B-Side. [Inserti urbani] Il progetto tecnologico per la riqualificazione di spazi dimenticati

Workshop di Laurea_Riqualificazione del mercato Rionale Flaminio a Roma. Agli studenti è stato richiesto di elaborare delle proposte di riuso, riqualificazione o rigenerazione dello spazio urbano e di immaginare un nuovo modello d’uso e di gestione di queste aree, proponendo un nuovo programma funzionale a partire dalla revisione del sistema di attività già insediate nel sito e nelle immediate vicinanz

Technological Innovation for the Next Ecosystem Transition: From a High-Tech to Low-Tech Intensity - High Efficiency Environment

Technological innovation is the driver of the progress of the material culture of human civilization. A new balance between development and ecosystem requires the revision of the innovation drivers, in terms of efficiency and transformations of the anthropic environment to reduce the great divides. Sustainability and decarbonization of all production sectors are based on process management skills and optimization of technical knowledge and technologies, to move from a highly technological anthropic ecosystem to a low intensity and high efficiency managed environment. The frontier of innovation is marked by the reduction of the impact of technology and its remodelling, enhancing intangible resources and the design abilities of transformation of the built environment. It is therefore urgent to focus on the R&D models and project strategies for a low-tech environment and highly advanced carbon neutral building/plant integration, the regeneration policies of the built environment with low intensity and high energy and environmental efficiency, with the aim the recovery and inclusion of marginal contexts of energy poverty and economic, where digital and technology divide represent barriers to development and inclusion. The traumatic awareness of the material “limit” of the availability of resources involves a paradigm shift in the global system of the supply chain and resource management on which we have based the development of the “technosphere” and perhaps represents the definitive culture shock necessary to redefine a new relationship between man and the environment

Building envelope design as a contribution for improvement of urban spaces and social housing environmental quality

The design of building envelope and the definition of its elements, can influence both the quality of the external spaces perception and the living standard referred to internal building spaces. This improvement depends by the planning of some component design. Particularly, solar shadings and integrated plant solutions, also thanks to an increasing consequential interest about the issue and the legislative and normative evolution, represent factors able to be involved both in the performance and morphological quality of building envelope (improvement of energy efficiency and living quality of internal spaces), which can influence the perception of environment. A study about this questions has been conducted through the elaboration of a system of Best Pratices, a Code of Practice, for the new Plans of Zone of Rome Municipality. The indications contained in the Code takes in examination the integration-mitigation and facilities connection of solar collectors in the building design, and the possibility of integration between solar shading and collector elements, customized like a support tool for the sustainable design of building envelope. The design of building envelope, reported to morphological and technological issues, can assume particular importance in the definition of living quality. Design of closures, developed through some indications referred to its technological components, can influence both the quality perception of external living spaces through the morphological definition of building, and the life quality of internal spaces by the implementation of energy efficiency of building system. Solar shading in particular, also thanks to the increasing consequential interest in the evolution of legislation about the argument, more in the future will represent a fundamental element for design and the increment of performance and morphological quality of building enclosure

Mitigation strategies of the urban heat island intensity in Mediterranean climates: simulation studies in Rome (Italy) and Valparaiso (Chile)

The Urbanocene, a proposed new geological epoch characterized by the urban living condition, is pressing the humanity to respond shortly to important challenges. Cities are at the same time the places where we live in and the big dissipators of the final energy to the environment. The simultaneous rules of heat dissipator and place to live are quite contradictory, because of the increasing temperatures of the dissipator surfaces, phenomenon known as Urban Heat Island (UHI). Mediterranean climates should suffer, in the next years, changes in the thermal needs of buildings and in the outdoor comfort sensations. A change in the energy demand from heating to cooling is probable and overheating reduction could be a priority in the future. Many mitigation strategies of UHI are being discussed in these years, such as the city greening, the use of cool materials for roofs and soils, the reduction of automobile dependence, the shift to new urban morphologies. In this paper an evaluation of impacts of different possible strategies is done, by using computational simulations for various sectors of Rome and Valparaiso. Results show the importance of greening and traffic reduction to achieve better comfort; while to reduce building energy consumption changes in urban morphology and traffic are suggested as the best strategies

Unità abitative prefabbricate. Progettazione nell'ambito del PdZ A8-Casilino del Comune di Roma.

Unità abitative prefabbricate. Progettazione nell'ambito del PdZ A8-Casilino del Comune di Roma. Tesi di laurea di Marco MartorelliPrefabricated housing units. Designing within the PDZ-A8 Casilino the City of Rome. Thesis Marco Martorell

Riqualificazione dell’edificio “Sali scelti” delle Saline di Tarquinia.

Riqualificazione dell’edificio “Sali scelti” delle Saline di Tarquinia. Tesi di laurea di Andrea JacopucciRedevelopment of the building "Upgrade chosen" Saline di Tarquinia. Thesis Andrea Jacopucc

Progettare tra “Tecnica e Mestiere”

Sezione Scritti – Contemporaneità - Aprile 2008Writings Section - Simultaneity - April 200

Collectif_Nuove forme dell’habitat collettivo in Europa

Sezione Recensioni – Settembre 2008Section Review - September 200

Progetto per un quartiere residenziale pubblica nel Piano di Zona Tragliatella 2, Roma. Tesi di laurea di Fabrizio Guglietta

Progetto per un quartiere residenziale pubblica nel Piano di Zona Tragliatella 2, Roma. Tesi di laurea di Fabrizio GugliettaProject for a residential neighborhood in the Public Area Plan Tragliatella 2, Rome. Thesis Fabrizio Gugliett