Authors:Mario Losasso Pages: 7 - 9 Abstract: In architecture, the dialectics between regulation and design belong to a very broad field of objects, tools, characteristics, performance, relations and behaviours. It is necessary to refer to these aspects in defining prefigurative, design or management actions in interventions on the built environment. In general, regulations establish a system of values to which they can be compared, starting from a theoretical and methodological field, and then moving on to areas ranging from knowledge to the effects on the territories. Unlike the rule, which provides its meaning in the act of observing it, the regulation has a dual aspect. The first concerns an imperative and precept formulation, the second the reference to custom or practice. Hence, it oscillates between binding prescription and non-binding information levels or recommendations. Through the regulatory action, architecture has constantly strived to remove itself from arbitrary conditions. Normative frameworks define principles and rules, including both unplanned ones, as well as decision support tools like manuals and technical information, specifications and regulations. These standards manage various aspects of control and management of the multiple qualities of architecture. Within the building process, the standard finally expresses the collective needs to define a regulatory mechanism capable of avoiding conflicts between various subjects, needs and instances. The evolution of normative culture has shifted from a system of objective regulations, aimed at defining characteristics and functions of specific building objects to rationalise what exists, to more flexible regulations that are predominantly suggestions for performance. These performance standards focus on meeting specific spatial, technical and environmental requirements an ‘object’ must provide at the moment of its use. They are attentive to a quality that does not depend on construction solutions or on techno-typological, morphological or physical-chemical characteristics, but which is linked to a system of needs to be satisfied, the outcome of the interaction between construction and cultural, socio-economic and environmental context. Today’s regulatory landscape has expanded, increasing sensitivities to environmental challenges, health and the qualities of living space. There has been a shift from regulation through standards and deterministic technical-constructive prescriptions to performance standards and a regulatory space, which is more open today, and which interacts with emerging issues. In our country, university research on regulatory culture has long featured the technological culture of design, production and building processes, with the contribution of numerous theoretical and applicative studies. In the most recent concepts, approaches based on sets of measurable indicators and application criteria are being successfully explored through the verification of compliance with reference values, predetermined requirements and objectives to be achieved. This allows a greater interest on process results and spin-offs, and not only on the qualities of the output produced. Today, the implementation of sustainability issues has widened the scope to directives, laws, standards and certifications. The relationship between design and regulations is developed with a broad reference to the multiple levels of standardisation according to mechanisms such as those expressed by the operational sequence of European directives for member states to which national laws must conform, progressively assuming levels of cogency. In recent years, the framework of legislative devices has been given considerable impetus by the advancement of issues on the quality of design and construction, as well as on the protection of the environment and people’s health. Finally, the regulation of the management of urban and housing complexity has opened up the field to both general and detailed standardisation processes. Additionally, in recent years, the energy, climate and geopolitical emergencies have generated a highly articulated chain of regulations, both guideline and mandatory. The important ministerial action of reorganising regulatory devices was also implemented by bringing specific specialised regulations within general frameworks (such as the Consolidated Text on Construction, the legislative device on urban regeneration or land consumption). On a national level, plans and programmes, which can potentially be identified as guidelines for executive planning, have become increasingly important. An example is provided by what will be the transition from the recently adopted – on 22.12.2023 – PNACC – Piano Nazionale di Adattamento ai Cambiamenti Climatici (National Climate Change Adaptation Plan) to the implementation of climate adaptation strategies and actions to be developed at regional and local scales. Another level of standardisation concerns addresses, guidelines and performance standards defined within ministerial calls for tenders. Innovation concerning such calls is also emphasised in the effects on territories. In this case, the regulatory scenario gives value to the process, rather than to the product-project alone. The PINQuA – Programma Innovativo Nazionale per la Qualità dell’Abitare (National Innovative Programme for the Quality of Living) provides a significant example of this aspect. In fact, the innovative elements in this programme include the introduction of a rewarding approach based on results and performance measured through criteria that, ... PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-16053
Authors:Elena Mussinelli Pages: 10 - 14 Abstract: In the Italian context, the first law directly affecting the urban planning and building sector dates back to approximately 160 years ago, precisely Law 2248/1865. It established the administrative unification of the Kingdom of Italy, empowering municipal councils to deliberate on ‘hygiene, building and local police regulations’, and was followed a few months later by Law 2359/1865 on expropriations for public purpose. By contrast, the first regulations for the protection of artistic, historical, archaeological and ethnographic heritage (1089/1938), and natural beauty (1497/1939), are just over 80 years old. From that time onwards, the rules governing planning and design actions have been considerably enriched and developed. Hence, it is worth reflecting on the effectiveness and efficiency of a regulatory framework that has been governing territorial, urban and building transformations in an increasingly articulated and specialised manner with a view to improving the quality and sustainability of natural and anthropic habitats. Moreover, its ability to govern the ways, times and cultural and technical contents of the project production process to carry out high quality creations is worthy of consideration. Perhaps the issue of standardisation has never been the centre of attention in all sectors of civil life as today: in public administration and scientific research, among economic operators, planners, and citizens themselves. Regulatory systems are increasingly pervasive in regulating design activity and the characteristics of works in response to a general «increase in the variety and complexity of public interests that appear worthy of protection, such as the quality of the environment, the safeguarding of the natural and historical-artistic heritage, the protection of health, the safety of persons, and security […]» (Bassanini et al., 2005). Changing interests require frequent updates to adapt regulations to rapid socio-economic, cultural, and technological changes. The centres of regulatory production have also multiplied, breaking up into different levels and sectors of regulation, namely with multi-level (international, EU, national, regional, local), sectoral (economy, environment, territory, landscape, infrastructure, cultural heritage, health, etc.) and institutional governance structures, with corresponding different interests (public/private, collective/individual) and complicated relationships of interconnection, conditionality and/or competition (Raveraira, 2009). The scenario is even more complex, if we broaden the scope to include, in addition to prescriptive and binding rules, the vast universe of guiding principles, voluntary standards, guidelines, best practices, etc. Moreover, also due to the nature of the legal system model of reference (civil law derived from Roman law, as opposed to the common law of English-speaking countries, founded on the binding force of practice and judgements), Italian legislation has been stratified by an anomalous number of rules, which are often not mutually coordinated, sometimes contradictory or bearing inconsistent definitions. They are either incapable of producing the desired results, or are not the cause of effects even diametrically opposed to those expected. The attempt to solve every problem through a special regulation results in limiting the free and responsible action of citizens (and planners). Indeed, as Marco Romano points out, «to reduce people’s desires to rights codified in the doctrine of planning, imposed by enlightened and pedagogical governments on rebellious citizens unaware of their own good, is to erase what makes them citizens: the diversity of their individual life projects» (Romano, 2013). On the other hand, the discrepancy between this regulatory approach and the reality that surrounds us is evident. On Alessandro Pizzorno’s death, Fabrizio Schiaffonati recalled how, back in the 1960s, the doyen of Italian political sociology had already warned that in Italy «everything must be regulated so that everything can be conceded», pointing out that «this is still the case nowadays, more than half a century later, with good peace for the quality of the project, which is overwhelmed by constraints and contradictory procedures that are obstructive to a necessary qualitative transformation of the anthropic environment within proper time and costs» (Schiaffonati, 2019). This hypertrophic growth of laws and regulations (a true ‘legislative inflation’ or ‘regulatory pollution’) is accompanied by their rapid variability over time, so much so that a building intervention begun within a given legislative framework risks being completed in the presence of a different regulatory framework, which would not have allowed its execution, and vice versa. Not to mention the «badly written, lengthy regulations that are difficult to read and even more difficult to apply, (which) now represent a constant factor with which even the most prepared and motivated operator must come to terms» (Gorlani, 2022), which lead to confusion and interpretative doubts. This makes bureaucratic formalities unnecessarily complex, overloads administrative action, and increases the regulatory and management costs for citizens, businesses and the public institutions themselves, including those dedicated to monitoring and control actions (which, in a context of shrinking public resources, are often the first to be lacking…). Legal uncertainty leads to opaque, if not arbitrary decisions, facilitates corruption, increases discrimination and social conflict, and limits economic d... PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-16054
Authors:Elisabetta Ginelli, Laura Daglio, Franco Zinna Pages: 46 - 53 Abstract: Design is nowadays facing a system of rules that has over time responded to the growing complexity of construction with a regulatory proliferation that acts precautionarily against infringements and the condition of “anomie”. This paper outlines new interpretative models of the relationship between rules and design that, overcoming this impasse, guarantee quality, flexibility, experimentation and innovation. Based on the illustration of the regulatory tasks positioned between obligation and guideline, and between duty and opportunity, keywords are highlighted to illuminate its peculiar aspects, demonstrating how the necessary paradigm shift is already inherent in its own conception. Finally, starting from a recent French case study, the essay summarises experimental approaches and strategies that pursue a possible innovation in national regulatory models. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15168
Authors:Piergiorgio Vitillo Pages: 54 - 59 Abstract: This essay developed from research and design work associated with the regulation of architectural-urban projects and urban planning. Over time, planning and building regulations have progressively lost the necessary attention toward the compositional and technical aspects of design, and its contextualisation with the city, in favour of administrative, legal and procedural aspects. Beginning with their progressive evolution, the essay explores three particular themes with the intention of restoring the central role of design: moving from a principle of conformity to one of coherence; exercising the capacity to express an urban grammar; favouring practices of adaptive reuse. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15108
Authors:Daniele Fanzini Pages: 60 - 65 Abstract: The regulations viewed as a system of recognised and agreed values must take into consideration the complexity of the relationship between humankind and the environment. This presents an ethical problem with regards to the collective moral conduct during the design of the project and the definition of adequate methodologies to support this dimension. The participatory formulae pursue this possibility but with solutions that are partially ineffective due to the asymmetry between the knowledge of the expert and of the non-expert, and the different resources available to institutional and non-institutional actors. The analysis of the regulations and a case study identifies certain critical issues and possible solutions to resolve them, which involve the role of the design architect in society. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15112
Authors:Michele Marchi Pages: 66 - 73 Abstract: There are rules that provide shared information with the aim of guiding the behaviour of individuals or the community regarding spaces, processes and products. Therefore, the goal is to start a normalisation and standardisation procedure, which allows to solve a specific problem. With regard to the culture and practice of accessibility of spaces and environments, the reference legislation (Law 13/89, Presidential Decree 24 July 1996, n. 503, ISO 21541:2021, Ministerial Decree 236/89, UNI 17210:2021) is not only rather obsolete, but also excludes a large part of potential users. This paper aims to open a debate on the current operational tools in order to evaluate and design an inclusive context, proposing a new, more performing and universal one. The culture of accessibility is not only the scrupulous and scientific observance of the rules. It also means combining both quantitative and qualitative needs; therefore, providing environmental well-being. Thanks to the critical description of reference or experimental evaluation or design tools (HCD participatory methodologies for the definition of needs analyses, Quality Function Deployment for the tracking of technical specifications, ICF with a focus on UNI activities, laws, decrees and regulations to observe the Rule), this paper describes some projects that attempted to go beyond the rule, providing an inclusive context and space to meet people’s actual needs. Therefore, putting some operational tools into functional synergy (Rules, Inclusive Methodologies, ICF, QFD) to define a new multi-criteria tool can be an excellent starting point to develop, for each specific environmental context, a list of expectations that are important for planning and evaluation. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15109
Authors:Roberto Bolici Pages: 74 - 80 Abstract: Even today we are faced with a social demand for safer urban spaces. Composition, functional features and management of such spaces are the principles behind a quality and, therefore, safe urban project. However, the orientation to safety and, therefore, to the prevention of those places requires great attention to the structure, organisation and methods of use. The “environmental design” is the perspective, and the application of UNI CEN/TS 14383-2:2023 goes in this direction. A useful tool for the project, this paper highlights the dual function of the Technical Specification, both as a ‘guide’ during the design phase, and as a tool for the ‘verification’ of the project’s final result. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15134
Authors:Maicol Negrello Pages: 81 - 88 Abstract: The need to reconfigure current supply models to address future climate and demographic scenarios has driven researchers and investors to experiment with innovative production systems that have reconnected agricultural production to the point of consumption, namely cities. The technological acceleration of the past decade has led to the emergence of new urban architectures and metabolisms, often created within regulatory gaps and constraints arising from the obsolescence of zoning plans or building regulations. This paper outlines the state of the art of technological innovation and how, along with design, it has reshaped norms. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15136
Authors:Sergio Russo Ermolli, Giuliano Galluccio Pages: 89 - 98 Abstract: This paper reflects on the results of the recent technical policy for energy requalification in Italy, focusing on both the European objectives of decarbonisation, circularity and industrialisation of the sector, and the size and characteristics of demand. Starting from the comparison between the two main models of efficiency of the public and private building stock, based respectively on the Minimum Environmental Criteria and the Superbonus, the study examines the effectiveness and limitations of the measures for private construction, which constitutes the majority share of the entire Italian building stock. The study identifies the Energiesprong model as a possible way to improve the management and quality of energy requalification interventions capable of expanding their effectiveness beyond the environmental point of view. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15111
Authors:Rossella Maspoli Pages: 99 - 109 Abstract: The New Public Contracts Code (NPCC, Legislative Decree no. 36/2023) represents a significant intervention in the fourth systematisation of the planning-authorisation-execution process over the past thirty years, occurring during a phase of transition. This Code lays out the principles of “result” and “trust” and proposes a unified self-executing set of rules, with its objectives assessed in terms of incentives and guarantees for the quality and its outcomes. From a multifactorial perspective, this Code is connected to a variety of technical-administrative and requirement-performance scenarios. These encompass project conception, programme, qualification of the involved parties, environment and sustainability, technical advancement, qualification of building materials, construction execution and standards for the maintenance and facility management of buildings. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15124
Authors:Giovanni Castaldo, Davide Cerati, Francesco Vitola Pages: 110 - 118 Abstract: This essay develops a critical reflection on the effectiveness of design verification procedures and tools with regard to the actual improvement of the quality of public works projects. After a regulatory and lexical examination, the main criticalities that characterise the validation process between the design and construction of public works in the Italian context are examined in depth. The effectiveness of the current inspection process is empirically evaluated by analysing a database of an accredited inspection organisation, identifying prospects of innovation and criteria for adaptation to the contemporary context of project production. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15128
Authors:Anna Maria Giovenale, Virginia Adele Tiburcio Pages: 119 - 128 Abstract: In recent decades, the complexity arising from changes in the social, economic, technological and environmental context has led to an increase in regulations governing the design activity. The technological evolution of digitalisation has resulted in greater emphasis on the control of design and implementation quality, thus requiring the introduction of new tools and methods to manage the vast amount of information and data during the building processes. In this context, the Employer’s Information Requirement plays a crucial role as a procedural innovation. This article proposes guidelines for the Employer’s Information Requirement to support the client in defining specific requirements and to guide designers with regard to information management. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15122
Authors:Laura Sacchetti, Nicoletta Setola, Göran Lindahl Pages: 129 - 136 Abstract: Against the backdrop of the complex healthcare design process and the absence of national regulations on the functional and spatial organisation of healthcare facilities, this paper discusses the Swedish use of non-regulatory Concept Programmes, i.e. orientation tools for the conceptual stages of design conceived to facilitate the systematic transfer of knowledge from research and best practices to the design practice. A comparison is also made with the design approach and the norm in the Italian context, stimulating a two-fold debate on: the tools and methods needed to guide the design of primary care facilities; the process that should lead to the definition of such tools. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15066
Authors:Fabrizio Tucci, Serena Baiani, Paola Altamura, Gaia Turchetti Pages: 137 - 150 Abstract: Defining procedural processes to support the involvement and empowerment of citizens, the main target of climate change, in order to integrate them into the holistic process of adaptation to extreme events is nowadays an extremely topical issue. Research is working towards the progressive standardisation of this process. The paper focuses on the outcomes of research on integrating the participatory approach into a methodology for climate proofing of the urban environment. The research results are include directions for increasing resilience through a cyclic step-by-step process for planning, prevention and management of the effects of disasters, centred on the involvement of different stakeholders, as well as the outcomes of the experimentation of such a process on three public housing (ERP) neighbourhoods in Rome. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15170
Authors:Rosa Romano, Eleonora Di Monte, Antonia Sore Pages: 151 - 166 Abstract: This paper shows some results of the research activities carried out in the spoke five of the National Biodiversity Future Center aimed at testing the effectiveness of urban regeneration projects, including the creation of Pocket Parks as adaptation strategies to climate change. The methodological approach adopted to validate the design of small scale resilient urban spaces implemented by the Municipality of Florence will be presented starting from the definition of state-of-the-art. Furthermore, it will analyse how the meta-planning model (based on the integration of NbS) and the predictive tools used in the experimentation can be used to develop future regulatory tools for planning and controlling the transformation of the built environment. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15132
Authors:Andrea Tartaglia, Massimo Babudri, Filippo Salucci, Riccardo Pacini, Annamaria Sereni Pages: 167 - 176 Abstract: Public administrations, called upon to integrate the principles and criteria of Do No Significant Harm (DNSH) and Environmental Socia, Governance (ESG) in the planning, design and production of their investments, now find themselves operating within new decision-making scenerios and models, in the very broad framework of standards, including specialised ones, certification protocols and framework levels for sustainability assessment and reporting. This paper reports on a research experience aimed at defining tools and guidelines to incentivise and assess the environmental and social quality of projects and works (a collaboration between Agenzia del Demanio and Politecnico di Milano). It documents the challenges, limits and opportunities arising from overlapping compulsory regulations, standards and voluntary certification protocols for the qualification of public works. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15129
Authors:Carola Clemente, Anna Mangiatordi, Mariangela Zagaria Pages: 177 - 187 Abstract: This paper recounts the experience of the scientific collaboration agreement of the research group from DiAP, Sapienza University, Rome, with the municipality of Rome’s CSIMU (Coordination of Infrastructure Development and Urban Maintenance) Department to provide technical support in the phase of drawing up the DIP (Technical Project Brief) and of verifying and validating the PFTE (Technical and Economic Feasibility Design) within the Institutional Development Contract programme titled “CIS – Roma Scuole Verdi”. For its articulation of involved parties, complexity of the operative and regulatory framework, and size of interventions, CIS is considered a best practice of inter-institutional partnership and of capitalisation of technical know-how and skills aimed at achieving quality objectives in processes implementing strategic works. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15137
Authors:Elisa Roncaccia, Roberta Cocci Grifoni, Maria Federica Ottone Pages: 188 - 196 Abstract: Regulatory references governing design activities have gradually expanded, and national and EU regulations often overlap redundantly. This aspect is particularly evident in environmental obligations, where the Italian requirements about Minimum Environmental Criteria (CAM) have been supplemented by the constraints of the Do No Significant Harm principle (DNSH) introduced for all PNRR (National Recovery and Resilience Plan) measures. A process of rationalisation and synthesis has been conducted for the regulations to address their interpretational complexity, enabling the differentiation of overlaps and novel elements. The result is a tool to support designers, validating authorities and administrations responsible for measures. It is helpful in guiding design choices, monitoring compliance with different requirements and verifying environmental quality. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15070
Authors:Eduardo Bassolino Pages: 197 - 206 Abstract: The regulations on green investments and sustainable economic activities introduced by the European Union, which were immediately applied in response to the pandemic crisis in order to control recovery measures under the NextGenerationEU, introduced the concept “do no significant harm” (DNSH). Referring to the EU Taxonomy, it binds implementation of the PNRR and PDC interventions to a stringent control of actual sustainability. The technical and economic feasibility projects of the PINQuA quality of living programme for North Naples and the Litorale Domizio, developed for the third-party activity by the Federico II Department of Architecture are the focus of research aimed at achieving EU objectives of environmental sustainability. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-14878
Authors:Claudio Piferi Pages: 207 - 216 Abstract: Calls for tenders published since 2001 under Law no. 338/00 have been characterised over the years by a gradual reduction in the standards and functional areas prescribed. This contraction, strongly accentuated by the decrees recently issued to reach 7,500 accommodation places by 2022 and 60,000 by 2026, risks undermining the virtuousness of the law by focusing primarily on economic and managerial aspects rather than on the quality of student housing and education. By collecting and processing unique data in terms of number and originality, this paper analyses and systematises the e(in)volution of the legal framework by comparing it with over 350 projects and constructions of university residences co-financed under the above-mentioned calls. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15103
Authors:Cristiana Perego, Angela Silvia Pavesi, Ilaria Oberti Pages: 217 - 228 Abstract: In Italy Law 112/16, known as Law Dopo di Noi, introduced specific protections in our system to promote the deinstitutionalisation of people with disabilities, allocating economic resources to Regions to realise new housing welfare infrastructures and initiatives to support autonomous living paths, in view of the family support loss and in respect of the individual “Progetto di Vita” (Life project) of people with disabilities. This paper reports results of a research promoted by “Dipartimento per le Politiche in Favore delle Persone con Disabilità” of the Presidency of Council of Ministers, in which tools to support the co-design of housing interventions aimed at social inclusion were elaborated, for the future of people with disabilities. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15127
Authors:Francesca Giofrè Pages: 229 - 236 Abstract: This paper presents the results of the research commissioned by Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS (Institute for Scientific Hospitalisation and Treatment) in Rome and conducted at the Department of Architecture and Design, Sapienza University of Rome. The study aimed to define the minimum dimensional standard for hospital inpatient rooms with two beds and one bed, excluding toilet facilities, located in Complex Operational Units for Highly Specialised Neurorehabilitation. The methodology used in the research was based on the collection of qualitative and quantitative data. Given the analysis of the complexity of the activities performed and the overall space required, the final result identifies the minimum surface area standard of 20 sq.m. per bed for neurorehabilitation inpatient rooms. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15104
Authors:Andrea Campioli, Oscar Eugenio Bellini, Chiara Bernardini, Serena Giorgi, Giancarlo Paganin Pages: 237 - 248 Abstract: Nowadays, the transformation processes of the built environment, particularly those with the “common good” as their target, face complex regulatory systems organised in multiple areas, levels and scales. The different legislations often hinder the possibility of achieving the defined objectives due to the inability to interpret and translate the contents of these instruments into practice, and the difficulty of coordinating the tools as a result of different perspectives and goals. The research addresses this critical issue within the redevelopment and value-enhancement processes of properties confiscated from organised crime by proposing an innovative management model, which systematises the rules and roles of multiple subjects, increasing the social impact of requalification actions. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15135
Authors:Maria Fabrizia Clemente, Giuseppina Santomartino Pages: 249 - 258 Abstract: Dehors are an integral part of the urban context and image especially in consolidated historical contexts; therefore, their size and functional-spatial design must be regulated, taking into account both technical compliance and the environmental and architectural quality of the interventions in a process that considers the standard as a guiding measure to increase the quality of the interventions protecting public, private and city needs. This paper is developed following a technical-scientific agreement aimed at supporting the City Administration in defining new Regulations for the discipline of public spaces in the UNESCO site and buffer zone of Naples. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15142
Authors:Caterina Claudia Musarella, Giovanni Cavanna Pages: 259 - 269 Abstract: The research identifies an innovative process for the performance assessment of façades. Starting from the harmonised technical specifications, it defines a Method Statement that considers the responses to climate change in progress. This document, drawn up based on know-how gained as a result of experiments conducted on façade components, was created as a support tool for the National Technical Assessment body-TAB. The methodology is deductive with an interdisciplinary approach applied to testing activities in its obligatory and experimental aspects. The research is based on process innovation, performance evaluations and quality controls of the project from a constructive-environmental perspective. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15096
Authors:Martino Milardi, Mariateresa Mandaglio, Enrico Sergio Mazzucchelli, Paolo Rigone, Paolo Giussani Pages: 270 - 278 Abstract: The current regulations on building envelope requirements are no longer related only to aspects of energy efficiency or guarantee of durability over time, but also to new performance scenarios concerning technological systems in relation to adaptation, mitigation and resilience to increasingly frequent extreme climate events. The research aims to analyse causes, effects and potential strategies to increase the resilience of the building envelope in case of extreme events, proposing solutions to reduce the consequences of the impact of flying debris on the building envelope. The contribution is the result of a research activity conducted within the HORIZON METABUILDING LABS Innovation research project. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15116
Authors:Marianna Nigra, Caterina Barioglio, Daniele Campobenedetto Pages: 279 - 288 Abstract: The objective of this paper is to explore the role of urban codes in the transformation processes of the ordinary city. By focusing on the case study of the City of Turin, the article investigates the relationship between the regulatory system and urban form through the “window” element, providing suggestions for acting on building planning and regulation tools. In particular, the object of the research is the set of rules relating to the performance of buildings with respect to the supply of daylight and its implementation with the environmental regulation system. The paper proposes an integration to the Building Regulations, with the aim of reorienting the use of rules both as control tools during the project (and not exclusively as ex post verification), and as devices capable of enabling ordinary transformations of the city. PubDate: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.36253/techne-15123
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