CiaBOT: the circular design of an experimental microarchitecture between material and immaterial values
The transition to a circular economy entails new challenges for architects and designers. Among these, one challenge is to look at waste not only as new resources, from an environmental perspective, but also as bearers of information capable of communicating their history and origin. Moreover, waste...
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2024-06-01
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| description | The transition to a circular economy entails new challenges for architects and designers. Among these, one challenge is to look at waste not only as new resources, from an environmental perspective, but also as bearers of information capable of communicating their history and origin. Moreover, waste can be considered as a means of activating unexpected knowledge and social connections. The article illustrates a circular design experimentation, conducted with architecture and design students and a wine farm, which led to the creation of the CiaBOT project, a belvedere aimed at enhancing the landscape and providing a temporary stopping point in the Monferrato hills (UNESCO World Heritage Site, Italy). CiaBOT is not only a belvedere but is a microarchitecture capable of conveying both material and immaterial cultural values. Its form and materials are intimately connected with the territory with and for which it was designed. These make CiaBOT a “space” of hybridization and dialogue between agricultural tradition and innovation. But it is also a “space” of fieldwork education and knowledge co-generation in which academic and non-academic stakeholders have measured themselves. Through the description of the different stages of the design process, the article is part of the debate on new sustainable ways of designing and building, reflecting on new models of circular economy based as much on design strategies and processes as on the enhancement of human labor and the use of technologies appropriate to the context and actors. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-93d2a3c7be544f30bc0edc3313a349dc2025-01-02T23:26:13ZengUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaVitruvio: International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability2444-90912024-06-0191445510.4995/vitruvio-ijats.2024.2149220686CiaBOT: the circular design of an experimental microarchitecture between material and immaterial valuesElena Montacchini0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2394-9553Silvia Tedesco1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7455-3220Nicolò Di Prima2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1358-5389Polytechnic University of Turin Polytechnic University of Turin Polytechnic University of Turin The transition to a circular economy entails new challenges for architects and designers. Among these, one challenge is to look at waste not only as new resources, from an environmental perspective, but also as bearers of information capable of communicating their history and origin. Moreover, waste can be considered as a means of activating unexpected knowledge and social connections. The article illustrates a circular design experimentation, conducted with architecture and design students and a wine farm, which led to the creation of the CiaBOT project, a belvedere aimed at enhancing the landscape and providing a temporary stopping point in the Monferrato hills (UNESCO World Heritage Site, Italy). CiaBOT is not only a belvedere but is a microarchitecture capable of conveying both material and immaterial cultural values. Its form and materials are intimately connected with the territory with and for which it was designed. These make CiaBOT a “space” of hybridization and dialogue between agricultural tradition and innovation. But it is also a “space” of fieldwork education and knowledge co-generation in which academic and non-academic stakeholders have measured themselves. Through the description of the different stages of the design process, the article is part of the debate on new sustainable ways of designing and building, reflecting on new models of circular economy based as much on design strategies and processes as on the enhancement of human labor and the use of technologies appropriate to the context and actors.https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/vitruvio/article/view/21492circular design experimentationwaste as valuesself-constructionco-designappropriate technologiesbelvedere microarchitecture |
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| title | CiaBOT: the circular design of an experimental microarchitecture between material and immaterial values |
| title_full | CiaBOT: the circular design of an experimental microarchitecture between material and immaterial values |
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| title_short | CiaBOT: the circular design of an experimental microarchitecture between material and immaterial values |
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