MEMBRANES: A CHALLENGE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

Designing according to the indications of Sustainable Development is no longer an option: Architects and Engineers are called to respect not only the principles of economy, which have always characterized one of the main – if not the only – orientation criteria for design choices, but also and above all those of sociality and environmentality. Just the term environmentality – that is the substantivation of the adjective environmental – is not, as it seems, a neologism born after the publication of the Bruntland Report in 1997 [Bruntland, 1987]; it is a term already used by Heiddeger in his studies on Ontology [Heidegger & Mazzarella, 2008], and taken up in 1944 by Carabbellese in his interesting article, in which the Italian Philosopher relates the words Conscience and Environment in this way: «my work with conscience is not satisfied by a specific environment, in which in fact it is found, but it demands the environmentally as it is: the environment is not only a fact that I observe in my work with conscience, it is also and mainly an essential requirement of it»[Manno, 2002]. […]