Every city has under utilized spaces that create a series of serious negative effects. Waiting for major interventions, those spaces can be reactivated and revitalized with soft temporary projects: micro interventions that light up the attention, give new meaning and add a new reading to abandoned spaces. We can call this kind of operations "plug-in design", inheriting the term from computer architecture: interventions which aim to involve the citizens and activate the environment, engage multiple catalyst processes and civil actions. Plug-in design interventions are by all meanings experimental, they seek for interaction with the users, locally and globally. Information Technology - with its parametric and site-specific capabilities and interactive features - can be instrumental to create such designs and generate a new consciousness of the existing environment. With this paper we will illustrate how two low-budget interventions have re-activated a forgotten public space. Parametric design with a specific script allowing site-specific design, materials and structure optimization and a series of interactive features, will be presented through Reciprocal 1.0 and Reciprocal 2.0 projects which have been built in 2016 in Italy by the nITro group.

Plug-In Design. Reactivating the Cities with responsive Micro-Architectures. The Reciprocal Experience / Baldissara, Matteo; Perna, Valerio; Saggio, Antonino; Stancato, Gabriele. - STAMPA. - 2:(2017), pp. 571-580. (Intervento presentato al convegno International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe - eCAADe 2017 tenutosi a Rome; Italy nel 20th-22ndSeptember 2017, Rome, Italy).

Plug-In Design. Reactivating the Cities with responsive Micro-Architectures. The Reciprocal Experience

Baldissara, Matteo;Perna, Valerio;Saggio, Antonino;Stancato, Gabriele
2017

Abstract

Every city has under utilized spaces that create a series of serious negative effects. Waiting for major interventions, those spaces can be reactivated and revitalized with soft temporary projects: micro interventions that light up the attention, give new meaning and add a new reading to abandoned spaces. We can call this kind of operations "plug-in design", inheriting the term from computer architecture: interventions which aim to involve the citizens and activate the environment, engage multiple catalyst processes and civil actions. Plug-in design interventions are by all meanings experimental, they seek for interaction with the users, locally and globally. Information Technology - with its parametric and site-specific capabilities and interactive features - can be instrumental to create such designs and generate a new consciousness of the existing environment. With this paper we will illustrate how two low-budget interventions have re-activated a forgotten public space. Parametric design with a specific script allowing site-specific design, materials and structure optimization and a series of interactive features, will be presented through Reciprocal 1.0 and Reciprocal 2.0 projects which have been built in 2016 in Italy by the nITro group.
2017
International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe - eCAADe 2017
reciprocal frame; parametric design; responsive technology; plug-in design; interactivity; re-activate
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Plug-In Design. Reactivating the Cities with responsive Micro-Architectures. The Reciprocal Experience / Baldissara, Matteo; Perna, Valerio; Saggio, Antonino; Stancato, Gabriele. - STAMPA. - 2:(2017), pp. 571-580. (Intervento presentato al convegno International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe - eCAADe 2017 tenutosi a Rome; Italy nel 20th-22ndSeptember 2017, Rome, Italy).
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