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SUMMARY:‘Double Houses’ in Renaissance Venice by Giorgio Gianighian / 
 TPOD\, THEMA\, HITAM
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DESCRIPTION:Giorgio Gianighian\nWith the term “double house\,” I indic
 ate a traditional building containing two intertwined dwellings\, each enj
 oying its own privacy: separated entrances with ground-floor facilities\, 
 mezzanines\, and noble floors\, with individual stairs connecting all the 
 floors of each dwelling. The first double house in Venice was designed in 
 1534 by Antonio Scarpagnino for the Scuola di San Rocco. He provided its m
 embers with a very detailed description of such a building\, presenting a 
 project so precise that we can attribute to him the paternity of the inven
 tion. The invention consists of obtaining a double-volume house on a singl
 e building plot. It meant saving land in a city where it was scarce and ha
 d to be “stolen” from the lagoon\, while the population was constantly
  growing\, reaching over 150\,000 inhabitants in the middle of the 16th ce
 ntury. Therefore\, saving space was a major issue\, while the traditional 
 building practice in Venice implied the presence of a courtyard\, where a 
 cistern was built: the collection of water was\, indeed\, essential in a c
 ity completely deprived of natural sources of this vital resource. Thus\, 
 saving land had to be reconciled with the need for free surfaces to collec
 t rain. This gave birth to the internal cistern\, filled with rainwater co
 llected from the roof and conveyed through clay pipes enclosed in the wall
 s. Another important new element was a new type of staircase\, called the 
 Leonardo style or double stairs\, which brilliantly solved the problem of 
 connecting the different parts of each dwelling without intruding on the n
 eighbors.\nIn conclusion\, the construction of Castelforte San Rocco will 
 be analyzed\, with the aid of the priced bill of quantities and the progre
 ss chart\, revealing the total cost—5\,815 ducats—shared among the bla
 cksmith (9%)\, stonemason (31%)\, bricklayer (42%)\, and two types of carp
 enters (18%).\n\nGiorgio Gianighian is an architect and the Vice Director 
 of the International Research Center for Architectural Heritage Conservati
 on at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He previously taught at IUAV in Venic
 e\, where he held the position of Full Professor of Architectural Heritage
 . As the Venetian correspondent for the heritage magazine ANANKE\, Profess
 or Gianighian has published over 100 works—including three books\, essay
 s\, and articles—on the history of architecture and restoration in sever
 al languages besides Italian.\n\nNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 5\n\n27/2
  - Eyal Weizman (Forensic Architecture / Goldsmiths University). Condition
 s of Life Calculated\n19/3 - Hannah Leroux (University of Sheffield). The 
 Africa Section: Foreign Aid Drawings in the Development Decades\n2/4 - Dav
 id Wengrow (University College London). Origin Stories: An Archaeological 
 Perspective on Human Freedoms\n16/4 - Theodora Vardouli (McGill Universit
 y). Graph Vision\n7/5 - Debjani Bhattacharyya (University of Zurich). The
  Double Commodification of Monsoon: Risk and Cyclone Science\n21/5 - Gior
 gio Gianighian (Shanghai Jiao Tong University). ‘Double Houses’ in Ren
 aissance Venice
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