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Advanced documentation technologies for people-centred preparedness and re-construction in Bela, India (2024)
Journal Article
Devilat, B. M., Lanuza, F., Mane, M., & Pithawalla, Z. (2024). Advanced documentation technologies for people-centred preparedness and re-construction in Bela, India. Disaster Prevention and Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm-12-2023-0316

Purpose: Despite the recurrence of earthquakes, responses are usually triggered afterwards, lacking mitigation strategies to diminish risks. Damaged dwellings cannot be immediately reinforced to continue inhabitation, generating disruption. Repairs a... Read More about Advanced documentation technologies for people-centred preparedness and re-construction in Bela, India.

Museum as Object: From Postcard to Post (2024)
Journal Article
Hale, J., Hanks, L., & Simpson, C. (in press). Museum as Object: From Postcard to Post. DEPARCH Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research, 3(2), 139-160. https://doi.org/10.55755/deparch.2024.31

Whether it’s through sharing picture postcards or visitor-produced photographs of museums on social media, these processes of image sharing, often dismissed as trivial, are acts which create and sustain relationships between the visitor, museum, and... Read More about Museum as Object: From Postcard to Post.

Archive and site: The ghost of Peter Eisenman's 1978 Cannaregio Ovest project in Venice (2024)
Journal Article
Lanuza, F. (2024). Archive and site: The ghost of Peter Eisenman's 1978 Cannaregio Ovest project in Venice. ARENA Journal of Architectural Research, 9(1), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.55588/ajar.389

In this paper, I discuss Peter Eisenman’s unbuilt proposal for the Cannaregio Ovest district in Venice, and develop a speculative reading linking the project’s archive and the site. I account for different absences involved to visually represent the... Read More about Archive and site: The ghost of Peter Eisenman's 1978 Cannaregio Ovest project in Venice.

Unbinding architectural imagination: Wang Shu’s textual bricolage in theoretical writing and design (2022)
Journal Article
Jin, X., & Hale, J. (2022). Unbinding architectural imagination: Wang Shu’s textual bricolage in theoretical writing and design. Journal of Architecture, 27(7-8), 1012-1033. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2022.2153377

Architectural writing norms have been a subject of constant debate in recent decades. Architectural poststructuralists have often conceptualised writing as a form of virtual construction in the medium of words. Recent scholarship relating to innovati... Read More about Unbinding architectural imagination: Wang Shu’s textual bricolage in theoretical writing and design.

Room to breathe: Using adaptive architecture to examine the relationship between alexithymia and interoception (2021)
Journal Article
Abdulhamid, H., Jäger, N., Schnädelbach, H., & Smith, A. D. (2022). Room to breathe: Using adaptive architecture to examine the relationship between alexithymia and interoception. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 153, Article 110708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2021.110708

Objective: Individuals with alexithymia experience difficulties interpreting emotional states in self and others, which has been associated with interoceptive impairment. Current theories are primarily based on subjective and conscious measures of in... Read More about Room to breathe: Using adaptive architecture to examine the relationship between alexithymia and interoception.

How do buildings talk? Embodied experience in the Rolex Learning Centre (2021)
Journal Article
Yang, J., Hale, J., & Blackman, T. (2021). How do buildings talk? Embodied experience in the Rolex Learning Centre. arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, 25(1), 83-92. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1359135521000129

A 3D film by Wim Wenders of the Rolex Learning Centre provides a deeper phenomenological reading of SANAA’s distinctively minimalist architecture.

The Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010, curated by Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima, co-founder o... Read More about How do buildings talk? Embodied experience in the Rolex Learning Centre.

中小学校园公共空间自然可视率量化研究 (2019)
Journal Article
Liu, F., Hu, Z., Tang, Y., & Xie, J. (2019). 中小学校园公共空间自然可视率量化研究. Kexue Jishu yu Gongcheng, 19(33), 342-349

In order to solve the problem that the traditional method is very complex in safety assessment of primary and secondary school, which cannot get an objective result quickly. The method of calculating the natural visibility ratio within the students'... Read More about 中小学校园公共空间自然可视率量化研究.

Support structure for a shelter (2018)
Patent
Beccarelli, P., Reed, V., Callan, D., & Carpenter, R. Support structure for a shelter. Nash Matthews LLP

The present invention relates to a support structure for a shelter and a shelter comprising a support structure in combination with a canopy. It also concerns a method for assembling the support structure.

Casa Corriere –RCS Media Group pavilion for Expo 2015
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Beccarelli, P., Armani, M., & Maffei, R. (2019, June). Casa Corriere –RCS Media Group pavilion for Expo 2015. Presented at 6th International TensiNet Symposium Softening the Habitats: Sustainable Innovations in Minimal Mass Structures and Lightweight Architectures, Milan, Italy

In 2014 Rizzoli-Corriere dellaSera Media Group S.p.A. decided to have a pavilion at the Milan Expo 2015 in order to promote the activity of the group in daily newspapers, magazines and books, radio broadcasting, new media and digital and satellite TV... Read More about Casa Corriere –RCS Media Group pavilion for Expo 2015.

Energy performance of film membranes in the retrofitting of Architectural Heritage: an Italian case study
Presentation / Conference Contribution
De Vita, M., D'Antonio, R., Beccarelli, P., & De Berardinis, P. (2019, June). Energy performance of film membranes in the retrofitting of Architectural Heritage: an Italian case study. Presented at 6th International TensiNet Symposium Softening the Habitats: Sustainable Innovations in Minimal Mass Structures and Lightweight Architectures, Milan, Italy

During the last decades, the development of architectural textiles led to significant innovations in the building industry. Designers, producers and researchers have invested in the technical development of textile envelopes with the aim of improving... Read More about Energy performance of film membranes in the retrofitting of Architectural Heritage: an Italian case study.