Maurizio Barberio

Polytechnic University of Bari | Poliba · Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management

The aim of the article is to describe the historical background and the birth of a relatively new discipline consisting in the digital evolution of classical stereotomy. “Stereotomy 1.0” comprises the early development of the discipline primarily related to stonecutting. The new discipline, “Stereotomy 2.0” goes beyond this early concept to embrace...

Il mondo della progettazione architettonica nel corso degli ultimi decenni è stato oggetto di un radicale seppure lento cambiamento, determinato in gran parte dall’introduzione pervasiva degli strumenti digitali e della crescente necessità di progettare e costruire in modo sostenibile. Questi due temi hanno influenzato profondamente il modo in cui...

The contribution offers an overview of the key concepts of Industry 4.0 and the application of enabling principles and technologies in the AEC sector. In this sense, the most promising possibilities offered by the fourth industrial revolution are analysed, hinging them inextricably around the theme of sustainability, in the broadest sense of the te...

The research focuses on how Generative AI tools can be integrated into the Sustainable Aided Design (SADE) framework, assessing its potential and the challenges related to sustainable design. More specifically, this study introduces the Climate-AIded Environmental Design (CAIED) framework to improve the integration of projects and establish whether...

The presented research explores the integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools into the Sustainable Aided Design (SADE) framework and assesses their potential and challenges in addressing actual issues within sustainable design. SADE is a methodology focused on enhancing project integration within the context. The research questio...

The presented research explores the integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools into the Sustainable Aided Design (SADE) framework and assesses their potential and challenges in addressing actual issues within sustainable design. SADE is a methodology focused on enhancing project integration within the context. The research questio...

Flowin’ is a pedestrian footbridge submitted for the “Fuxi River Seven Bridges Conceptual Design International Competition”. The generation of the form was guided by a series of parameters: the relationship with the anthropic and natural context, the tectonics, and its structural behavior. Regarding the first two aspects, the starting point is repr...

This contribution describes an operative research activity within the teaching of digital design and fabrication to Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) artisans. The didactic approach described arises from the lack of academic paths thought for AEC’s artisans, highlighting the reason why this aspect is relevant for both the AEC and the...

This book collects contributions of forefront research and practices related to the use of the enabling technologies of Industry 4.0 in the architecture and design fields and their impact on the UN's Sustainable Developments goals. The book is structured into three sections (research, practice, and technologies), with the goal of creating a new fra...

La tesi descrive l’ideazione e la progettazione di una campagna di crowdfunding finalizzata alla realizzazione di un orto didattico e terapeutico da inserire all’interno di un centro sportivo da riqualificare nella città di Bari, collocato precisamente in una zona periferica posta tra i limiti dei quartieri Carbonara, Ceglie del Campo e Santa Rita....

Il testo analizza, dal nostro punto di vista, l’evoluzione teorica del Prof. D’Amato, descrivendo in particolare il passaggio dall'architettura tradizionale a quella proto-digitale e collegandola ad alcuni eventi salienti della sua carriera accademica come le partecipazioni alla Biennale di Venezia del 1980 e del 2006.

The paper describes the parametric design, fabrication and construction of the Stone PolySphere, an installation that investigates the potential of digital fabrication applied to the stone industry. It is a lithic sphere with a diameter of 1.4 m, composed by a massive hemisphere below and a stereotomic hemisphere above. The prototype ideally summar...

The paper concerns the theme of topological interlocking blocks for architecture and the relationship between flat stereotomic assemblies and curved morphologies. After a brief history of the subject, theoretical foundations and speculative research are presented. The research includes several built full-scale prototypes and architectural elements....

NNJ guest editors Giuseppe Fallacara and Maurizio Barberio introduce the papers in the special issue of the Nexus Network Journal dedicated to Stereotomy 2.0.

Guest edited issue of Nexus Network Journal dedicated to Stereotomy 2.0 https://link.springer.com/journal/4/volumes-and-issues/20-3

The chapter explains the researches who the New Fundamentals Research Group is carrying out on the digital update of stereotomy. Between the various experiments, the chapter focuses on the group or prototypes designed by the geometry of the hyperbolic paraboloid, both at the macro (architectural organism) and micro scale (architectural elements). S...

L’obiettivo della ricerca è quello di definire le nuove frontiere dell’architettura in pietra. Tale obiettivo è perseguito secondo due modalità: una teorico-critica e una sperimentale/operativa. La tesi fornisce dunque un’ampia trattazione dei temi storico-critici connessi alla recente riscoperta dei materiali lapidei da parte del mondo della proge...

This research shows the latest design experiences in the use of free-form panels made of natural stone, reinforced through the use of carbon fiber sheets on the back. The combination of these two materials allows reducing the thickness of the stone components up to few millimetres and the achievement of a great static performance, thanks the use of...

La Tesi indaga le nuove frontiere dell'architettura in pietra, alla luce dell'introduzione dei nuovi strumenti di progettazione computazionale e fabbricazione digitale. In questo contributo quindi si propone un approfondimento sulle potenzialità del rapporto tra architettura in pietra e progettazione computazionale.

The paper aims to investigate the experiential learning approach applied to the teaching of architectural design in university courses. The introduction of IT tools in architecture in the last decades, has introduced new questions in how to teach the computer-aided architectural design to students and how to use these tools properly. Among these th...

Il fine più alto dell’architettura non è tanto quello di interpretare la società in cui viviamo, quanto di ispirarla al fine di migliorarla. Tutto questo comporta sfida, non accettazione. La sfida che le università di oggi devono porsi, quindi, è quella di promuovere un’architettura fatta sì di innovazione e di idee, ma soprattutto di valori; valor...

D-Home was inspired by the idea of creating an architectural gesture profoundly linked to the architectural and culrural heritage of the Mediterranean area, in order to create structures for temporary minimal shelters and for camping. Thc geometry of the structure represents the discretisationof a dome into a truncated icosnhedron consisting of hex...

Morph.eus is an all-in-one item or furniture for the bedroom that incorporates all the necessary elements, complete with a bed, wardrobe and ambient lightning. Designed as a furniture solution forme small spaces of contemporary bedrooms, Morph.eus serves as a spacious wardrobe, thanksto four large under-bed drawers and a fitted cupboard that pulls...

„Just a minute“ soll Menschen, die in Nepal durch Erdbeben ihre Häu-ser verloren haben, das Leben er-leichtern, indem ein einfaches, aber effizientes Haus entwickelt wurde. Das Gebäude ist flexibel anpassbar und kann später als Stall umgenutzt werden. Es wurde für große Familien entworfen und bietet Wohnraum für bis zu zehn Menschen. Das Haus misst...

The research aims to investigate the architectural uses of free-form panels made of natural stone, reinforced through the use of carbon fiber (or glass fiber) sheets on the back, in order to build lightweight shells in granite or marble. The combination of these two materials allows reducing the thickness of the stone components up to few millimetr...

Mobius Sofa is inspired by the famous Mobius strip that is a surface with only one side and only one boundary. It can be realized as a ruled surface. It was discovered independently by the German mathematicians August Ferdinand Mobius and Johann Benedict Listing in 1858. The project rappresents the state-of-the-art of research into stone materials...

The research aims to investigate the architectural uses of free-form panels made of natural stone, reinforced through the use of carbon fiber (or glass fiber) sheets on the back. The combination of these two materials allows reducing the thickness of the stone components up to few millimetres and the achievement of a great static performance. The p...

Mater[i]a inaugura la stagione dei New Fundamentals Research Books, la collana editoriale del gruppo di ricerca omonimo, che raccoglierà la propria produzione scientifica elaborata sia all'interno del dipartimento Dicar del Politecnico di Bari, sia in altre sedi universitarie. Le attività del gruppo di ricerca intendono strutturarsi su tre assi por...

The paper describes the students’ works, which included posters and physical models, were the partial outcomes of the current 3rd year design studio, led by Prof Giuseppe Fallacara and taught with the support of Maurizio Barberio and Micaela Colella, both Ph.D. students at the Polytechnic of Bari. The goal was to simulate the activity of a large ar...

The paper describes the students’ works, which included posters and physical models, were the partial outcomes of the current 3rd year design studio, led by Prof Giuseppe Fallacara and taught with the support of Maurizio Barberio and Micaela Colella, both Ph.D. students at the Polytechnic of Bari. The text illustrate an experimental teaching/learni...

The paper describes the students’ works, which included posters and physical models, were the partial outcomes of the current 3rd year design studio, led by Prof Giuseppe Fallacara and taught with the support of Maurizio Barberio and Micaela Colella, both Ph.D. students at the Polytechnic of Bari. The goal was to simulate the activity of a large ar...

osb-skivor och bambu är råmaterial till arkitekten Barberio Colel-las konceptbyggnad »Just a minute«. Att bygga den tar något längre tid än så – men inte mycket mer om man ska tro arkitekten. Huset är Colellas bidrag till att lösa situationen efter den stora jordbävningen i Nepal i april 2014, då hundratusentals människor blev hemlösa. Bambun i den...

Structure is made from bamboo, OSB panels, laminated bamboo, recycled wool, white juta and waterproof textiles

“Sood” is a living module consisting of external walls made of laminated wood blocks covered with natural stone. A passive house, able to cut energy consumption, thanks to high performance materials and building technologies based on bioclimatic criteria. Rediscovering the values of the Mediterranean building culture through the use of traditional...

The “E.L.I.C.A. 2” prototype is a spiral staircase with an internal load-bearing side and cantilevered steps. It consists of prefabricated modular elements, made of reinforced concrete and granulated stone, which are properly assembled to make the structure free-standing. The morphology of the steps shows a geometric complexity that justifies the u...

“Modular Stone Walls” is a construction system designed to make free-standing vertical walls, based on few “standard” blocks, made through CAD-CAM techniques of assisted cutting and CNC machines. The way each block is assembled visually conveys the idea of the solidity of the parts, thanks to the particular morphology of the whole structure, which...

Les murs continus opaques aux surfaces décorées reprennent le filon classique des décorations en pierre, revisité à la lumière des potentialités qu’offrent les techniques de travail contemporaines, comme par exemple l’emploi de machines à contrôle numérique

The stand “Stereotomic Design. Evolution: from the hand to the robot” located at the Marmomacc 2014, represents the summary of these studies which are still in progress. Parabolithic, as the name suggests, is essentially a lithic hyperbolic paraboloid and is designed in two variations: one is more massive (Raystone) made by lithic perforated blocks...