Choerades: tra utopia ed eterotopia. L'isola di S.Pietro come palcoscenico.

Lo studio è rivolto alla creazione di uno spazio eterotopico. Nell’atto di riconsacrare un’isola attraverso l’acquisizione di strutture polisemiche che al valore d’uso uniscono un forte valore di scambio simbolico, pensate per dar vita a comunità provvisorie. Il progetto apre anche alla possibilità d’una dea “rifondazione” del lavoro teatrale attraverso l’allestimento di uno spazio che dà accesso alla trasformazione artistica e personale, luogo separato, esterno all’esperienza quotidiana, catalizzatore di energie. Attori principali di questo spazio sono due teatri, gemelli, simmetrici, complementari. Pensati ibridando la struttura aperta degli antichi teatri greci e l’uso umano e culturale dei “ghat” indiani affacciati sull’acqua. Uno rivolto a nord/ovest, Elettra. Uno, simmetrico, rivolto a sud/est, Artemide. Il progetto figura di accampamenti, vero cantone di lavoro. Immagine della “nave” e della “tenda desertica nomade” che sono metafore seminali del progetto. Il simbolismo è all’apice, e raggiunge altre note di intensità nella struttura di uno Jazzo, che ricorda l’operazione di fondazione di ogni città antica. Ogni aspetto, confezionato dal ruolo di un architettura guardata come maieutica del genius loci.

Dr. Bernhard Bardach clinking glasses with unidentified officers and civilian; Isola Military; Portraits

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Interno dell'Isola d'Ischia : [vue générale] : [peinture]

Collectionneur : Lesouëf, Auguste (1829-1906)

Studio di fenomeni d'instabilità gravitativa sui fondali marini, con particolare riferimento all'isola di Stromboli

In the last decade the interest for submarine instability grew up, driven by the increasing exploitation of natural resources (primary hydrocarbons), the emplacement of bottom-lying structures (cables and pipelines) and by the development of coastal areas, whose infrastructures increasingly protrude to the sea. The great interest for this topic promoted a number of international projects such as: STEAM (Sediment Transport on European Atlantic Margins, 93-96), ENAM II (European North Atlantic Margin, 96-99), GITEC (Genesis and Impact of Tsunamis on the European Coast 92-95), STRATAFORM (STRATA FORmation on Margins, 95-01), Seabed Slope Process in Deep Water Continental Margin (Northwest Gulf of Mexico, 96-04), COSTA (Continental slope Stability, 00-05), EUROMARGINS (Slope Stability on Europe’s Passive Continental Margin), SPACOMA (04-07), EUROSTRATAFORM (European Margin Strata Formation), NGI's internal project SIP-8 (Offshore Geohazards), IGCP-511: Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences (05-09) and projects indirectly related to instability processes, such as TRANSFER (Tsunami Risk ANd Strategies For the European region, 06-09) or NEAREST (integrated observations from NEAR shore sourcES of Tsunamis: towards an early warning system, 06-09). In Italy, apart from a national project realized within the activities of the National Group of Volcanology during the framework 2000-2003 “Conoscenza delle parti sommerse dei vulcani italiani e valutazione del potenziale rischio vulcanico”, the study of submarine mass-movement has been underestimated until the occurrence of the landslide-tsunami events that affected Stromboli on December 30, 2002. This event made the Italian Institutions and the scientific community more aware of the hazard related to submarine landslides, mainly in light of the growing anthropization of coastal sectors, that increases the vulnerability of these areas to the consequences of such processes. In this regard, two important national projects have been recently funded in order to study coastal instabilities (PRIN 24, 06-08) and to map the main submarine hazard features on continental shelves and upper slopes around the most part of Italian coast (MaGIC Project). The study realized in this Thesis is addressed to the understanding of these processes, with particular reference to Stromboli submerged flanks. These latter represent a natural laboratory in this regard, as several kind of instability phenomena are present on the submerged flanks, affecting about 90% of the entire submerged areal and often (strongly) influencing the morphological evolution of subaerial slopes, as witnessed by the event occurred on 30 December 2002. Furthermore, each phenomenon is characterized by different pre-failure, failure and post-failure mechanisms, ranging from rock-falls, to turbidity currents up to catastrophic sector collapses. The Thesis is divided into three introductive chapters, regarding a brief review of submarine instability phenomena and related hazard (cap. 1), a “bird’s-eye” view on methodologies and available dataset (cap. 2) and a short introduction on the evolution and the morpho-structural setting of the Stromboli edifice (cap. 3). This latter seems to play a major role in the development of largescale sector collapses at Stromboli, as they occurred perpendicular to the orientation of the main volcanic rift axis (oriented in NE-SW direction). The characterization of these events and their relationships with successive erosive-depositional processes represents the main focus of cap.4 (Offshore evidence of large-scale lateral collapses on the eastern flank of Stromboli, Italy, due to structurally-controlled, bilateral flank instability) and cap. 5 (Lateral collapses and active sedimentary processes on the North-western flank of Stromboli Volcano), represented by articles accepted for publication on international papers (Marine Geology). Moreover, these studies highlight the hazard related to these catastrophic events; several calamities (with more than 40000 casualties only in the last two century) have been, in fact, the direct or indirect result of landslides affecting volcanic flanks, as observed at Oshima-Oshima (1741) and Unzen Volcano (1792) in Japan (Satake&Kato, 2001; Brantley&Scott, 1993), Krakatau (1883) in Indonesia (Self&Rampino, 1981), Ritter Island (1888), Sissano in Papua New Guinea (Ward& Day, 2003; Johnson, 1987; Tappin et al., 2001) and Mt St. Augustine (1883) in Alaska (Beget& Kienle, 1992). Flank landslide are also recognized as the most important and efficient mass-wasting process on volcanoes, contributing to the development of the edifices by widening their base and to the growth of a volcaniclastic apron at the foot of a volcano; a number of small and medium-scale erosive processes are also responsible for the carving of Stromboli submarine flanks and the transport of debris towards the deeper areas. The characterization of features associated to these processes is the main focus of cap. 6; it is also important to highlight that some small-scale events are able to create damage to coastal areas, as also witnessed by recent events of Gioia Tauro 1978, Nizza, 1979 and Stromboli 2002. The hazard potential related to these phenomena is, in fact, very high, as they commonly occur at higher frequency with respect to large-scale collapses, therefore being more significant in terms of human timescales. In the last chapter (cap. 7), a brief review and discussion of instability processes identified on Stromboli submerged flanks is presented; they are also compared with respect to analogous processes recognized in other submerged areas in order to shed lights on the main factors involved in their development. Finally, some applications of multibeam data to assess the hazard related to these phenomena are also discussed.

Progettazione sensibile al contesto dell'adeguamento dell'asse viario esistente nel parco naturale dell'isola dell'Asinara(SS)

lo scopo della presente tesi di laurea è stato quello di redigere un progetto per l’adeguamento funzionale della strada ubicata nel Parco Nazionale dell’ Asinara, tenendo quindi in particolare considerazione le caratteristiche ambientali del territorio, ma garantendo, allo stesso tempo, caratteristiche prestazionali migliorative e una maggiore sicurezza per il traffico veicolare.

Progetto di un impianto fotovoltaico ad isola

Questa tesi tratta del progetto di un impianto fotovoltaico ad isola. Il sistema si compone di diversi blocchi che verranno tutti analizzati nel corso della tesi con particolare enfasi al circuito di controllo e gestione della potenza. Le principali originalità consistono nell'utilizzo di un apposito circuito per l'avviamento dei carichi capacitivi (gestione delle inrush current) e un driver flottante per Cùk con pochi componenti discreti. Si è realizzato il prototipo che viene dettagliatamente descritto all'interno della dissertazione.