Phd in ENGINEERING-BASED ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING

email: tiziana.ferrante@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649919008

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Architect, PhD and Full Professor (since 2010) of ‘Technology of the Architecture’ at the "La Sapienza" University of Rome; since her thesis on hospital building (CNETO-National Center for Construction and Hospital Technology Award 1990-91), she was mainly interested in the topics of services for the community, in particular social and health-related when applied throughout the whole building process in terms of planning / programming, design innovation, on-going evaluation through the Post Occupancy Evaluation.
She focused on these topics through specific research commissioned by public and private entities that resulted to several monographs and articles; she worked in close collaboration with the institutions, including ministers, at different levels, as member in public commissions, taking on specific educational assignments, participating in conferences with written memories and carrying out planning test activities.
Therefore, she pursued the objective of closely combining the experiences carried out within the specific SSD ICAR12 with the collaboration at different levels with the Public Administration in order to identify responses (through training and research activity) to the needs of the civil society in the service sector for the community.
She performs First level education activity since 1997 as holder of several courses of the Faculty of Architecture "La Sapienza" University of the SSD ICAR12, among them: Technology Elements; Design of systems and components; Building process and construction techniques; Architecture construction workshop; Design and technology of innovative materials; also of the SSD ICAR13: Design Atelier VI; Interior, exhibit and public design workshop Atelier II.
Currently she is holder of the Courses: Synthesis Laboratory in technological and environmental design and Experimentation of systems and components for construction (EU Master’s degree)
She carried out the Second level education activity within PhD courses: Architecture and Urban Engineering, Faculty of Engineering (since 2013); Renovation and settlement retrofit, Faculty of Architecture Valle Giulia "La Sapienza" University of Rome (2011-2001); II level Master including: Planning, programming and designing of hospital and socio-health systems, Polit.Milano / Univ. Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Rome (from 2015); Architectures for Health-ARPESA, Planning, designing and management of health, hospital and territorial facilities in developing countries", Faculty of Architecture, "La Sapienza”, University of Rome/Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2013-2004).
She also played a key institutional/managerial role in the University as:
Director of the Doctorate School in Civil Engineering and Architecture, "La Sapienza" Rome University (2016-2017-2018).
Coordinator of the Ph.D. in Engineering of Architecture and Urban Planning of "La Sapienza", Rome University (2015-2018).
Member of the Board of the Department of Planning, Design, Technology of Architecture, "La Sapienza" Rome University (since 2015) and of the ITACA - Industrial Design Department, Technology of Architecture and Environment Culture (2011).
Director of the II-level International Master's Degree in Health Architecture-ARPESA, Planning, Designing and Management of Health, Hospital and Territorial Facilities in Developing Countries, Faculty of Architecture, "La Sapienza" Rome University/Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2003-2011).
Director of the Documentation Center (2015) and member of the Management Board (since 2011) of the Inter-university Center TESIS - Systems and Technologies for health, social and educational facilities in which she has been working since 1996.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the II level Master: Planning, programming and designing of hospital and socio-health systems, Polit.di Milano / Univ.Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Rome (since 2015).
Member of the Scientific Council of International Masters II level: Architecture for Health-ARPESA, Programming, designing and management of health, hospital and territorial facilities in developing countries, Faculty of Architecture, "La Sapienza" Rome University (2003-2004) and in Arquitectura para la Salud, "La Sapienza" Rome University/ University "San Carlo" Guatemala Cooperlink co-funded project (2011-2012).
Member of the Scientific Council of the 1st level Masters: BIM (since 2016) and Building process management (2010) "La Sapienza" Rome University.
Member of Commissions for the National Scientific Qualification of first and second level university professors for the Registry of Ordinary Professors, since 2002 she participates in several competition commissions for up-grade of PhDs, researchers, associated and ordinary professors in the ICAR12 sector.
She is founder (2006) and a member of the "Italian Society of Technology of Architecture SITdA" in which she is coordinator since 2015 of the "Services for the community" Cluster.
Editorial responsibilities
Member of the Scientific Committee of the magazine "Progettare per la Sanità" (2016) and since 2017 Member of the editorial board of TECHNE Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment (class A magazine).
She was chief editor of the "Valle Giulia" Faculty of Architecture Series (2003-2008).
She was reviewer in: the Panel of Reviewers Member for the XXV International Union of Architects (UIA) World Congress DURBAN 2014; the "peer review" activity of research products for the VQR 2004-2010 and CIVR for the assessment of research assigned by Panel 08/C1 Civil Engineering and Architecture.
Research activities include: University research Evaluation of multiparametric performance of finishing materials for fire prevention design of hospitals (2017, Scientific Manager); CNETO Research, National Center for Construction and Hospital Technology "Terrirory & Hospital: from conflict to collaboration. The ESISTE model, Efficiency of the integrated system of social and health services in the Territory "(2017, Scientific Coordinator); University research Social Housing and facility management: criteria for integrated design of housing-facilities to the person (2014, Scientific Manager); Research PRIN Tools and technical-procedural methods for verification of feasibility in the planning of building regeneration actions for the cohousing (2013, Rome University Unit Manager);
University research Evaluation of residential Hospice quality for the improvement of the patient's environmental and psychological well-being (2012-2013, Scientific Manager); Research Foundation Lefebvre D'Ovidio Onlus Architecture and design for the pediatric hospice, Rome (2011-2012, Scientific Manager); Research Regione Lazio / ASSR-Agency for Regional Health Services Technical, organizational and management guiding principles for the construction and management of high-tech hospitals (2002-2003, Hospital planner consultant); Research TESIS, Interuniversity Center Systems and Technologies for Healthcare Facilities / Municipality of Florence Technical and procedural tools for the redevelopment and adaptation of residential and semi-residential facilities for self-sufficient and no self-sufficient elderly (1998-1999, Scientific Manager Phase II - Guidelines for planning interventions).
Among activities of design experimentation and applied research, mainly carried out mainly for Public Administrations, in which she was appointed at different levels of cooperation, some of the most significant in the field of "services for the community" are the following:
Hospitals: Retrofit of the former Regina Elena Institute of Infant; Oncology Unit in the Hospital of the State of San Marino; Department of Surgery "P. Valdoni", Policlinico Umberto I, Rome; New Orbetello Hospital; Retrofit, redevelopment and reorganization of the urban and building system of the Policlinico Umberto I, Dip.ITACA Un. "La Sapienza" / Umberto I Polyclinic Company, Rome; Retrofit and expansion of the Livorno Hospital; Protected department for the "S. Pertini "Rome; New Hospital of Cortona.
Rehabilitation centers: Community accommodation and day center for the elderly in Ostia; Recreational and integrated facilities with a R.S.A., Rome; Reception center for former drug addicts in Rome, Community of S. Egidio.
Health care residences (RSA): "Lunghezza" Health Care Residence, Rome; RSA and Diagnostic-Rehabilitative Center in Ostia Lido.
Hospice: Pediatric Hospice at the "Giannina Gaslini" Institute in Genoa; Pediatric hospice in Via dei Casali delle Cornacchiole, Rome; Hospice at the Nuovo Ospedale di Fondi; Palliative care center in the "A. and C. Cartoni ", Rocca Priora (RM).
University buildings:
In the area of the former psychiatric hospital S: Maria della Pietà in Rome: Residences for students; educational and research facilities; retrofit of some pavilions into a reception center for the Jubilee; Detailed plan for the area redevelopment; "Media Village" pre-feasibility study for the 2004 Olympic Games.
She was appointed as an expert in Institutional Commissions on a national and local scale, among which the most significant are: Member of the Evaluation and Verification Unit of public investments of the Ministry of Health, Law 144/99 art.1 (2015-2018); Member of the Joint Committee MIBACT / Roma Capitale for the elaboration of a study for the development plan of the central archaeological area (2014-2015); Member of the National Commission (adult and pediatric palliative care subgroups) for the re-elaboration of the structural and technological requirements of the residential centers of Palliative Care-Hospice, Law 38/2010 (2010-2011); Member of the Regional Evaluation Unit of health care projects - investment program law 67/88 art.20, law 135/90 art.2 (2005-2008).