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Description: Capodimonte was the first Palace of Neapolitan Dinasty “Borbone”, but it was neglected due to the rise of Portici and Caserta’s Royal Palaces, therefore, it was built very slowly. It was completed only a century after the laying of the foundation stone (1738). After so long times, which saw the succession of several architects aiming the leadership to the royal site, some of them were quite famous among the most representative figures of Architecture and Art History in Naples, across Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. The Royal Site was originally meant as Hunting reserve nearby the Capital and significant place of rest for the young Carlo di Borbone (Charles of Bourbon), who two years later decided to build a Royal Palace too. That decision was intended to amend the territorial aspects of Neapolitan northern hill, also to influence the urban layout before the unification of Italy. This study, based on a careful documentary and iconographic research, highlights the complex development of the palace and its park which are still paying a high price for the most controversial aspects of the project and its execution, emerged since the beginnings.

Description: During the 17th century antiquities of Campania received international attention thanks to the cultural politics of the Bourbon monarchy. The archaeological discoveries were considered part of the political and military success of the King of Naples. After the reunification of Italy, Naples lost its central role as heart of the antiquities collecting and trade as consequence of the marginalization of Naples as economic and political capital of a Kingdom. This process influenced the sectors archaeology, collecting and antiquity market that traditionally reflected the self-representation of the cultural and political élite. This book focuses on the social history of Neapolitan archaeology, that between the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century was strictly connected with the antiquarian market. The research analyses cultural, socio-political and institutional transformations that determinated the promulgation of a specific legislation that limited the exportation of antiquities with the aim to protect the national interest on Cultural Heritage.

Description: The book collects the results of the Laboratory of Final Synthesis of the Master Degree course in Architectural Design MAPA at DiARC Department of Architecture, structured around the co-participation of two disciplines, architectural design, taught in the course by Professor Renato Capozzi, and executive design, by Professor Erminia Attaianese. The Laboratory has taken on a call for competition articulated in two phases with the subject of the design of a building with a strong public vocation, with the aim of subjecting the students to a design experimentation based on the simulation of a real participation in a design competition. The roofed market of San Giovanni di Dio in the Monteverde district in Rome, has been the theme of the year for the students, producing ten answers, in which the students have respected both the qualitative and quantitative indications and the number of elaborated required, keeping together the complexity of the architectural project and its executive and constructive aspects. The book is completed by contributions by Carmelo Baglivo, Lorenzo Netti, Valerio Palmieri and Efisio Pitzalis, followed by conclusions by Francesco Costanzo and Federica Visconti

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Description: Il volume raccoglie gli esiti del Laboratorio di Sintesi Finale del corso di Laurea Magistrale in Progettazione Architettonica MAPA presso il DiARC Dipartimento di Architettura, strutturato attorno alla compartecipazione di due discipline, la composizione architettonica e urbana, affrontata nel corso tenuto dal professore Renato Capozzi, e la progettazione esecutiva, affidata alla professoressa Erminia Attaianese. Il Laboratorio ha assunto un bando di concorso articolato in due fasi con oggetto la progettazione di un edificio a forte vocazione pubblica, con l’obiettivo di sottoporre agli allievi una sperimentazione progettuale basata sulla simulazione di una reale partecipazione ad un bando di concorso. Il mercato coperto a San Giovanni di Dio nel quartiere Monteverde a Roma, ha costituito il tema d’anno per gli studenti, producendo dieci risposte, in cui sono state rispettate sia le indicazioni qualitative e quantitative che il numero di elaborati richiesti, tenendo assieme la complessità del progetto di architettura e i suoi aspetti esecutivi e costruttivi. Completano il volume i contributi di Carmelo Baglivo, Lorenzo Netti, Valerio Palmieri e Efisio Pitzalis, seguiti dalle conclusioni di Francesco Costanzo e Federica Visconti

Description: The book collects the outcomes of the three Architectural Design Studios of the second year of the Bachelor degree course in Science of Architecture of the DiARC_ Department of Architecture of the University of Naples “Federico II” held during the academic year 2020/21. The three ateliers, sharing the same theme and place, worked on Naples and, in particular, within one of those parts – the Pignasecca – that make up its compact body, confronting the existing and taking it as a reference and measure for the contemporary project. On the basis of these premises, the publication is not limited to an orderly account of a teaching experience, but aims to be a testimony of convinced adhesion to the initiative of coordination of all the Studios of SSD ICAR/14-Architectural and Urban Composition at DiARC: to respond to the need to expand opportunities for comparison and dialogue and to reaffirm the centrality of the project in architectural studies

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Description: La pubblicazione raccoglie gli esiti dei tre corsi di Laboratorio di Progettazione Architettonica del secondo anno del Corso di Laurea Triennale in Scienze dell’Architettura del DiARC_ Dipartimento di Architettura della Università di Napoli “Federico II” tenuti durante l’anno accademico 2020/21. I tre ateliers, che condividevano il tema e il luogo, hanno lavorato sulla città di Napoli e, in particolare, all’interno di una di quelle parti – la Pignasecca – che ne costituiscono il corpo compatto, confrontandosi con l’esistente e assumendolo come riferimento e misura per il progetto contemporaneo. Assunte queste premesse, il volume non si limita ad un resoconto ordinato di una esperienza didattica, ma vuole rappresentare una testimonianza di convinta adesione alla iniziativa di coordinamento di tutti i Laboratori del SSD ICAR/14-Composizione architettonica e urbana del DiARC: per rispondere alla esigenza di ampliare le occasioni di confronto e di dialogo e per riaffermare la centralità del progetto negli studi di architettura

Description: heories about the origins and developments of modern cities seem to agree, without exception, to a point: the city is the place of maximum concentration of exchange. Activities, in fact, are located into urban and metropolitan agglomerations to minimize the resources needed to meet the growing need for relationships and exchanges with other activities. In recent years, the concentration and specialization of these activities have led to an extraordinary increase in intensity and quality of exchange needs, with the obvious consequence of congestion in most metropolitan areas with predictable consequences on the sustainability of urban areas, on the quality of life of its inhabitants and on the energy consumption associated with the growing demand for mobility. As a result, in recent years, several authors have argued for greater integration between urban planning policies, mobility management and energy efficiency. In this context, this volume aims to provide a contribution in this direction and presents the results of a research project aimed at the development of an integrated city-mobility-energy governance model. In particular, the first part of this work give an overview of the complex relationships between mobility, energy consumption and built environment through a meta-analysis of the recent literature. Specifically, in this section, the two main sources of energy consumption in urban areas (energy consumption in the residential sector and energy consumption of transport) are considered. These sectors represent, according to the latest estimates, respectively 32% and 35% of the final energy consumption. The section introduces several characteristics of the built environment such as density, functional mix or accessibility and described as such factors affect energy consumption in the transport and residential sectors. Understanding these relationships is of crucial importance for the development of a coordinated mix of actions aimed at reducing energy consumption in urban areas. Subsequently, the main models present in the literature for estimating residential energy consumption and urban transport energy consumption are presented, paying particular attention to the strengths and weaknesses of each model, the complexity and the related technical and operational aspects related to the implementation of such models. In the second part of this work, the focus is on the techniques for the representation and classification of energy consumption in urban areas through an application to the case study of Naples. Particularly, this section places particular emphasis on the new opportunities offered by the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and by the increasing availability of new data sources. The work integrates the use of "traditional" data sources such as census surveys, new data sources (in particular open and large data) with spatial analyzes developed ad hoc to provide exhaustive knowledge of energy consumption patterns within the city of Naples. The proposed methodology is validated by comparing the results obtained with the previously available data for the study area and by the implementation of spatial statistical analyzes in a GIS environment. The proposed methodology is a useful tool for public decision-makers and policy makers aimed at defining integrated government strategies for the reducing and optimizing of public and private energy consumption. In particular, the methodology described in this work is useful for classifying and representing energy consumption on an urban scale, for the identification of critical areas in terms of consumption, and for ex post evaluation of interventions on the urban system.

Description: An examination of the literature sources, of the archival documents, of the iconographic and cartographic repertoire to reconstruct the key moments of the fascinating architectural and artistic history of one of the most famous monuments of our city. The Basilica of San Giovanni Maggiore is now the result of often ominous and even criminal events, or of some imprudent interventions, that the recent renovations have been able to remedy only partially. Nevertheless, thanks to the constant care and to the appropriate use by the Engineers Order of Naples, it has been lately given back to the city: not only as an important place of worship, but also as a cultural center and a social gathering site, placed in such a significant area of the historic center of Naples, UNESCO World Heritage since 1995. The architectural and artistic analysis of the Basilica has been preceded by a description of urban history in late Antiquity and in the early Middle Ages; it had its fulcrum in the hill of Monterone, now largo of San Giovanni Maggiore, with an irregular and tortuous web, preserved up to us. This work proposes in the second part an updated summary analysis of existing artistic works in the Basilica, as well as those placed in some other locations in order to be preserved or restored.

Description: Cities are in a state in which two opposing forces are acting on them: on the one hand the unabated urbanization process, on the other the evergrowing demand for real sustainability. The book proposes an urban planning response focused on the transformations of urban sectors to be achieved using innovative operative tools; for this aim the book defines the main features of this operative tools. The goal is to include in the cities innovative actions that can provoke a domino effect with repercussions on the entire urban structure. The book is devided in 5 sections. The first one addresses the issue of urbanization and the development of the urban systems, with the related implications in terms of resource consumption and concentration of people and functions. The second part discusses some models that explain the mechanisms of urban sprawl and the derived scenarios. The third part deals with one of the key nodes of the relationship between urban systems and environmental resources, namely the energy. The fourth part analyzes some international case studies to extrapolate recurring characteristics that can affect the operative planning. The fifth section focuses on the features of this new type of plan.

Description: The videogame is the emblematic contemporary medium that invite to think about man's new ways of making knowledge and experience of the world. Video-gaming means for the user to access the writing of a spatial narrative, consisting of virtual environments to navigate, actions to perform, and multimedia representations to interact with. Today, the videogame is also beginning to be adopted in museum institutions, which are experimenting innovative languages in order to actualize their own way of telling the artworks and collections, offering more interactive experiences appropriate for new cultural audiences. To ignore this new narrative mode would mean for museums to create a barrier towards a large audience and, consequently, to hinder the cultural and communicative action they are called upon to provide. The videogame, in fact, can become a tool capable of increasing museum accessibility: the digital one, through the use of everyday technologies; the cognitive one, by reducing the sense of cultural inadequacy and emotional detachment for those audiences, especially younger ones, who do not identify with traditional methods of cultural transmission and who are stimulated by experiences guided by factors such as discovery, free exploration, interaction and immersion; and the physical-perceptual one, as it is capable of creating new forms of relationship between virtual game space and physical museum space. The book therefore reflects on the need to deal more methodically and systematically with the spatial narrative model used in the new medium, making visual procedural maps for its aware use in both Entertainment Games and Cultural Games. The research analyzes the virtual game space as a device for organizing narrative elements that can activate important parts of the player's interpretive process, as a tool for constructing museum-related stories and creating innovative experiences of Cultural Heritage fruition.

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Description: ll videogioco è il medium emblematico della contemporaneità che invita a riflettere sulle nuove modalità dell’uomo di fare conoscenza ed esperienza del mondo. Video-giocare significa per l’utente accedere alla scrittura di una narrazione spaziale, fatta di ambienti virtuali da navigare, azioni da compiere e rappresentazioni multimediali con cui interagire. Il videogioco inizia oggi ad essere accolto anche nelle istituzioni museali che stanno sperimentando linguaggi innovativi al fine di attua¬lizzare il proprio modo di raccontare le opere e le collezioni, offrendo esperienze più interattive e adatte ai nuovi pubblici culturali. Disinteressarsi di questa nuova modalità narrativa significherebbe per i musei creare una barriera nei confronti di un vasto pubblico e, di conseguenza, ostacolare l’azione culturale e comunicativa che sono chiamati a svolgere. Il videogioco, infatti, può divenire uno strumento in grado di incrementare l’accessibilità museale: quella digitale, attraverso l’uso di tecnologie d’uso quotidiano; quella cognitiva, riducendo il senso di inadeguatezza culturale e di distacco emotivo per quei pubblici, specialmente più giovani, che non si riconoscono nei metodi tradizionali di trasmissione culturale e che sono stimolati da esperienze guidate da fattori quali la scoperta, la libera esplorazione, l’interazione e l’immersione; quella fisico-percettiva, in quanto capace di creare nuove forme di relazione tra spazio virtuale di gioco e spazio fisico museale. Il volume riflette pertanto sull’esigenza di occuparsi con maggiore metodologia e sistematicità del modello narrativo spaziale utilizzato nel nuovo medium, costruendo delle mappe procedurali visive per un suo uso consapevole sia negli Entertainment Games sia nei Cultural Games. La ricerca analizza lo spazio virtuale di gioco come mezzo per organizzare elementi narrativi in grado di innescare parti importanti del processo interpretativo del giocatore, come strumento per costruire storie legate al museo e creare esperienze innovative di fruizione del patrimonio culturale.

Description: Cities and all the activities carried out in an urban environment significantly influence climate change causes but, at the same time, they are greatly affected by them. For these reasons, urban areas not only represent one of the problems, but also the main field of application of intervention strategies to be developed in order to mitigate the negative effects of climate change. Among the strategies to contrast climate change, the adaptation to its environmental effects has been pushed right into the background in scientific debate, mainly due to the difficulty experienced in transferring urban climatology into methods that can be easily implemented by planners to draw up land use plan. This volume is an attempt to strengthen the cultural background of urban planner, establishing solid connections with urban climatology, in order to build a new language, able to consider the relationships between urban morphology and climate change adaptation strategies to be implemented.

Description: This volume presents the outcomes of the three third-year Design Studios conducted within the bachelor's degree program in Science of Architecture (Department of Architecture - University of Naples "Federico II"). The place chosen to situate the different design strategies developed by each course has been Sanità, a central area that developed as a periphery of the adjacent city centre, a major example of a logic of systematic fragmentation and discontinuity that seems to have affirmed as a principle of a way of urbanizing the urban tissue of the city of Naples. Through essays and projects, this volume illustrates the results of a didactic approach that is functional to the needs of an open and inclusive School of Architecture, seeking at the same time – in the personal expertise of each teacher – which methods, processes, and ways of teaching the project can delineate different cultural horizons in favour of a plurality of views on the architecture of the city

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Description: I tre Laboratori del Terzo anno condotti all’interno del Corso di Laurea Triennale in Scienze dell’Architettura (Dipartimento di Architettura - Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”), dei quali si presentano gli esiti in questo volume, hanno sviluppato le proprie sperimentazioni progettuali nell’ambito del quartiere Sanità, un luogo riconducibile al sistema di periferie centrali e che è parte di quella logica di sistematica frammentazione e discontinuità che nella realtà napoletana si afferma come principio urbanizzatore. I saggi e i progetti raccolti in questo volume illustrano i risultati di un’esperienza che ha rappresentato un’opportunità per sperimentare un’attività didattica funzionale alle necessità di una Scuola di Architettura aperta e inclusiva ma che allo stesso tempo ricerca, nelle personali esperienze di ciascun docente, modalità, processi e maniere di insegnare il progetto capaci di delineare orizzonti culturali differenti a favore di una pluralità di sguardi sull’architettura della città.