11th EAEA Envisioning Architecture: Design, Evaluation, Communication Conference in 2013

Track 1 | Visualizing Sustainability - Making the invisible visible

Representing local self-sustainability

ABSTRACT

The paper shows graphical tools developed to support the quantitative assessment of local self-sufficiency scenarios. They are part of the applicative tools of ELaR, which stands for Ecodynamic Land Register, a methodology to evaluate different energy and material flows design choices to improve local sustainable development.
Flows evaluation are provided by two graphic tools: "Resources/ impacts Geographies” and "User histograms".
The “geographies” (code elements) give basic information on Local Demand of Energy and Matter (LDEM), and on Local Renewable Energy Technical Potential (RETP).
The “user histograms” (code rules) are the link structures between the changing metabolism (demand) and the locally available resources (supply), information collected in the geographies, in order to check different design choices. They report the per-capita flows - energy and matter local demand – related to the extension of per-capita productive land.

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AUTHORS

Matteo Clementi

Innovative Technologies for the quality and the sustainability of the built environment, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU), Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

PhD in Technology and Design for Environmental Quality at building and urban scale (TPQA), is adjunct professor in Architectural Technology and Environmental Design at the Polytechnic of Milan. He conducts research in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies in the same university, dealing with the assessment of "strong sustainability" of design choices at different scales and methodologies and tool to support the development of local self-sufficiency scenarios.

Gianni Scudo

Innovative Technologies for the quality and the sustainability of the built environment, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU), Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Full professor in Architectural Technology and Environmental Design at the Polytechnic of Milan, in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies. He extensively lectured in many European Universities (Seville, Barcelona, Geneva, London, Stuttgart etc.) and contributed to many national and international conferences. Since the seventies he worked on bioclimatic design and on renewable energy building technologies. Among the different research topics he worked on the bioclimatic approach to the urban space design and on design methodologies to support bioregional paradigm at different scales.

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