Sustainable Mediterranean Construction

Sustainable Mediterranean Construction

THE HEALING COLTURE

Authors 

Michele Castaldo

Keywords: 

bioplastics, CO2 absorption, environmental sustainability, hemp, texile

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«Hemp is a sustainable and environmental friendly crop that can provide valuable raw materials to a large number of industrial applications. Traditionally harvested at full flowering for textile destinations, nowadays hemp is mainly harvested at seed maturity for dual-purpose applications and has a great potential as multipurpose crop. However, the European hemp fiber market is stagnating if compared to the growing market of hemp seeds and phytocannabinoids.
To support a sustainable growth of the hemp fiber market, agronomic techniques as well as genotypes and post-harvest processing should be optimized to preserve fiber quality during grain ripening, enabling industrial processing and maintaining, or even increasing, actual fiber applications and improving high-added value applications»1.
«Climate change (increases in temperature, changes in precipitation and decreases in ice and snow) is occurring globally and in Europe; some of these observed changes have established records in recent years»2.
Hemp farming is able to efficiently mitigate the climate change interfering with the causes of the Changes. A renewable resource is also defined “sustainable” if the reproduction rate is equal or higher than the consuming rate. This concept implies the need of a rational use of the renewable resources; water and greenwood are nowadays renewable resources used in an unsustainable way. The hemp production chain is an excellent example of circular economy, a sustainable chain from the environmental, social and economic point of view. Hemp farming heals the environment during the growing phase, for several reasons.

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SMC Special Issue N.03 2019

SMC MAGAZINE SPECIAL ISSUE N. THREE/2019

WHOLE BOOK

001_COVER AND INDEX

009_ Introduzione
Paola De Joanna

PART I
TENSILE MEMBRANE TODAY

017_Membranes: a challenge for Environmental Sustainability
Luca Buoninconti

027_Architectural Membranes for improving the functional performance of buildings
Paulo Mendonça, Racquel Macieira

039_Educational Objectives from an Architectural Studio on Nature & Space Structures
Nikos P. Tsinikas, Dimitris Antoniou, George Dimopoulos, Dimitris Kontaxakis, Ioanna Symeonidou

049_A first step into Nonlinear Statics
Enrico Babilio, Luca Buoninconti

PART II
SUSTAINABILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

059_Tensile architecture and sustainable approach
Dora Francese

079_Frei Otto and Tensile Structures
Sergio Pone

087_The healing colture
Michele Castaldo

091_In search of lightness. Past, present and future of membrane space structures
Giuseppe Vaccaro

PART III
APPLICATION ON A CASE STUDY EXPERIENCE

109_PROJECTS

116_LIST OF AUTHORS

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