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Progettare con l'energia. Il Mediterraneo fra tradizione e innovazione
CARCANGIU, ANGELO
Mediterranean
Mediterraneo
bioclimatic
bioclimatica
sostenibilità
sustainability
tradition and innovation
tradizione e innovazione
Settore ICAR/10 - Architettura Tecnica
Starting from the premise that the contemporary transformations in the Mediterranean
landscape have produced non places and architectures that are not recognisable by the
collectivity, the research considers the environmental issue as the key to critically review
the architectural solutions accrued during the man’s history in which the technique,
becoming a prerequisite for progress, has taken over the nature. The sustainability, as it
has been investigated in this thesis, is not only a value in time and space, but it is the way
for the reform of the project of Mediterranean architecture that is ecologically sound and
culturally recognisable.
The key used in order to investigate the sense of Mediterranean architecture and to
understand its evolution and the possible future developments in respect of sustainability
is the tradition. The concept of tradition is understood as selection of the repertoire of
knowledge inherited from the past through which the material culture is actualised in
compliance with the invariants that constitute its identity in respect with the continuity with
the present.
The goal is the definition of the principles that allow to an architecture to act sustainably to
the habitat, that changes the environment respecting its balance and its resources and the
needs of man. In this sense in this thesis is marked the importance of the minor
architectures, that result from a spontaneous process of adaptation, repetition and
assimilation of models in which are tested the principles of natural ventilation, the selection
of sunlight, the use of water in order to optimise the environmental comfort.
The intent is to build a reflection about the architecture of today, linking it with terms such
as "sustainability", "tradition" and "climate" and inserting these arguments within a
geographical and cultural context, at the same time relevant but also complex, that is the
Mediterranean area. It is described not only as an expression of a condition of
geographical location, but also through the translation of this condition in an architectural
language, which consciously prefers some principles in respect to others. Idea of
architecture, with precise formal features and space, recognisable only if fully associated
to its own context and cultural climate.
Through the description of several design experiences located in the Mediterranean basin
the thesis highlights some cases in which the project, the climate and the tradition closely
coexist.
The projects presented describes the compositional and formal quality, simplicity and
rigour, the research for a balance between tradition and innovation. This research, in fact,
while dealing with the bioclimatic architecture, explores one of the unresolved issues of the
sustainable architecture, which is the difficult conciliation of the eco-compatibility
requirements with the needs of the architectural composition and with the construction of
the form. On the one hand the scientific horizon, on the other the figurative one, are trying
to find a balance through the definition of their components: climate, architecture and man.
2015-05-18
info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
http://hdl.handle.net/11584/266797
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numberofpages:239
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Università degli Studi di Cagliari
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