T e c h n o l o g i c a l D i m e n s i o n
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TECHNOLOGICAL DIMENSION IN THE PROCESSES OF
HABITAT TRANSFORMATION: THE CONSCIOUS APPROACH
Francesco Girasante
1
& Gianmichele Panarelli
2
& Carlo Lufrano
3
& Andrea Scorrano
4
1
Associate Professor (coordinator), Department of Engineering and Geology, University “G.d’Annunzio”
Chieti-Pescara, Italy
2
PhD on Technological Culture and Design Innovation, Department of Engineering and Geology, University
“G.d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, Italy
3
PhD on Environmental Design, Department of Engineering and Geology, University “G.d’Annunzio” Chieti-
Pescara, Italy,
4
Architect expert on Bioclimatic design
Abstract
Today, the issue on how technique influences the development process of the
architectonic work is certainly an open issue. The interferences from external actors into
the building process and the request of specialist competences imposed from new
spatial needs and from environmental critical aspects determine a demand of high-
performance solutions, in order to resolve more and more articulate problems.
If the interest of a
design sustainable practice
is aimed to the aspects of “making the
architecture”, in a correct balance between forms and implementation modalities, we
must work to overcome the purely technical aspects of the building process, trying to
develop a technological-based culture – for designers and users – that allows the re-
appropriation of relationships between architectural works and its phases of construction
and utilization.
It is therefore necessary that the experimental and educational procedures for housing
intervention are focused on
conscious and responsible design principles.
Starting from a
vision of the building system as a
connection place
with contextual resources, these
principles will have to address the project through a new interpretation and
reconsideration of environmental components, in search of different and progressive
levels of synthesis and design coherence.
This contribution is intended to investigate four thematic aspects of this cultural position:
1. The ethical issue in the sustainable transformation process of the built-
environment and the evolutions
of sustainability concept
;
2. Improving the energy efficiency of buildings in the recovery interventions of
the existing building of social housing
;
3. The building replacement such as opportunity for urban-social regeneration
and such as solution to new contemporary housing needs. Experimental project
in L’Aquila:
methodological aspects and experimental project.
Keywords:
Building technology,
Mass customisation, Social
sustainability, Social
housing, Sustainable trasformation, Ethical consciousness, Environmental issue, Energy
issue, Technological awareness, Adaptive, Evolutive, Immaterial needs.
1. The ethical issue in the sustainable transformation process of the built-
environment and the evolutions
of sustainability concept.
Francesco Girasante
The housing policies for a long time show difficulty in giving concrete answers to the
issue of residence: on the one hand, the economic downturn, job uncertainty, the ethnic
and demographic changes, encourage the emergence of new and more diverse housing
needs and; on the other hand, environmental awareness, the energy issue, the
