Categoria: Building envelope

Some of the contemporary experiments and studies for parametric architecture demonstrate the level of potential development of smart adaptive facades, thanks to the exploitation of the computational design. Through this approach, it is possible to translate the aspect of multifunctionality that is in nature into architecture. Leggi tutto “Computational design for adaptive facades”

Bioclimatic architecture design solutions are implemented more efficiently through digital technology, such as computational design, also called parametric modeling. We already know that bioclimatic architecture solutions are inspired by the knowledge of the functioning mechanisms of organisms found in nature. The aim is to imitate their behavior and exploit their potential applied to architectural creations and projects, to allow us to imagine technologically advanced solutions, strategies and tools to solve the major problems of comfort of buildings, their functionality and air conditioning according to the need for energy saving and reduction of environmental impact. Leggi tutto “Computational design for Architecture”

Usually, Sick Building Syndrome (SBS), indicates those buildings where people spend most of their time, such as offices, schools, hospitals, homes for the elderly, houses. In Architecture, the terms “indoor environment” refer, in fact, to confined living environments and non-industrial workplaces. Sick building syndrome indicates a well-defined symptomatological situation that involves the occupants of mainly new, modern or recently renovated buildings that are equipped with insufficient or unhealthy mechanical ventilation or air conditioning systems. Leggi tutto “Here are the causes of SBS – Sick Building Syndrome”

Photocatalytic products are a contemporary innovation and play an important role in reducing pollution, thanks to their technology that allows them to be used in several cases: tiles, concrete, paint and floor coverings. Leggi tutto “Italia Pavilion in Milan”

Heal-Berg skyscraper is born from an idea by designers Luca Beltrame and Saba Nabavi Tafreshi from the University of California.

The project was awarded with an honorary mention at the 2017 Evolo Skyscraper Competition, and represents the futuristic skyscraper of health with the forms of an iceberg, spatial, aseptic and minimalist, but with a green and multi faceted core.

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To create a new environmental and social balance, it is hoped that many cities will be converted into green cities in the near future, with a decisive impact on pollution levels. The vertical forest is a model for sustainable residential building, a form of metropolitan reforestation that contributes to the regeneration of the environment and urban biodiversity, without implying the expansion of cities.

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There are now numerous national and international researches that investigate technological strategies that are based and follow biological rather than mechanical principles. Nature suggests to the world of architectural design, technological strategies with minimal environmental impact, which are realized thanks to the innovation of sustainable architecture and to meteorosensitive architecture projects. These are obtained thanks to the application of  smart building materials.
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Building bamboo envelopes is a good green building material and the technology to develop breathing buildings. It may seem an exotic technique but it is not. There are case studies also in Italy and, among these, in the Certosa Business District in Milan, the office building commissioned by STAM Europe in Goring&Straja. Since we continue to build reinforced concrete and steel buildings, we wonder why we should build in bamboo. Apart from the myth of bamboo, known as vegetable or natural steel, in green building bamboo is a green material that can be well used to build transpiring building envelopes or to create contemporary structures such as the Bamboo Roof. Leggi tutto “Bamboo green building material for the shielding and transpiration of buildings”

Nature and tradition teach us to exploit natural resources with the construction of buildings capable of reacting to the evolution of external climatic conditions. Leggi tutto “Eastgate Complex: a bionic building for reduction of energy consumptions”