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The “craft dimension” of technology as an engine for integrability
The language control of PV, in contexts concerned, requires a precise adjustment of the
expressive tone compared to contextual factors (e.g. avoiding the use of traditional or
highly recognizable cells/ modules or "application" systems too complex). Often the
"integration project" is postponed to the
control of the language at component scale
.
This aesthetic and semantic approach to the scale of "
componenting design
" (Frateili
1973) is indispensable in order to carry out, during the "integration process", a first
reflection on the PV linguistic characters, or else on the recognition of several simple
units of meaning, as the cell, module or the PV material, with the aim to control the
various parameters of the expression and the various forms of "language inflexion" at
this elementary level of the “phrase”.
The
"component approach"
is an important process for verification of integrability in
these places. In a contemporary framework increasingly oriented towards mass
customization of the building industry, the study of the forms of integration can use (not
necessarily of a relationship with the industry aimed at "product innovation") an
innovative "craft" dimension of technology which, aided by a process now completely
digitized, it appears more and more adaptable to the design paradigm of "micro-
intervetion" and "controlled transformation". In fact, as well as the generation of any
volume or complex surface is facilitated by the use of CAD modelling software, so even
the technical feasibility of constructive elements uses a prefabrication, now no longer
serialized and standardized on the prototype and modular co-ordination, but based on
"file to factory".
Assisted production CAM (computer aided manufacturing ") allow complete flexibility and
personalization to the production process, within a framework of
mass-customization
that makes constructive reality even the most complex design visions or, as in this case,
the need for controlling of the technological detail at scale of component and base
material, depending on the " transformability "expressed by the places. The meaning of
“qualifying quantity” and the possibility of combining a high use of the standard with its
necessary adaptability to diverse and changing requirements, form the basis of a "best
meeting" between industrialized processes and architecture. The concept of a “modular
architecture” from (meta)project of building elements, generates an advantageous
support for essential for the inventiveness in these contexts.
The control of many aspects at the material level, of
constructive base component
and
correlation element
, it is essential in the characterization of the solar surface and the
entire building. This is only possible with the project "at the heart" of architectural
research and technology, i.e. redefining a more fruitful relationship between industry and
project. In many industries in the field of BiPV, also at national level, are already
predisposed to a process of support for designers and builders in co-design of
architectural components. The main parameters for the design at the scale of
component are summarized in the following table.
To this aim, for the analysis of criteria influential on figurative quality at the scale of
constructive component, can be considered the following levels of reading:
-
the cell
, as material basically unit (and linguistics);
-
the PV module
, as a complex product, first result of some forms of language
assembly at component scale.
