Extra-Ordinary Solutions for Useful Smart Living
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The reference scenario related to sustainability is defined by the UNI 11277 standard and by the UNI PdR13
1 and its integration with CAM,
2 the relationship between
energy saving and comfort, and the awareness in the use of resources provided by
the principle of the 3Rs (reduction, reuse, recycling) (Huanga et al. 2018; Islam et al.
2016).
In a nutshell, the guideline of the study is based on the desire to innovate residential
production by harnessing ‘transfer’ products as well as multifunctional solutions and
products (i.e. products with multiple functions), combining the existing production
know-how with advanced technologies to provide a ‘system/product’ in use with no
CO 2 production.
3 Tools and Methods
The aforementioned programmatic scenario influences the method and choice of the
tools applied in this study, within the cultural sphere of technological and environmental architecture design.
The approach we intend to pursue is meta-planning and is meant to provide guidelines. The immaterial invariants of the project determine the established performance
for the resulting design and can be summarized as follows: time variable management: quick building times, rapid response times to external system stimuli, rapid
dismantling and reuse or swift recycling times; transferability: the solutions (technotypological, morphological, structural, plant-related) must be transferable in other
geographical and demanding contexts; design and production innovation: transfer
and/or adaptation from sectors dealing with the current manufacture of products,
techniques and knowledge, building practice and other fields; qualitative multifunctionality of the architectural system, understood as the possibility to use in
multifunctional terms both the whole system and the individual components, where
the latter establish multifunctional relations for maximizing the use of the system
potentiality; constructive reactive system: from a structural point of view (active
anti-earthquake systems), from an energy point of view (integrated building/plant
management) and from a technical point of view, in relation to the entire life cycle
of the building and its components.
The invariants, in turn, have been translated into technological and functional
resource requirements and objects, due to their strong circularity in the use and reuse
of the involved resources and because they give substance to the concept of ‘active
resilience’ of the project, read as the regeneration capacity of its intrinsic value
1 UNI/PdR 13.1:2015 Sostenibilità ambientale nelle costruzioni—Strumenti operativi per la valutazione della sostenibilità (Environmental sustainability in buildings—Operative tools for sustainability assessment).
2 DECRETO 11 ottobre 2017. Criteri ambientali minimi per l’affidamento di servizi di progettazione
e lavori per la nuova costruzione, ristrutturazione e manutenzione di edifici pubblici (Minimum
environment criteria for the allocation of design services and works related to the new construction,
restructuring and maintainance of public buildings).
349
The reference scenario related to sustainability is defined by the UNI 11277 standard and by the UNI PdR13
1 and its integration with CAM,
2 the relationship between
energy saving and comfort, and the awareness in the use of resources provided by
the principle of the 3Rs (reduction, reuse, recycling) (Huanga et al. 2018; Islam et al.
2016).
In a nutshell, the guideline of the study is based on the desire to innovate residential
production by harnessing ‘transfer’ products as well as multifunctional solutions and
products (i.e. products with multiple functions), combining the existing production
know-how with advanced technologies to provide a ‘system/product’ in use with no
CO 2 production.
3 Tools and Methods
The aforementioned programmatic scenario influences the method and choice of the
tools applied in this study, within the cultural sphere of technological and environmental architecture design.
The approach we intend to pursue is meta-planning and is meant to provide guidelines. The immaterial invariants of the project determine the established performance
for the resulting design and can be summarized as follows: time variable management: quick building times, rapid response times to external system stimuli, rapid
dismantling and reuse or swift recycling times; transferability: the solutions (technotypological, morphological, structural, plant-related) must be transferable in other
geographical and demanding contexts; design and production innovation: transfer
and/or adaptation from sectors dealing with the current manufacture of products,
techniques and knowledge, building practice and other fields; qualitative multifunctionality of the architectural system, understood as the possibility to use in
multifunctional terms both the whole system and the individual components, where
the latter establish multifunctional relations for maximizing the use of the system
potentiality; constructive reactive system: from a structural point of view (active
anti-earthquake systems), from an energy point of view (integrated building/plant
management) and from a technical point of view, in relation to the entire life cycle
of the building and its components.
The invariants, in turn, have been translated into technological and functional
resource requirements and objects, due to their strong circularity in the use and reuse
of the involved resources and because they give substance to the concept of ‘active
resilience’ of the project, read as the regeneration capacity of its intrinsic value
1 UNI/PdR 13.1:2015 Sostenibilità ambientale nelle costruzioni—Strumenti operativi per la valutazione della sostenibilità (Environmental sustainability in buildings—Operative tools for sustainability assessment).
2 DECRETO 11 ottobre 2017. Criteri ambientali minimi per l’affidamento di servizi di progettazione
e lavori per la nuova costruzione, ristrutturazione e manutenzione di edifici pubblici (Minimum
environment criteria for the allocation of design services and works related to the new construction,
restructuring and maintainance of public buildings).