Papers by Francesca Ciampa
The urban book series, 2023
In the context of the global climate crisis and the resulting catastrophic flooding phenomena, th... more In the context of the global climate crisis and the resulting catastrophic flooding phenomena, the contribution looks at an innovative digital model for the coastal recovery, attentive to the protection of waterfronts and their stakeholders. By intervening in the relationship between transformation and conservation of built environment, it is necessary to establish governance support tools capable of foreseeing emergency scenarios to protect the population. The research looks at the port areas of coastal cities as a contemporary and collective public space in which to test the collaborative digital model proposed for waterfronts recovery and maintenance. The need-based methodological process used the human life protection, exposed to flooding danger, as the input of a design process. Through a survey and modeling phase, the waterfront breaks down into environmental and technological systems, specifying the extent of the failure. The waterfront digitization allows providing the governance with a sensor alert tool that gives the monitoring of the behavior and the state of the waterfront elements' degradation. This information is simplified and given back to the users who both made responsible for the maintenance culture of the places they use and alerted to the possible danger they are exposed. The case is Atrani, where an internal flooding, caused by the estuary overflowing, degenerated in the entire coastal system up to the sea. The results provide a digital model capable of exploring and optimizing the coastal built environment to increase the governance capacity and the waterfront performance.
<p>Urbanization and climate change affect the balance of coastal ecosystems, determining im... more <p>Urbanization and climate change affect the balance of coastal ecosystems, determining impacts on social, economic and environmental dimensions of their waterfronts. Coastal cities use the criticalities deriving by flood phenomena as an opportunity to renew the models for mitigating environmental impacts. Italian coastal cities are examples of waterfronts widely impacted by floods, such as Venice. These waterfronts are characterized by consolidated ecosystems with a dominant identity, thus reinterpreting their flooding mitigation models can be useful in addressing the risk of flood disasters. This paper presents and discusses the flood mitigation strategy implemented in Venice, based on transforming and integrating advanced technology with nature-based solutions, as well as requirements and community needs. The advantages and limitations for protecting local communities and the environment with this aproach, its cost-effectiveness and its contribution to enhance resilience are also discussed.<br>Venice integrates an anti-flooding technological solution called Electromechanical experimental module (MOSE), with its historical lagoon ecosystem, as part of the UNESCO Management Plan "Venice and its Lagoon''. MOSE is a system of independent mobile sluice gates, hinged at the bottom and actuated by the floating variation integrated with nature-based coastal reinforcement practices based on environmental elements in complementary operation with the technological solution. The natural and morphological restoration of the lagoon, in fact, represents the first part of an integrated plan for the protection and sanitation of the coastal habitat. This solution indicates the ways in which the needs expressed by the inhabitants can affect the solutions already implemented in place by the technicians and the administration, determining new criteria and tools for mitigation factors such as tangible compatibility and intangible adaptivity.<br>In order to integrate a non-human (nature and technology) and human (actors) factors, the operation of the technological solution is based on an Actor-Network Theory (ANT) approach. On the one hand, the research acts in the multi-scalar horizon analyzing the actions governed by multidimensional approaches in order to strengthen coastal relational systems. On the other hand, it studies the experimental solutions, reflecting on the need to rethink the nature based solutions in a way that it integrates the socio-ecological interactions associated to vulnerable systems. An Ecosystem-Based Mitigation Model for coastal cities investigates climate mitigation solutions to support decision-making. The model includes the socio-economic and environmental requirements, deriving from the community needs examined, in order to improve the carrying capacity of an ecosystem by considering a sustainable vision. The example of Venice can be used in addressing the risk of flooding in other coastal cities. &#160;</p><p><br>Keyword: nature-based solutions, coastal ecosystems, flood mitigation, anti-flooding technology.</p>
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Within the framework of the research and innovation strategy RIS3 “Sustainable Living” (POR-FSE, ... more Within the framework of the research and innovation strategy RIS3 “Sustainable Living” (POR-FSE, funded by the Veneto Region), for the improvement of the resilience and adaptation capacity of the Veneto territory to environmental crises and emergencies, the subject of the contribution returns the results of the participatory experimentation of the project H.E.L.P. Veneto ‘ High-efficiency Emergency Living Prototypes Veneto - Sustainable adaptive residences for temporary stay in environmental emergencies. The research concerns the design of a minimum flexible emergency living module, replicable on a large scale, multifunctional, sustainable, powered by off-grid systems and integrated into the built environment. The housing unit uses timber, a material linked to the local building tradition, whose prefabricated modular reversibility follows principles of circular reuse. Moreover, the constructive adaptability of the interior spaces is reflected in a “liquid space” capable of transform...
TECHNE, Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, May 30, 2023
La ricerca mira all'individuazione di uno strumento di informazione per le attività di progettazi... more La ricerca mira all'individuazione di uno strumento di informazione per le attività di progettazione attraverso tecnologie abilitanti, sviluppate sulle interazioni tra involucro e contesto. La metodologia, articolata secondo le fasi di analisi, elaborazione e validazione applicativa, prefigura una strategia di risposta ai fenomeni di crisi ambientale ed energetica rispetto alle diverse scale di azione. Considerando l'effetto dei fenomeni climatici sugli involucri e le esigenze prestazionali contemporanee ai quali sono chiamati a rispondere, il contributo restituisce una scheda tecnica dinamica (analisi e valutazione delle prestazioni energetico-ambientali) sulla base del modello redatto dal European Joint Research Centre, per verificare l'appropriatezza della progettazione dell'involucro. Parole chiave: Ambiente costruito; Energy performance impact; Involucro; Tecnologie abilitanti; Simulating. ena on the envelopes and the contemporary performance requirements they are called to meet, the contribution provides a dynamic data sheet (analysis and evaluation of energy-environmental performance) based on the model drawn up by the European Joint Research Centre, to verify the appropriateness of envelope design.
This paper on the Urban Technology framework focuses on the many ways in which technological deve... more This paper on the Urban Technology framework focuses on the many ways in which technological development interacts and engages with evolving urban systems. The study, carried out during a PhD visiting research agreement at the GSAPP of Columbia University (2018-19), aims to highlight the need for contamination between various fields of knowledge during all phases of the design process through the methodological approach of the Actor-Network Theory. The experiment conducted in the Lower East Side of Manhattan reveals, through participatory tools, the prefiguration of hybrid spaces resulting from the network of links established by technology as a hybrid and integrated actor within relationships between subjects of the design process.
Sustainability
In the context of cultural heritage reuse, creative businesses can play the role of activators of... more In the context of cultural heritage reuse, creative businesses can play the role of activators of sustainable transition processes in the built environment. The exercise of the functions by creative enterprises can improve actions of regeneration of local identity, values, and built heritage. The aim is to demonstrate that creative enterprises are strategic industries able to activate actions of custody and cultural heritage valorization, proposing themselves on the territory as culture-led regeneration tools. The methodology discusses integrated strategies that intervene in the systemic criticalities of cities to regenerate tangible and intangible cultural heritage through multidimensional, multi-actor, and multicriteria approaches, matching community and the built environment. The result concerns the identification of a system of actor issues and creative criteria using the ExtrArtis© model, a transformative driver that constitutes a creative class as the guardian of the genius loci.
The urban book series, 2023
In the context of anthropogenic impacts on pollution and global warming scenarios, reject from th... more In the context of anthropogenic impacts on pollution and global warming scenarios, reject from the construction sector accounts for 36% of European waste. This waste percentage includes disused and abandoned buildings that have lost the value of their function over time. In order to reduce the ecological footprint they generate, the paper rethinks Recovery in its circular meaning to put these buildings back into a normal circuit of usability, improving the creation of resilient urban habitats. In particular, decommissioned ecclesiastical buildings constitute a huge quantity and significant quality heritage, as by cultural, perceptive, morphological and material values. The sustainable reuse of this heritage must act on its double impacting value: the tangible one linked to the material culture of the buildings and the intangible one, linked to the identity values of sediment instances. Through a comparison desk research of more than 140 cases of reuse on a European scale, the contribution arrives at a system of indicators that allow evaluating the reuse sustainable compatibility of these buildings, able to promote prosperity, inclusiveness and social equity. These indicators make it possible to assess the appropriateness of design actions aimed at mediating between the conservation of the built heritage and the transformative needs of contemporary instances. The results provide scenarios tool of sustainable recovery, capable of transforming waste into a resource, extending the life cycle of the ecclesiastical heritage and thus mitigating its environmental impact, as well as the cost related to the loss of cultural values and identity for the community.
TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
This paper, prepared in the context of Community-led Local Development, discusses the relationshi... more This paper, prepared in the context of Community-led Local Development, discusses the relationships between the adaptive capacity of cities and the latest participatory governance approaches to identify new tools for eco-social transition. The polycrisis is an opportunity to reflect upon strategies to mitigate environmental, social and economic waste. The adoption of a systemic, circular and reiterative methodology considers stakeholders as promoters and drivers of human-centred development processes. From the intercontinental empirical comparison of case studies, the experimentation proposes Community Regeneration Indicators to monitor and evaluate the processes of recovery and adaptation of the built heritage, generating a replicable eco-social co-design transition model.
Sustainability
The paper debates the results of a research carried out by the Department of Architecture of the ... more The paper debates the results of a research carried out by the Department of Architecture of the University of Naples “Federico II” (DiARC), as part of the Creative Europe 2018 Artists in Architecture, Re-activating modern European houses program (entitled EACEA 32/2017 and EACEA 35/2017; scientific coordinator: Maria Rita Pinto; project manager: Serena Viola). The research investigates the relationships between creativity and sharing as tools of a new form of social sustainability. These elements can induce positive effects on the settlement qualities of the places, acting as engines of the custody of the settlement values and the collaborative regeneration of the built environment. The methodology is based on participatory approaches able to restore the levels of cohesion, care, and creativity that the experimentation typology of the Artists Residencies is able to trigger on the territory and on the communities who inhabit it. The results return in the form of the complex process ...
La ricerca si sviluppa nell'ambito delle recenti esperienze di cittadinanza attiva e dei proc... more La ricerca si sviluppa nell'ambito delle recenti esperienze di cittadinanza attiva e dei processi trasformativi condotti per la rigenerazione degli spazi urbani, riconosciuti come "beni comuni". Il contributo propone un approccio metodologico per l'elaborazione di una strategia di riuso inclusiva, capace di inglobare le esigenze degli attori coinvolti nei processi di trasformazione dei contesti. Il principio della circular economy è alla base dell'approccio, consentendo di mettere a sistema risorse fisiche, economiche, sociali e culturali per la creazione di dinamiche virtuose. La sperimentazione è stata condotta sul caso studio di Ercolano con l'obiettivo di attivare un processo di innovazione sociale con cui coinvolgere i diversi attori in tutte le fasi dell'iter progettuale.
The research develops in the context of processes of sustainable adaptive reuse on urban scale. T... more The research develops in the context of processes of sustainable adaptive reuse on urban scale. The document proposes a participatory methodological approach that, integrating interviews with privileged interlocutors and performance analysis of settlement processes, is used as an investigative tool in the phase of knowledge of the reuse project. The outcome is embodied in the elaboration of a vulnerability matrix that integrates the needs of the social system with the limits of transformability of the settlement system. This approach was used in the case study of Via Pugliano in Ercolano (Italy), characterized by the second hand economy linked to processes of re-use of fabrics. In this case, the adoption of multi-actors participatory process determined the identification of a framework of shared needs based on which it was possible to construct alternative scenarios of sustainable adaptive reuse. The goal integrates the physical, social and economic values expressed by local community.
Sustainability, 2021
The article addresses the contemporary debate on urban and environmental regeneration, investigat... more The article addresses the contemporary debate on urban and environmental regeneration, investigating the need to establish new criteria to implement the defence of coastal ecosystems by climate problems. The research looks at coastal vulnerabilities, starting with the environmental fragility of flooding, as an opportunity to regenerate waterfront ecosystems. The research aim concerns the analysis of US advanced regeneration practices to learn and transfer the principles derived from them to the European context. This transferability takes place through the construction of regeneration criteria for the coastal ecosystems rebalancing. The regeneration criteria are resulted from an ecosystem reading of the winning projects of the Rebuild by Design competition. These practices represent in the scientific literature an exceptional example of a holistic response to the problem of post-disaster intervention. These cases offer an integrated response in terms of processes, investments, the d...
The Urban Book Series
As it is known, the global phenomenon of rising temperatures causes uncomfortable and often harmf... more As it is known, the global phenomenon of rising temperatures causes uncomfortable and often harmful conditions for human beings living in moderate-climate zones, such as the Mediterranean area, especially in the hottest periods. Examinations of metropolitan cities can witness that high temperatures generate Urban Heat Island (UHI), due to population, buildings, vehicles and human activities in general. With the increase of rising temperatures in the latest decades, people living in big cities have gotten used to tackling heat discomfort with electricity charged cooling systems. As a result, the energy consumption for air-conditioning causes UHIs’ effects to further grow. It is scientifically confirmed that the behavioral habit of relying on artificially generated cold whenever temperatures rise will eventually make the climate crisis more problematic in the near future. Energy communities are used to producing, storing and consuming energy on site; therefore, power sources must be i...
Sustainability, 2020
The paper debates the results of a research carried out by the Department of Architecture of the ... more The paper debates the results of a research carried out by the Department of Architecture of the University of Naples “Federico II” (DiARC), as part of the Creative Europe 2018 Artists in Architecture, Re-activating modern European houses program (entitled EACEA 32/2017 and EACEA 35/2017; scientific coordinator: Maria Rita Pinto; project manager: Serena Viola). The research investigates the relationships between creativity and sharing as tools of a new form of social sustainability. These elements can induce positive effects on the settlement qualities of the places, acting as engines of the custody of the settlement values and the collaborative regeneration of the built environment. The methodology is based on participatory approaches able to restore the levels of cohesion, care, and creativity that the experimentation typology of the Artists Residencies is able to trigger on the territory and on the communities who inhabit it. The results return in the form of the complex process ...
Il contributo indaga le criticita delle aree interne come occasione di rinnovo delle politicheter... more Il contributo indaga le criticita delle aree interne come occasione di rinnovo delle politicheterritoriali dei centri storici minori. La riattivazione di edifici rappresentativi del patrimonioculturale dismesso puo diventare una risorsa potenziale per la sperimentazione di strategieterritoriali innovative. La capacita della comunita di attribuire un sistema di valoripotenziali alle emergenze architettoniche dismesse consente loro di assumere il ruolo didriver nelle trasformazioni territoriali. Il caso studio e la rete di emergenze architettonicheda San Cipriano Picentino al borgo di Vignale, siti protetti del Parco Regionale dei MontiPicentini. La metodologia integra approcci analitici della Tecnologia del Recupero allesperimentazioni sul campo al fine di esplorare nuove forme di empowerment della culturamateriale per mitigare i fenomeni di abbandono dei centri storici minori. Parole chiave: aree interne, centri storici minori, strategia di recupero
Sustainability
Many cities globally are incorporating the circular economy model into their development strategi... more Many cities globally are incorporating the circular economy model into their development strategies to start transitioning as “circular cities” towards the implementation of human-centred development. In many of them, one of the major challenges is represented by the large presence of cultural heritage being in a state of degradation, abandonment and underutilization, which determines waste conditions not only at physical/spatial level but also at economic level (the presence of subsistence economies) and at a social and cultural level (marginalization phenomena and high rates of unemployment). The perspective of circular economy allows rethinking these waste conditions as an opportunity to reactivate virtuous circuits capable of promoting sustainable development focused on human needs. In this perspective, the paper aims to demonstrate both the importance of participatory approaches in guiding circular and human-centred regeneration processes and of identifying evaluation tools cap...
Sustainability
Flooding affects Mediterranean coastal areas, with negative impacts on regional populations and e... more Flooding affects Mediterranean coastal areas, with negative impacts on regional populations and ecosystems. This paper reviews the causes and consequences of coastal flooding in European Mediterranean countries, common and advanced solutions implemented to mitigate flood risk, and the importance of stakeholder involvement in developing these solutions. Climate change, intensive urbanization, tourism, deforestation, wildfires, and erosion are the main causes of coastal flooding, leading to social and economic losses, degradation of ecosystems, and water and soil contamination due to saltwater intrusion. Various measures for mitigating urban coastal flooding have been implemented, including coastal barriers, infrastructural drainage systems, wetlands, and mobile dams. Development and implementation of such solutions should be performed in close collaboration with stakeholders, but their current engagement at the coordination and/or decision-making level does not allow full integration...
The article addresses the contemporary debate on urban and environmental regeneration, investigat... more The article addresses the contemporary debate on urban and environmental regeneration, investigating the need to establish new criteria to implement the defence of coastal ecosystems by climate problems. The research looks at coastal vulnerabilities, starting with the environmental fragility of flooding, as an opportunity to regenerate waterfront ecosystems. The research aim concerns the analysis of US advanced regeneration practices to learn and transfer the principles derived from them to the European context. This transferability takes place through the construction of regeneration criteria for the coastal ecosystems rebalancing. The regeneration criteria are resulted from an ecosystem reading of the winning projects of the Rebuild by Design competition. These practices represent in the scientific literature an exceptional example of a holistic response to the problem of post-disaster intervention. These cases offer an integrated response in terms of processes, investments, the d...
The research's field works on transformation of
contemporary cities identity traits. The case stu... more The research's field works on transformation of
contemporary cities identity traits. The case study of the Bronx
district in New York is an example of an urban site that is trying
to redeem itself from the image of social and economic
marginalization placed. It represents a border zone: the limit
between the unbridled richness of Manhattan and the hostility of
years of segregation. Since 2012, after Hurricane Sandy, the
Bronx is trying to act new urban and social regeneration
processes able to protect the community from catastrophic
climatic events and from gentrification. The work was carried
out in the framework of the thesis agreement abroad, in
collaboration with Columbia University of NY, with interview
system to the Urban Planner of NYC, to the president of the
Waterfront Alliance and to CEOs of the main associations. The
methodological approach combines interviews with privileged
interlocutors with the performance analysis of settlement
processes. The results aim to support the design, which integrates
the recommendations of expert knowledge and the visions of the
local community for preconceived expected performance levels.
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Papers by Francesca Ciampa
contemporary cities identity traits. The case study of the Bronx
district in New York is an example of an urban site that is trying
to redeem itself from the image of social and economic
marginalization placed. It represents a border zone: the limit
between the unbridled richness of Manhattan and the hostility of
years of segregation. Since 2012, after Hurricane Sandy, the
Bronx is trying to act new urban and social regeneration
processes able to protect the community from catastrophic
climatic events and from gentrification. The work was carried
out in the framework of the thesis agreement abroad, in
collaboration with Columbia University of NY, with interview
system to the Urban Planner of NYC, to the president of the
Waterfront Alliance and to CEOs of the main associations. The
methodological approach combines interviews with privileged
interlocutors with the performance analysis of settlement
processes. The results aim to support the design, which integrates
the recommendations of expert knowledge and the visions of the
local community for preconceived expected performance levels.
contemporary cities identity traits. The case study of the Bronx
district in New York is an example of an urban site that is trying
to redeem itself from the image of social and economic
marginalization placed. It represents a border zone: the limit
between the unbridled richness of Manhattan and the hostility of
years of segregation. Since 2012, after Hurricane Sandy, the
Bronx is trying to act new urban and social regeneration
processes able to protect the community from catastrophic
climatic events and from gentrification. The work was carried
out in the framework of the thesis agreement abroad, in
collaboration with Columbia University of NY, with interview
system to the Urban Planner of NYC, to the president of the
Waterfront Alliance and to CEOs of the main associations. The
methodological approach combines interviews with privileged
interlocutors with the performance analysis of settlement
processes. The results aim to support the design, which integrates
the recommendations of expert knowledge and the visions of the
local community for preconceived expected performance levels.