Explanation of the project:

 

The final work produced in 2003 by Antonino Saggio's Class at Rome La Sapienza is called Texpo 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 master plan that redesigns the banks of the Tiber as a series of emerging thresholds, generating 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 project i based on a "theoretical and technological" theme that is relevant for today's information research (sensors, quanta, topological structures, innovative materialized, projective or physical interactivity, etc.)

B: Each them e generates a "story", i.e. 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 ...) while at other times they are installations  (Space events on  the water,Moments of meditations  and Therapy, Changeable Landscape  configurations, etc.,)
C. Each Project/installation is part of an area of Tempo. Hence there is a specify design of the space, of its surrounding and of its link with the adjacent interventions, as well as with the project at large.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Teams and Themes

		in4mation  Thermal interactive pavillion.       microchips Pistilli Fabrizio Raddi Caterina TallarO Salvatorluca Vanini Diego	microchips - In4mation ? Thermal interactive pavillion. Water is the most dynamic element we can imagine, and the flux concept is an intriguing interpretative key, especially if related with the river and it’s relation to the city. The choice of a thermal pavillion as a design assignment in the city of Rome, is the intersection point between a traditional use of water, lost in time, and the need to discover a strong relation with the Tevere river, using a dynamic path from the city level to the river level.
		Architecture as Spectacle The Gazometer at Texpo2003 jamfrequency Olivieri Marco Pitzalis Federico Janni Gordon Marinelli Alessandro	jamfrequency  - Architecture as spectacle, the Texpo 2003  A “scenic machine” as a landmark for the city of Rome. The nebulization and projection systems, lights and sounds are studied independently as  technical devices and then mounted together to obtain different performances. A capsule rises and descends slowly in the centre of the gasometer LOCAL LINK , web
		Emerging_waves cerebral waves generate spatial events  e_le_menti Ampolo Claudio Biagini Luca Proietti Alessandra	e_le_ments  - emerging? cerebral waves generate spatial events A trip in the space of the mind looking for psychophysical stability. To translate the immaterial mental space into a real and immersive one: a place where body and mind can merge into a self-massage The wave is the instrument for the mind to emerge, it is a performant matter, an inter_reactive space modulated by people’s cerebral activity. LOCAL LINK
		SEMPLOGY Museum Flows   meafaber Sciannamea Fabrizio	meafaber  - Semplogy ? museum flows Is it possible to foresee the visitors’ flow inside a museum hall ? With analytical attitude (not scientific) using Cellular Automata: yes. In the last years these mathematical models are applied especially in town planning to foresee urban growth, and traffic flows in small centres. C.A. can elaborate the system we are studying so to underline the character and the dynamics, increasing the knowledge degree of the whole.
		Visceral Space commercial spaces inside an organic architecture.    bauco group Arduini Luigina Bernardi Luca Di Cosimo Eleonora	bauco group  - Visceral space ? commercial spaces inside an organic architecture. Architecture in the information age is very sensible to it’s surroundings. In particular, architecture has built a special relation with human beings, since these can use it while they become part of it, in their organic and “spiritual” qualities. We don’t see and study anymore the human body as a measurement system, as proportion and rational principle, but as a model on sensibility, interaction and the ability to communicate. It’s dynamism becomes the uprooting of form, from stability and traditional order, looking for an indeterminate condition of becoming.
		Existenz Architecture of the soul sine nomine Costantini Gianguido D'Annibale Virgili Fanasca Massimo Ramundo Alessandra Proietti Francesca	Existenz ? architecture of the soul HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION This design finds it’s theoretical roots within the study of hypnosis, the visitor while still conscious and awake is guided in an introspective trip back to his prenatal phase. Human personality in the contemporary world goes through a necessary dissociation, loosing one mind is necessary to find it again. The person is becoming background rather than object, sceptical doubt rather than certainty, crisis rather than empathy. The reality passes through the human being without friction so that he looses the self conscience Suggestion considered as therapeutic opportunity, gives to the visitor the perception of his deep realm through the conformation of space. We are not offering an alternative realm for escaping but a discovery journey to the inner life of our conceivement. o
		Vegetable Architecture hiyper-architettura e sostenibilità: convergenz  Carlani Raffaele	Vegetable architecture ? hyper sustainable architecture: convergence.  If we analyse the resources that our civilization can afford, it is clear that the huge difference between supply and demand is quite unbalancing. The concentrated nature of traditional provision systems can be overtaken. Vegetable architecture copies vegetable technology and suggests energetic autarchic structures exploiting the opportunities of information technology (interaction between environment and building), the latest photovoltaic technologies, an architecture can be considered a productive opportunity rather than an energetic black hole.
		Architectural Cages a thorax called archtecture.   biomorfismo Pancia Stefano Scalici Giuseppe	Biomorphism  - Architectural cages, a thorax called archtecture. Analysing biomorphic aspects of architecture: we will try to outline the movement of information from the architectural to the natural domain, merging the strictness of proportions with organic deformations, so to invent a communicative architecture.
		mikea programmable platforms     Giordani Michela	IMikea ? programmable platforms This project suggests several platforms on water. These platforms can be programmed into different reciprocal configurations following the mechanics of hierachical structures.
		Eadem mutata resurget s even though the same, revives changed. Morphologically programmable surface Non active link Chiovenda Francesco Placco Cinzia Venanzoni Daniele	Eadem mutata resurget ? even though the same, revives changed. Morphologically programmable surface, not active link. This design is looking for a meeting point between digital and real space, a third nature dimension for these two attempts to find a common ground. The decisive step is the internet: the synergy between hyperarchitecture and world wide web gives birth to a living organism with multiple personalities, an ever changing organic skin: a huge lizard penetrating the folding soil and becoming skateramp, arena, or a plain animal sleeping on the Tevere river banks. "Eadem mutata resurget". LOCAL LINK
		Arena 2003 new playsgrounds PIXELati Serangeli Daniele Squanquerillo Valerio Tozzi Claudia Veneziani Alessia Ranfoni Sabrina	PIXELated - Arena 2003 ? new playsgrounds Sports have always existed and have always been a spectacle, for leisure or a professional activity. People need sports and have set aside special sites for their practice. The places for sports have changed in the centuries following different needs and fancies.  New information technologies haven’t changed the nature of sports: only architecture found in IT a new expressive media, faster, stronger and more incisive, capable to satisfy the new rules of actual society. Spaces and technologies aren’t optional anymore, they are mass produced elements for the spectacle. Not spectacle of space but spectacular space, not a container but a tension field.
		Home Hosting Home hosting - Permanent structures for temporary houses  i_mobildream Antonelli Fabio Betti Giovanni De Licio Michela Scarpa Cristiano Settimelli Gabriele	_mobildream - Home hosting - Permanent structures for temporary houses Society is moving, the house is moving. Home Hosting starts as a reflection of web-hosting: from email, and remote hard disks arouses the opportunity to find oneself everywhere in the world. The real estate company is offering you a house that looks exactly like you look, in each part of the world, all you need to do is book it in advance!
		(I)nter(M)edi(A)zione Intermediating-computer-screen-man      n.u._v.u. Acosta Fontana Carlos Chiaretti Gabriele D'Elia Massimo	n.u._v.u. - Intermediating-computer-screen-man Technologies are driving men to use the everchanging digital devices in a direct manner. Our goal is to create an interface that supplies a new perception of the data that machine is exchanging using direct human interaction. The purpose is to build a screen-element than does not only represent canonical bidimensional images but offers the opportunity to control directly the machine with tactile contact.
		The sunflower An Architectural installation with a memory of form         sun flower Aimola Alessandro Di Lelio Luca Tomassi Bernardino	sun flower -  - The sunflower - An Architectural installation with a memory of form Materials with memory of form can change their configuration following the temperature of the surroundings, so to have a consistent exchange between environment-time of day-person: in my opinion these materials can be considered alive. We want to use these materials for an installation interacting with the environment and with the people that use it. This environment will be changing with continuity and will never be constrained in closed stillness. The building must be an immovable monolythical symbol and in the same time a symbol of fluid continuous change.
		Blurring Time Time as mandamental line of space.       gruppo REC Biagiola Valerio Bianchi Mattia Casciotti Alessandro	gruppo REC - Blurring time ? Time as mandamental line of space. Since Giacomo Balla’s work, many artists have explored movement and studied a manner to relate with time flow. Futurism underlined overlapping photograms playing with simultaneous divisions; since then time relativity has showed effects on art in different ways. Looking at surroundings Balla studied mandamental lines as they appeared in nature and inserted them in his paintings. These concepts have followed different direction in the different arts. Time has become the fourth dimension of space. Nowadays many explore this theme artistically: Eisenman’s studies on movement as well as Greg Lynn’s vertebrate and parasite structures suggest different solutions for the same problem.
		Q-Bit Link non active iLa Rivoluzione Della Nanotecnologia arc.3Cerrmentini Gianluca Coia Manuel Cornice Berardo
		E-Metro fsensible flows      f.o.r.m.a. Angelini Rosetta Cioffi Massimiliano Di Laurenzio Andrea Scerrato Federica Solombrino Olivia	f.o.r.m.a. - e-metro ? sensible flows The architecture of intelligence is the architecture of the communication networks. A way to understand the networks is to think about communities, networks of persons. Digital networks as organic ones are quite intelligent. Electricity puts everything in contact being omnipresent. If electrons run on a wired line, handling their flow we can generate intelligence
		Mother Ada interactive ludic space for children     ADAttivi Capobasso Barbara Fornetti Patrizia Marcoccia Alessandra Miscetti Andrea Cortinovis Maria Valentina	ADAptives - Mother ada ? interactive ludic space for children The peculiar element we are focusing on is the AGGREGATION ability of children, their ability to create protosocial structures with rules and hierarchies . Studying a consistent sample of individuals (our idea is not constrained to a single site but can be exported and installed in different places, different cultures) can guide us to the accomplishment of models describing behavioural dynamics. In the same way that the study of COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS suggests in other disciplines (i.e. bird moving within a flight, sand grain yielding, storm formation, crystal formation), where single entities are initially independent and then become articulated while aggregating: a group of children that don’t know each other look as a CHAOTIC situation in the beginning: if they are correctly stimulated an left alone, they organizer themselves into complex structures. CRITICAL SELF ORGANIZATION.
		Interactive Navigation nautical exposition and interactive spaces.     if_possible Bielli Pierluigi Cerquozzi Sante	if_possible ? Interactive navigation  nautical exposition and interactive spaces. Interactivity is a real situation, an existential condition, common and usual for human beings; architecture generates space for humans so it must keep this same character. Our goal is an organism that can respond to actions done by men and environment. Architecture modifies the environment that modifies architecture using external events and specific conditions of the site. To think about the Tevere as a molecular flow of water as well as data, means navigating on it. The flow lines of optical fibres deform themselves into a space holding real and immaterial flows becoming an architecture in between image and de_formation.
		ACQUATIC FISH Full Immersion   di&de De Martinis Andrea Di Girolamo Simone	di&de - Acquatic fish ? full immersion Acquatic Fish represents the essentiality of transparence, natural elements such as water, absolutely, are the vital elements of a continuos moving fish. A transparent body for external and internal surfaces to merge, where we fall in the inside and find ourselves immersed completely in a new water-world: we now feel observed elements and aren’t visitors anymore.
		Continum_Everso Real destinations through virtuality.      infinito^5 Del Signore Marcella Fochetti Elisa Luciano Francesca Mililli Roberta Roppo Barbara	infinite^5 - Continuum everted ? Real destinations through virtuality. Our research turned it’s attention towards an ideal landscape, a commercial product giving life to a virtual travel agency offering the chosen landscape and the personalized solution for enjoying it. The final outcome emerges from the irrational choices the users can make in the sensible areas of images, sounds and movement. The sensible spaces are freely arranged and provoke sensorial and technological modifications inside the park.
		Playing House Playing house as a flexible architecture.      spazi domotici Bove Lavinia Caprera Alessia Silvestri Alessandro	domotic spaces - Playing house -  Playing house as a flexible architecture. Playing House is a ludic experiment aimed to explore the spatial flexibility inside the domestic space. The users are invited to follow a path where they will imagine and live the spaces, absolutely flexible spaces, inside a house built on his own emotions and experiences
		Miralanza Subjective Cocktail Bar?  choose your cocktail interactively - a bar where you can order interacting with space.         percezione delirante Berardo Susan Carfagna Daniele  Lai Francesco Tattolo Vincenzo	Delirious perception- Miralanza subjective cocktail bar ? choose your cocktail interactively - a bar where you can order interacting with space. Man and architecture interact with a continuous exchange of information. Space, confined by pulsing membranes, is experienced like an hypertext where we can navigate through sounds and images. Architecture is absorbing the choices and syntesizing them into a cocktail, a metaphor of interaction architecture-man, a small personalized space where we taste something of ourselves, in every sense.
		Traslating Real into Virtual  Realizing an interactive documentation system for the Tor di Quinto Mausoleum on the via Nomentana.   lisena Lisena Michele	Lisena ? Translating real into virtual ? Realizing an interactive documentation system for the Tor di Quinto Mausoleum on the via Nomentana. My thematic research is finalized to investigate a selected theme of the graduation thesis. I realized “an interactive documentation system for the Tor di Quinto Mausoleum on the via Nomentana” very similar to the system that the Soprintendenza Archeologica of Rome did for the restoration of 8 small roman tombs on the via Appia in 1998-1999.
		TExPO 2003 Trailer In Architecture     ddr absint(e) De Bonis Antonello Dominelli Cosimo Rizza Diego	ddr absint(e) - Texpo 2003 ? trailer in architecture Creation of a “trailer” of the architecture of the Texpo 2003, dynamical web site geographically localized in a movie summarizing the works and the themes exhibited at Texpo 2003.

 
 

Ideazione e Coordinamento: Antonino Saggio, Francesco De Luca, Italia Rossi Master Plan: Ilaria Benassi Progetti: Classe CAAD 2003