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3. Towards the smart city - use of vegetation for energy retrofits of buildings
and land use
The regeneration project concerns the transformation of urban areas and the recovery of three
buildings, which are located along the SS118 in the southern outskirts of Corleone Agrigentan,
which branches off the historic urban core.
In particular those concerning:
1. the ecological renovation of the buildings (fig.3). Containing emissions and use of alternative
energy in buildings. The refurbishing work includes the development system of the buildings
in terms of energy, through the use of vertical gardens on prospectuses of the buildings, the
use of photovoltaic on the roofs and micro wind turbines in the open areas intended for agricultural green / urban gardens;
2. the upgrading of the municipal gardens: green trails and paved paths for parking, an information point, a ticket office and service environments for users and for maintenance personnel of
the open spaces, an outdoor theater that looks out on an extraordinary landscape.
3. conversion green area in urban allotments - parcelling of the green area for agricultural land
subsidiary with a thistle and decumanus which incorporates the urban texture of Cianciana.
These two great boulevards will shape clearly defined area: the people, according to precise
rules, they will have the opportunity to grow their own products for private use and can expose them for sale at the ecological space.
4. processing of extra urban area - now abandoned - to be used as RV parking, to accommodate
the many visitors from all over the world.
5. the reclamation of an urban area of ​​small dimensions, which in the current state is in strong
state of building and environmental degradation; the Municipality, attentive to the decorum
and the urban quality, decided to intervene in this area with the design of plots of urban garden for the local community.
The restoration project aims to create new spaces for today’s meeting and socializing in which
the rehabilitated areas become the focal points of the dialogue between ciancianesi and foreign
nationals. All this in a logic of green city, where the man rediscovers the values of
​​ the land and
healthy life.
Retrofit of buildings - The retrofit includes a set of operations aimed at improving the performance of individual buildings and aims to its substantial improvement in terms of environmental
impact (table 4).
The ultimate goal is to transform the buildings with a system of greening / renaturation horizontally and vertically to reduce emissions into the environment.
The technologies of greening / renaturation of the buildings will allow to considerably decrease
the use of cooling systems for electrical pollutants. It is indeed an urgent need to comply with the
directives that the European Community indicates for containment. This greening / renaturation
of buildings is a system to integrate existing with the new paying attention to the future.
For renaturation of the buildings must be integrated other measures to achieve the ultimate goal
of sustainable redevelopment: the use of renewable energy, the use of environmentally friendly
materials and techniques for building insulation and therefore to improve the thermal comfort.
The measures provided for retrofitting the buildings were made system after thorough analysis
of the urban fabric, the study of pre-existing natural, as well as aspects of climate acting on the
buildings.
The retrofitting is also linked to the analysis of the intrinsic characteristics of the buildings, regarding their state of physical obsolescence, performance and installations (table 5).

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