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The Italian school infrastructure has suffered in recent decades from an immobility that has generated critical issues and shortcomings in the management of structures, safety adjustments, and innovations in the architectural and pedagogical model. This type of stasis, due to the scarcity of resources on a national scale and the decrease in the birth rate of the country, has meant that the buildings are largely inadequate from both a regulatory and socio/pedagogical point of view, with a level of degradation that is leading to a progressive abandonment of several structures, generating further insecurity at the urban level. In Italy, the current health emergency (SARS-CoV-2), with the necessity of wider spaces for social distancing and less numerous classes, has further highlighted the strongly problematic nature of an extensive and often obsolete school building heritage, raising the need to reevaluate heritage in terms of safety, accessibility, economic impact, and, last but not least, social cohesion. The paper proposes an approach that starts from the analysis of regulations and data on a national scale related to the structural and formal conditions of school buildings, interpreting and evaluating their safety with a holistic approach, to then proceed to the definition of a design survey matrix able to classify the selected cases and give an interpretative reading that includes the vastest number of characterizing factors. The Italian territory (between Abruzzo, Lazio, and Umbria) affected by the 2016 and 2017 earthquakes has been selected as a significant case study due to its obvious conditions of further criticality for the formulation of an evaluation methodology through an extensive field survey, cross-referenced with available data on the resilience of school structures and their role in the urban fabric, with the ultimate aim of identifying functional methods for their adaptation to a contemporary, safe, flexible, and shared school model with local communities.
Roberta Ingaramo; Luca Pascale. An Interpretative Matrix for an Adaptive Design Approach. Italian School Infrastructure: Safety and Social Restoration. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8354 .
AMA StyleRoberta Ingaramo, Luca Pascale. An Interpretative Matrix for an Adaptive Design Approach. Italian School Infrastructure: Safety and Social Restoration. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (20):8354.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRoberta Ingaramo; Luca Pascale. 2020. "An Interpretative Matrix for an Adaptive Design Approach. Italian School Infrastructure: Safety and Social Restoration." Sustainability 12, no. 20: 8354.
Prevention and reduction of forest fires is a crucial challenge. Forest fires are constantly increasing at a global level, particularly in areas close to settlements due to the steadily growing interface between vegetated land and settlements resulting from sub-urbanization processes. Shortcomings in fire management have also contributed to this increase. Management shortcomings are even more alarming if we consider the multifunctionality of forest landscapes, that carry out essential functions from an environmental, socio-economic and cultural point of view, strongly affecting also urban areas. AF3 project (“Advanced Forest Fire Fighting”) aims at overcoming the current operational gaps in managing forest fires through the development of new technologies and methodologies. In the context of the overall AF3 project, this research aims at highlighting forest landscape values in the Sardinia Region, and at defining the potential damages caused by fires, in order to underpin a more complex and complete definition of forest fire risk, to sensitise social actors and institutions regarding forest landscape values, and to foster the design of policy instruments that effectively address forest fire risk. To this aim, the concept of “Ecosystem Services” (ES) has been used as an analytical and operative key, defining a method for valuing and mapping Forest Ecosystem Services (FES) from both a biophysical and economic point of view. The FES valuation method can act as a useful tool to foster an adaptive management and planning approach for resilience, since: (i) it supports community sensitisation, (ii) it promotes institutional learning, (iii) it allows a monitoring action of FES dynamics, fostering a “learn-by-doing” approach, and (iv) it strengthens compensation plans.
Roberta Ingaramo; Emma Salizzoni; Angioletta Voghera. Ecosystem Service Valuation for Forest Landscape Resilience: Managing Fire Risk. Resilient Cities 2018, 129 -146.
AMA StyleRoberta Ingaramo, Emma Salizzoni, Angioletta Voghera. Ecosystem Service Valuation for Forest Landscape Resilience: Managing Fire Risk. Resilient Cities. 2018; ():129-146.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRoberta Ingaramo; Emma Salizzoni; Angioletta Voghera. 2018. "Ecosystem Service Valuation for Forest Landscape Resilience: Managing Fire Risk." Resilient Cities , no. : 129-146.
The work we have carried out in relation to the Action Plan of the River Contracts has been an opportunity for communication between urban planning and architectural design, to build up a territorial project. Major topics identified and a methodological proposal, the integrated multi-scale project, are discussed. The method uses a tool to provide decision-making support and an operational technique: the Action Agreement and the transecting section technique. Different participated design experiences are described to illustrate the evolution of the research.
Roberta Ingaramo; Angioletta Voghera. Experimenting Design Tools. Topics and Methods for Urban and Landscape Design 2016, 69 -81.
AMA StyleRoberta Ingaramo, Angioletta Voghera. Experimenting Design Tools. Topics and Methods for Urban and Landscape Design. 2016; ():69-81.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRoberta Ingaramo; Angioletta Voghera. 2016. "Experimenting Design Tools." Topics and Methods for Urban and Landscape Design , no. : 69-81.
The contribution is part of the debate on trans-scalar design, outlining a role for design within a system of strategies. The river courses, natural infrastructures yesterday and holders of a denied natural identity today, provide specific scope for reflection, starting from research experiences within the territories of the Metropolitan City of Turin, where design has been accompanied by a River Basin Governance method/tool. Detailed design choices form the backbone for the institutional concerting of actors and specialists in the definition of a system strategy aimed at a new vision of the landscape planning and design process.
Roberta Ingaramo. Urban and Architectural Forms. Topics and Methods for Urban and Landscape Design 2016, 35 -67.
AMA StyleRoberta Ingaramo. Urban and Architectural Forms. Topics and Methods for Urban and Landscape Design. 2016; ():35-67.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRoberta Ingaramo. 2016. "Urban and Architectural Forms." Topics and Methods for Urban and Landscape Design , no. : 35-67.
The waning of great transformation ideals based on independent architectural and territorial design gives way to a design capable of seconding the natural dimension, drawing on ecology to imagine living spaces in which nature regains its reference role in the construction of transformation scenarios. City as nature is the title of an issue of Lotus International in 2015: the city will possibly never be nature, but research into design which integrates various scales must be based on the reading and interpretation of the natural elements. This is even truer in the cases and reflections presented in this book, in which the relationship between the river and constructions takes the leading role.
Roberta Ingaramo; Angioletta Voghera. Lesson Learned and Road Map. Topics and Methods for Urban and Landscape Design 2016, 251 -255.
AMA StyleRoberta Ingaramo, Angioletta Voghera. Lesson Learned and Road Map. Topics and Methods for Urban and Landscape Design. 2016; ():251-255.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRoberta Ingaramo; Angioletta Voghera. 2016. "Lesson Learned and Road Map." Topics and Methods for Urban and Landscape Design , no. : 251-255.
The city and territory are the outcome of a political project that develops in space (Geddes 1904, p 113). Every society spreads from structures and infrastructures that are necessary to the life of an urban settlement, conveying shape to space, controlling it and arranging it to become organized.
Roberta Ingaramo; Angioletta Voghera. From the River to the Project. Topics and Methods for Urban and Landscape Design 2016, 1 -9.
AMA StyleRoberta Ingaramo, Angioletta Voghera. From the River to the Project. Topics and Methods for Urban and Landscape Design. 2016; ():1-9.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRoberta Ingaramo; Angioletta Voghera. 2016. "From the River to the Project." Topics and Methods for Urban and Landscape Design , no. : 1-9.