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www.scoa.it
Architect and co-founder at ARCò - Architecture and Cooperation, specialized in the architecture for development and emergency
www.ar-co.org
Alessio Battistella
Engineer, founder and director of the journal The Plan
www.theplan.it
Stefano Casciani
Expert on history and design, former editor and vice-director of the journal Domus
www.domusweb.it
Fabio Renzi
Cristiana Colli
Journalist, social researcher and communications expert, has designed and organized cultural events dedicated to landscape, architecture, contemporary art and design
Secretary General of Symbola, Fondazione per le Qualità Italiane
www.symbola.net
Edoardo Zanchini
Brian Ford
Architect, vice president of Legambiente and head of the energy and transport sectors
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www.legambiente.it
Co-founder and president of Vento di Terra, an NGO active in countries in the developing world and in emergency situations
www.ventoditerra.org
Annibale Rossi
Climatologist, president of the Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici
www.cmcc.it
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Antonio Navarra
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Nicola Leonardi
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Architect, former director of the School of Built Environment, University of Nottingham energy and environmental consultant and expert on vernacular innovation
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“ SOS emerges from a simple but fundamental idea (or a question): the future of our profession. SOS will be the place to build a culture of sustainability through dialogue among various personalities, sharing a common vision of the future. We will discuss climate, philosophy, economic forecasts for the city and the region. SOS will be the meeting place between the culture of sustainability and industry and research. Between ambition and reality. It is important that these worlds meet and that it be a place where young people learn to grasp the complexity of our field. SOS looks at the big goals for the coming decades, basing its approach upon the experience of working on major European objectives on issues of urban regeneration, on reclamation, and on new work tools. SOS is not a traditional school but a space of personal relationships. It will be a place for immersion in the times to come, but also a place of creativity and interaction. SOS is geared to those called to an active and participatory role in their educational process. SOS is a space that does not exist. It is a school but also a start-up, a place for working together and for sharing the experiences of others. SOS will get inside of companies to learn from them, to work with them in their laboratories and to seek new solutions for architecture. ”
THE SOS MANIFESTO APPEARED ON DISEGNO MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2015
SOS LAUNCH PRESS CONFERENCE BOLOGNA, 17 FEBRUARY 2015
Mario Cucinella è lieto di invitarla alla conferenza stampa di presentazione del progetto: S.O.S. SCHOOL OF SUSTAINABILITY La prima scuola professionale postgraduate per la sostenibilità in architettura
Con la partecipazione di: Virginio Merola, Sindaco di Bologna Matteo Lepore, Assessore Affari Istituzionali, Servizi Demografici, Relazioni Internazionali, Comunicazione, Marketing urbano, Innovazione e Lavoro del comune di Bologna Alessandro Marata, Presidente Ordine degli Architetti di Bologna Giovanni Ginocchini, Direttore Urban Center di Bologna Nicola Leonardi, Direttore The Plan
Stefano Casciani, Direttore Disegno: la nuova cultura industriale Antonio Navarra, Presidente Centro EuroMediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici Renzo Baccolini, Partner Scoa Luca De Biase, Responsabile NOVA24, Il Sole24Ore -----------------------Seguirà Open-Day per gli studenti
Mario Cucinella with Alberto Bruno, Renzo Baccolini and Stefano Casciani, members of SOS board, present SOS at Bologna Urban center
Mario Cucinella, SOS founder, presents the idea behind the concept
PRESS CONFERENCE AND OPEN DAY, ROME 27 FEBRUARY 2015
Mario Cucinella with Ermete Realacci, Enzo Cursio, Leopoldo Freyrie, and Mario Abis present SOS
Mario Cucinella with students attending the SOS conference in Rome
Renzo Piano G124 team (Eloisa Susanna, Roberto Corbia and Roberta Pastore) with Francesca Sartogo, president of EuroSolar Italy and Mario Cucinella.
SOS 1ST OPEN WEEK URGENCY OF FUTURE TREIA 23-26 JUNE 2015
SOS Open Week Urgenza di futuro 23-25 giugno 2015, Treia (MC)
Nell’ambito del Festival della Soft Economy e del Seminario Estivo di Symbola
Alberto Bruno, SOS director with SOS 1st Open week participants at Treia
Alessio Battistella, SOS course director with the ‘Resilience’ team
The team working on “Architecture as a social business� theme
1515 the 31째 International PLEA Conference Passive Low Energy Architecture www.plea2015.it
the 31째 International PLEA Conference Passive Low Energy Architecture www.plea2015.it
PLEA is an autonomous, non-profit, network of individuals sharing expertise in the arts, sciences, planning and design of the built environment. Founded in 1981, PLEA organises international conferences and workshops; expert group meetings and consultancies; scientific and technical publications; architectural competitions and exhibitions. Since 1982 PLEA has organised international conferences and events across the globe. PLEA annual conferences are highly ranked conference attracting academia and practicing architects in equal numbers. Past conferences have taken place in United States, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and Australia.
PLEA participants in Piazza Re Enzo, Bologna
SOS students at PLEA 2015
SOS students at PLEA 2015 with Mario Cucinella
METROPOLITAN CITIES LECTURES CYCLE SAIE FAIR, BOLOGNA 14-17 OCTOBER 2015
Antonio Navarra president at CMCC, Gian Luca Galletti Italian Minister of the Environment and Mario Cucinella discuss the roadmap to COP21
The SOS area at SAIE: the wall displaying the results of SOS workshop on metropolitan cities
SOS students discuss with Gian Luca Galletti, Italian Minister of the Environment their vision on metropolitan cities
SOS students meets representatives of Bologna urban planning office to discuss the city strategic plan
SOS students with Antonio Navarra, Gian Luca Galletti, Alberto Bruno and Mario Cucinella at SAIE
1ST SEMESTER COURSE SEPT 2015 - MARCH 2016 COMMON GROUND
COMMON GROUND introduces students to the Culture of Sustainability, through dialogue with different personalities, but who share a vision of the future. Common Ground analyzes key issues and challenges that lie ahead, providing the knowledge and tools necessary to design a fair and decent future for all. Common Ground fosters growth of a group of creatives engaged in the search for appropriate solutions in harmony with the environment and the cultural context. Common Ground includes: KEYWORDS MULTIDISCIPLINARY INTRODUCTION ENVIROMENTAL DESIGN COURSE
KEYWORDS for building a ‘common vocabulary’ of the key themes of sustainability, the environmental challenges we face in the coming decades as well as the emerging needs of the people. This activity will be carried out in March, during the overlap period with the previous semester. The class will be engaged in developing the ‘meaning’ of keywords, through the acquisition of new knowledge and encounters with the students of the previous SOS courses. Moreover a special focus will be devoted to analyse and discuss the body of work already developed in the previous semester as a kick-off point to identify the course research themes.
Carlo Ratti - Lecture at PLEA 2015
SOS Students with Prof. Federico Butera
MULTIDISCIPLINARY INTRODUCTION to introduce the principal lines of research and professional activities in the field of sustainability. Classes will be taught by established professionals, innovators and researchers, who will engage in an informal discussion with students. Topics will include climate, emerging technologies, social innovation, the relationship between economy and ecology, growth forecasts and opportunities for society and the region.
1ST SEMESTER
MARIO CUCINELLA
LECTURERS
FEDERICO M. BUTERA
architect - founder of Mario Cucinella Architects. In 1987 he received an advanced degree (Laurea) in Architecture from the University of Genoa, where he was mentored by Giancarlo De Carlo. From 1987 to 1992 he worked with Renzo Piano in Genoa and in Paris. He founded MCA in Paris in 1992 and in Bologna in 1999.
formerly professor of Environmental Applied Physics at the Politecnico di Milano, is UNHabitat consultant for the development of handbooks on sustainable building and community design in tropical climates and for the design and implementation of training courses on the same subjects in East Africa.
ALBERTO BRUNO
architect - director of tecnic unit energy efficiency at ENEA (Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile)
senior architect at MC Architects - director of SOS - School of Sustainability
GIULIA PENTELLA
architect - senior architect at MC Architects
ANTONIO NAVARRA
climatologist - President of the CMCC – (european center on climate change) an interdisciplinary center for climate change studies and their impacts.
ANDREAS KIPAR
landscape architect - founder of LAND (Landscape Architecture Nature Development).
LUCA DE BIASE
journalist, writer and expert on technological innovation and new media, he is founder and editor at Nòva24, the Thursday insert of ilSole24ore newspaper
CARLO RATTI
architect - Founding Partner, Carlo Ratti Associati practices in Italy and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he directs the Senseable City Lab.
RAB BENNETTS
architect - founder of Bennetts Associates in 1987. The practice now has around 90 people, with a main studio in London and a smaller office in Edinburgh.
GAETANO FASANO
CHIARA TONELLI
architect - associate professor, teaches at Architecture faculty of University of Roma TRE
BRIAN FORD
Architect, former director of the School of Built Environment, University of Nottingham energy and environmental consultant and expert on vernacular innovation
DAVIDE JABES
psycologist - Research director at MAKNO - Abis analisi e strategie, consultant at university IULM Foundation
ROBERTO CORBIA
urban planner at MC Architects, Course director at SOS School of Sustainability, member of Renzo Piano G124 team
GIOVANNI FORMIGLIO
Demanio agency - Director at Trasformazione Organizzativa e Gestione del Cambiamento
ANTONELLA AGNOLI
library consultant, founder and director of Spinea Library in Venice from 1977 to 2000, Antonella is author of the book Le Piazze del sapere
RENATO ACCORINTI major of Messina
GIAN LUCA GALLETTI
Italian Minister of the Environmen
IAGO CORAZZA
journalist photographer and reporter, He has created documentaries and reportage in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, South America, Australia
MILENA NALDI
president of San vitale neighborood in Bologna
GIOVANNI GINOCCHINI
architect - director at Urban Center of Bologna
ALESSIO BATTISTELLA
Architect and co-founder at ARCò - Architecture and Cooperation, specialized in the architecture for development and emergency, Course director ar SOS - School of Sustainability
ENRICO BORGARELLO
corporate exetutive at CTG Italcementi Group director of I.lab (innovation and reaserch center of Italcementi)
CONSUELO NAVA
architect - university researcher teaches at Architecture faculty of university of Reggio Calabria
CARLO COLLOCA
sociologist - ordinary professor in Sociology of the territory at University of Catania
LUCIANO MARABELLO
architect - fouder of Laboratorio Messina per i beni comuni e le istituzioni partecipate
EDOARDO ZANCHINI
Architect, vice president of Legambiente and head of the energy and transport sectors
MAURO PANIGO
landscape Architect - General manager at LAND (����������������������������������� Landscape Architecture Nature Development)
PAOLO MARIA LOI
architect - IDP Manager at ACG Glass Europe
PATRIZIA DI MONTE
architect - co-founder of Gravalos Di Monte Arquitectos
MATTEO LEPORE
Council member of Municipality of Bologna
LAURA LEE
Architect - Professor and Former Dean at Carnegie Mellon University
KLAUS BODE
engineer - co-founder of BDSP Partnership, a London-based environmental engineering firm with offices in London, Lisbon and Belgrade and projects in many countries.
PETER CLEGG
architect - senior partner anc co-founder of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, a partnership of award-winning architects, urban designers, model makers and a highly skilled support team
Davide Jabes - MAKNO lecture on Social Research
Mauro Panigo LAND - lecture on Green Infrastructure
ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN COURSE
to apply the tools of analysis and optimization of environmental performance to projects. Starting from the theory of comfort and principles of bioclimatic design, topics presented will include tools for shape optimization, thermal environment, lighting and natural ventilation. In addition, we will consider systems for the exploitation of renewable energy sources and techniques for water and waste management.
Alberto Bruno lesson on Environmental Design
Brian Ford lesson on Environmental Design
SOS OPEN SHARING IDEAS ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY WITH THE COMMUNITY
SOS OPEN during the semester leading theorists and professionals active in the field of sustainability will be invited for public lectures and intensive workshops.
These events will be dedicated to the exploration of ideas and approaches amongst diverse personalities who share a vision for the future.
SOS OPEN #1: Beyond COP 21 The only source of energy for the climate system is the sun. The sun shines energy under the form of radiant energy, mostly electromagnetic radiation around the visible part of the spectrum. Every piece of rock in the solar system receives this energy that is progressively weaker per every square meter of surface as we get away from the Sun, as the same energy is to distributed over larger and larger spheres. However, the rocks in the solar system cannot simply store this energy somewhere, they must get rid of it until the amount of energy re-emitted equals exactly the amount that is received. This equilibrium point can be measured as a temperature. It is a very simple exercise to show that for the Earth, taking into account some average estimate of the albedo, the value is around -18C. This is not the typical temperature of our planet, why the difference? The difference is that the Earth has an atmosphere, a very sophisticated objects when it concerns the interaction with the radiation. It behaves differently with respect the solar and the terrestrial radiation, that is the radiation emitted by the planet to balance the solar input. It is almost transparent to the solar radiation, but it is instead opaque to the terrestrial radiation that is therefore largely absorbed by the atmosphere. Again, the atmosphere cannot store the absorbed energy so it has to reemit it in all directions, toward the outer space, but also toward the surface of the Earth. The surface is so affected by two streams of radiation, the first is coming directly from the Sun and the second coming from the atmosphere. This effect great complicates the effort of the atmosphere-planet system to reach balance, since now there is a nonlinear feedback that decreases the efficiency of the terrestrial radiation emission. The surprising thing is that we can still compute the balance temperature for the surface in the presence of the atmosphere and it turns out a surprising +15C. The effect that increases the temperature at the surface is called “Greenhouse effect�, somewhat a misnomer since real greenhouses work by a different mechanism. It is not an enormous effect, about 20 degree C, but it is sufficient to shift the typical temperature of the planet from below zero to above zero, allowing the presence of liquid water at the surface. In practice the biological evolution of our planet has been made possible by the greenhouse effect. This leads us to another paradox: if the greenhouse effect has been so crucial for life on the planet, how it is that now has become a problem? It is a problem because we have achieved the capacity to change the scenario where we perform our daily activities. It is like a cheater where the actors can now change the stage and the plot as the show goes on, with the difference that there is no script and nobody knows how is going to end. Human activities are changing the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, interfering with the delicate self-regulating planetary thermostat, but the script is not totally lost, as scientific results are leading the way to depict possible futures of the Earth climate using the combined knowledge of our natural climate system and its interaction with society. The finale of the show is uncertain, we are not sure if is going to be a comedy or a tragedy. Climate change may be a powerful agent of solidarity or a major source of conflict, resources can be fairly shared or aggressively fought over. The choice is ours, now more than ever the future is in our hands. Antonio Navarra
President of the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
The agreement reached at the Conference of the Parties of Paris (COP 21) lays the foundation to seriously address the climate crisis affecting the planet. In Paris an irreversible direction has been taken towards a future without fossil fuels. In the agreement the governments have committed to a long-term goal to limit global warming well below 2 degrees and to put in place all possible efforts to not exceed 1.5 degrees, in order to reduce the impacts of climate change already going on vulnerable communities in poor countries. As largely reiterated by the scientific community, this goal implies zero emissions by 2050. This agreement is mainly the result of the great mobilization of global civil society. However it should not be forgot that it is an uphill roadmap. The political pragmatism of governments here in Paris did not reach an agreement on all those ambitious and strong choices that the climate crisis requires. Inadequate commitments announced on the eve of Paris, make impossible to contain global warming well below the critical threshold of 2 째C. And still, less than the limit of 1.5 째C. It is important to bear in mind that climate change has already resulted in a average increase of global temperature of 1 째C. According to preliminary assessments, the rigorous implementation of these commitments is sufficient to reduce by about one degree the global warming, considering the current trend of growing emissions of greenhouse gases with a trajectory of global temperature increase around 2.7- 3 째C. In this context it is crucial a thorough review of these commitments not later than 2020, by starting from Europe, where the trend is to reduce emissions by 30% by 2020. Switching to a 40% reduction by 2030, it is therefore possible without great effort and with a positive impact on the European economy, because it is now proven that climate action is good for our economy. In the period 1990-2014 there has been a strong decoupling between emission reduction and increase in GDP. While emissions have fallen by 23%, GDP increased by 46%. It is no longer the time of referral. Europe needs to demonstrate its leadership on environmental policies and decarbonisation, while Italy must finally choose seriously this direction of change after the bad choices made in recent years to stop the revival of renewables and drilling oil and gas. Edoardo Zanchini
Vice president of Legambiente
Antonio Navarra, president of Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
Edoardo Zanchini, vicepresident of Legambiente Italia
The 1st SOS OPEN
The 1st SOS OPEN
SOS OPEN #2: Design the future ... Architecture, as a company, technology, art, narrative, science, design, school: disciplines united from responsibility to generate persistent consequences. They can reveal worlds and open unimagined possibilities or create new cages or worse, real disasters. The wire that unites the freedom to slavery is what connects the future to the past and its thinnest point is what goes into the present. The only one who can touch. And change. But we operate our choices in relation to a prospect, to an idea of the future, whether conscious or not. Well, think about that prospect has become essential task, inescapable, for anyone operating in a responsible way. This is a problem. A real crisis of political authority and intellectuals who traditionally have defined the prospect unravels in this era, crushing the thought in an endless stream of news, equally valued by cynicism or credulity. The more structured techniques of forecasting, meanwhile, test their limits in a period of profound transformation that disperses linear models in a complex that does not allow banalities. Yet to make responsible choices necessary to get an idea of the future. In this context, study of the future become an integral part of each discipline that generates consequences. And since the future of storytelling is its construction, architecture - like the company, technology, art, science, design and the school - extends his investigation and its technical design the physical space to space cultural and mental. To all this must not have a creed, but approach the development of a method for the study of the future. We are not starting from scratch. The contemporary interpretive framework is marked by an awareness of the complexity and the ability to understand it by extending the knowledge we have gained around the notion of ecosystem, environmental evolution to social and cultural dynamics. This approach leads to the path of investigation to map the relationships between phenomena and then towards the recognition of the co-evolutionary dynamics between the results of different choices but connected and impactful for civilian life. The method to be developed must necessarily lead to a greater awareness of the criteria by which distinguishes what is important and has consequences, not to bother with what is secondary. So that, once an age too focused on the conquest of the tools, we can focus the reflection on our common goals to return to the center in the liberation of the human pursuit of happiness. So this becomes a challenge for a school of sustainability: it comes from the awareness of ecosystemic consequences of human actions and can develop only by developing and sharing an open and creative method of investigation to recognize the actions of this their consequences. It is a path in which the teaching and learning merge into a common search. In order to share experiences, share stories, extrapolate projects and, ultimately, a new idea of prosperity Luca De Biase
Editor and Journalist at il Sole 24 Ore
Luca De Biase, editor and Journalist at SOLE24ORE
The 2nd SOS OPEN
SOS OPEN #3: RETHINKING THE SUBURBS At the present day Urban Regeneration is a very important topic of debate in Italy. In the past, the main task of the urban planners was the development and the growth of cities. Today the old tools for urban planning are not effective: the challenge is to renew and regenerate the suburbs, that part of the town that are more populated and more fragile. Around this topic, Renzo Piano, architect and Senator for Life, founded G124, a group of young professionals committed to the urban regeneration. The group got its name from Renzo Piano senatorial office in Palazzo Giustiniani, converted into a laboratory where started a “mend” intervention. The metaphor of “mending” revokes an old activity that considered the attention to not waste, to reuse, to renew things. This metaphor can signify heal the separations that tear our community. In this direction, in the last 2 years, the work of G124, has been characterized by small and punctual interventions in problematic urban contexts. The goals were to promote urban and social regeneration processes in suburbs. We’ll discuss this topic with the Renzo Piano’s G124 Team (Roberta Pastore, Federica Ravazzi, Eloisa Susanna and Roberto Corbia) and the tutors Mario Cucinella and Massimo Alvisi. Matteo Lepore, Member Council in Bologna Municipality, will partecipate at the event to discuss the perspectives and programs of urban regeneration in Bologna.
Renzo Piano G124 team
Matteo Lepore - member council in Bologna Municipality
The 3rd SOS OPEN
SOS OPEN #4 - POST CARBON ARCHITECTURE Thoughts on 30 years of reducing our carbon emissions and not quite getting there! (or How to bridge the performance gap) I was educated in the USA in the early seventies, during the first oil crisis that brought the whole country to its knees and had everyone fighting for gasoline. At that stage I was interested in reducing what we suspected was a finite supply of fossil fuels. It was still ten or 15 years before the link between manmade CO2 emissions and global warming was defined, and the word “Sustainability” was invented. A lot has changed but our preoccupations then were similar to what they are now, a desire to learn from vernacular building techniques, to work with ambient energy sources, and to use the extraordinary power gifted us by the sun rather than divest the earth of its stored carbon. There was a romantic notion also that our lifestyle and our architecture should be closer to nature and that we should tread lightly upon the earth. Over the years I have become more of a rationalist and less of a romantic. Scientific and technological developments have intervened in the process of how we formulate our building strategies. What we then called “alternative” technologies such as thermal solar collectors have become mainstream, and 30 years ago the photovoltaic industry hardly existed. We now understand a lot more about the use of energy in our buildings but we still fail to reduce our CO2 emissions as fast as we need to in order to prevent inexorable global warming. We are also pragmatic about where we can reduce energy consumption and how difficult it is to achieve zero carbon. We know we can deal with the heat load of our buildings and reduce it to practically zero. We know that if we do that then summertime cooling is much more of a problem. But we also know that the proportion of the carbon emissions in our buildings that result from electrical usage is still growing, just as the heating energy is declining. And we know that it is essential that building users buy into the process of saving energy if our buildings are going to have a chance of meeting our low carbon ambitions This talk will look very briefly at an overview of 30 years of low energy design in the UK and focus on two recent buildings which get as close as we can to zero heating. I will examine what we have done to achieve ultra low energy performance in complex buildings and some of the difficulties we have encountered. The main lesson is that it is people who use energy not buildings! And we have to acknowledge our failure to control what we simplistically call the “unregulated loads” that go into catering, computing and IT systems. Low energy architecture does not stop with the design or the completion of the building. We monitor, we learn, we develop the controls and educate the users as part of a long term process. The two buildings also make headway in looking at the embodied energy in our buildings which as operational energy loads reduce , become a bigger proportion of the building’s lifetime energy consumption. There are no radical conclusions, simply an acknowledgment of the critical issues that we are interested in at the moment 1. An understanding of the differences between predicted and achievable performance 2. An interest in embodied energy, in the materiality of our buildings 3. A recognition that it is the existing building stock that provides us with the biggest challenge
Peter Clegg
senior partner and co-founder at Felden Clegg Bradley Studios
Peter Clegg - senior partner and co - founder at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
The 4th SOS OPEN
1ST SEMESTER COURSE SEPT 2015 - MARCH 2016 PROJECTS
PROJECTS are structured within individual courses and address their respective issues according to a research by-design approach, where the development of the project seeks original and contextual solutions that address a global problem on a local scale. The Projects will be based on an actual brief, with extensive field work conducted in collaboration with the project’s real constituents, through meetings, workshops and public presentations. The Projects will be developed through a multidisciplinary approach with the collaboration of technicians, specialists and those in industry. Projects will be supported by specialized classes and the application of Environmental Tools analyzed in relation to the context and the specific issues addressed. The students, under the guidance of the Director of the course, will help to select their advisors and thus to define their own training. During the first semester, the SOS students have worked on two different contexts: - The metropolitan city of Stretto di Messina - The site of “Prati di Caprara” in Bologna
STRETTO DI MESSINA
Punta Faro, Messina
SOS students with SOS course director Roberto Corbia meet Renato Accorinti Major of Messina
SOS students with Prof. Consuelo Nava in Reggio Calabria
Stretto di Messina - site project
design review with Mario Cucinella, Alberto Bruno, Roberto Corbia, Alessio Battistella
Stretto di Messina project wall at SOS
BOLOGNA
Bologna, view of the city from the hills
Site visit with the SOS students in Bologna
Project site in Bologna - “Prati di Caprara”
design review with Mario Cucinella, Alberto Bruno, Roberto Corbia, Alessio Battistella
Bologna project wall at SOS
1ST SEMESTER COURSE 31 MARCH 2016 FINAL CRITIC
FINAL CRITIC at the conclusion of the course, the projects developed
by the students have been reviewd by an external committee composed of leading professionals in the field of sustainabile design, engineering and education. The commission was composed of: PETER CLEGG Architect and co-founder of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios a partnership of award-winning architects, urban designers, model makers and a highly skilled support team LAURA LEE Architect - Professor and Former Dean at Carnegie Mellon University KLAUS BODE engineer - co-founder of BDSP Partnership, a London-based environmental engineering firm with offices in London, Lisbon and Belgrade and projects in many countries. BRIAN FORD Architect, former director of the School of Built Environment, University of Nottingham, energy and environmental consultant and expert on vernacular innovation
Final critic with Mario Cucinella, Peter Clegg, Klaus Bode, Brian Ford and Laura Lee
Final critic with Mario Cucinella, Peter Clegg, Klaus Bode, Brian Ford and Laura Lee
SOS Student at certificates award ceremony with Mario Cucinella, Peter Clegg, Klaus Bode, Brian Ford and SOS directors Alberto Bruno and Roberto Corbia
Mario Cucinella Founder
SOS School Of Sustainability Staff “ SOS emerges from a simple but fundamental idea (or a question): the future of our profession. SOS will be the place to build a culture of sustainability through dialogue among various personalities, sharing a common vision of the future. We will discuss climate, philosophy, economic forecasts for the city and the region. SOS will be the meeting place between the culture of sustainability and industry and research. Between ambition and reality. It is important that these worlds meet and that it be a place where young people learn to grasp the complexity of our field. SOS looks at the big goals for the coming decades, basing its approach upon the experience of working on major European objectives on issues of urban regeneration, on reclamation, and on new work tools. SOS is not a traditional school but a space of personal relationships. It will be a place for immersion in the times to come, but also a place of creativity and interaction. SOS is geared to those called to an active and participatory role in their educational process. SOS is a space that does not exist. It is a school but also a start-up, a place for working together and for sharing the experiences of others. SOS will get inside of companies to learn from them, to work with them in their laboratories and to seek new solutions for architecture. �
Alberto Bruno
People haveDirector changing needs SOS and face new economic and environmental challenges. Architecture is called upon to provide appropriate responses in harmony with the environment and the cultural context. But there is a clear disconnect between ambitions and results when it comes to sustainability. To bridge the gap we must redraw the professional figure of the architect through new tools and visionary learning strategies.
Roberto Corbia Course Director
Alessio Battistella Course Director
Caterina Aprile Assistant
Federica Nasturzio
Valentina Porceddu
Maria Teresa Miele
Luca Caruso
Valentina Torrente
Francesco Visco
Anna Devigili
Cecilia Patrizi