The prototypologycal design of the green responsive system. Method and tools to improve circularity and physical performances of the liminal space in the Mediterranean urban areas

Abstract

In being aware of certain factors as the increasing of the pollution levels, the effects of the Urban Heat Island, or all the extreme climate events attributable to the constant increasing of CO2 emissions. This paper intends to propose an innovative approach to design systems and components that allow to adapt the built environment and mitigate the effects of the Climate Change in the urban Mediterranean areas. An experimental investigation at the building scale was conducted to study the environmental aspects in the early design phase that incorporate circular and ecological materials. The physical interactions between the built and the natural environment is enhanced with the upcycling design of the “Liminal Space” through the prototypological model for the “Green Responsive System”. The focus on the LS needs to push the technological definition beyond the concept of building envelope, just as the element of internal/external separation. The LS is where the “Advanced Circular Design” model can improve with the design of the GRS all the technological elements of adiabatic nature. The proposed framework enables the GRS to have a dynamic and systemic answer to the extreme change of the climatic situation in order to have a strong impact on the performance related to the environmental aspects. The parametric tools in the ACD model offers an important digital interface that can include all the regenerative requirements of the entire building considering the embodied CO2 emissions, the production and the energy consumption during the operational phase, and at the same time to control and improve the recyclability of all its components. The structure of the paper is presented as a succession of digital and physical design processes that identify all the phases for the definition of the GRS when it works on the LS. This becomes a central node in the development of the methodological framework for the upcycling design and the digital control of the responsiveness in the technological systems used for the integration of the physical aspects and the digital devices by using circular materials.

Keywords

• additive manufacturing
• green responsive system
• liminal space
• regenerative design
• upcycling