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The end of this tiring but rewarding adventure has come; now it’s time to close “Living the Paduli 2015” project with thanks. We would like to add our thanks to abitareipaduli.com ones (click here); so our heartfelt thanks go to: LUA (Urban Open Laboratory), “Abitare i Paduli”, “Unione delle Terre di Mezzo”, “Comune di San […]
Last week Andrew Price released his new “Pro-Lighting skies” Blender addon, a HDR image pack very useful for external scenes. You can find below my first test with this new addon; I want to highlight two important aspects: a great decrease of memory consumption: from about 4190MB to about 3150MB, almost entirely occupied by materials […]
After ideas contest “Nesting Paduli 2015”, the self-construction workshop has come to its last day: the two “Nziddha“ shelters hang from large olive branches waiting to welcome their first visitors. After fixing last details, we’re going to celebrate and enjoy the atmosphere of Olivet Public Park illuminated by oil lamps. This is the report from abitareipaduli.com It’s […]
“Nesting Paduli 2015” self-constructing workshop is getting closer to its end; first “Nziddha” model is completed, so we spent last two days to complete the second model, placed under an olive tree a few meters away. This is the report from abitareipaduli.com We’re getting closer to the end of the workshop, and the shelters are […]
After completing “Nziddha” structure, in the third day of self-construction workshop we made the shelter skin: with “Uccio” Mariano supervision, we first prepared the sleeping surface with “Arundo donax” reeds, then we created the external olive branches weaving. On the fourth day, while completing the first “Nziddha” external weaving, we started constructing the second shelter model: thanks to first model […]
After ideas contest “Nesting Paduli 2015”, the self-construction workshop began with the first two days of work: after a first arrangement of the yard, we started cleaning olive branches; from these, we got the branches necessary for the construction of the “Nziddha” shelter structural circles. After preparing a suspension made with hemp ropes, we placed the […]
After ideas contest “Nesting Paduli 2015”, the self-construction workshop began with the first meeting with the Tutors for a preliminary discussion on the project; during this discussion we decided to make some changes to the original design of the “Nziddha” shelter: bigger diameter and height, exclusive use of olive wood; after the meeting, we visited the Paduli […]
The project of a biodegradable temporary shelter called “Nziddha“ proposed by me and Fabrizia Parisi won the ideas contest “Nesting Paduli 2015 (original: Nidificare i Paduli)”! The jury of the ideas contest “Nesting Paduli – 3rd edition 2015″ composed by: – Rainer Toshikazu Winter, ECOFORM Laboratory Director (training school in self-building and sustainable architecture); – Mariavaleria […]
