Optimization for Sustainable Design through Building Information Modeling

More than thirty years after the definition of the concept of sustainable development, the European Union's Agenda 2030 renews its commitment to protect the Planet and to support the needs of present and future generations. All sectors of human activity have to make their contribution to this significant challenge of our time. Therefore, the construction sector can also make an essential contribution in terms of its impact. In this context, designers are called upon to modify their actions in order to take into account the environmental, social, and economic impacts during the entire life cycle of construction. Therefore, a substantial transformation in the designer's "mentality" is necessary. The digital revolution could be a suitable opportunity for a profound renewal oriented towards sustainability. The new digital technologies and the increased computing power are useful to manage the increasing complexity in current projects and to support collaboration between the many experts involved. The thesis aim is to analyse the current state and identify the signs of change and the cues to imagine possible virtuous complicity between sustainable development goals and the potential of the digital revolution, supported by the operational features of optimization methods. The further intent is to translate the synergy between the three key topics - sustainability, digitization, and optimization - through an operational strategy that can be a concrete demonstration of what is proposed and offered to designers

Applications of an Integrated Design Methodology for Regenerative Process of the Existing Buildings

The building sector has been identified as one of the key sectors to achieve the 20/20/20 targets of the EU. In particular, the existing buildings are considered as one of most potential sub-sectors to reach energy and raw materials savings. This research is integrated in this European context and the main goal is to look for solutions that can be fully integrated in the building system and that can optimize all the sustainable future aspects. A global approach is proposed to generate a comprehensive framework for the building renovation process. It's an "action guide" of the entire regenerative process already applied to different types of buildings. A summary of the results obtained in the buildings regeneration projects are presented

SMART VILLAGES E COMUNITÀ ENERGETICHE RINNOVABILI: UN’ANALISI DELLA LETTERATURA

The European Commission in 2018 set the goal of transforming small rural centres into Smart Villages through pilot projects and employing the guiding principle of the coexistence of tradition and innovation. In 2021, the Long-term Vision for EU Rural Areas was presented. Starting from analysing the potential and criticalities of rural areas proposes the development of a Rural Pact among numerous EU actors and an Action Plan articulated again on pilot initiatives. Another relevant theme in the international arena is promoting the establishment of Renewable Energy Communities. Such issues are central nowadays, and numerous international and national initiatives and funding programs support such areas of transformation and enhancement of small towns demonstrate it. The research intends to analyse the literature on Smart Villages and Renewable Energy Communities to define their evolution and establish a framework of studies and research in this area. The analysis of the reference literature was done using a bibliometric visualisation software, called CiteSpace, to highlight the research's evolution and determine its connections and trends

Bringing Human-Centredness to Technologies for Buildings:An agenda for linking new types of data to the challenge of sustainability

The politics around data and power relations related to technologies for buildings is a new area for HCI. This paper proposes an agenda for linking new types of data to the challenge of sustainability, bringing human-centredness to a particular tool for design and engineering professionals, Building Information Modeling (BIM). BIM is the preferred technology platform for coordination and collaboration in architectural design and construction. BIM contains different types of data and information about a building including 3D (geometry), 4D (time), 5D (cost), 6D (facility management) and 7D (sustainability). Once constructed, this \u2018digital twin\u2019 of the building allows for adding new services and for stakeholders interacting with the building design through through sensors, immersive experiences and virtual, augmented and mixed realities. As a socio-technical software process, BIM also accommodates diverging agendas on design and construction for sustainability, and these diverging concepts about \u2018sustainability\u2019 \u201clive\u201d in different places with implications for the resulting BIM models. Based on our findings, we suggest a better integration and coherent representation of such issues of interest not only to new services but also stakeholders into the different forms of data (e.g. facilities management and sustainability). We argue for a stronger shared understanding of BIM as a platform for engaging with technologies designed for interacting with buildings and push agendas of sustainable construction

A smart village model for the Italian coastal territory

Small municipalities, if taken individually, have difficulty in implementing energy policy and sustainable projects (economic, environmental and social), because they do not have sufficient financial and human resources. The idea is to regenerate a territorial area following the principles of innovation and sustainable development, that is the applicability of the concept of Smart Villages on an entire \u201csmall\u201d territory with homogenous characteristics (similar morphology, coastal village or bordering the coast, tourism as the main business, ect.) and with several villages with less of 3000 habitants; this is the \u201cGolfo dell\u2019Isola\u201d in Liguria