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Energy resilience to climate change of historic urban districts in Mediterranean area
The scientific sources of utmost importance in impact evaluation and vulnerability caused by climate changes agree to future exposure of Mediterranean area, moving main strategies towards residential building stock because of their responsibility in GHGs emissions as well as in ensuring safety and health for their inhabitant. That encouraged studies of local urban features and reactions at local scale in order to reduce the amplification consequences defined by the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. In the whole built stock, buildings in historic urban districts represent an exception in transformation management because of their relevance to preserve, also concerning energy requirements. However, Mediterranean historic districts and traditional buildings embody the positive experiences of genius loci aimed at the creation of adaptive system in reacting to boundary conditions, also for climate; these elements enlarge the frame of preservation from the single buildings to the whole district, while the recognition of deficiency constitutes the opportunity to enhance them. A systemic vision for their energy management should substitute the case-by-case strategy in order to compensate some operative constrains for single buildings with opportunities at the large-scale related with the genius loci activities and inherent bioclimatic characteristics. So, the categories of local “types” as recurrent architectural, constructional and functional features for specific building typologies and ages can be analysed. Adaptation, transformation and persistence necessities involved in Resilience as the key feature to ensure all them. Borrowing the widest meaning, Energy Resilience is introduced as key feature in management and planning adaptability and energy improvement of that building stock in historic district. In that frame, a robust methodology is proposed, embodying the structure of the refurbishment process for the built heritage and the required features of resilience thinking. To support it, an application on a pilot ...
Energy resilience to climate change of historic urban districts in Mediterranean area
The scientific sources of utmost importance in impact evaluation and vulnerability caused by climate changes agree to future exposure of Mediterranean area, moving main strategies towards residential building stock because of their responsibility in GHGs emissions as well as in ensuring safety and health for their inhabitant. That encouraged studies of local urban features and reactions at local scale in order to reduce the amplification consequences defined by the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. In the whole built stock, buildings in historic urban districts represent an exception in transformation management because of their relevance to preserve, also concerning energy requirements. However, Mediterranean historic districts and traditional buildings embody the positive experiences of genius loci aimed at the creation of adaptive system in reacting to boundary conditions, also for climate; these elements enlarge the frame of preservation from the single buildings to the whole district, while the recognition of deficiency constitutes the opportunity to enhance them. A systemic vision for their energy management should substitute the case-by-case strategy in order to compensate some operative constrains for single buildings with opportunities at the large-scale related with the genius loci activities and inherent bioclimatic characteristics. So, the categories of local “types” as recurrent architectural, constructional and functional features for specific building typologies and ages can be analysed. Adaptation, transformation and persistence necessities involved in Resilience as the key feature to ensure all them. Borrowing the widest meaning, Energy Resilience is introduced as key feature in management and planning adaptability and energy improvement of that building stock in historic district. In that frame, a robust methodology is proposed, embodying the structure of the refurbishment process for the built heritage and the required features of resilience thinking. To support it, an application on a pilot ...
Energy resilience to climate change of historic urban districts in Mediterranean area
Cantatore, Elena (author) / referees: R. Morganti / C. Mileto / Cantatore, Elena / Fatiguso, Fabio / Mossa, Michele
2018-01-01
doi:10.60576/poliba/iris/cantatore-elena_phd2018
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Energy resilience to climate change of historic urban district in Mediterranean area
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