Multi-scale Approaches for Enhancing
Building Performances
Sara Cattaneo, Camilla Lenzi and Alessandra Zanelli
Introduction
What performance can we guarantee if we consider an existing building? And how
long can we guarantee a certain level of performance, both in existing buildings and
in new ones? This section focuses on the challenge of analysis, simulation and
performance control both during the design phases of a new building and during the
service life of the building.
The issue of performance control is often reduced to the problem of saving
energy resources and consequently optimizing the construction and management
costs of the buildings. A more extensive consideration of performative design, in all
the phases of the design process, starting from the conception of the building, to the
optimization of its architectural volumetric form, as well as of its urban footprint,
will have to be increasingly taken into consideration in a perspective of multi-level,
economic, environmental and social sustainability.
This section intends to address in particular the following issues: a) multi-scalar
strategies (from building to city) for mitigating the effects of climate change,
improving local metabolism, improving environmental conditions, promoting
energy efficiency practices, integration of locally available resources and the
deployment of smart buildings, systems and networks; and b) actions to improve
the built environment and public space aimed at reducing health risk factors (individual and collective) and promoting its quality in environmental and social terms
including the design, construction, use, maintenance and disposal of buildings.
Building Performances
Sara Cattaneo, Camilla Lenzi and Alessandra Zanelli
Introduction
What performance can we guarantee if we consider an existing building? And how
long can we guarantee a certain level of performance, both in existing buildings and
in new ones? This section focuses on the challenge of analysis, simulation and
performance control both during the design phases of a new building and during the
service life of the building.
The issue of performance control is often reduced to the problem of saving
energy resources and consequently optimizing the construction and management
costs of the buildings. A more extensive consideration of performative design, in all
the phases of the design process, starting from the conception of the building, to the
optimization of its architectural volumetric form, as well as of its urban footprint,
will have to be increasingly taken into consideration in a perspective of multi-level,
economic, environmental and social sustainability.
This section intends to address in particular the following issues: a) multi-scalar
strategies (from building to city) for mitigating the effects of climate change,
improving local metabolism, improving environmental conditions, promoting
energy efficiency practices, integration of locally available resources and the
deployment of smart buildings, systems and networks; and b) actions to improve
the built environment and public space aimed at reducing health risk factors (individual and collective) and promoting its quality in environmental and social terms
including the design, construction, use, maintenance and disposal of buildings.