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Towards a system for evaluation of the project of PV integration in buildings. BIPV.TOOL
No full textABSTRACT: Photovoltaic integration is today one of the most significant areas of technological and aesthetic innovation in the field of sustainable architecture. Noted an insufficient awareness about "BIPV" concept at widespread scale, can be even considered complicit of this the absence of valid “certification tools” aimed to encourage an increased quality of the “integration project”, as happened in the experience of energy and environmental labeling. The proposed Bipv.tool, is based on the idea to “evaluate” or, in some way, to “measure” a BIPV rating, in a logic of an integration concept more complex than current criteria. This method is conceived as a multi-criteria grid of evaluation, structured in different classes of integrability, scales of scoring and weighting criteria, that ranges from architectural aspects to constructive or energetic ones. Scores, derived from this series of qualitative and quantitative requirements, leads to a brief final score for the examined project. Some recent tests on BIPV cases, one of which is here presented, highlight first results of the evaluation method for new buildings. Furthermore are listed potential scenarios of development, implementation and specialization that we hope to evolve in the near future.
Keywords: Building Integrated PV (BIPV), Evaluation, Solar Architecture, Funding and Incentives
Bipv in the recovery of minor historical centers. the project of integrabilitY between standard and customized technology
No full textThe building integration of photovoltaics (BIPV) applied to the recovery project, has shown, in various forms and with different degrees of success, interesting possibilities for architectural and technological upgrading of the pre-existence, including a high acceptability in sensitive contexts. The basic built of historic "minor" settlements, typical of the Italian building heritage (consisting of a network of small centres with high historical, landscape and environmental value) poses new methodological challenges to the conservation project related to the control of energetic of and eco-sustainability aspects. In the revitalization of these places, typically characterized by a pre-modern material culture that forms the main testimonial value, the implementation of bioclimatic strategies and systems for using renewable energies, requires an accurate process to verify the integrability, variable in each case and to articulate at different scales: from building components to the village dimension (roads, open spaces, urban voids ...). In a contemporary context increasingly oriented towards the "mass customization" of the building industry, the study of forms of integration may take advantage from an innovative "craft dimension" of technology which, more and more adaptable to the design paradigm of the "micro-intervention" and "controlled transformation" (thanks to the control of technological and figural details at scale of the component or base material), shows new scenarios of "compatibility" compared to the degree of "transformability" of these places. The proposed study is aimed to narrow design BIPV paradigms for the recovery of these historical contexts, in particular by defining strategic criteria related to linguistic-architectural and technological-constructive aspects of solar systems (including case-studies in specific application contexts). This research would, once perfected and shared, creating a critical and operative tools (guidelines, case studies ...) really applicable to common scale, e.g. in today's post-earthquake reconstruction of L'Aquila, for control adequate BIPV interventions within a specific eco-friendly method of recovery
Intervention on the building envelope as an opportunity of post-eartquake "sustainable" reconstruction
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BIPV in The Refurbishment of Minor Historical Centres: The Project of Integrability between Standard and Customized Techmology
No full textThe proposed research is aimed to define some BIPV (building integrated photovoltaics) paradigms for the refurbishment of
historical contexts, by defining strategic criteria related to linguistic-architectural and technological-constructive aspects of solar
systems (including case-studies in specific application contexts). This research could, once perfected and shared, be used within
operative tools (guidelines, case studies, etc.) really applicable to common scale, e.g., in today’s post-earthquake reconstruction in
L’Aquila, for defining possible solar implementation possibilities in sensitive areas according to an innovative and sustainable method
of intervention
BIPV in the recovery of the historical heritage. Guidelines for the post-eartquake reconstruction
No full textAbstract
The complexity, typical of the project in historicized contexts, has until now paid a widespread prohibition with few examples of recovery focusing on energy efficiency and BiPV. The need to rebuild the housing stock after the earthquake of 2009 in various centers of the crater of L'Aquila in Italy, poses even more problems in the recovery strategies. The study presented, starting from the methodological approach of a “sustainable reconstruction”, deepens the theme of “photovoltaic integrability” in these contexts, as an opportunity for a "possible" and "duty" architectural and performance valorization in the reconstruction process. The outcome of this research, including some examples developed in specific contexts, is the development of guidelines for integrating BIPV in the reconstruction process. This goal, once perfected and shared, will become a basic guide for local authorities and operators, to guide the politic of reconstruction on a path of innovation, at the same time eco-friendly, technologically advanced and in full respect of historical, environmental and landscape values of these places
Analysis of the levels of Pv integrability and definition of a performance scheme to control a BiPV project
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