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AUTHOR
Elsa Sanfilippo
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Evaluation and application of Opuntia ficus-indica insulation panel
2015
Today the attention to the building sustainability issue is increasingly important, because of the major responsibility of the buildings field in the environmental degradation: both in terms of energy consumption from non-renewable sources and the raw materials impoverishment. In addition, the level of comfort required by users are growing and the thermal insulation of buildings becomes the key element in the reduction of energy consumption and C02 emissions, both in the case of new construction and existing ones. The thermal insulation of buildings is the key element in the reduction of energy consumption and C02 emissions due to the cooling of building interiors, both in the case of new c…
IL RETROFIT ENERGETICO. L'EDILIZIA RESIDENZIALE POST-BELLICA DI PALERMO
2015
Il patrimonio edilizio italiano è composto principalmente da costruzioni realizzate nel secondo dopoguerra, quando la speculazione economica e l'urbanizzazione hanno prodotto edifici con caratteristiche di scarsa qualità architettonica ed energetica. Agire sul rendimento energetico degli edifici esistenti, adattandoli alle caratteristiche richieste dalla normativa, a parità di condizioni di comfort, rappresenta una strategia importante per la riduzione dei consumi energetici e per la tutela dell'ambiente. Attraverso l'applicazione di tecnologie e metodologie innovative e la scelta di investimenti adeguati, il retrofit energetico può rappresentare oggi la principale opportunità di crescita i…
Siti UNESCO a Palermo?
2014
La memoria presenta un excursus su alcuni casi eclatanti che potrebbero essere candidati come patrimonio dell’UNESCO, confrontati con alcuni siti esistenti in città dell’area del Mediterraneo come Siviglia,Istanbul, Lisbona, ecc. che presentano certe analogie di carattere storico, culturale e architettonico. Si ritiene che a Palermo non ci siano certe condizione urbane per raggiungere un tale obiettivo. Si vuole fornire un contributo in modo che politici e amministratori prendano i necessari e urgenti provvedimenti per consentire alla città di Palermo di far parte del novero dei siti UNESCO
ANALYSIS OF THE TRADITIONAL PASSIVE SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF CFD SOFTWARE
2012
The need to reduce energy consumption is pushing the building design research to the evaluation of passive conditioning systems, since urban buildings are one of the major energy dissipater resulting in emission of CO2. This approach is not modern, but it is historically rooted in the architectural culture of the Mediterranean area and in the Middle East. The passive systems have ancient origins: they were developed to mitigate the summer heat and the winter cold. To understand the reasons that led to the development of passive systems, it should be remembered that about One-Fifth of the emerged planet surface and One-Third of the world's population live in conditions of warm-dry or hot-hum…
Palermo University and Compasso Volante
2014
The University of Palermo joins since few years the Compasso Volante Competition, that is still keeping, in different ways, its original spirit. The city of Palermo has represented in two different Editions the project site and, last year, Palermo hosted for the second time the Award Ceremony. Palermo has been made available to the awarding of the XV Edition, thanks to the enthusiasm and pleasure that students and professors have shown in the past. The paper present the result of the Edition that has take place in Macau, Hong Kong, Milano and Palermo.
MASS-PRODUCED ELEMENT IN STRUCTURAL GLASS: “ARTIFICIAL VINEYARD”
2014
The aim is to design an architectural element flexible and easily adaptable to different urban situations using a material such as glass that, for the last years, is being employed as a structural element. The mass-production is rarely applied to glass construction systems that instead are usually designed case by case. The paper reports the results of a research carried out by the Dipartmento di Architettura and Dipartimento DICAM (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale, Aerospaziale, dei Materiali), of the University of Palermo, within the project "VESTRA" (POFESR 2007/2013 - Action Line 4.1.1.1), that aims to the experimentation of mass-produced elements in structural glass. The p…
GLOBAL SAVING EVALUATION THROUGH A RETROFITTING ACTION
2014
The paper shows a work that was carried out by the authors as members of the PADesign Company, academic spin off of University of Palermo. Currently, energy retrofit of existing building has become an important goal, because it is now widely recognized that the buildings are one of the main causes of CO2 production and of non-renewable energy consumptions. To act on the energy performance of existing buildings (adapting their performances to those required by regulations) is an important strategy to reduce energy consumptions since they are much more than new buildings. Through the application of innovative technologies and methodologies and the choice of appropriate investments, the retrof…
Proprietà e uso degli impermeabilizzanti: classificazione e caratteristiche
2014
L'articolo presenta i risultati di uno studio condotto sui sistemi di impermeabilizzazione dell'involucro edilizio.Viene proposta una classificazione dei prodotti in commercio rispetto: al materiale costituente, alle prestazioni ed al tipo di commercializzazione.Lo studio affronta problematiche tecnologiche ma anche normative in modo da fornire uno strumento per la scelta più appropriata in relazione alle richieste dell'utenza.
GIOVANNI CARBONARA. ARCHITETTURA D'OGGI E RESTAURO: UN CONFRONTO ANTICO-NUOVO
2012
Architettura di oggi e restauro dell'antico sono temi largamente dibattuti per quanto riguarda le modalità di approccio. Non esistono leggi a priori o regole da seguire, ma si è sempre cercato di stabilire parametri e categorie per uniformare le proprie scelte. All'interno di tale panorama inevitabilmente si delineano correnti di pensiero diverse, talvolta anche contrastanti, caratterizzate ognuna da un diverso modo di interpretare il rapporto tra l'antico e il nuovo. Proprio all'interno di tale dialettica si inserisce il pensiero di numerosi architetti, fra cui quello di Giovanni Carbonara, che, attraverso il presente testo, ha voluto presentare una variegata rassegna delle possibili modal…
Performance Analysis of Innovative Vacuum Insulation Panel
2013
Thermal insulation has become one of the central themes in energy behavior improvement. The use of insulating materials, from the thermal and hydrothermal aspect, allows the reduction of the heat transfer in each of the technical elements increasing their thermal inertia. Even if the research has led to the use of innovative materials with high values of thermal insulation, one of the main problems, which is difficult to resolve, is the thickness of the building envelope to reach levels of transmittance that can allow considerable savings of energy and CO2 emissions. With this objective the VIP (Vacuum Insulation Panel) technology in building applications is an innovative solution to obtain…