Alessandro Camiz

Özyeğin University · Architecture

The morphological study of medieval urban fabric experiments new methods to process all available information. Within the debate between continuity and discontinuity of classical rural settlements and the medieval castles, some small towns in different regions of Europe show analogies and close continuity between the roman villae rusticae system an...

The papers considers, with a comparative approach, the architecture of vertical connections and city edges. We hypothesize that the city edge, when its elevation overwhelms the surrounding urban fabric, cannot be redesigned within a basic typological repertoire. This research considers the transformations of the edge in historical towns, taking int...

Alessandro Camiz ¹ ¹ Department of Architecture, Girne American University, Cyprus, Association for Historical Dialogue and Research, Home for Cooperation (H4C), 28 Marcou Dracou Street, Nicosia, Cyprus, 1102. E-mail: alessandrocamiz@gau.edu.tr Keywords (3-5): urban tissues, urban morphology, urban routes, theory, history Conference topics and scal...

Galata, one of the oldest districts in Istanbul, still shows a historical and multi-layered urban texture. In 2019, within the “Urban Facade-Istanbul Waterfront” international workshop, a 3D laser scanner survey of Galata’s city walls was carried out. The raw data therein collected became the basis for a thesis in Architecture, as part of a joint r...

In the Middle Ages a chain suspended between two towers defended the entrance of Kyrenia’s little harbour, like the chain across the Golden Horn in Constantinople. William de Oldenburg, who visited Cyprus in 1211 during the reign of King Hugh I, referred to Kyrenia as “a small town well-fortified, which has a castle with walls and towers”. He perce...

The so-called “beach-tower” is the smallest of the three remaining towers belonging to the Kyrenia’s medieval enceinte. Semi-circular in plan, with circa 6 m of diameter, the tower is today partially obliterated by the medieval urban tissue and is visible only from one side. Built during the twelfth-thirteenth centuries, this harbour overlooking to...

This article concerns a case study from the north of Cyprus, a territory that is quite conflictive in terms of both the documentation and restoration of Cultural Heritage. Historical documentation, the study of masonry types and mortars, archival investigation, and architectural survey with support from advanced digital techniques was accompanied w...

In discussions on urbanism, the need to involve new actors has been a major theme of recent debate. In this field, throughout Europe, various ways of allowing citizens to take a more direct part in planning is stressed. It is also important to look at the role or lack of the role played by particular research fields. Architecture plays a major role...

The International Urban Design Workshop “Urban Façade: Istanbul waterfront” took place in March 23th-30st 2019 at the Faculty of Architecture and Design, Özyegˆin University, Istanbul. Organised by the authors in collaboration with University of Parma, “Sapienza” University of Rome, University of Naples “Federico II”, DIDALABS, Department of Archit...

Collection of the Abstracts of the AACCP 2019 ROME, ITALY Committee: Liisa Seppänen, Per Cornell, Giorgio Verdiani, Pablo Rodriguez-Navarro, James Dixon, Sinan Burat. The workshop will be realized in collaboration between the University of Turku, Finland, the Architecture Department of the University of Florence, Italy and the Department of Hist...

‘Interrupted city’ è una iniziativa culturale itinerante che prende dichiaratamente spunto dalla ‘Roma Interrotta’ ideata da Piero Sartogo nel lontano 1974. A suo modo si tratta di un omaggio all’inventore di quel progetto culturale basato sulla Pianta grande di Roma di Giambattista Nolli. Nel 2017 Tom Rankin, Paolo Pineschi e Alessandro Camiz hann...

ArCo, Art Collections 2020, Conference on Cultural Heritage, Safety and Digital Innovation. ArCo Conference will take place in Florence, Italy on the 28-30 May 2020. It is an International Conference dedicated to innovative experiences in Museums and Art Collections. The call for abstract is open from the 25th of June to the 15th September 2019...

Documenting large architectures with an accurate survey has recently become possible even with a limited budget. Digital survey tools based on both active and passive solutions, offers today versatile opportunities for the architectural documentation, regardless of the building's dimension. This paper presents the poster, prepared for the CHNT conf...

Documenting with an accurate survey a large architecture is nowadays a possible and affordable work, based on a mix of active and passive solutions, the use of digital survey tools offers extremely versatile opportunities of documentation no matter the extension of the building. In the poster presented here, a mix of Terrestrial and Aerial Photogra...

p> ABSTRACT Design studios have a multi-layered and integrative structure that involves different thinking and learning approaches. Outcomes are quite numerous and diverse in terms of the students. Therefore, various seminars, workshops, and many other events are organized by universities for this purpose in the education process. These activitie...

In discussions on urbanism, the need to involve new actors has been a major theme of recent debate. In this field, throughout Europe, various ways of allowing citizens to take a more direct part in planning is stressed. It is also important to look at the role or lack of the role played by particular research fields. Architecture plays a major role...

The Castle of St. Hilarion, or "chasteau quy a nom Deudamor" (Raynaud, 1887, 45) as it was called in the XIII century, is located on the mountain peak named δίδυμος (double) at the height of 732 m. A first settlement in the area was that of a Monastery founded in the VII century by a monk after fleeing from Holy Land following the Arab invasion. Mo...

A circular stone construction is still visible today within in the old city of Kyrenia, in Northern Cyprus. As far as we know the burg of Kyrenia was already fortified in Byzantine times but during the Longobard war, before the seize of the city, Frederick II's party, under the direction of captain Philippo Genardo, improved the defences of the cit...

The Castle of St. Hilarion, or "chasteau quy a nom Deudamor" (Raynaud, 1887, 45) as it was called in the XIII century, is located on the mountain peak named δίδυμος (double) at the height of 732 m. A first settlement in the area was that of a Monastery founded in the VII century by a monk after fleeing from Holy Land following the Arab invasion. Mo...

The various lines of research about urban morphology presented in Artimino’s ISUF Italy-Spain meeting and published in this issue highlight the proximity of the research topics that are currently being developed in Italy and in Spain. Urban morphology, thus, as a conducting wire that helps both countries to weave common arguments in an internation...

According to the developing defence techniques, the Venetian redesigned Nicosia walls in the Xvi cent. to protect the city from the Ottoman attacks. The Italian engineers Francesco Barbaro and Giulio Savorgnan conceived the new fortifications dismantling the older ones and reusing the stones of many other buildings. The plan has a stellar shape wit...

Catalogue of the exhibition at the Fortmed 2016 international conference

This volume collects the papers presented during the study day “Toponymy Common Heritage”, organized by the Department of Cultural Heritage of the Rome Chapter of Architects at the House of Architecture in Rome, September 10, 2013. Place-names are variable by their own nature. They change over time, and often move from one place to another, recordi...

The paper exposes a design theory for the contemporary design in archaeological sites, based on the transposition of Brandi's principles to architectural design. The proposed theory is eamine through three case studies: three design proposals for three archaeological sites in Gragnano, Lettere, Casola di Napoli, developed during the international w...

Enhancing, within the educational teaching of architectural design, the strong continuity between the typological evolution of the built organism and the building to be designed (Petruccioli, 1998) can greatly improve the architectural design process. From the territorial scale, to the scale of the urban tissues, the understanding of the coherence...

The contemporary city is developing inside and outside the limits of administrative territorial entities, and sometimes the urban organism is out of the control of local town planning. Nevertheless city limits, within the formation process of urban tissues, develop through time changing status from dividing limits to centralizing areas (Caniggia an...

Relazione dei lavori del laboratorio: Risanamento e riuso-Renovation and reuse, XXV Seminario internazionale e Premio di Architettura e Cultura Urbana CITTÀ IN TRASFORMAZIONE-CHANGING CITIES, Camerino 29 luglio - 2 agosto 2015, Palazzo Ducale - piazza Cavour Coordinatori del Laboratorio: Emanuele Walter Angelico, Alessandro Camiz, Giuseppe De Giov...

The Venetian fortifications in the Mediterranean between the XV and XVII century constitute a complex defensive system, designed ''alla moderna'' and built to control territories and commercial routes leading to the East. The Byzantines built the first Kyrenia castle in the VII century. It is located in the Eastern end of Kyrenia, at the old harbor...

The analysis of the Aχειροποίητος monastery shows the superimposition of different buildings: a domed church with a central plan, built in late Byzantine times over the ruins of an early Christian basilica, enlarged by the addition of three successive narthexes, and therefore transformed into a longitudinal basilica. The name Aχειροποίητος, literal...

The paper outlines some grass-root allotment gardening practices in the Roman area, including the activities of Lavangaquadra (Nova Arcadia) active in the fifth municipality of Rome, focusing on the pollution of metropolitan soils and the relationship between archaeological models and allotment design.

There has been a long discussion in the past decades on continuity or discontinuity between the decline of the roman rural settlement and the small towns and castles that arise, starting from the tenth century, in what historians have called the phase of “incastellamento”. Recognizing the widespread presence of praedial toponyms in modern cartograp...

In ancient written sources earthquakes were mostly interpreted as a divine punishment for human sins, only few authors instead interpreted the seismic event as a phenomenon independent from human actions. Considering the built architectures as material documents, several examples can be found, suggesting that there was an empyrical knowledge of the...

The idea that the modern city should rise on a tabula rasa of the ancient city has been promoted since the Plan Voisin (Lecorbusier, 1925), and was essentially conceived on the ideology of the destruction of the ancienne regime, or to better say the destruction of its space, as a base to build a new world. Nowadays we recognize the demolitions of u...

There has been a long discussion in the past decades on continuity or discontinuity between the decline of the roman rural settlement and the small towns and castles that arise, starting from the tenth century, in what historians have called the phase of “incastellamento”. Recognizing the widespread presence of praedial toponyms in modern cartograp...

Questa breve ricerca si propone di mostrare che nel territorio sublacense la serie dei toponimi prediali attuale deriva, attraverso successive trascrizioni, dal sistema di proprietà dei suoli di epoca repubblicana e imperiale, di illustrare alcuni aspetti metodologici dell’utilizzo delle fonti cartograiche digitali, e infine di georiferire alcuni f...