PASSIVE HOUSE – Una “moderna” esigenza
La casa passiva (“PassivHaus” nella sua locuzione tedesca originaria) è una casa, o edificio, che è in grado di coprire la maggior parte del fabbisogno energetico sfruttando gli apporti solari (per il riscaldamento) ed elementi di ombreggiamento (per il raffrescamento). Questo, insieme ad impianti di ventilazione meccanica con recupero di calore, infissi ad alta prestazione […]
Building less is sustaiable for our future.
Building less is sustainable for the future. This is the global screening at 14.33 of today the 26th of October 2020. Building less and the increasing population The population increase today is 66,713,388. The actualised global population is 7.8 billion. We produced this year 65.2 million cars and spent today 2.8 billion dollars on […]
Living, Building, Place, Space
We architects design and construct buildings designed to live in. Looking for the meaning of the word “living” a few days ago, I happened to read an in-depth analysis of an essay by Heidegger (Building, living, thinking) published by Giuliano Antonello on his blog. I found it very interesting and current, and being an architect […]
How Covid-19 could change our cities
There is an ongoing process of dichotomizing the “dream concept” of the cities of the future (post-Covid cities). We have made cities grow dramatically to encourage the concentration of labour by bringing the worker ‘closer’ to the place of production. The main cities have still a medieval concentric organization of the territory where the city […]
