VITRUVIO - International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability - Vol 04, No 2 (2019)

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Editorial

  • Engaging architectural heritage in climate action


Artículos

  • The Alfonso Garofalo pasta factory in Gragnano, Naples, Italy: history, technologies and hypotheses of reuse
  • Retrofitting of Company Towns’ residential buildings: from international best practices to local implementations in Friuli Venezia Giulia region (NE Italy)
  • Investigation of historic, constructive, spatial and pathological aspects regarding the IBC (Instituto Brasileiro do Café) in Presidente Prudente, Brazil
  • The rehabilitation of buildings. Reflections on construction systems for the environmental sustainability of interventions
  • The Alhambra master plan (2007-2020) as a strategic model of preventive conservation of cultural heritage
  • Socio-spatial analysis of the vulnerable urban fabric in the city of Barcelona


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    The Alhambra master plan (2007-2020) as a strategic model of preventive conservation of cultural heritage
    (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-12-20) Villafranca Jiménez, Mª Mar; Gutiérrez-Carrillo, M. Lourdes; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
    [EN] The preventive conservation of cultural assets involves a strategy to analyse and control the factors which cause their deterioration. The main aim is to guarantee their stability and the sustainable maintenance. The Alhambra and Generalife Site has been exposed to numerous risk factors over time which have left their mark on its fabric. On some occasions these have had serious effects which now present significant challenges for the comprehensive conservation of assets at the Site. During the twentieth century the Alhambra became a preserve for which a set of conservation and maintenance plans were developed, the first of which was the Special Protection and Interior Reform Plan for the Alhambra and Alijares (1987). Subsequently, the current Alhambra Master Plan (2007-2020) was instigated.This paper examines the plan´s innovative methodological approach and its proposals regarding preventive conservation in circumstances under which its location precipitates natural and anthropic risk
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    Retrofitting of Company Towns’ residential buildings: from international best practices to local implementations in Friuli Venezia Giulia region (NE Italy)
    (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-12-20) Santi, Maria Vittoria; Laiola, Giovanna Saveria; Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia
    [EN] The paper illustrates the retrofit of company towns’ heritage, focusing on energy efficiency strategies for residential buildings with the aim to highlight the best practices, the solutions and methodologies to be implemented for the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region in NE Italy. The starting point is a comprehensive analysis of company town’s retrofit strategies featuring a comparison among relevant examples from Europe and Italy. Unesco industrial sites, sites by the Modern Movement, and Italian well-known workers’ villages are included in the analysis. The evaluation of the retrofit solutions takes into consideration aspects of protection and valorisation, functional renovation, and environmental sustainability upgrade. As a result, common strategies for the energy retrofit of company towns’ residential heritage are identified and summarised as the first step for their application at local level. In this sense, the study highlights that industrial villages are still inhabited and they re
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    Investigation of historic, constructive, spatial and pathological aspects regarding the IBC (Instituto Brasileiro do Café) in Presidente Prudente, Brazil
    (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-12-20) Grothues Karin, Laura; Fioriti, César Fabiano
    [EN] In this case study the building of the Brazilian Institute of Coffee (IBC) in Presidente Prudente, Brazil, will be presented. The building was built in the 1940s for the usage of storing coffee. The timber construction is more than 70 years old, which make the shed a historically important heritage to the city. After the revitalization process the building is used as an event center nowadays. The special thing about the architecture of the IBC consists in the construction as a series of wooden latticed porticos. These porticos are still functional and visually appealing, but after so many years of use, they suffer from pathological manifestations. To gain more knowledge about which problems are common in the wooden construction all the porticos were examined in detail. The investigation process revealed, that every portico is affected by at least one of the anomalies studied, even though the degree varies from portico to portico. In addition to the research about the interior of the bu
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    Engaging architectural heritage in climate action
    (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-12-20) García-Esparza, Juan
    [EN] The ICOMOS Working Group on Climate Change and Cultural Heritage have recently released an Outline of Climate Change and Cultural Heritage.
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    The rehabilitation of buildings. Reflections on construction systems for the environmental sustainability of interventions
    (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-12-20) De Gregorio, Stefania
    [EN] The old age and the poor state of repair of the Italian building heritage and the change in the needs and lifestyle of modern society require re-qualitative interventions of building rehabilitation. These operations are environmentally sustainable, favouring the protection of the soil, allowing the grey energy of the materials that make up the building to be depreciated over a greater number of years and which will have sufficient residual performance, also thanks to integration with other components.In order to safeguard the intrinsic sustainability of the rehabilitation of the building, it is necessary to act in the intervention taking into account its sustainability, considering the life cycle of both the building as a whole together with its specific redevelopment project. Sustainability in the management phase is conditioned by energy efficiency; in the construction and demolition phases, however, it is conditioned both by the construction techniques and the connection methods bet
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    The Alfonso Garofalo pasta factory in Gragnano, Naples, Italy: history, technologies and hypotheses of reuse
    (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-12-20) Sicignano, Claudia
    [EN] About fifteen water mills settled in the Valley of the Mills of Gragnano. Thanks to new technologies, a few centuries later, fifty-seven new pasta factories were built on the Corso Sancio. The building typology was recurrent and constant. Each of them consisted of a ground floor, three floors in elevation and one or two underground levels that were in the rear close to the Vernotico stream. The complex retreated, for logistical and space reasons, from the road curtain, developing over an area of its own, with a large inner courtyard, a sort of real square, for the movement of horse-drawn carts, then trucks and therefore still several artifacts. For his time Alfonso Garofalo was one of the greatest Italian pasta manufacturers. After more than a hundred years the vertical production processes and the work done in many small building entities proved to be expensive with respect to industrial competitiveness. In other parts of Italy some pasta factories already appeared on a single level,
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    Socio-spatial analysis of the vulnerable urban fabric in the city of Barcelona
    (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-12-20) Vima-Grau, Sara; Cornadó, Còssima; Garcia-Almirall, Pilar; Ministerio de Educación; Ajuntament de Barcelona; Agencia Estatal de Investigación
    [EN] Socio-residential vulnerability is one of currently increasing challenges for cities and metropolitan areas in addressing the interaction between the vulnerable resident population and the need to improve the building stock, particularly after the financial crisis of 2008 and the consequent regression of public investments.Recent studies have measured and described the levels of vulnerability in the city of Barcelona and their results highlight socio-spatial similarities between urban fabrics that happen to be morphologically, historically and geographically very different.The present research focuses on the assessment of physical and social shortcomings of vulnerable areas in the city of Barcelona. With this purpose, a sample of buildings in some of the most vulnerable neighbourhoods are statistically analysed through a set of variables at building scale related to both the need of improvement of residential existing buildings and the characteristics of their inhabitants.An extensive