Introduction In October, 2016, our team embarked upon a journey of great significance to digitally reconstruct and preserve many of the historically significant architectural, archaeological and artistic treasures of the ancient city of Volterra, Italy. The results of our first workshop and subsequent visit in June, 2017 have had great value to the City of Volterra and have been recognized...
Register for the International Reality Capture Workshop in Volterra – April 15-28 2018. or read more information about the workshop here. If you have any questions please send email to mark.dietrick(at)casetech.com. Please fill out the form completely and press “Submit” button at the bottom. You must also make a deposit payment in the amount of $500. Please use the Paypal...
Full immersion nei linguaggi contemporanei e nelle regole dello storytelling. Sei giorni di fotografia, videomaking, storie e marketing. Un programma in-tenso di esercitazioni, teoria e analisi di case history reali. I partecipanti sco-priranno i segreti del percorso creativo, dall’idea alla realizzazione, e si con-fronteranno con le regole che governano i diversi mercati di riferimento (edi-toria, corporate, fine-art e web). I...
Yellow_line International study program Volterra 2018 [art, history and culture] University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture & Volterra-Detroit Foundation OPEN ENROLLMENT ACADEMIC PROGRAM Program at a glance: A six week open enrollment program (May 5 2018 – June 18 2018) at the Volterra International Residential College in Volterra Italy, organized by the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture...
Introduction The main purpose of this workshop is to provide an International educational experience in which students and professionals will learn to use innovative reality capture technologies and collaboratively produce three dimensional computer models of the ancient City of Volterra, its archaeological remains and some of its treasured artwork. This workshop will provide the participants hands-on experience in using drones...
Between October 1st and November 13th 2015 the Volterra-Detroit Foundation participated in the Give Detroit Challenge organized by Crowdrise. We did it with a very specific goal in mind: to raise funds to start a new program, the Volterra Artist in Residence Fellowship. The six week campaign was generously supported by many of you, who believed in us, and our...
Following the great experience of the 2015 Design Workshop , the three participating schools (University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Warsaw University of Technology) are returning to Volterra in July 2016 for the 2nd Volterra International Design Workshop. THE PROJECT: The objective of the workshop will be to propose a contemporary re-interpretation of the...
The International Digital Workshop took place at the Volterra International Residential College April 21-27 2016. It was organized and run by Giorgio Castellano (zero order architecture), Jan Pernecky (rese arch), Thomas Tholt and Jan Paclt (mx3d, zero order architecture), an international group of architects and researchers. Inspired by the painting in Volterra “The Deposition” by Rosso Fiorentino the students worked...
This year we inaugurate the summer season with an exciting new program, the International Digital Workshop run by [zero-order architecture] and [rese arch] from Pisa, with support of the Laboratorio Universitario Volterrano, the Comune di Volterra, and the Volterra-Detroit Foundation. The workshop will explore the concept of virtuality in the historical environment. For more information visit workshop webpage: lab.rese-arch.org Workshop description:...
In August 2015 a group of students and professors of architecture from USA, Poland and Italy discussed eco-friendly design over “aperitivio” on a terrace overlooking the rolling hills of Tuscany. Just below, directly beneath the medieval defensive wall, laid the ruins of the Roman Theater from 1st century BC. The site for the project was immediately behind it. The group...