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Entre Nós: entrevista a Lia Marchi
Full text linkEmissões - Entre NósPrograma “Entre Nós” - uma produção vídeo da Universidade Aberta para a RTPEntrevista a Lia Marchi, investigadora e realizadora do Projeto “Tocadores”, realizada em 2004.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Towards the Harmonization of Industrial Facilities with the Landscape. A catalogue of good practices
No full textL’industria è un settore chiave per lo sviluppo sostenibile. L’Europa è in prima linea nell’implementazione degli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile, ma le misure adottate si focalizzano sugli impatti ambientali dei processi produttivi; mentre sono spesso trascurate le interferenze delle costruzioni industriali con gli aspetti sociali dell’ambiente di vita. Perciò la ricerca propone una metodica per valutare
l’impatto delle fabbriche sui paesaggi di vita quotidiana – considerando insieme aspetti ambientali e sociali – e quindi promuoverne la ri-progettazione grazie a un set di strategie di mitigazione. L’articolo presenta il metodo adottato per sviluppare un catalogo di buone pratiche, da cui deriva una libreria di tattiche per ispirare le imprese ad integrare i propri siti con il contesto, quindi ad essere più sostenibili e competitiveIndustry is a key sector for sustainable development. Europe is at the forefront for Sustainable Development Goals implementation, but the adopted measures focus on environmental impacts of manufacturing processes. Whilst the interferences of facilities with the social aspect of living environment are often neglected. Therefore the research proposes a methodology to assess the impact of factories on people’s everyday landscape – which simultaneously acts on the environmental and social spheres – and then support their redesign by a set of mitigation strategies. The method assumed to develop a catalogue of good
practices is presented: from it results a library of tactics that can inspire firms to better integrate their facilities with the surroundings, thus to be more sustainable and competitive
Enhancement to Green Building Rating Systems for Industrial Facilities by Including the Assessment of Impact on the Landscape
No full textThe impact of industrial sites on people’s living environment both involves detrimental effects on the ecosystem and
perceptual-aesthetic interferences with the scenery. These, in turn, affect the economic and social value of the landscape, as
well as the wellbeing of workers and local communities. Given the diffusion of the phenomenon and the relevance of its effects,
it emerges the need for a joint approach to assess and thus mitigate the impact of factories on the landscape –being this latest
assumed as the result of the action and interaction of natural and human factors. However, the impact assessment tools
suitable for the purpose are quite heterogeneous and mostly monodisciplinary. On the one hand, green building rating systems
(GBRSs) are increasingly used to evaluate the performance of manufacturing sites, mainly by quantitative indicators focused on
environmental issues. On the other hand, methods to detect the visual and social impact of factories on the landscape are
gradually emerging in the literature, but they generally adopt only qualitative gauges. The research addresses the integration
of the environmental impact assessment and the perceptual-aesthetic interferences of factories on the landscape. The GBRSs
model is assumed as a reference since it is adequate to simultaneously investigate different topics which affect sustainability,
returning a global score. A critical analysis of GBRSs relevant to industrial facilities has led to select the U.S. GBC LEED
protocol as the most suitable to the scope. A revision of LEED v4 Building Design+Construction has then been provided by
including specific indicators to measure the interferences of manufacturing sites with the perceptual-aesthetic and social
aspects of the territory. To this end, a new impact category was defined, namely ‘PA - Perceptual-aesthetic aspects’, comprising
eight new credits which are specifically designed to assess how much the buildings are in harmony with their surroundings:
these investigate, for example the morphological and chromatic harmonization of the facility with the scenery or the site
receptiveness and attractiveness. The credits weighting table was consequently revised, according to the LEED points
allocation system. As all LEED credits, each new PA credit is thoroughly described in a sheet setting its aim, requirements, and
the available options to gauge the interference and get a score. Lastly, each credit is related to mitigation tactics, which are
drawn from a catalogue of exemplary case studies, it also developed by the research. The result is a modified LEED scheme
which includes compatibility with the landscape within the sustainability assessment of the industrial sites. The whole system
consists of 10 evaluation categories, which contain in total 62 credits. Lastly, a test of the tool on an Italian factory was
performed, allowing the comparison of three mitigation scenarios with increasing compatibility level. The study proposes a
holistic and viable approach to the environmental impact assessment of factories by a tool which integrates the multiple
involved aspects within a worldwide recognized rating protocol
Orogel. Tra radicamento territoriale, innovazione tecnologica e immagine aziendale.
No full textOrogel is an Italian food industry, leader in
frozen vegetables. Since it was established
as cooperative in 1967, innovation and
territorial development have been deeply
rooted in the corporate attitude. Hence,
many environmentally-friendly strategies
have been implemented at the factory
level, in order to reduce its impact on the
environment. In parallel, several social
actions have been undertaken to foster
territorial development. Among these, a
fruitful collaboration with University of
Bologna, Department of Architecture,
led to a design competition for the new
headquarter and a PhD thesis about
the harmonisation of factories with the
landscape. Up to date, the result of the PhD
research confirms that Orogel is heading to
the right direction.
Lastly, the competition’s context is
introduced. The area is mainly characterised
by industrial construction; no relevant
natural features are recorded nearby,
while the transport infrastructures are
predominant and play a key role for the
visibility of Oroge
A tool to evaluate what makes a factory sustainable
Full text linkIndustrial sites significantly affect the quality of people’s living environment. Research and practice
show increasing attention for the environmental issues at process scale, minor for the social ones at site
level; while to get more sustainable factories these aspects must be approached holistically. As part of
a larger research on factory landscape compatibility, this study aims to provide companies with a tool
to understand what helps make their factory compatible with the surroundings, thus which impacts
should be mitigated. To that end, a preliminary detection of a factory’s interferences with the context is
required; but current assessment tools lack an integrated approach, while addressing many specific
issues. To fill the gap, the study provides: (i) a critical review of existing assessment tools and the
reason why the LEED protocol was chosen as reference; (ii) a proposal for its improvement by an
additional category of indicators, based on 8 new credits which address perceptual-aesthetic aspects;
(iii) the worksheets’ outline of new credits. Moreover the paper summarizes two further research
outputs: a Catalogue of good practices for the mitigation of impacts and the tool application on the
Italian case study of Orogel facilities. The discussion about limitations and opportunities of the
developed tool completes the paper
Digital Atlas of Tactics to Designing Sustainable Factories
Full text linkFor a long time, the design of factories has been profit-driven only, while their detrimental effects on the environment, perceptual-aesthetic interferences with the surroundings, and social disturbances on local communities have been largely neglected. Despite a growing attention towards these topics, literature shows that there is a fundamental knowledge and tool gap on design practices for holistically sustainable factories, and companies are often unaware of both negative and positive effects related to the impact of their sites on the landscape. This paper presents a toolkit that has been developed to support entrepreneurs and designers in devising more sustainable factories through an integrated perspective, which is the great novelty of the approach. The article focuses on one of its tools: a digital atlas of design tactics. These have been mapped in sustainable factories around the world and labelled with an ad hoc faceted classification. Each tactic is then described in an info-sheet, which feeds a web portal. There, the user is assisted in searching for the most suitable tactics and mutual links with other useful strategies. The main potentiality of the atlas is to encourage a holistic design approach by highlighting positive synergies among tactics from different field
Green Building Rating Systems (GBRSs)
Full text linkGreen Building Rating Systems (GBRSs) are typically third-party, voluntary, and market driven standards that measure buildings’ sustainability level by multi-criteria assessment, and encourage the adoption of environmentally, socially and economically sustainable practices in design, construction and operation of buildings (or neighborhoods). GBRSs aim at guiding and assessing the project throughout all its life cycle, thus limiting the negative impact on the environment, as well as on the building occupants’ health and well-being, and even reducing operational costs. Hundreds of GBRSs are now available worldwide, varying in approaches, application processes, and evaluation metrics. BREEAM, CASBEE, Green Star and LEED are among the most applied worldwide. Despite some differences, they all adhere to the same general evaluation structure: project performances ares measured using a set of relevant indicators, grouped per topics such as water management, energy use, materials, site qualities. Each assessed requirement is assigned a score/judgment, the total of which determines the level of sustainability achieved. In addition to regular updates, a current trend is to improve the effectiveness of protocols, making them more comprehensive and accurate, while keeping them easy to use
Sun-Shading Sails in Courtyards: An Italian Case Study with RayMan
Full text linkForecasts of a drastic increase in temperatures in the coming decades are driving the adoption of design strategies and solutions to improve the livability of urban environments. Increasing attention is being paid to the thermal comfort of open spaces by both designers and researchers. Nature-based solutions and man-made devices to improve the comfort of outdoor spaces during summer are spreading, but effective, easy simulation and design support tools for this purpose are still lacking, as most of the available software such as ENVI-met or RayMan cannot model such devices. As Phys-iological Equivalent Temperature (PET) is one of the most relevant and comprehensive indicators of Outdoor Thermal Comfort (OTC), this study aims to investigate PET variations of different artificial shading systems and propose a simplified methodology for assessing them through analytical sim-ulations with RayMan software. When modeling the shading elements, the trick adopted for this purpose is to associate different cloud densities with the shading provided by the screens, thus overcoming a gap that affects the software. The procedure is digitally tested in a covered courtyard case study in Bologna (Italy). Diverse options proposed by the designers for textile screening mate-rials have been compared, showing that these reduce by at least 1 °C the PET-gauged thermal stress. Beyond specific results, the main outcome of this study is the procedure developed to simulate sun-shading sail effects on OTC by means of RayMan, which can support designers in planning effective solutions for open space livability in summertime
A comparative study of climate adaptive building shells. Design solutions and applicative case studies
No full textThe need to cope with climate change effects – particularly those affecting the microclimate of the built environment – as well as the consequences of the energy crisis, is driving designers to prioritize adaptability of building elements as a key feature of new and refurbished constructions. Taking Europe as example, even in the best development scenario, in 2050 it is estimated that heatwaves will occur +19% in frequency than nowadays, and will last +63%; and the annual mean temperature will be +1.6°C. The goal is thus to improve both the energy efficiency of buildings and their ability to react to variable and sometimes extreme external conditions. Within this context, the building envelope plays an essential role to ensure optimal comfort conditions while strongly reducing the building operational energy. Its performances and most appropriate configurations have been extensively studied to provide a well-established set of solutions for the most recurring climate conditions in various world regions. However, the urgency to further increase energy efficiency and the capacity to adapt to a changing climate are pushing designers to explore more low-energy, dynamic, and adjustable building skins. Hence the paper reports an investigation of the theoretical assumptions at the base of climate adaptive building shells and how they influence practical applications in real life solutions. Then, the study considers some innovative solutions and explores the design strategy behind, as well as the deriving savings for different applicative case studies. It also includes a reflection on the choice of dynamism, geometrical configuration, and materials with reference to indoor and outdoor comfort. Alternative design options (which were tested in separate sessions) are compared for each case to discuss the potential and limitations of the devised design methodology
The Matter of Future Heritage
Full text linkIn 2018, for the first time, the University of Bologna’s Board of PhD in Architecture and Design Culture assigned second-year PhD students the task of developing and managing an international conference and publishing its works. The organisers of the first edition of this initiative – Giacomo Corda, Pamela Lama, Viviana Lorenzo, Sara Maldina, Lia Marchi, Martina Massari and Giulia Custodi – have chosen to leverage the solid relationship between the Department of Architecture and the Municipality of Bologna to publish a call having to do with the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, in which the Municipality was involved. The theme chosen for the call, The Matter of Future Heritage, set itself the ambitious goal of questioning the future of a field of research – Cultural Heritage (CH) – that is constantly being redefined. A work that was made particularly complex in Europe by the development of the H2020 programme, where the topic entered, surprisingly, not as a protagonist but rather as an articulation of other subjects that in the vision of the programme seemed evidently more urgent and, one might say, dominant. The resulting tensions have been considerable and with both negative and positive implications, all the more evident if we refer to the issues that are closest to us namely the city and the landscap
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