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Extending Building Life Cycles: Flexible and Adaptable Solutions for Energy Efficiency and Circularity
Bisiani, Thomas
2025
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978-88-5511-661-9
https://www.openstarts.units.it/handle/10077/37567
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978-88-5511-663-3
Abstract
The research on Design for Adaptability (DfA), Design for Flexibility (DfF), and Design for Change (DfC), developed with Carlo Antonio Stival and Paola Limoncin within THE Research Topic RT 2 of iNEST Spoke 4, addresses two complementary areas. The first explores new materials and innovative technologies, including digital applications, with the aim of reducing material intensity. The second is methodological and design-oriented, investigating case studies of interventions on existing buildings. Together, these approaches seek to ensure adaptability, flexibility, and transformability of the built environment. The work develops along several axes, assessing the innovation value of solutions against circularity, energy efficiency, and reduction of the supply chain’s ecological footprint. This multidimensional framework enables a more balanced understanding of the state of the art, avoiding strategies that privilege a single performance criterion at the expense of others. As a result, technological solutions are evaluated qualitatively across multiple concurrent parameters.

La ricerca su Design for Adaptability (DfA), Design for Flexibility (DfF) e Design for Change (DfC), sviluppata con Carlo Antonio Stival e Paola Limoncin nell'ambito del RT 2 di Spoke 4 iNest, affronta due aree complementari. La prima esplora nuovi materiali e tecnologie innovative, incluse le applicazioni digitali, con l'obiettivo di ridurre l'intensità dei materiali. La seconda è metodologica e orientata alla progettazione, indagando casi studio di interventi su edifici esistenti. Insieme, questi approcci mirano a garantire adattabilità, flessibilità e trasformabilità dell'ambiente costruito. Il lavoro si sviluppa lungo diversi assi, valutando il valore innovativo delle soluzioni in termini di circolarità, efficienza energetica e riduzione dell'impronta ecologica della filiera. Questo quadro multidimensionale consente una comprensione più equilibrata dello stato dell'arte, evitando strategie che privilegiano un singolo criterio prestazionale a scapito di altri. Di conseguenza, le soluzioni tecnologiche vengono valutate qualitativamente attraverso molteplici parametri concomitanti.
Subjects
  • architecture

  • building

  • materials

  • circular economy

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EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
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Thomas Bisiani, "Extending Building Life Cycles: Flexible and Adaptable Solutions for Energy Efficiency and Circularity" in: "Pierluigi Barbieri, "iNEST – Interconnected Nord-Est Innovation Ecosystem: General frame of the project and Activities of Young Researcher at the University of Trieste", Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2025, pp.
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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