Information
Technology in Architecture: Theory, Practise, Design
Instructor:Antonino
Saggio ( T. A. Francesco De Luca, Italia Rossi ).
www.citicord.uniroma1.it/saggio
The teaching activity
consists of lectures, seminars, tutorials, desk crits and " electronic"
reviews and is organized according to seven thematic cycles, each characterized
by two points of view: the first one looks at contemporary architectural
culture and its latest researches; the second one investigates the topic
as it relates to the world of electronic processing. The seeming unbalance
between the two points of view produces interesting dynamics inside the
class itself, while providing it its motivation and true incentive.
The final work produced
in 2003 is called Texpò and proposed a large virtual exhibit
on the banks of the Tiber, in the Ostiense area, between the Gasometer
to the north and the Marconi Bridge to the south. They are twenty-five
projects/installations, each located in a specific site inside a harmonic
masterplan that redesigns the banks of the Tiber as a
series of emerging
thresholds, genereting areas with various shapes and bents. Each project/installation
is characterized by a series of aspects which can be outlined as follows.
A. First
of all, each projects is based on a " theoretical and technological" theme
that is relevant for today's information research ( sensors, quanta, topological
structures, innovative materials, projective or physical interactivity,
etc...).
B. Each theme
generates a "story", i.e. it finds a concrete application by means of an
effort that links research to reality. Often they are real, functional
facilities that support the exhibit ( a projection tower, a thermal facility,
a baby-sitting area, etc.) while at other times they are installations
( event space on the water, moments of meditation and therapy, changeable
landscape configurations, etc).
C. Each project/
installation is part of an area of the Texpò.
Hence there
is a specific design of the space, of its surroundings and of its links
with the adjacent interventions, as well as with the project at large.
