projects


Below you find a number of research and teaching projects developed by Agatino Rizzo in cooperation with other researchers and his students.
 


Index


(2023) Venice Biennale: Students as Researchers
SaR is an official collateral event scheduled for the 18th International Architecture Exhibition titled The Laboratory of the Future...

(2023) Collaboration with the University of Hiroshima in architecture
For this pilot work, the case studies will be municipalities in northern Sweden (Norrbotten, Västerbotten) and Japan (Higashi-Hiroshima and Fukuyama)...

(2022) Arctic Five Chair in Architecture
Smart and Sustainable Arctic Towns: aligning top-down and bottom-up urban sustainability in the Arctic. The project aims to study sustainability in arctic towns and cities...

(2021) PhD School Urban Arctic
The PhD summer school will explore how sustainable development in resource extraction territories is being shaped and transformed by local and global trends, having a special focus on the Arctic region...

(2021-2025) Architectural quality, design for circularity and design variation in wood façade systems
The doctoral research examines technical and architectural quality issues and assessment of aesthetics with focus on the connections between design, circularity, adaptability and reusability of the components by developing a digitized plat form...

(2021-2023) Prosumer's perspective in cultural heritage districts
The purpose of this project is to develop, test and evaluate a method by which prosumers who live and / or work in environments with cultural-historical values are motivated and given the opportunity to integrate solar cells...

(2018-2022) Solar Urban Districts
Cities are the biggest polluters and must transform their energy systems.We will investigate how to support "prosumers" by using design thinking and participatory strategies...

(2019-2021) Territories of Extraction: Mapping Palimpsests of Appropriation
The research contributes to the development of an expanded representational methodology and conception of territories of extraction exploring how socio-natures are being (re)made over time...

(2018-2020) UNALAB
The UNaLab project (funded by the EU commission with H2020) sets out to provide a framework for future upscaling of the Nature Based Solutions in the demonstration cities, as well as replicate the solutions in seven replication cities...

(2018-2019) RES-LINK: Workshop on Resources and Urbanization in the Arctic The aims of this event is to consolidate current research on resources and urbanization in the Arctic region, discuss trends from a global perspective, and set a research agenda to deal with the main issues...

(2018-2020) DC Farming
he purpose of this project is to find technical, economic and social synergies between greenhouse gases and data centers that can help make agriculture competitive and sustainable in the Nordic region...

(2018) Food on the roof
The aim of this project is to explore the possibility to smartly integrate food production in cold urban environments (funded by Enabling ICT). ..

(2017-2018) MIN-SPIRE (Sustainable Planning of mIning aREas)
The aim of this project is to explore the challenges and opportunities in integrating planning and design considerations already into mainstream minining engineering..

(2017) Sustainable Urban Development in Gällivare (Sustainable urban Development course)
The project demonstrates the use of multifunctional ecological corridors for urban regeneration, where a specific focus is placed on the regeneration of mining areas and their connection with the rest of the town...

(2016) A vision for Kalix (Climate, Landscape and Built Up Areas course)
Students from the Master Programme in Climate Sensitive Urban Planning and Building has developed urban design proposals for the future of Kalix. A greener and denser city more suited for pedestrians than motorists...

(2016) Planning Ecological Infrastructures (Sustainable urban Development course)
In recent years, Sparsely Populated Areas (SPARs) in Northern Scandinavia have been affected by important spatial, economic, and social transformation processes that are redesigning the identity of this once forgotten corner of Europe. Thanks to the natural resources boom of the last decade and a more recent drive to attract ICT and R&D businesses and institutions, economic growth in regions such as Norrbotten in Sweden has boomed...

(2015) Sustainable Mixed-Use Districts (Sustainable urban Development course)
Luleå is a city characterized by many industrial developments within its inhabited urban core. This has been mainly the consequence of the historic vocation of the city as an industrial and harbor hub for resource-rich Norrbotten, in the north of Sweden. It is also crucially the result of previous land use policies and master plans that have facilitated the proliferation of industrial areas throughout the city...

(2015) Urban Regeneration of Haparanda City Centre (Climate Adaptation Project course)
The partnership between the Municipality of Haparanda and the Master in Climate Sensitive Urban Planning at Luleå Tekniska Universitet (Luleå University of Technology) will be strategic in order to develop a climate-sensitive, urban regeneration project for Haparanda...

(2015) Climate Urban Research in Sweden and Spain (Climate and Human Activity)
In this course students have worked individually on a scientific paper. Each student has chosen one topic from the contents list of this course (urban heat island in subarctic climates, weather conditions and bicycling trips, urban canyons and human activity, air flow in public buildings, Window orientation in Sweden and Spain)...

(2015) Climate Assessment of Svartöstaden (Climate Project)
The aims of this latest project were to develop a climate study and recommendation guidelines to improve the climate performances of outdoor spaces in Svartöstaden...

(2014) Svartöstaden, Luleå (Sustainable Urban Development)
The aim of this exercise is to deliver a sustainable urban regeneration plan for the neighborhood of Svartöstaden...

(2013) ISOCARP YPP Workshop in Ulyanovsk, Russia
The workshop aimed to provide young Russian planners responsible for, or participating in, the shaping and development of settlements, with the principles and practices of effective contemporary urbanism and practical knowledge that will be of immediate use to each participant...

(2012) SWOT and Scenario Planning of Doha, Qatar Downtown Area
Al Asmakh – Al Najada area is the original city heart of Doha. In the last 50 years it has been affected by dramatic urban transformations as result of Qatar rapid, oil-based economic growth...

(2011) Emerging Mega-City Regions in Asia
This study will explore linkages and exchanges between Johor Bahru and Singapore in comparison to those between Johor Bahru and Kuala Lumpur. It will investigate prevalent and potential impacts of transnational urbanisation as well as those emanating from the urban hierarchy within the national system on Johor Bahru...

(2011) Gateway City (Master in Urban Planning and Design at Qatar University)
Qatar is characterized by an extreme tendency to urban primacy, that is the concentration of the majority of country's population in one city (the capital city). This tendency has led to, amongst others, a shortage of affordable housing, land value inflation, and localised environmental impacts...

(2011) Places of Memories (Master in Urban Planning and Design at Qatar University)
During the last 50 years Doha has experienced dramatic transformations which have led to the creation of new typology of places (the mall, the promenade, the golf course, the croisette, etc.) and the destruction of others (the Majlis, the old souk with annex harbor, etc.)...

(2010) VIBRAN-CITY #1 (University Technology Malaysia)
Putrajaya is the new administrative and political capital of Malaysia. With a projected population of 300,000 inhabitants Putrajaya is currently struggling to attract people and commercial activities. Too hot and dispersed to be walked or cycled, this new garden city lack of day/night -life while tourists barely know about it. Meant to be an intelligent IT corridor, MSC Malaysia risks to be an expensive and unsustainable utopia for Malaysia...

(2010) VIBRAN-CITY #2 (University Technology Malaysia)
Iskandar Malaysia is a new economic corridor in South-Johore, a gateway to Malaysia urbanism. In this frame a newtown to the west of JB is being implemented to attract knowledge workers and world class urban developers. Although it is too early to assess Nusajaya's success, vibrancy remains the top issue on planners' agenda...

(2010) DIVER-CITY (University Technology Malaysia)
Nusajaya is the exclusive, 5-stars capital city of Johore. With its multimillion dollars private-developments, exclusive gated communities, private healthcare and education, and attractive marina accommodating the needs of a rich community of expats and top managers, in Nusajaya there isn’t just enough space for neither middle-income locals nor for the ancient rural/aboriginal minorities...

(2010) TRANS-CITY (University Technology Malaysia)
The Strait Transnational Urban Region (STUR) is the transnational urban conurbation which extends from Singapore city centre to Johor metropolitan area. 6 million inhabitants live across the stiff and busy Malaysia/Singapore border. 2 bridges allow 30,000 daily commuters working in Singapore or shopping in Johore. Yet very little efforts are paid to accommodate the needs of this “transnational urbanism” with a more efficient and socially sustainable transit space...

(2010) P2P-URBANISM
The recent informational revolution has brought new concepts such as peer-to-peer, open source, free software, copyleft and so forth. In the last decade these concepts are redesigning social relations, advocating for the direct involvement of people in decision making, production, and management of any hard and soft product

(2009) Abruzzo
We present a scheme for efficient transitional housing for the communities of Abruzzo accounting for the need to maintain the social cohesion of original communities under reconstruction. With this proposal we hope to offer a comprehensive strategy that will serve as a model for similar contexts worldwide...

(2008) Plug&Plan (spin-off from Bauhaus Border Cities)
PLUG&PLAN is a network of urban centers enabling urban participation from the "bottom" level (the inhabitants) to the "uppper" level (region makers)...

(2007-08) EU URBANISM 2: B O R D E R C I T I E S - Bauhaus Kolleg IX
The Bauhaus Kolleg IX focused on border cities in the Baltic Sea region as places where a new Europe is being formed. The Baltic Sea region is one of the "laboratories" where the negotiations for a new Europe have been at their most dynamic since the end of the Cold War. It is one of the most multifaceted and contradictory regions, characterised by inequalities, discontinuities and conflicts, but also by intensive exchange, cross-border cooperation and migration. Here, openness, isolation, dynamic growth, industrial decline, radical free trade experiments, state-directed isolationism, new wealth, new poverty, transnational identities, and a new nationalism come together...