TEMA

Tag: Innovation

  • Hospital architecture and the challenge of humanisation. Research and design

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    The hospital may no longer be seen as a “health machine” but a complex system where care and training converge, ensuring higher levels of thermo-hygrometric and psychological comfort. The paradigm of humanisation, regarding both hospitalisation and collective and social spaces in the hospital, stimulates a wide range of morphological-typological and technological innovations. The present contribution, starting from this scenario, proposes both a critical analysis of some emblematic design projects and the specific outcomes of some applied research and case studies developed by the authors.

  • Sustainability and innovation in constructions intended for emergency housing

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    The research aims to give a response to the emergency housing that occurs after catastrophic events by proposing a low-cost solution through innovative constructions. The illustrated solution – based on a living module composed by four adjacent sections that can be connected to each other or to new ones – combines the concepts of minimum and affordability with those of efficiency and sustainability.

  • A smart village model for the Italian coastal territory

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    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 “small” 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 “Golfo dell’Isola” in Liguria.

  • Effects of the digital transformation on the contemporary city project

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    According to many sociologists and technologists today we live in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The research aims to investigate this paradigm shift that is taking place in the contemporary city to understand how urban design is facing this digital transformation. Starting from the technological and digital innovations that are pervading the field of architecture, engineering and urban planning, this study will also try to understand how these radical changes will affect citizens’ life.

  • New building design through recycling materials

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    The artificial aggregates represent the solution for solving the difficult problem of industrial waste disposal and, in addition, they can substitute natural aggregates. Concrete results with simple tools and materials can be produced, such as brick studying its properties and applications with a careful experimentation with productive character. As a consequence, the high environmental quality, if pursued with care for technological innovation, is not a constraint, but a real economic opportunity that increases efficiency of natural resources, energy and materials, for obtaining a final product with high performances

  • Rehabilitation technology of traditional architecture: managing coexistence between conservation and innovation

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    The study presented in this abstract focuses its attention on the rehabilitation by the technological point of view of traditional architecture that belongs to historical city nucleus. Which building technology characteristics are considered as constant, and which ones are considered as changeable, in today rehabilitation practice, with respect to the problem of managing the coexistence between conservation of the cultural values and innovation to respond to contemporary exigencies? This study tried to answer this question by applying a comparative case study strategy.