Sustainable Mediterranean Construction

Sustainable Mediterranean Construction

ENVIRONMENT AND PLACE. Context analysis as a preliminary activity for the healthcare facilities design

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Giuseppe Vaccaro

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environment, place analysis, infrastuctures, context observation, healthcare facilities design

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Introduzione
Given the complexity of urban environments and its many transformations, the process of urban regeneration is a subject of multidisciplinary studies by different scholars. It finds itself at the center of a widespread academic and political debate. The spread of collective consent with the objective of limiting the consumption of land as well as the resilience and environmental sustainability does not find an equally significant increase in the practices of reconversion of what has been abandoned. None the less, the fact remains that the practice of reusing and restoring industrial spaces and unused buildings in urban contexts has been identified as the market of the future. For some time now, an issue that emerges from the comparison between the various disciplines is to identify some leading activities that are able to influence the methods of production and consummation of individuals as well as to modify or adapt the shapes and the spaces used of existing constructions.
«When we talk about the regeneration of urban spaces, there is a common consensus that the central elements are not so much the architectural container and size of the individual initiatives involved in the installation, but rather: (i) the flow of activities and inhabitants; (ii) the overall governance of an exchange that is rich and an ecosystem built upon relationships; (iii) the economic model underlying the medium-term balance of the solution. […]

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SMC Special Issue N.02 2019

SMC MAGAZINE SPECIAL ISSUE N. TWO/2019

WHOLE BOOK

001_COVER

007_ FOREWORD
Giuseppe Vaccaro

013_ INTRODUCTION Designing new healtcare facilities in a European frame
Paola De Joanna

PART I
DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR HEALTHCARE FACILITIES

023_Spaces for health: an Overview. From the temple to the mall concept
Fani Vavili

029_Design and quality in the project for health buildings. The horizons of innovation
Andrea Tartaglia

PART II
INNOVATION IN HEALTHCARE ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

041_Alternative Forms of Healthcare Facilities. Meditation Centre on Mount Olympus, Greece
Christina Chatzouli, Evangelos Chrysafidis, Maria Kanetsou, Nasos Zempiloglou

049_Urban spaces, new buildings and IC Technologies for health sustainability
Eugenio Arbizzani

061_Design for healthcare. The role of Ergonomics for Design and Human-Centred Design approach
Mattia Pistolesi, Francesca Tosi

073_Spaces for children in healthcare settings: design essentials and innovations
Artemis Kyrkou

PART III
INVESTIGATIONS AND DESIGN APPROACH

083_Bioclimatic behaviour of small healthcare facilities
Dora Francese

099_Solar analisys for a sustainable architecture regeneration
Luca Buoninconti

107_Materials, architecture and multisensoriality. Sensitive spaces for care and health
Teresa Della Corte

119_Environment and place. Context analysis as a preliminary activity for the healthcare facilities design
Giuseppe Vaccaro

PART IV
PROJECTS AND VISIONS

133_Primary Health Centres in the 21st century. Cells of Health and Health Culture
Evangelos Chrysafidis

137_PROJECTS

146_LIST OF AUTHORS

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