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International Conference | Bari - Lecce, Italy
Session III
BUILDING RENOVATION, SUSTAINABILITY AND
URBAN REGENERATION
Rosa Maria Vitrano1
1 Department of Architecture, University of Palermo, ITALY, [email protected]
Abstract
The paper investigates issues related to the principles of eco-sustainability and criteria of design choice to be made in respect to the characteristics of the interventions. It proposes cases
of recovery and re-use sustainable in Sicily, whose choices of action were made in respect of
the environment and local traditions. General directives: reduction of the energy consumption; use of recycled and recyclable materials;improvement of the thermo/igrometric. The
programming is based not only on the control of the performance, but on an idea of global
quality of the operations. The correspondence between the needs and the requirements of
the organism and the norms that protect the user, it’s a necessary condition to complete a
renovation project and achieving the objectives
Keywords
renovation, building renewal, sustainable, regeneration, rehabilitation
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