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Materials for sustainable architecture in the Mediterranean region
2016
There has been recent increased use of earth for construction of buildings in developed countries, largely because of concerns with the environmental impact and embodied carbon from fired bricks and cement based products. Of all forms of earth construction, the widest impact on modern construction is likely to come from commercially produced unfired earth masonry where large scale production can significantly reduce costs. The use of traditional materials in the Mediterranean area needs to be reassessed with a thought given to environmental sustainability, but also with an eye to the reappropriation of the predominantly massive nature of Mediterranean architecture. This article contemplates…
Dopo la firmitas. Prospettiva metabolista di architetture resilienti
2019
Identificata per millenni attraverso la sua capacità di durare identica nel tempo – secondo il paradigma della firmitas vitruviana - l’architettura contemporanea è invece chiamata oggi ad un adattamento dinamico alle mutazioni del suo contesto. L’emergenza climatica è l’epifenomeno più evidente fra quelli che hanno orientato la disciplina verso l’indeterminatezza programmatica, la flessibilità morfologica, gli approcci sistemici aperti. Lontana dall’essere un semplice adeguamento tecnico a nuove esigenze quantitative, l’architettura resiliente chiarisce progressivamente i suoi termini teorici e le sue derivazioni culturali. Un approccio genealogico che traccia la riformulazione di alcuni te…
Euroméditerranée II a new sustainable model
2014
This contribution aims to examine new strategies for urban regeneration, based on the enhancement of tangible and intangible cultural heritage and the acknowledgement of environmental sustainability principles. Our main research hypothesis will show how sustainability rules are now the changing vectors of Mediterranean cities, involving actors, crafts, inhabitants and users. The preservation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage and a conscious use of natural resources are essential factors for a positive change in the development of the city. Sustainable projects are undertaken to realize news city districts, but also to the enhancement of historic city centres and to the requalific…
Hemp: past, present, future for a Sustainable Architecture
2020
Cannabis, so classified by the botanist Linnaeus in 1753, is a plant with a long and tormented history. It has been a source of subsistence for many peoples who, since the dawn of time, have exploited its enormous and almost infinite potential. Hemp has survived eighty years of prohibition and the fierce attacks of the chemical, pharmaceutical, textile and other industries, which over the years have monopolized the world economy, contributing significantly to the process of ecosystem degeneration of the planet. Today, in the light of the compelling and urgent intervention actions, aimed at contrasting environmental emergencies, hemp returns to peep globally to help create a sustainable mode…
Il Patrimonio della città sostenibile nel Mediterraneo. Progetti sostenibili per il centro storico di Tunisi
2013
Questo contributo si concentra sull’analisi di nuove strategie di rigenerazione urbana che hanno come obiettivo primario la valorizzazione del Patrimonio della città sostenibile nel Mediterraneo. La nostra ipotesi vuole dimostrare che il Patrimonio è diventato il vettore mobilizzatore del cambiamento delle città mediterranee, coinvolgendo mestieri, abitanti e fruitori. Verranno esaminati due progetti realizzati nella città di Tunisi dall’Association de Sauvegarde de la Médina (ASM): l’intervento di valorizzazione di un percorso urbano che collega gli spazi pubblici e il patrimonio architettonico della Medina (2008), dalla Mosquée Zitouna alla Zaouina di Sidi Ibrahim Riahi; il piano di rivit…
Dry stone buildings in Sicily. An environmental and territorial resource
2013
Dry stone constructions are widespread throughout many regions across the world, in a wide variety of forms, according to the environmental and socio-economic contexts, and constitute a valuable know-how which is today in danger of disappearing. In Sicily dry stone works have traditionally been used in the area of Val di Noto where they constitute a key character of the landscape, and in the Madonie Mounts in which some policies of enhancement have been recently initiated. In the framework of the Grundtvig programme “La préservation du patrimoine architectural bâti en pierre sèche”, an in-depth analysis of these architectures have been pursued, aiming to create a database inventory. This pa…