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La ricerca del comfort nelle abitazioni della tradizione siciliana

2014

Traditional buildings give us many examples of sustainable interventions justified by the demand of comfort and inexpensiveness in the choice of materials and constructive techniques. It was always searched ideal solution to the problems bound at the territory such as, in Sicily, the high summer temperature or the capillary ascent due to the ground nature and often emphasized by the building stone nature. The search for the solutions to such problems has undergone a slow and constant evolution in the centuries, drawing starting points from the nature, from the other people, from the surrounding context. Solutions traditionally adopted can supply a useful example to be studied for a sustaina…