The enhancement of built cultural heritage is recognized as a major element for strengthening the economic base of a territory as it fuels development through its attractiveness for inhabitants and external visitors, in terms of both tangible and intangible values. Furthermore, the collective nature of built cultural heritage due to the large number of persons […]
In 2011, the International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG) formulated a shared Global Exploration Strategy providing, in two different mission scenarios, the guidelines for the next decades manned and unmanned space exploration activities. The ‘Asteroid Next’ challenging mission scenario foresees two human visits of a Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) up to 2035. Most of the key
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The SMAPS project is based on the idea that the smart development of cities should be connected to the design of the interaction between their traditional physical structure and the new digital informational infrastructure. This interaction can be primarily built through the introduction of new “smart” service ideas and solutions for the emerging needs of
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Between 1950s and 1970s, Milan and Turin experienced an impressive growth in housing production. A consistent part of this building boom was made up of condominiums that aimed at meeting the cultural and spatial needs of an emerging middle class. Such factors, together with economic and regulatory aspects, deeply influenced the formal, typological and technological
sMAIN is a project completely focused on innovation and product development. It originates from a collaboration between Alta Scuola Politecnica and Electrolux Company and the main goal was to conceive a completely new product to be used in households, in particular in the kitchen area. During the two years of our group work on this
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Our world and our lives are led by innovation. New brilliant solutions and break-through ideas dawn as answers to go further everyday obstacles or just to force mind set barrels. Among these novel projects, energy harvesting, which is the study of all those technologies capable of realizing the direct conversion of reduced amount of energy
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The importance of reactivating abandoned industrial areas is becoming important nowadays due to the fact that these kind of sites can impose a risk to people but also can be a restrain to urban development. The issues that makes requalification of this kind of areas difficult is because its intrinsic complexity: there is a polluted
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