In 2023, the charming city of Veszprém, located on the shores of Lake Balaton in Hungary, will take center stage as the European Capital of Culture. This prestigious title grants Veszprém a unique opportunity to showcase its rich cultural heritage, artistic expression, and forward-looking innovations to a diverse audience from across Europe and beyond. The [...]
The students participating in the 2023 REgenerate Workshop engaged in an exciting exercise that explores a pioneering work in reinforced concrete, futuristic Torino Esposizioni Pavilion designed by the visionary architect Pier Luigi Nervi in 1950. This exercise allows attendees to appreciate how architectural advancements of the past can creatively be brought back to life in [...]
On the 5th of October we had an intense afternoon of knowledge-sharing and group work with the final presentations by the students who participated in the REgenerate workshop 2022. The 5 proposals for the regeneration of the Mincio swimming pool by Pier Luigi Nervi in Milan were backed up by great fieldwork and rich in [...]
The 8th of September 2022, the second Transnational Project Meeting of the REcube Partnership took place in Rome on the premises of the Sapienza Faculty of Architecture. The Recube partners had a fruitful exchange on the first year of project activities and set the basis for the ensuing work, which foresees the completion of the [...]
It has been a very intense week in Rome, where the REcube partnership had the pleasure to contribute to the 14th fib PhD symposium. On Friday the 2nd of September Francesco Romeo, of Università Sapienza-Roma, presented the conservation plan of the Flaminio Stadium, part of the Keeping it Modern grantees 2017, to the participants of the fib Model Code 2020 Workshop. This was followed [...]
Starting from the 15th of July, it has been 6 exciting days at the first REgenerate workshop within the framework of the REcube: REthink, REvive, REuse project. 28 students coming from 11 project partner universities joined us at the beautiful premises of the Politecnico di Milano Lecco Campus on the shores of the Como Lake to work [...]
To implement learning activities in a greener way and sustain an eco-friendly approach as requested by this Erasmus+ call, the first Frontier Workshop on cutting-edge topics was hosted virtually on Teams platform by TUDelft from June 27 to July 1, 2022. The REcube Frontier Workshop is an online intensive course on cutting edge topics about pathologies and physics [...]
La ricerca di un equilibrio tra restauro e recupero funzionale ha avuto un ruolo centrale nel progetto per l’adeguamento del complesso degli edifici della cartiera Burgo, progettata da Pier Luigi Nervi nel 1961, alla nuova macchina continua per la produzione di carta per ondulatori. La sfida era raggiungere la massima conservazione dell’esistente e il maggior [...]
On Friday, April 8th, the First Transnational Project Meeting of the REcube Partnership will take place on the Lecco PoliMi Campus. All 13 partners will participate in this meeting, which will be the first opportunity to meet in person, defining and detailing the workplan for the first year of the REcube project activities.
The inaugural exhibition of the Laboratorio Nervi on the POliMI Lecco Campus will be dedicated to the restoration of the Burgo Paper Mill designed and built by Pier Luigi Nervi in Mantua between 1961 and 1964. One of the most iconic works of Pier Luigi Nervi, the paper mill has been restored to its original [...]