Description
The proposed design solution aimed to integrate the requirements underlying the call for tenders with an advanced concept of living space design, putting forward a revisited idea of housing which, while respecting the national and local regulatory standards in force, would adapt housing supply to the emerging needs of contemporary society, particularly in the context of affordable social housing.
The project put in practice the principles of bioclimatic architecture, seeking to maximize the reduction of the building’s energy consumption by putting in place passive solar systems, allowing for all the necessary corrections to always maintain a high level of environmental comfort inside the flats, eliminating or reducing the problems linked to performance peaks.
The problem of the “sick home syndrome” was tackled by proposing layouts which, through the segregation of the most-at-risk functions, allow to reduce the hygiene problems that negatively affect the quality of life inside the flat. Concrete proposals for passive bioclimatic solutions have been put forward, entirely compatible with the building typologies object of the competition, reinterpreting and integrating with each other concepts and solutions of proven reliability, already tested in similar contexts, at national and European levels.
Finally, innovative layouts were proposed for the housing units both to give maximum yield to the available surfaces, eliminating or reducing, as far as possible, the so-called “dead spaces”, and to simplify the airflows across the housing units with a consequent significant improvement in the performance of the passive solar systems adopted. All this realized in full compliance with the current building regulations.
Thechnical Data
- Type: Contests and competitions
- Location: Loc. Gabelletta, Terni (TR), Italy
- Project: 2011
- Built: –
- Area: 664,00 sqm
- Client: City of Terni
- Manufacturers: –
- Production cost: 1.300.000,00 euro
- Status: Competition boards