Chapter Labirinto Software, complessità e contraddizioni nel disegno digitale per l’architettura

The 43rd UID conference, held in Genova, takes up the theme of ‘Dialogues’ as practice and debate on many fundamental topics in our social life, especially in these complex and not yet resolved times. The city of Genova offers the opportunity to ponder on the value of comparison and on the possibilities for the community, naturally focused on the aspects that concern us, as professors, researchers, disseminators of knowledge, or on all the possibile meanings of the discipline of representation and its dialogue with ‘others’, which we have broadly catalogued in three macro areas: History, Semiotics, Science / Technology. Therefore, “dialogue” as a profitable exchange based on a common language, without which it is impossible to comprehend and understand one another; and the graphic sign that connotes the conference is the precise transcription of this concept: the title ‘translated’ into signs, derived from the visual alphabet designed for the visual identity of the UID since 2017. There are many topics which refer to three macro sessions: - Witnessing (signs and history) - Communicating (signs and semiotics) - Experimenting (signs and sciences) Thanks to the different points of view, an exceptional resource of our disciplinary area, we want to try to outline the prevailing theoretical-operational synergies, the collaborative lines of an instrumental nature, the recent updates of the repertoires of images that attest and nourish the relations among representation, history, semiotics, sciences

The utility of the application of new three-dimensional technologies for the study and dissemination of heritage from a historical-technical perspective: case studies

In this article we analyse the different applications of convergent photogrammetry in three different cases. In the first one, the application in the beginning of a restoration project of the Chapel of the Purification in the Church of the Carmine in Milan (Italy), where we will explain the usefulness of this technology. In the second case the utility of the three-dimensional reproduction made to the hidden murals at the Collegiate Church of Santa Maria in Daroca (Spain) for its diffusion and finally the application of this technique as a tool for communicating the results of research in projects. The confrontation of these cases in which the same technology is applied at various stages of the process of conservation and study of heritage, with distinctly different purposes, aims both to deepen their usefulness, such as delineating its limits and requirements

From the built architecture to the design of the interface of Blender 3D. When the architectural result modifies the tool thar generated it

This research is focused on the interaction between the tools we use for architectural design and design itself and how this relation can produce new forms in architecture. At the same time, this built architectures, which are generated with software that was not designed for this architectural purposes, or rather, its users, are activating a new research in of in terms of improving and adapting the interface of these software to their use in a in an easier and more intuitive way for architects

Reflexión sobre la elaboración de un modelo tridimensional único de las pinturas góticas de la iglesia de San Miguel de Daroca (Zaragoza) y su posterior difusión al público

[EN] In this paper we present a reflection on the use of the convergent photogrammetry technique for the realization of a unique model of the Gothic paintings of the church of San Miguel de Daroca (Zaragoza), which are currently divided among those that are still preserved in the apse of the church and those that were teared from the wall in the 40s of the last century and that are currently in the Provincial Museum of Zaragoza, divided into two different canvases that do not allow their contemplation in the original position in which they were made or in relation with those that are still in the apse. This work is added to the one already carried out by the Campo de Daroca Foundation for the digitization of all the mural painting and completes that of the mural gothic paintings of the Romanesque apse of the Ex-Collegiate of the Corporales de Daroca and provides a reflection on the importance that the operator acquires in the realization of a three-dimensional model that will be made available to the public.[ES] En esta comunicación presentamos una reflexión sobre la utilización de la técnica de la fotogrametría convergente para la realización de un modelo único de las pinturas góticas de la iglesia de San Miguel de Daroca (Zaragoza), que actualmente se encuentran divididas entre las que todavía se conservan en el propio templo y las que se arrancaron en los años 40 del pasado siglo y que actualmente se encuentran en el Museo Provincial de Zaragoza, separadas a su vez en dos lienzos diferentes que no permiten su contemplación en la posición original en la que fueron realizadas ni en relación con las que todavía se encuentran en el ábside. Este trabajo se suma al ya realizado por la Fundación Campo de Daroca para la digitalización de toda la pintura mural y completa el de las pinturas murales del ábside románico de la ExColegiata de los Corporales de Daroca y aporta una reflexión sobre la importancia que el operador adquiere en la realización de un modelo tridimensional que se va a poner a disposición del público.Vita, G.; Ruiz Bazán, I. (2021). Reflexión sobre la elaboración de un modelo tridimensional único de las pinturas góticas de la iglesia de San Miguel de Daroca (Zaragoza) y su posterior difusión al público. En I Simposio anual de Patrimonio Natural y Cultural ICOMOS España. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 397-403. https://doi.org/10.4995/icomos2019.2019.11748OCS39740

CortonaOpen3d. Aprender a proyectar in situ en un contexto histórico con la utilización de software opensource

[EN] In this communication we present the teaching experience carried out during the seven editions of the Workshop COrtonaOPend of the Scuola di Architettura, Urbanistica, Ingegneria delle Costruzioni of the Polytechnic of Milan, the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Milan) and other collaborating entities, that this year reaches its eighth edition in the historic city of Cortona (Arezzo, Italy). In it, two strong teaching ideas are put in the field: the teaching of opensource Blender 3D software as a project design instrument, which is learned at the same time as the cognitive process of developing ideas and the importance of projecting within the same context where the project is carried out , that is, to design "touching" the place. Thus, all the "disadvantages and discomforts" that a priori could consider that involves moving a large group of students to a historic location to learn a computer design program become a key point and a learning strategie.[ES] En esta comunicación presentamos la experiencia docente realizada durante las siete ediciones realizadas del Workshop COrtonaOPend de la Scuola di Architettura, Urbanistica, Ingegneria delle Costruzioni del Politécnico de Milán, de la Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Milán) y otras entidades colaboradoras, que este año llega a su octava edición en la ciudad histórica de Cortona (Arezzo, Italia). En el mismo se ponen en campo dos fuertes ideas docentes: la enseñanza del software opensource Blender 3D como instrumento de proyecto, que se aprende contemporáneamente al proceso cognitivo de desarrollo de las ideas y la importancia de proyectar dentro del mismo contexto donde se realiza el proyecto, es decir, de proyectar “tocando” el lugar. Así, todas las “desventajas e incomodidades” que a priori podría considerar que conlleva el trasladar a un numeroso grupo de estudiantes a una localidad histórica para aprender un programa de diseño por ordenador se convierten en puntos clave y estrategias de aprendizaje.Vita, G.; Ruiz Bazan, I. (2019). CortonaOpen3d. Aprender a proyectar in situ en un contexto histórico con la utilización de software opensource. En IN-RED 2019. V Congreso de Innovación Educativa y Docencia en Red. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 171-182. https://doi.org/10.4995/INRED2019.2019.10370OCS17118

Intracranial tuberculous mass lesions treated with thalidomide in an immunocompetent child from a low tuberculosis endemic country: A case report

Rationale: Tuberculous meningitis is a highly morbid, often fatal disease. Patient concern: We describe a case of an Italian child. Diagnoses: we diagnosed early a Tuberculous meningitis complicated by the occurrence of hydrocephalus, stroke, and paradoxical reaction with brain pseudo-abscesses. Interventions: The child started readily a specific therapy associated with steroids and thalidomide was introduced few month later. Outcomes: the patient had a favorable outcome without neurologic sequelae. Lessons: Despite the prompt specific anti-tubercular and adjuvant corticosteroid therapies, only the addition of thalidomide to the treatment allow to a favorable clinical outcome

6MWT performance correlates with peripheral neuropathy but not with cardiac involvement in patients with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (hATTR)

Abstract Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (hATTR) is a life-threatening multisystemic disease with sensory-motor peripheral neuropathy, cardiomyopathy and dysautonomia. Although the six-minute walk test (6MWT) is one of the most popular clinical tests to assess functional exercise capacity in cardiopulmonary and neuromuscular diseases, little is known about 6MWT in evaluating hATTR patients. A prospective single-center pilot study was performed in twenty hATTR patients, comparing 6MWT with widely used outcome measures. After 18 months, fourteen patients were re-evaluated. 6MWT performance was highly related with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy stage and polyneuropathy disability score, and with CMT examination score, neuropathy impairment score-lower limbs and Kumamoto score. There was no correlation with compound autonomic dysfunction test, modified body mass index and numerous indices of heart dysfunction. After 18 months, familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy stage and polyneuropathy disability score systems were not able to reveal any significant change, whereas all other outcome measures significantly worsened. Among the outcome measures monitoring the neuropathic disturbances, neuropathy impairment score-lower limbs showed the highest responsiveness to change (adjusted effect size: 0.79), followed by CMT examination score (0.67), Kumamoto scale (0.65), 6MWT (0.62). 10MWT showed a very small value (0.21). Compound autonomic dysfunction test had a large value (0.91) whereas modified body mass index a small/moderate value (0.49). 6MWT is a simple and sensitive tool to monitor neuropathic involvement but not cardiac dysfunction in hATTR course

Sesquiterpenes of Lactarius and Russula (Mushrooms): An Update[1]:

In this review the biogenesis, structures, and bioactivities of all sesquiterpenoids isolated from Russula and Lactarius species in the last decade are critically discussed, and divided into sections according to their skeletons. A brief chemotaxonomic overview of the family Russulaceae is reported in the final part of the review

Adaptive Proximal Scaphoid Implant stability despite a perilunate dislocation: a case report

We present the case of a 22 y.o. male patient suffering from scaphoid non-union with avascular necrosis of the proximal pole and initial degenerative arthritis

Reflexión sobre la elaboración de un modelo tridimensional único de las pinturas góticas de la iglesia de San Miguel de Daroca (Zaragoza) y su posterior difusión al público

In this paper we present a reflection on the use of the convergent photogrammetry technique for the realization of a unique model of the Gothic paintings of the church of San Miguel de Daroca (Zaragoza), which are currently divided among those that are still preserved in the apse of the church and those that were teared from the wall in the 40s of the last century and that are currently in the Provincial Museum of Zaragoza, divided into two different canvases that do not allow their contemplation in the original position in which they were made or in relation with those that are still in the apse. This work is added to the one already carried out by the Campo de Daroca Foundation for the digitization of all the mural painting and completes that of the mural gothic paintings of the Romanesque apse of the Ex-Collegiate of the Corporales de Daroca and provides a reflection on the importance that the operator acquires in the realization of a three-dimensional model that will be made available to the public