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The back ventilated façades in traditional materials as contribution to the sustainability in the Mediterranean area
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The theme of the sustainable urban design is more than ever central in the international debate and one of its most important issues is the energy saving during the entire life cycle of the buildings in which, in fact, considering a duration of fifty years, the energy’s costs are the higher: up to seven times the construction ones. In this panorama, the approach to the envelopes and the façades, the extreme interfaces with the environment, is one of the main elements of a correct way of re-thinking the whole design of the building and has a fundamental importance, especially in the Euro – Mediterranean area. The current technologies in order to achieve interesting results towards this direction are the solar and the photovoltaic panels and especially the back ventilated façades because they offer good reliability and several advantages, enhanced also for the non secondary possibility to be utilized in a large scale in pre-existent buildings. They are today well-established systems, but they are also constantly updated with new details and can be realized using a lot of materials, also the most traditional ones like the stone, the cotto and the wood, that can allow a correct insertion into the environment and the historical context.
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III International Conference on Architecture an Building Technologies
Regional Architecture in euro-mediterranean area
Ischia, 15-16 Aprile 2007
p. 498-503, Alinea, Firenze, 2010
edited by
Alessandro Bucci, Luigi Mollo
ISBN/ISSN: 9788860552938
