Industrial Heritage Rethinking: Flexibility Design for Eco-Friendly Environments
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Method
- Buildings’ ability to be repurposed for new uses: at the time of the project, it is necessary to analyze the territorial context in order to identify a use that is truly in the interest of the community, in order to ensure the preservation of the building through use over time; at the same time, it is necessary to act from a technological point of view with reversible construction systems that allow in the future to completely transform the use of the building according to the changing needs of the context;
- The modifiability of space size: which allows the amount of space to be increased to serve a given function;
- The modifiability of the subdivision of space: which allows you to choose how to use a given space with respect to its temporary function;
- The modifiability of the building envelope: which allows the performance of the envelope to vary both as a function of climatic changes and as the intended use changes over time; in addition, the modifiability of the envelope allows the building to be easily maintained.
2.1. Identification of Compatible Uses in the Specific Territory
2.2. Identification of Local Resources
2.3. Identification of Pre-Existing Building Values and Design Invariants
2.4. The Design of Flexibility
- Occupied space: it is a static space in which functions are placed that cannot be varied; think for example of spaces strongly related to the installations component or functional spaces to make flexible/dynamic spaces related to it;
- Dynamic space: it is the space that varies in both size and mode of use; multiple use of space allows efficient use of space; the more functions that can be superimposed, the more space is saved;
- Indifferent space: it is the access/concurrence space that allows movement in the space by switching from one function to another and that while free is not affected by variations; it is also a static space but is not related to activities specifically related to the intended use of the building.
- To analyze the relationship between the various uses of the available space and consider how people will move through it as they go about their day; this involves charting interactions between uses and areas for movement or access in the most realistic and adaptable way possible. It is crucial to include the perspective of the person(s) who will be using the space.
- To identify functional macro-areas (accesses, routes, parking spaces, specific functions), assessing the relevance of the facility component for each function.
- To design the installations with respect to the macro-areas by identifying which of them are flexible (as they serve dynamic functions) and which are stable and therefore can be included among the design invariants and allocated in the occupied spaces.
- To define what the specific requirements of each functional area are in two respects: (i) to define minimum and maximum use spaces and identify dimensionally a basic module; (ii) to define the environmental performance of the space according to the various uses.
- To design one or more macro-modules resulting from the combination of basic modules that allow for dimensionally and functionally different spaces congruent with the requirements determined in the previous phase and the pre-existence.
- To design a building system compatible with the pre-existence and the size and performance requirements of the macro-modules.
- To design from a technological point of view the ways in which the macro-modules can be varied such that the space is dynamic and the ways in which the building system can be varied such that the environmental performance of the envelope is compatible with all identified uses.
3. Results
4. Discussion
- New volumes are generated to be managed with new air conditioning and fluid adduction and deduction systems (the smaller the volumes, the easier and cheaper it will be to heat them);
- New materials, very different in thermal properties from the original ones, are used to make the new functional blocks (if materials are derived from the supply chain and are chosen with adequate attention to their thermo-physical properties, they can substantially contribute to optimizing the energy performance of the entire architectural complex).
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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De Gregorio, S.; De Vita, M.; Paris, A. Industrial Heritage Rethinking: Flexibility Design for Eco-Friendly Environments. Buildings 2023, 13, 1048. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13041048
De Gregorio S, De Vita M, Paris A. Industrial Heritage Rethinking: Flexibility Design for Eco-Friendly Environments. Buildings. 2023; 13(4):1048. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13041048
Chicago/Turabian StyleDe Gregorio, Stefania, Mariangela De Vita, and Anna Paris. 2023. "Industrial Heritage Rethinking: Flexibility Design for Eco-Friendly Environments" Buildings 13, no. 4: 1048. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13041048