This contribution tries to reintroduce Stereotomy within the field of “research by design”: the discipline, in fact, can be used as a means of re-composition of the design, project and execution phases. Starting from the origin of this break-up, the focus moves to the actual value of geometric and formal prefiguration and to the validity criteria that make its re-introduction desirable, both as educational discipline and design tool. In addition, it's suggested a line of research related to its critical update and the methods through which figure out the possible outcomes of its application. Particular attention is given to the prototype: only the material realization allows to obtain a tangible result to creative speculation. In the last part 7 stone prototypes will be presented. They have been developed during recent years as a result of the attempt to combine multiple instances into a synthetic architectural object

About Building Stereotomy: Theory And Practice / Fallacara, Giuseppe; Calabria, Claudia (ADVANCES IN MEDIA, ENTERTAINMENT AND THE ARTS (AMEA) BOOK SERIES). - In: Handbook of Research on Visual Computing and Emerging Geometrical Design Tools / [a cura di] Giuseppe Amoruso. - STAMPA. - Hershey, PA : IGI Global, 2016. - ISBN 9781522500292. - pp. 575-607 [10.4018/978-1-5225-0029-2.ch024]

About Building Stereotomy: Theory And Practice

Giuseppe Fallacara;Claudia Calabria
2016-01-01

Abstract

This contribution tries to reintroduce Stereotomy within the field of “research by design”: the discipline, in fact, can be used as a means of re-composition of the design, project and execution phases. Starting from the origin of this break-up, the focus moves to the actual value of geometric and formal prefiguration and to the validity criteria that make its re-introduction desirable, both as educational discipline and design tool. In addition, it's suggested a line of research related to its critical update and the methods through which figure out the possible outcomes of its application. Particular attention is given to the prototype: only the material realization allows to obtain a tangible result to creative speculation. In the last part 7 stone prototypes will be presented. They have been developed during recent years as a result of the attempt to combine multiple instances into a synthetic architectural object
2016
Handbook of Research on Visual Computing and Emerging Geometrical Design Tools
9781522500292
IGI Global
About Building Stereotomy: Theory And Practice / Fallacara, Giuseppe; Calabria, Claudia (ADVANCES IN MEDIA, ENTERTAINMENT AND THE ARTS (AMEA) BOOK SERIES). - In: Handbook of Research on Visual Computing and Emerging Geometrical Design Tools / [a cura di] Giuseppe Amoruso. - STAMPA. - Hershey, PA : IGI Global, 2016. - ISBN 9781522500292. - pp. 575-607 [10.4018/978-1-5225-0029-2.ch024]
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