16th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies 3-6 April 2023, Athens, Greece

The transformation of cities and urban and peri-urban districts into flexible, adaptive and sustainable organisms, under the most recent European policy proposals on climate, energy, transportation, land and resource use, have become today's issues that can no longer be postponed. Climate change, increases in impacts from carbon emissions, accelerated in the last year by greater reliance on coal due to the ongoing energy and geopolitical crisis, the increased cost of finding and supplying natural gas on which member countries depend for more than 54 percent, determine urgent policy measures to make city dwellers more responsible and resilient toward impacts generated and derived from economic, social and environmental changes

Eco-efficient and sustainable settlement experimentation in Mediterranean housing

Eco-efficient and sustainable settlement experimentation in Mediterranean housing Settlement experimentation in Europe is currently characterised by the attempt to promote energy efficient and environmentally sustainable housing in an evolutionary, organic and integrated sense; this approach could become a guiding tool for the transformation of the built environment, the latter consisting in the development and construction of a urban environment that shows sensibility towards ecological-environmental issues and social ones. The focal points of such research experiences are housing projects built in Northern and Central European countries; the latter being very interesting projects that have become models for the rest of EU countries, showing what can be obtained in the contemporary experimentation field. In respect to these study cases, now all we need is to find ways to transfer the acquired knowhow in Mediterranean countries and therefore to adapt the new sustainable strategies to the Mediterranean climate. In this framework the paper wishes to offer an exploration on a research case study, carried out in central Italy, about the development of Mediterranean sustainable development

Environmental Design with Regard to Emergency and Scarce Resources: a few Method Reflections

The essay illustrates a few method or project approach reflections on a range of questions: the ones faced by all branches of knowledge of ‘Environmental Design’. Today, those branches are asked to tackle the broader ‘environmental question’ in a more and more crucial and binding way, and to provide answers to more and more frequent emergency situations, dealing also with increasingly scarce resources in our cities and territories. A few questions are posed: which logic-cognitive phases is it necessary to bear in mind to set a proper changing action? Which criteria – or meta-criteria – is it convenient to adopt in order to direct process, project and product choices? Which is the ideal framework of reference requirements which a changing action should always respect and bear in mind? A framework of possible operative indications may be based on the interdisciplinary approach, typical of Environmental Design, and on meta-criteria; the purpose is to define an open system with nine method requirements for seeking the proper processes for protecting, safeguarding, preserving as well as recovering and changing the environment, increasing its value

The Green Economy, Metropolitan City, Technological Design: the future of the three in Italy

The number of inhabitants living in urban areas – currently already equal to half the Earth’s population compared to a quarter one century ago – will experience a major increase over the next twenty-five years, reaching six billion people which will be equal to about two-thirds of the world’s population in just a quarter of a century’s time. The challenges that are threatening to squash today’s metropolis are the extremely radicalised ones that were, in essence, already present in 20th-century urbanisation: the challenges of being safe, equal and fair, of offering work, of providing open spaces, places for recreational activities, meeting people and entertainment, of granting economic opportunities and of ensuring compliance with the meta principle of accessibility, which now seems to represent, when present, the greatest wealth; physical and immaterial accessibility to all parts of the metropolis, to community comforts and services, to education and healthcare, to drinking water and clean air. Smart grid and smart cities are, at the present time, appearing on contemporary scenarios in an explosive and innovative manner, yet one that is too fast and technologically advanced to be absorbed and endorsed by the increasingly complex urban governance management processes. The energy-environment category of problematic observations undoubtedly represents the key issue of today’s metropolis, which will strongly come to the fore when looking at the observations in this article below concerning the specific characteristics of the 'Italian metropolis'

Resilience and green economies for the future of architecture and the built environment

Over the past decade, the concept of resilience has been strategically and inextricably linked to the main aims of the Green Economy and ‘process circularity’ as applied to the field of the built environment and buildings, starting with the international policy documents published by UNEP in 2008 and by the OECD in 2010. This debate has only just been outlined and there is still plenty of research to be done, but the potential contribution of Technological Design in Architecture seems key. This paper critically analyses the principles, the method- and design-based approaches and the structural strategic measures that can improve the resilience of the built environment, as requested by the European Commission, and considers the prospects for its development in this country, both at a national institutional level and at a local level, primarily gravitating around the strategic working axes that have been outlined – and continue to be pursued – by the States General of the Green Economy

The Green Building Approach: Recent Initiatives in the Evolving Italian Scenario

AbstractSeveral analyses and reports on sustainable design are pointing worldwide in the direction of what is known as the 'Green Building' approach: an integrated, multi-sectoral approach to the implementation of improvements that aim to increase levels of well-being, social inclusion and long-lasting development in cities, on the basis of most urgent aspects of environmental quality, efficiency and circularity of resources, in a climate change scenario. In Italy, in 2017, the 'Future City Manifesto' was launched as part of the initiatives of the Italian General States of the Green Economy in Architecture, aiming at mainstreaming the Green Building approach within the international Green City Network. The objective of this chapter is to present and discuss recent initiatives in the field of sustainable architecture and green economy in Italy, pointing at innovative processes, strategies, methods and tools in a Green Building approach, suitable to activate policy actions and foster significant results as regards future green growth and urban development

Tecniche e materiali innovativi/ecocompatibili per il controllo delle chiusure trasparenti

Il contributo rappresenta un’indagine critica sullo stato attuale della ricerca sul vetro e sulla gamma di offerte innovative che l’industria sta studiando, valutandole in relazione alle possibilità di applicazione che esse potranno avere nel prossimo futuro in campo architettonico. In effetti gli involucri edilizi, diversamente dal passato, risultano oggi in grado di controllare dinamicamente i flussi energetici, governandoli in funzione di due principali obiettivi: ottimizzare gli aspetti esigenziali di comfort interno, e massimizzare i requisiti prestazionali relativamente alla riduzione del consumo delle diverse forme di energia e in genere all’aumento del rendimento e dell’efficienza ecologica ed energetica degli edifici

Porous silicon solar cells

We developed a new process for the fabrication of crystalline solar cell, based on an ultrathin silicon membrane, taking advantage of porous silicon technology. The suggested architecture allows the costs reduction of silicon based solar cell reusing the same wafer to produce a great number of membranes. The architectures combines the efficiency of crystalline silicon solar cell, with the great absorption of porous silicon, and with a more efficient way to use the material. The new process faces the main challenge to achieve an effective and not expensive passivation of the porous silicon surface, in order to achieve an efficient photovoltaic device. At the same time the process suggests a smart way to selective doping of the macroporous silicon layers despite the through-going pores. © 2015 IEEE. SciVal Topic Prominence  Topic: Porous silicon | Silicon | macroporous silicon Prominence percentile: 66.984  Author keywords nanofabricationporous siliconsilicon nanoelectronicssolar cells Indexed keywords Engineering controlled terms: Crystalline materialsNanoelectronicsNanostructured materialsNanotechnologyPorous siliconSiliconSilicon wafersSolar cells Engineering uncontrolled terms Crystalline silicon solar cellsCrystalline solar cellsMacro porous siliconPhotovoltaic devicesPorous silicon surfacesPorous silicon technologySilicon nanoelectronicsUltrathin silicon membrane Engineering main heading: Silicon solar cells ISBN: 978-146738155-0 Source Type: Conference Proceeding Original language: English DOI: 10.1109/NANO.2015.7388710 Document Type: Conference Paper Sponsors: Nanotechnology Council Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 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Reducing CO2 Emissions and Improving Water Resource Circularity by Optimizing Energy Efficiency in Buildings

Climate neutrality by 2050 is a priority objective and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, increasing energy efficiency, and improving the circularity processes of resources are the imperatives of regulatory and economic instruments. Starting from the central themes of the mitigation of the causes of climate change and the interdependence represented by the water–energy nexus, this research focuses, through the application of the principles of the circular and green economy, on deep energy zero-emission renovation through the improvement of circularity processes of water resources in their integration with energetic ones on the optimization of their management within urban districts, to measure their capacity to contribute towards reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions during water use and distribution in buildings. After defining the key strategies and the replicable intervention solutions for the circularity of water resources, the investigation focuses on the definition of the research and calculation method set up to define, in parallel, the water consumption of an urban district and the energy consumption necessary to satisfy water requirements and CO2 emissions. Starting from the application of the calculation method in an existing urban district in Rome, 10 indicators of quantities have been developed to define water and energy consumption and their related CO2 emissions, focusing on the obtained results to also define some interventions to reduce water and energy consumption and CO2 emissions in territories that suffer a medium-risk impact from contemporary climatic conditions