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Introduction
On the main goals of the Artisan Village Upgrade Plan is to renew the buildings in
the Village, by means of a deep restructuring of the existing edifices, respecting the
size and volume relations among them and producing a new estate body, which carries on and updates the typical evolution process of the Artisan Village.
Taking into consideration the modified environmental conditions of the area, the
Plan aims to promote measures envisaging high-level performances, in order to
ensure the environmental as well as the urban upgrade of the area.
The Plan may envisage the granting of awards in case of upgrade actions which
can guarantee such quality levels as to enhance the environmental value of the structures and the recognizability of the urban context. In this respect, the devised plan
envisages the implementation of a procedure (“BAF”, see below) for assessing the
improvements achieved during the planning phase.
Later, some in-depth analyses were carried out on this index and similar indexes
(described below), in order to be sure about the best tool to include in the award
attribution Plan.
At the same time, we started to consider what the main environmental issues to
work on could be, by means of building procedures. In this phase, a role of the
utmost importance was played by the introduction of the Plan among the “pilot
cases” of the “UHI” European project, which aimed both to analyse the phenomenon of urban heat islands and the prepare decision-making support tools in order to
overcome this phenomenon.
As these issues were studied more and more in depth, we realized that each urban
index analysed had certain peculiarities, which could meet specific requirements of
the Plan, but at the same time specific issues came up which would limit their
applicability.
The more in depth the approaches implemented by the various administration
were studied, the more we could outline the main environmental issues to take into
consideration in the planning of a building lot and, therefore, what behaviours were
to be promoted in order to reduce the building impact. This has also made it possible
to define the main characteristics to include in the Plan guidelines, then it was
decided to try to develop a new index, an experimental one within the framework of
the Plan, to be used both as a synthesis of the guidelines and as an assessment tool.
Later, the single environmental issues were analysed, in collaboration with experts
from the administrative bodies (Hydraulic Works office, Environmental Sector of
the Municipality) and well known professionals (EELab Department, University of
1
Introduction
On the main goals of the Artisan Village Upgrade Plan is to renew the buildings in
the Village, by means of a deep restructuring of the existing edifices, respecting the
size and volume relations among them and producing a new estate body, which carries on and updates the typical evolution process of the Artisan Village.
Taking into consideration the modified environmental conditions of the area, the
Plan aims to promote measures envisaging high-level performances, in order to
ensure the environmental as well as the urban upgrade of the area.
The Plan may envisage the granting of awards in case of upgrade actions which
can guarantee such quality levels as to enhance the environmental value of the structures and the recognizability of the urban context. In this respect, the devised plan
envisages the implementation of a procedure (“BAF”, see below) for assessing the
improvements achieved during the planning phase.
Later, some in-depth analyses were carried out on this index and similar indexes
(described below), in order to be sure about the best tool to include in the award
attribution Plan.
At the same time, we started to consider what the main environmental issues to
work on could be, by means of building procedures. In this phase, a role of the
utmost importance was played by the introduction of the Plan among the “pilot
cases” of the “UHI” European project, which aimed both to analyse the phenomenon of urban heat islands and the prepare decision-making support tools in order to
overcome this phenomenon.
As these issues were studied more and more in depth, we realized that each urban
index analysed had certain peculiarities, which could meet specific requirements of
the Plan, but at the same time specific issues came up which would limit their
applicability.
The more in depth the approaches implemented by the various administration
were studied, the more we could outline the main environmental issues to take into
consideration in the planning of a building lot and, therefore, what behaviours were
to be promoted in order to reduce the building impact. This has also made it possible
to define the main characteristics to include in the Plan guidelines, then it was
decided to try to develop a new index, an experimental one within the framework of
the Plan, to be used both as a synthesis of the guidelines and as an assessment tool.
Later, the single environmental issues were analysed, in collaboration with experts
from the administrative bodies (Hydraulic Works office, Environmental Sector of
the Municipality) and well known professionals (EELab Department, University of