Papers by Marinella Arena
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CONNETTERE - UN DISEGNO PER ANNODARE E TESSERE · CONNECTING - DRAWING FOR WEAVING RELATIONSHIPS, 2020
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Lecture notes in networks and systems, 2023
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Nexus Network Journal
The theme of this article is twofold: an instrumental survey, which increases the documentation o... more The theme of this article is twofold: an instrumental survey, which increases the documentation of the Basilica Saints Peter and Paul in Casalvecchio, is accompanied by a reflection on the underlying geometries. The latter allowed some analysis on the distance between its theoretical form and realization, but also on the way of designing, tracing and constructing the church itself. The study, therefore, outlines a protocol for the morphological analysis of the Arab-Norman architecture built in north-eastern Sicily, and identifies the Basilica Saints Peter and Paul as a case study. The results of this research increase the available documentation of the building and support future enhancement and conservation actions. The protocol provides for: brief historical contextualization; instrumental survey; geometric and morphological analysis aimed at identifying: geometric patterns, units of measurement and proportional modules.
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La Scuola di Pitagora, 2015
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La scuola di Pitagora editrice, 2015
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Handbook of Research on Emerging Technologies for Architectural and Archaeological Heritage
The communication of architecture is a complex and multidisciplinary process, indispensable for e... more The communication of architecture is a complex and multidisciplinary process, indispensable for enhancing a monument properly and to allow understanding and knowledge to a large number of users. The European Architectural Heritage, and the Italian one in particular, is enormous; the processes of knowledge, cataloguing and analysis are far from being complete. This fact has prompted the European Union to invest, especially in recent years, in research projects designed to increase the communication strategies and put a value on the present assets in its territory. For example, the programs of the European Commission for Research and Innovation, found in “Horizon 2020”, define the communication based on the new media as the new frontier for the enhancement of architectural heritage (Reflective Cities). The main goal is to develop a better awareness of the Architectural Heritage through increased interaction between the citizen, the monument and the scientific community.
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Nexus 21/21: relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics. 26-29 July 2021, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2021
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The images that populate our memory, even those that belong to the personal sphere, have been fil... more The images that populate our memory, even those that belong to the personal sphere, have been filtered and manipulated by the process of reproduction. They are copies, in some cases copies of copies. Our collective imagination is based on the vision of fakes: multimedia, three-dimensional, virtual reproductions, augmented reality. The course of the research, initially, envisages the description of a theoretical reference framework that includes the declinations of the notion of copy and the related fruition rituals. In the second part the research exemplifies the theoretical framework, through one emblematic and iconic case study: Las Majas al Balcón. The case shares the notion of copying, in fact it has entered the collective imagination thanks to its reproductions and/or falsifications. It is now virtually invisible, because it belongs to a private collection, and it is one of Goya's best known paintings.
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Defensive architecture in the Ziz and Todhra valleys in MoroccoThe earthen architecture of the To... more Defensive architecture in the Ziz and Todhra valleys in MoroccoThe earthen architecture of the Todhra and Ziz Valleys in Southern Morocco takes us back to the basic and archetypal forms of building in the Mediterranean. Architectural typology and language together form a cultural background that is strongly rooted in the territory and its inhabitants: the Berbers. The architectures, fragile and in constant decay, represent a treatise of living architecture in which the shapes, proportions and decorations are repeated over time with continuity.This research tries to verify, with data coming from direct and instrumental surveys, the quality and diffusion of the architectures that dot the valleys of the Todhra and the Ziz which, at same time, host the population and defend the most precious asset: water. Along the valleys, united by the same language, we find: igherm, fortified citadels; tighremt, fortress houses.
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Lo studio ha per tema l’iconografia delle chiese bizantine nel Mediterraneo e s’inserisce in un p... more Lo studio ha per tema l’iconografia delle chiese bizantine nel Mediterraneo e s’inserisce in un progetto di ricerca più ampio, dedicato all’architettura religiosa di matrice orientale realizzata fra il IX e il XVI secolo. La metodologia di ricerca è basata su: rilievo strumentale e fotografico; analisi e catalogazione degli apparati iconografici e decorativi; comunicazione visuale dei dati e delle connessioni rintracciate.
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The Cattolica di Stilo, one of the greatest monu-ments of Calabria, is the most important example... more The Cattolica di Stilo, one of the greatest monu-ments of Calabria, is the most important example of the secular Byzantine influence on this region. The Greek cross inscribed in a square, with its five domes, denounces his connection with an archi-tectural style of oriental origin. Although built in a remote province of the Empire, the Catho-lic is not the expression of a poor art; all poetics typical of Byzantine architecture are manifested with originality. The first paragraph, written by Domenico Mediati, analyzes the geometries and correlates with contemporary buildings (X-XI cen-tury) and similar in size and shape. The second paragraph, written by Marinella Arena, highlights the differences of construction compared to the theoretical form. The third paragraph, written by Daniele Colistra, reviews some representations of the monument trying to identify those who most influenced the collective imagination.
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Introduction Socrates encourages knowledge that comes from oral communication between men who liv... more Introduction Socrates encourages knowledge that comes from oral communication between men who live in the city. And he evokes the Egyptian divinity, Theuth, to give more importance to his argument. The myth recounts that Theuth, after inventing writing, gifted it to the Egyptians. King Thamus admonishes him, underlining the fact that this new kind of communication will reduce the capacity of memory. The complexity of the city has always been in balance between unity and multiplicity, order and chaos, memory and nemesis, stereotype and peculiarity. Today we have many new tools for increasing the knowledge of cities: multimedia informatic systems; 3D reconstructions, and the so-called Web 3.0 We can observe every point of the globe but the enormous quantity of data leaves us without the memory of places that are useful for the comprehension of the phenomena. The virtual city, or the labyrinth of the perception, reveals itself only when observed from the sky, while we are wearing Daeda...
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Earthen Architecture in Muslim Cultures, 2018
Earthen Architecture in Muslim Cultures: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives, S. Pradines... more Earthen Architecture in Muslim Cultures: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives, S. Pradines Editor, BRILL, Leiden, 2018.
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This study started in 2012 with the relief of the village of Mandanici located on the Straits of ... more This study started in 2012 with the relief of the village of Mandanici located on the Straits of Messina, on the slopes of the eastern Peloritani, now includes the reliefs of: Forza D’Agro 2013; Ali 2014; Fiumedinisi 2015 and Itala 2017. The villages were analysed in their entirety by evaluating the correlations between architecture, urban space and landscape. The research goals are many. The first is to test a survey protocol for a whole urban centre and provide complete documentation. The second concerns the analysis of these centres from a typological, formal, decorative and structural point of view. The third point is the definition of micro urban areas with specific risk factors related to soil morphology, abandonment of buildings, dimensional and structural typology of individual buildings. In the end, the goal is to transcend all research, to increase the awareness of the architectural and landscape value of these places in the inhabitants, first custodians and keepers of t...
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Papers by Marinella Arena
Most of the Italian architectonic urban heritage is located in little centres, they enclose part of the spontaneous architecture, which is the basis of our cultural tradition. This book tries to criticize the lack of media coverage, and with the representation and communication of complex organisms, bring them to the attention of the local community.