A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
New Urban Centralities: Universities as a Paradigm for a Sustainable City
The urgency of facing up to the new challenges posed by climate change has relaunched the debate on the future of the city, a thought which points to public buildings as the way to promote the main processes of urban regeneration, both physical and social. Universities and their spaces are among the permanent architectures of the consolidated fabric. With their educational role par excellence, they are one of the most suitable urban institutions through which to promote an environmentally responsible attitude. The concept of sustainability is now an undisputed value which involves all applied disciplines, but the debate on how architecture should respond to this urgent need is still open. This paper proposes dialectical ecologism as an attitude to achieve significant environmental standards not only through the choice of sustainable materials and technologies, but also by rediscovering in public and community spaces, as well as in the character and language of architecture, the potential to make the built environment adaptable and resilient to contemporary challenges. In these terms, an initial theoretical reflection, whose main subject is the university campus and its contribution in terms of ecological impact and wise use of resources, will be followed by a description of the themes that guide sustainable design, which find application in the actions recently conducted on two Milan campuses of the Polytechnic University of Milan.
New Urban Centralities: Universities as a Paradigm for a Sustainable City
The urgency of facing up to the new challenges posed by climate change has relaunched the debate on the future of the city, a thought which points to public buildings as the way to promote the main processes of urban regeneration, both physical and social. Universities and their spaces are among the permanent architectures of the consolidated fabric. With their educational role par excellence, they are one of the most suitable urban institutions through which to promote an environmentally responsible attitude. The concept of sustainability is now an undisputed value which involves all applied disciplines, but the debate on how architecture should respond to this urgent need is still open. This paper proposes dialectical ecologism as an attitude to achieve significant environmental standards not only through the choice of sustainable materials and technologies, but also by rediscovering in public and community spaces, as well as in the character and language of architecture, the potential to make the built environment adaptable and resilient to contemporary challenges. In these terms, an initial theoretical reflection, whose main subject is the university campus and its contribution in terms of ecological impact and wise use of resources, will be followed by a description of the themes that guide sustainable design, which find application in the actions recently conducted on two Milan campuses of the Polytechnic University of Milan.
New Urban Centralities: Universities as a Paradigm for a Sustainable City
The Urban Book Series
Arbizzani, Eugenio (editor) / Cangelli, Eliana (editor) / Clemente, Carola (editor) / Cumo, Fabrizio (editor) / Giofrè, Francesca (editor) / Giovenale, Anna Maria (editor) / Palme, Massimo (editor) / Paris, Spartaco (editor) / Maitan, Camilla (author) / Faroldi, Emilio (author)
International Conference on Technological Imagination in the Green and Digital Transition ; 2022 ; Rome, Italy
2023-06-30
10 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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