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40% of residential buildings in European Union countries were built before 1960,
and almost 84% are at least 20 years old. For this reason, a large majority of buildings
are in a poor state of conservation and unable to meet the basic requirements dictated
by user needs and the current legislative framework (European Union—EU 2010).
The need for redevelopment is also strongly motivated by the fact that residential
buildings are responsible for a third of the world’s final energy consumption (International Energy Agency 2013). It is, thus, essential to rethink energy adjustment to take
a major step towards the achievement of environmental objectives in the medium and
long term, and therefore create sustainable urban renovations. This requires vigorous
policies, as well as effective and conscious actions to reduce the costs associated with
the construction industry, in terms of operational and incorporated energy use and
related emissions. The International Energy Agency (IEA) aims to achieve an 80%
reduction in global emissions by 2050, which thing led European countries to focus
their efforts on the optimisation of energy performance (Passer et al. 2016).
In this respect, the European Commission (EC) has identified the life-cycle assessment (LCA) as the most suitable methodology that is currently available to evaluate
the potential environmental impacts and the performance of construction products
and buildings (Kylili and Fokaides 2017).
The products have a life cycle that can be defined according to two different
approaches: technical and economic. Generally, products with low-quality and economic value are scrapped at the end of their life cycle. For those defined as durable,
the possibility is envisaged of carrying out repairs (which do not exceed the value
of the product) before finally terminating the life cycle. Finally, for high-value and
technically complex products (which make reproduction difficult), maintenance and
functional adjustment activities can be initiated that are such as to restart a new life
cycle.
The latter is the typical case of real estate products that, generally with a high
economic value and low reproducibility, become the object of redevelopment or
enhancement. This process consists in the intervention on the building that has
become obsolete in order to restart a new technological and economic life cycle
for it.
The requirement for a design praxis enhances the significance to the governance
of both creative and constructive process, placing the question of method in a multidisciplinary and multi-objective dimension aimed at responding to the rapid change
in the quality demand underlying the project itself.
It outlines a file rouge within the cultural debate of the area, making the topic of
“method” a key issue of the disciplinary approach.
Indeed, it explains the systemic and complex vision of the design thinking; the
procedural nature of operations; the hierarchical structure of the information/decision
ratio in project organisation; the capacity of mediating constraints deriving by both
the built environment; the biological cycles and the will of responding to the most
advanced aspirations of society (Lucarelli and Rigillo 2018).
L. Baiardi et al.
40% of residential buildings in European Union countries were built before 1960,
and almost 84% are at least 20 years old. For this reason, a large majority of buildings
are in a poor state of conservation and unable to meet the basic requirements dictated
by user needs and the current legislative framework (European Union—EU 2010).
The need for redevelopment is also strongly motivated by the fact that residential
buildings are responsible for a third of the world’s final energy consumption (International Energy Agency 2013). It is, thus, essential to rethink energy adjustment to take
a major step towards the achievement of environmental objectives in the medium and
long term, and therefore create sustainable urban renovations. This requires vigorous
policies, as well as effective and conscious actions to reduce the costs associated with
the construction industry, in terms of operational and incorporated energy use and
related emissions. The International Energy Agency (IEA) aims to achieve an 80%
reduction in global emissions by 2050, which thing led European countries to focus
their efforts on the optimisation of energy performance (Passer et al. 2016).
In this respect, the European Commission (EC) has identified the life-cycle assessment (LCA) as the most suitable methodology that is currently available to evaluate
the potential environmental impacts and the performance of construction products
and buildings (Kylili and Fokaides 2017).
The products have a life cycle that can be defined according to two different
approaches: technical and economic. Generally, products with low-quality and economic value are scrapped at the end of their life cycle. For those defined as durable,
the possibility is envisaged of carrying out repairs (which do not exceed the value
of the product) before finally terminating the life cycle. Finally, for high-value and
technically complex products (which make reproduction difficult), maintenance and
functional adjustment activities can be initiated that are such as to restart a new life
cycle.
The latter is the typical case of real estate products that, generally with a high
economic value and low reproducibility, become the object of redevelopment or
enhancement. This process consists in the intervention on the building that has
become obsolete in order to restart a new technological and economic life cycle
for it.
The requirement for a design praxis enhances the significance to the governance
of both creative and constructive process, placing the question of method in a multidisciplinary and multi-objective dimension aimed at responding to the rapid change
in the quality demand underlying the project itself.
It outlines a file rouge within the cultural debate of the area, making the topic of
“method” a key issue of the disciplinary approach.
Indeed, it explains the systemic and complex vision of the design thinking; the
procedural nature of operations; the hierarchical structure of the information/decision
ratio in project organisation; the capacity of mediating constraints deriving by both
the built environment; the biological cycles and the will of responding to the most
advanced aspirations of society (Lucarelli and Rigillo 2018).