Architetture e strategie per il welfare. Il caso di Brunico in Val Pusteria

In both the South Tyrolean and Alpine areas, the case of Brunico is emblematic as regards welfare strategies. From the seventies of the last century and up to today, far-sighted planning policies have contributed decisively to this. The physical and spatial translation of welfare policies and strategies are the numerous architectural and territorial actions that contribute to providing Brunico with an offer of services worthy of a large center. The welfare theme seems to cross across all sectors of society. What is particularly surprising is not only the particular executive and formal quality of the various infrastructures and structures present (and planned) in the municipal area, but also and above all their concentration within such a limited perimeter. Careful and minute planning, together with punctual actions on the territory and the adoption of the competition practice for the assignment of the assignments, all linked by a substantial communion of intent between citizenship, administration and designers, can lead also a mountain city to become competitive in terms of services to the community, strategies and structures for welfare. A possible point of reference for those alpine realities that want to look to the future with a view to regeneration and modernity.

Spatial Translation and Regression in Dreams: The Nicholas Young Phenomenon

The Nicholas Young phenomenon involves an immediate shift in dreams to more regressive mental functioning whenever, in the manifest ideational content, the dreamer or protagonist crosses a topographical boundary or threshold (spatial translation). This phenomenon thus furthers the regression typical in dreams. Eight examples of the Young phenomenon are presented. An attempt to explain this highly specialized phenomenon addresses dreams in series, or dream sections in series, and refers to Scherner’s Law, which covers their sequential trend toward regression. Referring to the mind’s self-observing capacity, Silberer’s “symbolism of the threshold” is invoked to explain the spatial translation of the Young phenomenon.

Design of a Spatial Translation Mechanism by Optimizing Spatial Ground Structures and Its Kinematic Analysis

In our previous work, we designed a three-degrees-of-freedom (3DOF) translational parallel mechanism based on a proposed design strategy. In this paper, the design strategy is further improved, and a novel spatial translation mechanism (STM) is found. The novel STM consists of a platform, a base, and six modules between the platform and the base. Each module is a passive planar 6R single-loop closed chain, and it is connected with two other modules. Meanwhile, three modules are connected to the base, and the other three modules are connected to the platform. All the connections among the modules, platform, and base are realized by revolute joints. There are no obvious limbs in the mechanism due to the complex connections. The mobility of the STM is analyzed, and the forward kinematics is investigated. To validate the effectiveness and feasibility of the design, one prototype is fabricated. At the end of the paper, we draw some conclusions and discuss the future works.