniques will be analyzed. The link between modern buildings and their structural systems and traditional construction techniques will be discussed by tracing modern buildings and structural systems in terms of their evolution. The subject matter will be approached in a descriptive manner. The examples given will be used to trace the link between past and present as a way of associating cultural effect with the architectural uniqueness.