Architectural application of seismic control through tuned mass damping. Roof garden project on the Ex Ceat complex in Turin.

In recent years, the issue of elevations as a recovery tool has proved to be among the most widespread thanks to the many advantages it offers. In order to cope with a design context that is increasingly attentive to the sustainable aspect, the preferred type of elevation is green roofing, whether extensive in the case of minor or intensive intervention to meet specific requests. The method acquires a further value when it merges with technological-structural aspects and even underlines them by creating a complex and functional system. This fusion can take the form of the TMD seismic mitigation system, a device that makes it possible to reduce the movement of a building as a result of the stresses caused by earthquakes and therefore makes the building more stable by shortening its oscillation times. In order to verify the effective functioning of this technology, a case study was chosen, in accordance with the requirements, to which it could be applied. The experiment allowed to adopt a mixed approach to design that combined the compositional aspect, meeting the needs of the selected case study and stakeholders who use it today and could use it in the future, and the structural one that involved a preliminary study of the theory of system operation and a simulation by suitable software to confirm the success of the application. In this last phase, even more than during the whole evolutionary process of research, it is clear that the two approaches cannot succeed in full if they do not coexist. Therefore, a continuous comparison between the two disciplines is fundamental in order to face possible obstacles and find the most suitable solution for them.