Workshop SOS5 + AA

Martina Bertoncini
10 giu 2019
Tempo di lettura: 3 min

Aggiornamento: 20 ago 2019

SOS5 team join 4 day workshop with students coming from Architectural Assosiation - Msc and March in Sustainable Environmental Desing (London). 3-7th june, Bologna.

/ GROUP 1 _ Nature Based Solutions for Fiuggi and its territories: strategies and actions for protecting and enhancing human & environmental health

Starting form transdisciplinary mode of research, the students should investigate and propose scalable and transferable Nature Based solutions for Fiuggi and its territories from the healing properties of water and the existing network of hotels and thermae. The workshop will take in consideration the outocomes given by the preliminary investigations and critical evaluations on the context’s conditions, such as the mapping of both physical and intangible strategic assets as well as the directions given by the on-going partecipatory process with the community.

In particular the students should consider the resources given by the presence of outdoor spaces in Fiuggi as one of the most effective way of finding solutions capable of addressing environmental sustainabilty. Public spaces can be analysed according to a variety of factors, that, besides the environmental one, can also involve economic, social and mobility-related ones. Only a deep investigation of all these aspects together can lead to a comprhensive analysis of the outdoor spaces with the aim of providing the right design solution for each space.

The result of the work should be a systemic framework of solutions that will guide both the masterprogram and the pilot project of spatial regeneration at architectural scale, to be presented to the city and its community within the next few months.

/ GROUP 2 _ Retrofit Strategies for Climate Change: defining the best modular and flexible facade to suite future lives of the building.

The workshop will deal with the environmental optimization of the facade permormance in the hot and humid climate of the UAE. The aim is to define an abacus of different type of modular and flexible facade, both opaque or transparent with shading systems, looking for innovative and adaptive solutions. As soon as the project would be defined, the best suitable facade based on the orientation and on the destination use, could be chosen from the abacus.

The students will have the chance to work together and share their knowledge in order to define the best strategies in this particularly challenging climate.

/ GOUP 3 _ Tackling global homelessness through 3D-printing technologies

The workshop will deal with the environmental optimization of a 3d-printed envelope for different climatic locations. The result will be a 3d-printed “skin” whose parameters (number-size-type of layers / texture…) are defined and can be modified according to a series of climatic parameters. The preferred material to be used, given its intrinsic environmental sustainability, is earth but the team can eventually question its applicability in some climatic conditions and provide a more suitable alternative.

The students will have the chance to work together with several experts in the field that will help them understand 3d-printing principles, while also supporting them with the modeling of an innovative combination of layers able to enhance the environmental performance of a building.

The students will initially work jointly to define the basic parameters of the envelope they are optimising, but they will then elaborate on 4 particular envelopes for 4 different climatic conditions: mediterranean / hot and humid / hot and dry / cold (and, for this, they can momentarily split into 4 sub-teams).

The proposals will be also printed (in a smaller scale) to test their suitability and, possibly, to test them through a series of measurements.