Arman Saberi

• PhD
• Researcher at University of Florence

L’articolo affronta la questione ambientale criticando la visione antropocentrica, ancora viva nel dibattito e nel progetto, come permanenza del soggiacente dualismo umanità/ambiente. A essa oppone le tesi co-evoluzioniste e del Nuovo Realismo rielaborate alla luce di un nuovo metalinguaggio (Matema digitale) capace di ‘dar voce’ alla moltitudine d...

In contemporary buildings, façades are generally the largest borders between the inside and the outside which determine the proportion of energy consumption of the buildings. With today’s technology, they could also offer the opportunity of producing energy by adding photovoltaics into their systems, to cover a portion of the building’s need for el...

High|Bombastic is part of a research on Living Building Envelopes still in progress at Mailab, a research center active for 7 years at the University of Florence on Multimedia, Architecture, and Interaction.

The idea is to provide ability to shape the envelope and actively participate energy flows between environment and users. High | Bombastic looks to realize an efficient /active filter in opposition to the Insulating Modernism practice where sealing buildings, realizing the envelope as an insulated continuous barrier, and looking at the building as...

In contemporary buildings, facades are generally the largest borders between the inside and the outside which determine the proportion of energy consumption of the buildings. With today’s technology, they could also offer the opportunity of producing energy by adding photovoltaics into their systems, to cover a portion of the building’s need for el...

[Full video presentation at: vimeo.com/156914143] The paper presents the author's experiences in architectural design education as answers to questions that, for some years, have been hovering around Design as the Third Culture and its relationship with Science. More precisely, the paper proposes to address the following questions: Can Design itse...