This research investigates how eco-friendly design can facilitate the recovery of buildings’ materials and components able to be reused or recycled at the end of building’s service life (reversible design). The study focuses in particular on how the design process must be organized and which decisions are especially involved in order to obtain an eco-friendly end of life of housing buildings. The available tools to evaluate buildings’ end of life scenarios are investigated, pointing out their specific procedures and goals. Moreover, an assessment process has been applied to several selected case studies, in order to identify the attitude of several main building element to be dismantled, with the maximum recovery of salvageable materials. Based on the critical aspects emerged by the assessment of the cases, some suggestion are proposed to optimize the eco-design process.
Reversible Design: Streategies to Allow Building Deconstruction and a Second Life for Salvaged Materials
ANTONINI, ERNESTO;
2010
Abstract
This research investigates how eco-friendly design can facilitate the recovery of buildings’ materials and components able to be reused or recycled at the end of building’s service life (reversible design). The study focuses in particular on how the design process must be organized and which decisions are especially involved in order to obtain an eco-friendly end of life of housing buildings. The available tools to evaluate buildings’ end of life scenarios are investigated, pointing out their specific procedures and goals. Moreover, an assessment process has been applied to several selected case studies, in order to identify the attitude of several main building element to be dismantled, with the maximum recovery of salvageable materials. Based on the critical aspects emerged by the assessment of the cases, some suggestion are proposed to optimize the eco-design process.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.