Buildings for Education

Stefano Della Torre, who graduated in Civil Engineering and in Architecture, is Full Professor of Restoration at the Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy and Director of the ABC Department - Architecture, Built environment and Construction engineering. He is the author of more than 250 publications. He serves as an advisor for the CARIPLO Foundation (Cultural Districts), the Province of Como and Lombardy Region (policies on the programmed conservation of historical-architectural heritage). He has been President of BuildingSMART Italia - the national chapter of the association BuildingSMART International.

PART 1: THE URBAN AND SOCIAL ROLE OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS, The open-air school typology in the Milanese experience: the Trotter and the Rinnovata Pizzigoni.- The topic of the school in  the Milanese Professionalism.- Space and figuration of the school building in the construction of the metropolitan periphery: the school as a for social emancipation workshop.- Imagining the School of the future.- Modernist schools in the new rural landscape of the Pontine Plain.- Rural and urban schools: Northern Greece in the interwar period.- The schools as heritage and a tool for political and cultural integration. The buildings of the Plan de edificación escolar in Buenos Aires.- Origins and development of the American Campus: the "Academical Village" of Thomas Jefferson.- Bovisa: a Park for Work and Research.- The city's New Road. The fundamental role of nature in urban transformation processes.- The quality of the project and the MIUR standards for the control and funding of the buildings for education and training.- The scholastic typology in post-earthquake reconstruction in Central Italy.-Design for schools.- PART 2: THE PATHS TO INNOVATION: TOOLS MODELS AND PROCESSES, A BIM-based process from building design to construction: a case study, the school of Melzo.- A collaborative approach for AEC industry digital tranformation: a case study, the school of Liscate.- Use of predictive analyses for BIM-based space quality optimization: a case study, progetto Iscol.- The technical-scientific support for the reconstruction of school buildings involved in seismic events. The case of the Technological State Institute "E. Divini" in San Severino Marche.- "A factory for the future". Inveruno New School.- Field of education and "corpus socialis".- Space-Places and the Third Teacher. The Issue of Architectural Space in the Age of Knowledge Cities and Schools 3.0.- PART 3: MANAGEMENT, TRANSFORMATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF THE BUILT HERITAGE, The school building surveying: a support tool for School Building Registry Office.- Extension for the Accademia di Brera at the Farini Marshalling Yard in Milan. The architecture of the campus and spaces for teaching.- Camillo Boito's "Capannone" for the Accademia di Brera in Milan. Reuse of a railway depot.- A university campus for medical disciplines for the redevelopment of the Guglielmo da Saliceto Hospital in Piacenza.- Application of externally bonded fabric reinforced cementitious matrix to existing masonry and concrete structures.- Strengthening of different types of slabs with composite reinforced mortars (CRM).- Energy Retrofit Potential evaluation. The Regione Lombardia school building asset.- Energy and environmental retrofit of existing school buildings: potentials and limits in the large scale planning.