Caterina Tiazzoldi/ Nuova Ordentra

         

 

 

 

Caterina Tiazzoldi / Nuova Ordentra is a design firm whose agenda is to develop design tools to face creatively the complexity of today’s cities. 

Its principal, Caterina Tiazzoldi, connects advanced digital research in architecture, developed within the context of the Advanced Research Lab, NSU at the Graduate School of Architecture of Columbia University in New York City, with ten years’ experience in the field of retail, industrial and entertainment design. 
       
 

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NON LINEAR SOLUTIONS UNIT - NSU

In a complex-structured city in which the interactions among parts intensify; in which the number of decision makers and cultural scenarios overlap, interconnect, and sometimes collide; in which the temporal dimensions of the citizens are dissimilar; in which local and global, physical and virtual dimensions co-exist, it is necessary to identify a set of design tools which could respond to design complexity. That is why in the last fifteen years, architects adopted advanced digital tools such as algorithms, dynamic relationships, parametric systems, mapping, morphogenesis, cellular automata, and bifurcation with broken symmetry.
The motivating hypothesis at the basis of NSU is to consolidate research in the field of complex systems in architecture..

 

NSU is an advanced experimental research unit situated within the GSAPP at Columbia University. Its purpose is to develop a new sensibility in the approach to architectural design that would lead to the architect’s heightened control of an increasing level of complexity in the design process. NSU design agenda is to develop design tools to face creatively the complexity of today’s cities.
The NSU is an interdisciplinary network for both academic research and implementation of non-linear devices in design and construction. The unit works in developing concrete case studies taken from existing problems in architecture. NSU has been invited to develop projects for various exhibitions, conferences and events such as the Salone Satellite Salone del Mobile, Torino World Design Capital 2008. NSU will introduce a new reality where cutting‐edge technology, advanced digital tools, creativity and excellence combine to transform our daily lifestyle.

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WRITINGS and On Going Researches

Mesureable and Non Mesureable in Architecture 1

Mesureable and Non Mesureable in Architecture 2

Writings

 

List of books or chapter of books written with full reference.
  • Guest Editor for the Prototyping the City Section, International Summer School. Designing Connected Places, by Eleonora Lupo, Cristian Campagnaro, Editrice Compositori pp. 130-150.
  • «Mesureable and Non Mesureable in Architecture», Change of Paradigms in the basic understanding of architecural research, eaae/arcc conference, Copenhagen 2008, by Anne Katrin Gelting and Ebbe Harder, Vilhelm Jensen & Partner, Copenhagen 2008, p. 296 -310.
  • «Applied Responsive Device», Change of Paradigms in the basic understanding of architectural research, eaae/arcc conference, copenhagen 2008 by Anne Katrin Gelting and Ebbe Harder, Vilhelm Jensen & Partner, Copenhagen 2008, p. 310-321
  • «Formal Modulation for Acoustic Performances of a Bridge», Change of Paradigms in the basic understanding of architectural research, eaae/arcc conference, Copenhagen 2008, by Anne Katrin Gelting and Ebbe Harder, Vilhelm Jensen & Partner, Copenhagen 2008, p. 86-97, with N. Tixier.

 List of articles written with full reference.

  • « Digital Primitive », A+D+M+, April 2009, pp.12 -15.
  • « Vieni al Recess party? L’ondata di licenziamenti nella Grande Mela cambia prospettive e stili di vita», Il Giornale dell’Architettura, Turin, April 2009, p. 7.
  • «Serialità su misura », Legno Legno News, March 2008, pp. 74-75.
  • «Applied Responsive Devices: Esempi di Architettura Performativa sviluppati dalla Non Linear Solutions Unit della Columbia University», Esempi di Architettura, December 2007.
  • «Inside out-outside in five paradigmatic relations at the origin of the design process», Spazio Architettura, December 2005, coauthor M. Caldeira http://archive.spazioarchitettura.net/articoli/teorie/54
  • «Efficient and Resilient Electric Power Networks: A Chinese Case Study», CSS05 Santa Fe Institute Papers, Santa Fe, September 2005, co-author J. E. Trancik, A. Gilmore, J. Reichardt.
  • http://www.santafe.edu/education/csss/csss05/papers/trancik_et_al._csssbj05.pdf
  • «Architettura Codificata - Peter Eisenman Guangdong Museum», Il Progetto, Roma, April, 2004, co-auteur M. Caldeira.
  • «Dialogo fra Le Corbusier e Greg Lynn, confronto tra il paradigma meccanico e quello digitale», Arch’it, June2004.http://architettura.supereva.com/extended/20040710/index.htm.
  • «Digitale in costruzione: computer numeric control », Il Giornale dell’Architettura, Torino, March 2004.
  • «Basta con i blob arrivano i costruttori », Il Giornale dell’Architettura, Torino, April 2003.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




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