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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

2. Keynote Chapter—Bioclimatic Design in Architecture: A Research and Didactic Experience

Author : Mario Grosso

Published in: Bioclimatic Approaches in Urban and Building Design

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This essay intends to outline a synthetic excursus on my research, didactical and consultancy experience in the field of bioclimatic design for architecture. The aim is to highlight the milestones of my academic and professional career with regard to interrelationships between the bioclimatic approach and the design process in building design as well as landscape and urban design.

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Footnotes
1
The 1972 UN summit in Stockholm set for the first time rules and recommendation for the recovery of the Earth environment, endangered by unregulated urban sprawl and industrial development.
 
2
In 1973, just two years after graduation, I won, together with my colleagues Guido Laganà and Carla Barovetti, the first prize in a competition for the restoration planning of the historical centre of the city of Vimercate, in the Milan Province. That prize represented the beginning of a professional appointment by the Municipality of Vimercate, which lasted up to 1980, having as a objet the completion of an executive planning framework for the refurbishment of all historical centre as well as a detailed project related to a specific urban block of that area.
 
3
One of the most interesting event was the Sogesta Summer School, where experts from various Universities and ENEA (an Agency for Alternative Energy sources, re-founded from the previous Nuclear Energy Agency)—including prof. Federico Butera, as the coordinator of the task group “energy for limited resources’ areas”—gathered to discuss about the new perspective of the Energy National Plan as well as to practice an experimental study workshop on a bioclimatic project.
 
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Metadata
Title
Keynote Chapter—Bioclimatic Design in Architecture: A Research and Didactic Experience
Author
Mario Grosso
Copyright Year
2021
Book
Bioclimatic Approaches in Urban and Building Design

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-59327-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-59328-5

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59328-5_2