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Palazzo della civiltلa Italiana
In 2015, the storied fashion house Fendi moved its headquarters into the Palazzo della Civilta Italiana in Rome, a stark white cube perforated by symmetrical arches. Originally commissioned as part of an exhibition on Roman civilization for the 1942 world's fair, the architects took their cues from ancient history to create a building that was quintessentially Roman yet decidedly modern, earning its nickname the Square Colosseum. Because of its striking appearance and iconic status, the palazzo subsequently made appearances in a number of films by directors such as Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini, and Peter Greenaway. The building remained relatively abandoned throughout much of its existence, until its recent inhabitance by the always forward-thinking house of Fendi, an experience which Karl Lagerfeld has likened to being on a spaceship transported into the future.
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Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Instruments in 2017
Peer review is an essential part in the publication process, ensuring that Instruments maintains high quality standards for its published papers [...]
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Gio Ponti al Bo: un restauro filologico integrale
In 2022, the University of Padua undertook a significant restoration project, encompassing all areas of the University's Rectorate, designed by Gio Ponti starting in 1934.The intervention involved floors, walls, doors, lamps, and over 500 pieces of furniture specifically designed by Gio Ponti. Commissioned by Rector Carlo Anti, the architect meticulously curated every detail of the spaces with refined elegance, pursuing a unified and organic vision. The still in use today furniture on the piano nobile of Palazzo Bo (Bo Palace), the University's central headquarters, represents the best-preserved masterpieces among the numerous works created worldwide by the Milanese architect and designer. The restoration, conducted according to philological criteria and critically studied and planned, aimed to rediscover the delicate balance between aesthetic restitution, integrity of the original design, functional restoration, and identity of the spaces, combining the need for preserving the past with the demand for present-day adequacy and efficiency. During both the planning and execution phases, the work team—consisting of architects, art historians, experts, and technicians from various areas and centers, along with restorers, in continuous dialogue with the Superintendence—studied drawings, sketches, specifications, and letters between Rector Anti, architect Ponti.
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A Scan-to-HBIM Workflow to Trace the Level of Modelling Accuracy. The Case of Palazzo Carignano in Turin
Baroque architecture presents considerable morphological complexities relating to structural systems, distributive characteristics, and decorative elements. Palazzo Carignano in Turin, designed by Guarino Guarini from 1679, is a quintessential example of the period. The need to comply with public works regulations, monitor the state of conservation, and document the building required to plan new integrated digital surveys and create HBIM models. The workflow developed combines integrated digital surveying methodology with HBIM modeling process, dedicated to both the structural and architectural systems, as well as the decorative elements. The Level of Accuracy (LOA), a control parameter for surveying and modeling, is central to connecting the two phases of the process and represents one of the main challenges of the research.
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House of Secrets : the many lives of a Florentine palazzo
When Italian Renaissance professor Allison Levy takes up residency in the palazzo of her dreams - the Palazzo Rucellai in Florence - she finds herself consumed by the space and swept into the vortex of its history. She spends every waking moment in dustry Florentine libraries and exploring the palazzo's myriad rooms seeking to uncover its secrets. As she unearths the stories of those who have lived behind its celebrated facade, she discovers that it has been witness to weddings, suicides, orgies and even a murder. Entwining Levy's own experiences with the ghosts of the Palazzo Rucellai's past, House of Secrets paints a scintillating portrait of a family, a palace and one of the most iconic cities in the world.
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AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SPATIAL HUMANITIES APPROACH TO STUDY THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE SOUTH FAÇADE OF THE SALA DEI CINQUECENTO OF PALAZZO VECCHIO IN FLORENCE
Digital and spatial techniques, such as reality-based surveying and 3D modelling, have long been used in archaeology. However, in recent years the use of these techniques has gained importance also in the history of architecture, a discipline in which these data can help to interpret traditionally used, but often incomplete, written sources (Tucci et al. 2021; Fiorini et al. 2023).This paper is about an aspect of the eighteenth-century renovations of Palazzo Vecchio. It focuses attention on a small terrace that runs alongside the exterior facade of the Sala dei Cinquecento and to which there is no entrance. The question this paper seeks to answer is: why during eighteenth-century renovations it was decided to exclude the existing entrance to the terrace from the accessible spaces? Using geomatics techniques, it has been possible to identify the location of the enclosed spaces in relation to other parts of the building (Tucci, 2017).In accordance with the criteria of Spatial Humanities, the present research is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach based on the analysis and interpretation of data obtained from archival sources (Archivio Storico Comunale di Firenze, Fototeca Comunale di Firenze, Archivio Centrale di Stato di Roma, Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Gabinetto fotografico degli Uffizi, Catalogo Generale Beni Culturali, Biblioteca Nazionale), the consultation of relevant published iconographic sources in libraries, and the interpretation of 3D data and architectural elements discovered during the onsite survey of the area between the inner and outer southern façades of the Sala dei Cinquecento.The first part of this essay focus on the southern façade of the Sala dei Cinquecento and aims to demonstrate to what extent the Carlo Falconieri’s modification altered the general appearance of the façade. The second part, aims to clarify the architectural phases or aspects of the southern façade of the Sala dei Cinquecento before Falconieri’s works.
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The unfinished palazzo : life, love and art in Venice : the stories of Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse and Peggy Guggenheim
Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Venier family waned and the project was abandoned with only one storey complete. Empty, unfinished, and in a gradual state of decay, the building was considered an eyesore. Yet in the early 20th century the Unfinished Palazzo's quality of fairytale abandonment, and its potential for transformation, were to attract and inspire three fascinating women at key moments in their lives: Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse and Peggy Guggenheim. Each chose the Palazzo Venier as the stage on which to build her own world of art and imagination, surrounded by an amazing supporting cast, from d'Annunzio and Nijinsky, via Noel Coward and Cecil Beaton, to Yoko Ono.
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Machine Learning-Based Monitoring for Planning Climate-Resilient Conservation of Built Heritage
The increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events are accelerating the mechanisms of surface degradation of heritage buildings, and it is therefore appropriate to find automatic techniques to reduce the time and cost of monitoring and to support their planned conservation. A fully automated approach is presented here for the segmentation and classification of the architectural elements that make up one of the façades of Palazzo Pitti. The aim of this analysis is to provide tools for a more detailed assessment of the risk of detachment of parts of the pietraforte sandstone elements. Machine learning techniques were applied for the segmentation and classification of information from a DEM obtained via a photogrammetric drone survey. An unsupervised geometry-based classification of the segmented objects was performed using K-means for identifying the most vulnerable elements according to their shapes. The results were validated through comparing them with those obtained via manual segmentation and classification, as well as with studies carried out by experts in the field. The initial results, which can be integrated with non-geometric information, show the usefulness of drone surveys in the context of automatic monitoring of heritage buildings.
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