Architecture & Construction RESEARCHES

>> COSMO. COmmoning practiceS and teMpOrary self-built architectural agencies. Guidelines and a toolkit towards the sustainability of the Commons 

PRIN: Research Projects of Relevant National Interest, Call for proposals PRIN 2022 PNRR - Prot. P2022CEYFT

(2023 - 2025)

Partners:

Università degli Studi di Brescia

Barbara Angi (scientific coordinator UniBS)

Università di Pavia

Ioanni Delsante (PI)

COSMO intends to investigate the contribution and impact of temporary architectures realised with self-construction practices aimed at the search for the 'sustainability' of Common Goods. In order to achieve this aim, COSMO envisages four main objectives: to define a taxonomy of contemporary architectural practices related to the project theme; to identify and analyse significant case studies; to define guidelines to support Public Administrations and/or Third Sector Agencies; to create a "kit" of design and implementation tools for innovative self-construction methodologies. COSMO aims to understand the processes of re-appropriation of architectural and urban space of a "bottom-up" nature, i.e. those practices led by the communities that inhabit urban areas that are very often in transformation. COSMO envisages the combination of study methods that take into account both quantitative and qualitative aspects, in order to understand spatial realities that are complex.

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>> International Summer School 2023: +2 Space + Common Good.  Social vulnerability, Active Communities, Self-built practices

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>>  Conceptual study of flexible and adaptable architectural solutions for vunerable living

Research agreement between University of Brescia - Department DICATAM and "Case San Vincenzo" Association

Scientific coordinators UniBs: Barbara Angi, Barbara Badiani 

Research team: Irene Peron, Alberto Soci

2023 – Today

The agreement envisages the identification, promotion and development of teaching and applied research activities of common interest between the DICATAM Department and the 'Case San Vincenzo' Association, with a focus on the issues of housing for vulnerable people through the study of housing needs and forms of living suitable for vulnerable people, the design of flexible and sustainable architectural solutions to expand the housing welfare system, and the analysis and design of shared open spaces and the points of contact between public and private space.

>> Architecture and Digital Transition. Multidisciplinary studies for the information management of combined architectural housing redevelopment

Research agreement between University of Brescia - Department DICATAM and Harpaceas Group

Scientific coordinators UniBs: Barbara Angi, Angelo Luigi Camillo Ciribini, Silvia Mastrolembo Ventura

2023 – Today

The aim of the framework agreement is to develop teaching and research projects whose scientific and disciplinary content relates to the fields of Architectural and Urban Composition (ICAR/14) and Building Production (ICAR/11) and can be articulated in the following aspects:

• combined redevelopment of residential architectural buildings thanks to the design prefiguration and information modelling of alternative scenarios also through the use of virtual reality and dedicated software,

• implementation of digital and informative modelling procedures of existing buildings,

• methodological, concerning integrated architectural design practices in the digital environment,

• the study of BIM (Building Information Modeling) procedures for the design, maintenance, management and valorisation of the national and/or European residential building heritage, whether public or private.

>>  Architectures for transitional living

Research agreement between University of Brescia - Department DICATAM and Brescia Municipality

Scientific coordinators UniBs: Barbara Angi, Barbara Badiani 

Research team: Alberto Soci, Luca Fogliata, Elisa Masserdotti

2020 – Today

The agreement between the University and the Municipality of Brescia establishes a relationship of mutual collaboration between the subjects in order to coordinate architectural and urban planning studies aimed at the design of versatile housing scenarios able to accommodate, for short or medium-term stays people with absent or precarious residential situations and / or who present important conditions of economic and / or social hardship. 

The first settlement under study is the "Centro Corridoni" in Brescia.

>> AdESA. Energy, seismic and architectural adjustment of the built environment

Research project funded by Regione Lombardia, "Smart Living" call,  grant n. 379259

Partners:

MARLEGNO S.R.L. (Team Leader)

Angelo Marchetti (coordinator), Severino Carminati, Katia Trovenzi

Università degli Studi di Brescia

Barbara Angi (scientific coordinator), Barbara Badiani, Marco Preti, Renato Marmori, Massimiliano Botti, Massimiliano Battisti, Andrea Ghirardi, Alberto Soci

Università degli Studi di Bergamo 

Alessandra Marini (scientific coordinator), Paolo Riva, Giuseppe Franchini, Andrea Belleri, Giovanni Brumana, Jacopo Zanni,. Stefano Cademartori, Ing. Simone Labò, Ing. Davide Sirtoli, Ing. Matteo Bassetti, Ing. Chiara Passoni, In¬g. Elena Casprini 

HARPACEAS S.R.L.

Paolo Odorizzi (coordinator), Alberto Alli, Osvaldo Mariani, Gabriele Svaluto, Giorgio De Lorenzi, Adalgisa Zirpoli.

EDILMATIC S.R.L.

Giorgio Luitprandi (coordinator), Fabio Magnani, Riccardo Bonini

AdESA is a new system for the energy, seismic and architectural redevelopment of existing buildings that allows you to operate from the outside, without relocating the inhabitants, and to drastically reduce intervention times, with costs comparable to those of an energy intervention. In order to achieve safety, resilience, comfort and sustainability, AdESA provides for the application of a second engineered skin, consisting of insulated wood panels connected to each other and to the structure, with the function of an energy coat, anti-seismic shell and layer for the architectural redevelopment of the facades, removable and recyclable at the end of life. The first application of the AdESA system is being completed at the gymnasium of the “Don Milani” primary school, Villaggio Badia, Brescia, whose construction system has been patented by the architect Gino Valle.

>>  ALER

Research agreement between University of Brescia - Department DICATAM, UniBG, ALER

Scientific coordinators UniBs: Barbara Angi, Angelo Luigi Camillo Ciribini, Giovanni Plizzari

2020 – Today

The agreement provides for research and teaching activities the scientific contents refer to the field of architecture and engineering and are divided into the following aspects:

• Methodological, concerning contemporary design theories;

• Analytical - instrumental;

• Typological, for the study of distributive, morphological, linguistic characters of architecture and the city;

• Rehabilitation and/or maintenance of architectural artefacts;

• Compositional, concerning the aggregative and formal logic with which the architectural organism is defined in its elements and parts and relates to its context;

• Design experimentation, for the solution of specific themes relating to interventions ex novo or on the built environment;

• Implementation of computer modelling procedures for buildings;

• The study of BIM (Building Information Modeling) procedures for the planning, management, maintenance and valorisation of the building heritage.

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In particular, research themes will be developed to flank and support ALER BCM by producing a varied series of research projects of an eminently design-oriented nature.