Starts
April 08, 2025 09:30
OPEN FORUM
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Event
The origins of performative architecture
Technology is the answer, but what was the question?
#designForAntiFragilityLocation
CRAFT DAStU Building 11B Via Ampère 20 Politecnico di Milano
Curated by
Filippo Orsini with Barbara Coppetti and Estefania Cuenca
Part of
Architectural Design Studio “Over earthquake: hybrid typologies for living on the volcano”
Key note lecture
Paolo Cascone, Visiting Researcher DAStU, Senior Lecturer: University of Westminster, Course Leader: MSc architecture and environmental design
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The seminar addresses the question of performative architecture as an ecological approach to sustainable construction.
Surpassing the rhetoric of parametric design and biomimicry, this new form of architectural metabolism informs the materiality as well as the geometry of architectural components at different scales. The seminar will introduce the notion of synthetic vernacular architecture as a design to perform methodology to evolve indigenous technologies towards affordable architectural tectonics made out productive components. Such evolutionary process will generate a taxonomy of architectural components conceived not just as structural elements but as environmental devices able to regulate air circulation, daylight and other bioclimatic aspects minimising energy consumption. On the
Surpassing the rhetoric of parametric design and biomimicry, this new form of architectural metabolism informs the materiality as well as the geometry of architectural components at different scales. The seminar will introduce the notion of synthetic vernacular architecture as a design to perform methodology to evolve indigenous technologies towards affordable architectural tectonics made out productive components. Such evolutionary process will generate a taxonomy of architectural components conceived not just as structural elements but as environmental devices able to regulate air circulation, daylight and other bioclimatic aspects minimising energy consumption. On the
other hand, this new metabolic approach will bridge high and low technologies to fabricate building components able to produce renewable energy and recycle water.
9:30 Institutional greetings by Massimo Bricocoli, Head of department
9:30 Institutional greetings by Massimo Bricocoli, Head of department
9:45 Lecture by Paolo Cascone introduced by Filippo Orsini
Discussion with Alessio Battistella , Pierre Alain Croset, Alessandro Rogora (DAStU)