BIM AND THE ACCESSIBILITY OF THE INFORMATION

[First Published on April 2018, see on LinkedIn>>] One of my preferred quote is by George Bernard Shaw: “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place“. I don’t know whether the Author developed such conviction attending a design coordination meeting or in a different circumstance. However, that quote well describe…

NOVATION vs INNOVATION

[First published on July 2019, see on LinkedIn>>] Once upon a time the architect. This is the substance of Rab Bennetts’ article on AJ last year about novation. I can’t agree more on considering delivery as an essential part of design and the habit of splitting the process in two parts (design and delivery, where the first goes…

DESIGN MANAGER ROLE AND DYSFUNCTIONAL PROCESSES

[First Published on November 2017, see on LinkedIn>>] I was told by a high-level professional manager working world-wide that, generally speaking, UK management is considered one of the worst in the world. I can just testify about the construction industry since I have around 20 years of experience in the field. Let’s start by saying…

BIM: small practice, big deal | SUSTAINABILITY

[First Published on March 2017, see on LinkedIn>>] Since the Government decided to implement BIM in public works, architects and construction companies started taking BIM more seriously in UK: cutting the cost of about 20% is not a negligible goal. Focusing on that target, big firms began bringing BIM, whatever the project – public or…

BIM and efficiency of the design process

[First published on March 2018, See on LinkedIn>>] 01 Who does benefit from process efficiency? The introduction to the  Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) guidance note about “Managing the design delivery” recaps the essence of any enterprise: optimisation of resources (energy, time, money) to achieve the best result as possible (quality, profits). The article by David Light “BIM…

Colour in the landscape: unveiled identities

Recently, preparing for an interview, I was thinking about my experience in landscape architecture. Landscape architecture’s definition admits multiple meanings, floating between designing the landscape and designing into the landscape. I come from a country, Italy, where it’s very hard not to face the landscape approaching a project: if it is not the natural landscape, it’s the historical one…

Colour in Lifetime Home Criteria

1. Colour and inclusivity | Colour design in architecture is too often neglected. This contribute is not focused on investigating the reasons of this situation, but is evident that colour is still considered as a factor playing in the realm of aesthetic choices. In 1996 Frank H. Mahnke shown why such an approach is a mistake…

Public spaces | Inner being

Attending a talk given by Richard Sennett last Monday evening, I was thinking about possible recipes to obtain a contemporary Agora. Definitely, is not a matter for planning or design, I think. Sennett proposes a distinction between two kind of public spaces: the Agora is a place where many things happen synchronically and it’s opposed to that public…

Viver em Concreto | Architectural avantgarde in Sao Paulo, Brazil, between 1947-1975

Exhibition at Restauro 2014, Ferrara, Italy, March 26th-29th 2014 | Curator: Riccardo Rubini, Denise Araujo Azevedo, DIAPReM, Dipartimento di Architettura, Università di Ferrara Scientific Committee: Marcello Balzani, Carlo Bughi   Paesaggio Urbano | Urban Design #2.2014. Viver em Concreto, by Riccardo Rubini, Denise Araújo Azevedo From the documentary research of Marlene Milan Acayaba to an Italian didactical experience. This…

Haveli XXI | Modular house & traditional typology

Modular Haveli | feasibility | May 2014 The Developing Heritage Program for Urban Habitat  is focused on planning and design sustainable interventions in the historical centre of cities in developing countries. The DHP’s main goal is to avoid the classical mistakes, well known in Italy, caused by an imbalance between conservation and renovation, and between economic and cultural aspects. DPH…

Totalajini | Refurbishment and extention of an Haveli in Ahmedabad

Refurbishment and extension of an Haveli in Ahmedabad | Feasibility | May 2014 The Haveli is the typical house diffused in Ahmedabad, India. The great economic development in India leads towards urban transformations in the historical cities and it requires renewing building. The risk is in losing the traditional typologies and in impoverishment of Heritage. Heritage doesn’t…

Pale interior | white ecstasy in interior design

Recently, a discussion about architects love of white  has started in a LinkedIn group I follow. Karen Haller proposed that issue. She’s colour consultant working also with architects, so she asks why architects love so much white, in interior design especially. Igor Asselbergs, participating from Netherlands, proposes an interesting historical reconstruction. Renaissance, he suggest, was…

What is Heritage? A LEGO Serious Play workshop at the University of Ferrara

Presentation at Restauro 2013. Text transcription. When I’ve met Patrizia Betini [see at http://legoviews.com/%5D, she talked me a lot about the LSP method. She was (and she is!) really enthusiastic about the method and soon I became too. She explained me the method’s goals: team building, sharing visions, creating identities, define strategies and negotiate decisions. While she talked…

Designing and representing colours in architecture

Colour is a part of design. Representation is not the final goal, but it’s a tool. Representation, design and colour are strongly linked. As for our experience, managing colour in all its representational opportunities, requires a multidisciplinary approach and therefore we invite students to adopt such an attitude. To achieve this goal, the Department of…

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Design and geography: a matter of time

The following are few considerations arisen during the last Asia Design Forum meeting, at the Architectural Association. The topic was Design and Geography. Architecture and geography should be strictly connected to space, but speakers talked mostly about time. Christopher Lee mentioned Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh project as a perfect matching between traditional Indian features, rooted in…

Learning design | Scaled models

Course of Representation Techniques. Students’ works: designed physical models. Year 2011. The goals of the ‘physical modelling’ seminar, described by Francesco Viroli in his article, can be framed within the wider scope of Architecture Technical Representation 2’s course. In my opinion, representing architecture doesn’t only mean to reproduce shapes and volumes in a different scale ,as…

Learning Graphic design | Editing a digital magazine

Course of Representation Techniques. Students’ works: a digital magazine of architecture. Year 2013. The course’s aim was to introduce the students to the basic concept in designing a digital journal. They have made BIM models of existing building, realising rendering,sketches, and critical comments and than they have collected works in a Journal, using a shared layout.

Learning Graphic design | Editing a printed magazine

Course of Representation Techniques. Students’ works: a printed journal of architecture. Year 2013. The course’s aim was to introduce the students to the basic concept in designing a printed magazine. They have made BIM models of existing building, realising rendering, sketches, and critical comments and than they have collected works in a magazine, using a…

Interior design | Residential

Il progetto degli interni residenziali. Una applicazione delle metodologie per la ricerca del comfort visivo nello spazio residenziale [Carlo Bughi, Gianni Cagnazzo] in “Il progetto del colore, vademecum operativo per la gestione cromatica delle superfici architettoniche”, a cura di Marcello Balzani, Maggioli, 2011 Some examples about colours in residential spaces

Book | Colour design

“Il progetto del colore, vademecum operativo per la gestione cromatica delle superfici architettoniche”, edited by Marcello Balzani, Maggioli, 2011 Rappresentare il colore [Representing the Colour. About colour simulation in architectonical rendering] La simulazione del colore. I fattori ed i parametri nella simulazione virtuale [Colour simulation. Factors and parameters in the virtual simulation] Il progetto degli…

Guidelines for the planning of houses for senior citizen

GUIDELINES FOR THE PLANNING OF HOUSES FOR SENIOR CITIZENS. FROM THE SENIOR CITIZENS’ NEEDS, ORIENTATION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND RESTRUCTURING OF HOMES FOR EVERY AGE. Eco-independence The subject of the present volume has been developed in the course of the European Project Interreg III C ( Projects for European Interregional cooperation between public entities and…

Handbook for Co-Housing

“Bricks 4 Building – Co-housing e facilitazione” vuole essere un’agile guida introduttiva ai metodi di facilitazione applicati al Co-housing con particolare attenzione all’applicazione del metodo LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® in tale contesto. L’insieme di queste proposte nasce dall’incontro tra Patrizia Bertini, facilitatrice certificata LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® e ricercatrice indipendente, e Carlo Bughi, architetto, che ha conosciuto…

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Exhibition Stands | B4Bricks at Restauro 2013

[Paesaggio Urbano |Urban Design, #5-6.2013, Maggioli Editore ] Download PDF [ 422 Kb] >> Into the bricks_Bughi Balancing Material, Colour and Light in a LEGO inspired stand for meetings, workshops and interviews at Restauro 2013  Realising a LEGO inspired stand is not probably a new idea. On the contrary, the project’s genesis is authentically original, stemming…

Exhibition Stands | Wood Wide Wall

Wood Wide Wall’s design stems from another industrial product: finishes are made using plane timber profiles, ventilated facades or floors. This project uses a sole industrial profile, produced by MakHolz, with a 19×115 section, sized in only three measures. The designing principle is based on the mere boards’ juxtaposition one over the other and all…

Exhibition Stand | StoraEnso at MADE Expo, Milan, 2011

“Building’s design is becoming much more integrated: beside shapes and functions, components’ design is gaining more attention because of its impact related to optimization practices in cutting, working, transportation and installation. All these processes are well illustrated in timber buildings. This article presents two examples, two small scale projects, of the afore mentioned design and…