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About Building Stereotomy: Theory and Practice

About Building Stereotomy: Theory and Practice

Giuseppe Fallacara, Claudia Calabria
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 33
ISBN13: 9781522500292|ISBN10: 1522500294|EISBN13: 9781522500308
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0029-2.ch024
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Fallacara, Giuseppe, and Claudia Calabria. "About Building Stereotomy: Theory and Practice." Handbook of Research on Visual Computing and Emerging Geometrical Design Tools, edited by Giuseppe Amoruso, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 575-607. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0029-2.ch024

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Fallacara, G. & Calabria, C. (2016). About Building Stereotomy: Theory and Practice. In G. Amoruso (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Visual Computing and Emerging Geometrical Design Tools (pp. 575-607). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0029-2.ch024

Chicago

Fallacara, Giuseppe, and Claudia Calabria. "About Building Stereotomy: Theory and Practice." In Handbook of Research on Visual Computing and Emerging Geometrical Design Tools, edited by Giuseppe Amoruso, 575-607. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0029-2.ch024

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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.

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