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customization industry that allows a deep adjustment level of perceptual and semantic
factors besides technological and constructive characteristics of the component.
Of course the "integration project" needs to be addressed and solved in a craft logic, not
in the sense of the use of traditional systems, but as artisanal "capacity" of creative
elaboration at scale of “detail", done case-by-case and that takes an essential value for
compatibility and contextualization of the intervention. The research aims as application
field, the reality of the reconstruction of several towns hard hit by the earthquake of 2009
in L'Aquila: the transfer of defined principles could constitute an important opportunity for
experimentation of BIPV in historical contexts, and demonstrate the real forms of
compatibility and integration.
«... an architect must be a craftsman ... that does not separate the mind from the work of
his hand. This results in a circular process which ... brings from an idea to a drawing,
from a drawing to an experiment, from an experiment in a building and from a building ...
brings back to an idea [...] Teamwork is essential if you need to implement creative
projects. Teamwork requires the ability to listen to and engage in a dialogue ... »
(
R.Piano, 1992 in Frampton, 2005,
cit.
).
Figure 11 Recovery ex-Compagnie Parisienne Distribution Electricity building, Paris, France,
Emmanuel Saadi. The reinterpretation of the textures of stone walls becomes the reason for the
geometric arrangement of cells within the glass.
