Filippo Cannata has been performing an intense activity of planning and research in the field of lighting for about 30 years. In the wake of a long and continuous collaboration with artists and great masters of design and architecture, he realized fine interventions and artistic installations in different cities among the most important of the world. His projects, characterized by a strong emotional impact, obtained many awards and certificates of merit including the Edison Award of Merit, the Dedalus Award and the Prix Lumiville assigned by the city of Lyon (France).
He participates in national and international architectural competitions and…
REDEVELOPMENT WIDESPREAD IN BOLOGNA
Bologna has adopted urban development strategies that promote the redevelopment of disused public heritage and direct private intervention towards the recovery of areas with small-medium size.
With the unitary Plan of Territorial Development (PUVaT) we have 18 places (buildings and disused areas) of public property which together occupy about 1 million sqm and offer large and diversified potential for exploitation.
From the creation of “a great platform” accessible and relevant for territorial marketing operations at a national and international scale, to enhance cultural and historical interpretation of the city; from opportunities to redesign and build whole cities,…
REAL ESTATE REGENERATION
The existing building suffers from problems of energy efficiency, functional requalification of the apartments and architectural barriers to be eliminated.
The projected solution is based on an intervention that can be classified as building restructuration and consists of a new external ‘skin’ for the existing volumes that will include new bathrooms and toilets and loggias.
The building will be conserved with its actual wall structures and staircases, while internal partitions will be cleared.
The additional volumes have their own structures, consisting in septum carriers and piping to serve the new toilet spaces. In the existing buildings will be located an open space:…
ORTIPERTUTTI, A NEW GENERATION OF URBAN AGRICULTURE
With the international competition Ortipertutti the municipality of Bologna has chosen a project-a guide to creating urban gardens of small-medium in size within public green areas of different types (small plots between houses, gardens, rural areas).
The aim is to assist “traditional” vegetable garden forms of urban agriculture by a new generation more environmentally-oriented, design, and turned to new people who request it (youth, families).
The selected project, combining the agronomic criteria with the urban project, exceeds logic as paddock gardens and offers a facility able to arrange flexible, open spaces editable over time.
The first gardens of…
ECO Courts
ECO Courts is a project to reduce the consumption of energy, water and waste in homes in a collaborative way, through the creation of a set of interactive tools for eco-efficient management by involving citizens. The project fits in the development of the sharing economy, and the logic of public-private partnerships. In four cooperative buildings of social housing shared actions have been implemented, guided by expert meetings and measured by the software HIVE: collecting cooking oils, batteries, medicines, toner and light bulbs, bike sharing, home water, sharing small appliances, lighting LED in public areas, room for the “do it…
NEW LED STREET LIGHTING IN MILAN AND BRESCIA
LED, the technology that has revolutionized lighting and which led to the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics for its three inventors – Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura – has taken over Milan and Brescia. Over the next two years the two main cities in Lombardy will use LED technology only for their street lighting, and will be on track to becoming smart cities.
LEDs (light-emitting diode) bring significant benefits in terms of efficiency, light output and safety. In practice they use much less energy and last much longer (up to 5 times more) than traditional lights. This leads…
STRATEGIES FOR URBAN REGENERATION
In line with the Action Plan for Sustainable Energy (Paes), the new PRG takes on the containment of land consumption as the driving force for upgrading the energy efficiency and environmental impact of cities.
3 are the strategies for regeneration, defined as a function of the degree of modifiability of different urban areas.
1 Areas of the great transformation
Vast brownfields represent an opportunity to rethink large sections of the city. Here public direction plays an important role in respect of private entrepreneurship: the Plan sets out the objectives of the transformation, together with the equipment required in the public interest as…
INTEGRATED PROJECTS OF THE REGIONAL LANDSCAPE AND TERRITORIAL PLAN OF PUGLIA: THE COASTL LANDSCAPE
The “Piano Paesaggistico” (Landscape Plan) of Puglia Region defined as main goals of its “Strategic Plan” the redevelopment and enhancement of coastal landscape, assuming the coastal system as an element of heritage and great importance for the socioeconomical future of the region.
The regional project for the coastal landscapes has the double aim of blocking the processes of degradation derived by the touristic pressure, concentrated on the coast, and to develop the enormous urban, landscape, environmental heritage, already present, both in the coastal system and in its mainland.
The aim is to act with projects of urban regeneration that improve the…
Social HOUSING IN FAENZA – Urban regeneration of Modern buildings in “Via Fornarina”
Occupied by 88 persons and nicknamed ‘The Casbah’ by the locals, a public neighborhood-building with 55 disrupted units, beacon of those social building ideas of the 70’s, escaped demolition thanks to a €4.5 million urban regeneration project that has radically transformed the building, reducing it to 42 apartments on the ground floor for different activities, but keeping intact its architectural shape. The project entailed the relocation of residents, the implementation of a PRUACS and of a monitored working scheduled that will be completed in early 2015, just 4 years after the decision to rebuild the neighborhood.
PLAN FOR THE RURAL PARK IN ATRI (TE) A PLENNING INSTRUMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND PROMOTION
A study with an only purpose: to face the challenges of the future staking on the protection and the promotion of the rural environment.
The Detailed Plan for the Agricultural Park (PPPA) adopted in 2012 is included in the Multilevel governance project, which provided for the simultaneous creation of four urbanistic tools: the PRG, the Detailed Plan for the Old Town Centre, the PPPA and the SIC Calanchi di Atri Management Plan.
The project is the result of strategic decisions supported by a variety of specialized contributions and targeted interventions.
Incentiving rural housing and stopping agricultural land consumption, improving hydrogeomorphological safety, enhancing…