Sustainable Mediterranean Construction

MATERIALS, ARCHITECTURE AND MULTISENSORIALITY. Sensitive spaces for care and health

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Teresa Della Corte

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materials, architecture, multi-sensoriality, sensitive spaces, healthcare facilities

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Introduction The expressive values of light, and colors, interpenetrate in materials, becoming intensely structuring factors and since ever used in design processes contextually to formal choices to characterize the surfaces and spaces of architecture from a sensorial point of view and orient the perceptive experience. Where the contemporary culture seems to subtend a veil of elusiveness to the real data, connoting itself through a widespread tendency to dematerialization, in architecture this uncoupling from the corporeal, expressing itself by the study of infinitesimal thicknesses and the search for mutable and ambiguous material consistenciesto the usual perception, generates, in countertendency, a need for physicality that refound the value of architecture starting from the materials. The widespread instability of the material substance is reversed in an increasing interest in materials, aimed at enhancing their sensorial qualities within an enlarged perceptive dimension which, confirming the more usual and consolidated meanings of materials1, reinvents further, innovative and unexpeted2. Once an objective idea of the perceived has become unreachable and the continuity of the traditional system of balances between material perception and its significance has been interrupted, this interest in the language of materials is certainly understandable, “[…] as if there were no longer stable forms on which to settle the memory and on which to increase the thickness of the experience. […]

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SMC Special Issue N.02 2019

SMC MAGAZINE SPECIAL ISSUE N. TWO/2019

WHOLE BOOK

001_COVER

007_ FOREWORD
Giuseppe Vaccaro

013_ INTRODUCTION Designing new healtcare facilities in a European frame
Paola De Joanna

PART I
DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR HEALTHCARE FACILITIES

023_Spaces for health: an Overview. From the temple to the mall concept
Fani Vavili

029_Design and quality in the project for health buildings. The horizons of innovation
Andrea Tartaglia

PART II
INNOVATION IN HEALTHCARE ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

041_Alternative Forms of Healthcare Facilities. Meditation Centre on Mount Olympus, Greece
Christina Chatzouli, Evangelos Chrysafidis, Maria Kanetsou, Nasos Zempiloglou

049_Urban spaces, new buildings and IC Technologies for health sustainability
Eugenio Arbizzani

061_Design for healthcare. The role of Ergonomics for Design and Human-Centred Design approach
Mattia Pistolesi, Francesca Tosi

073_Spaces for children in healthcare settings: design essentials and innovations
Artemis Kyrkou

PART III
INVESTIGATIONS AND DESIGN APPROACH

083_Bioclimatic behaviour of small healthcare facilities
Dora Francese

099_Solar analisys for a sustainable architecture regeneration
Luca Buoninconti

107_Materials, architecture and multisensoriality. Sensitive spaces for care and health
Teresa Della Corte

119_Environment and place. Context analysis as a preliminary activity for the healthcare facilities design
Giuseppe Vaccaro

PART IV
PROJECTS AND VISIONS

133_Primary Health Centres in the 21st century. Cells of Health and Health Culture
Evangelos Chrysafidis

137_PROJECTS

146_LIST OF AUTHORS

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