Sustainable Mediterranean Construction
Sustainable Mediterranean Construction
The history of cities and city planning is covered with the impacts of industrial urban development described, as well as the contemporary concerns of biodiversity loss, peak oil and climate change. This study examines the need to find new approaches to the development of cities in order to become increasingly urgent in this age of continuing population growth, demographic transition, climate change, fossil fuel peak and biodiversity losses. Restoring ecosystem services and promoting biodiversity is essential to sustainable development – even in the built environment, because architecture and buildings are inseparable parts of a city. Particularly in modern and semi modern cities today, the dominance of buildings against natural environment is undeniable. As a matter of fact, during last century people’s reaction about environmental crisis in construction industry was nearly nothing.
001_ COVER AND INDEX
005_ VIEW_City, Nature and Design
Dora Francese
FOCUS ON BIOTIC / A-BIOTIC
023_ Cities designed as ecosystems: the new challenge for urban architectural design
Georgia Cheircantieri
028_Biometric of xerophilous plants in the design of water storage systems
Wedscley Melo, Itamar Silva, Pablo Torres
033_Human and Mediterranean environment: biotic interactions in the rural districts of Cilento
Giuseppe Vaccaro
040_Importance of green spaces in planning sustainable urban areas
Lea Petrovic Kranik, Vedrana Krizanic, Damir Kranik
047_Enforceability and benefits of Mediterranean green streets
Renata Valente, Salvatore Cozzolino, Pietro Ferrara
054_The microclimatic contribution of urban green fraction. Case study: Medellin, Colombia
Ricardo Ramirez-Naranjo, Maria Alejandra Herrera-Hurtado
060_The city is growing up: agricolture and urban regeneration
Alessandra Battisti
069_Path for the river rebirth of Olona Valley
Daniele Fanzini, Raffaella Riva, Raul Dal Santo
074_Water as valorization source and resilient element of historical built heritage
Chiara Marchionni, Marianna Rotilio, Pierluigi De Bernardinis
079_The role of water in the environmental design of urban space
Laura Daglio, Elena Mussinelli
084_The pratical aspect of teaching and research: a laboratory with natural materials in the Federal University of Pelotas
Sara Parlato, Ricardo Luis Sampaio Pintado
088_The historical city of Sfax – Tunisia: Valorization of the traditional building stone
Ben Ali Fouad, Raida Kchaw, Ali Abdelmonem Zribi
093_Simulation tools for energy performance evaluation on early stage of architectural design in academic context
Paulo Mendonça, Nzar Faiq, Jorge Fernandes, Ricardo Mateus
100_Adaptive retrofitting strategies for social and ecological balance in urban Mediterranean area
Cristiana Cellucci
105_Sustainable building materials for touristic Mediterranean infrastructures
Anna Maria Giovenale, Elisa Pennacchia, Fabrizio Cumo, Federico Cinquepalmi
110_Climate change adaptation and vegetation: the case of Ufa fabric
Federica Dell’Acqua
116_Palermo garden of Sicily
Tiziana Firrone, Carmelo Bustinto
125_The design of biotic environment fro balancing urban microclimate
Fabrizio Tucci, Domenico D’Olimpo
131_Sustainable materials for the design of the city: eco-compounds with recycled materials for the realization of urban flooring
Mercedes del Rio Merino, Jamie Santa Cruz Astorqui, Veronica Vitiello, Roberto Castelluccio, Paola Vittoria
136_Feasibility Study of a Low Carbon House in Tabriz, Iran
Sanaz Hariri Shaberstari, Hossein Mirzaii
140_The Kessariani Monastery: a significant testimony of Bizantine architecture
Emanuele La Mantia
146_The contribution of the park trees to the adaptation of a city to climate change: the case of Thessaloniki
D.N. Papagiannopoulou, T.K. Tsitsoni, A.B. Kontogianni
151_PHD RESULTS
