Abstract
The laboratory, called LAB RENEW MEL created to test new technologies for producing energy from renewable sources thanks to the decisions of the management committees of three projects funded under the National Operational Program for Research and Competitiveness 2007-2013:RENEW Project (2014-2016) Coordinator prof. Claudio De Capua (Note 5)MEL Project (2014-2016 Coordinator prof. Pasquale Fabio Filianoti (Note 6)GELMINCAL Project (2011-2014) Coordinator prof. Francesco Della Corte (Note 7)All three projects together have a budget of nearly thirty million Euros. These are substantial resources that can allow the Mediterranean to take on a role of excellence in research on renewables. The establishment of a research center aims to achieve this goal, involves three departments of the University of Reggio Calabria, two of Engineering area, the Department of Civil Engineering, Energy, Environment and Materials (DICEAM) and the Department of Information Engineering, Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy (DIIES) and one of Architecture area, the Department of Architecture and Territory (dArTe).The author of this article is also the designer together with professor Alessandro Villari and professor Angelo Di Chio, who have followed, from the initial stages, all aspects related to the relationship between the objectives of the research and those related to the implementation of the Laboratory.
Highlights
The laboratory, called LAB RENEW MEL created to test new technologies for producing energy from renewable sources thanks to the decisions of the management committees of three projects funded under the National Operational Program for Research and Competitiveness 2007-2013: RENEW Project (2014-2016) Coordinator prof
The author of this article is the designer together with professor Alessandro Villari and professor Angelo Di Chio, who have followed, from the initial stages, all aspects related to the relationship between the objectives of the research and those related to the implementation of the Laboratory
To date under completion, LAB RENEW MEL insists on a residual area of the city, terminal place and head of the urban waterfront and the main objective was to design a “Laboratory building”, it raises to regenerate a place of the city that, in a central position, is degraded and almost abandoned (Figure 1)
Summary
The research units, in the original aims, consistent and in line with the technical and scientific debate on the issues of sustainable development and energy conservation, has promoted the realization of the Laboratory with a project oriented to promote sustainable and environmentally friendly solutions that are well confronted with those strictly related to the complexity of the specific destination of use and of the equipment contained and focusing in four main basic elements:. It hosts the laboratory functions under a single roof, shaped like an origami that follows the profile of the mountain on the horizon over the Strait This building, with structure and envelope made entirely of wood, thought to be removable and with the possibility of being repositioned to another place and whose design choices derive from the assumption of principles of sustainable development: - Need to limit the consumption of materials and energy resources; - Need to create a building with a high level of energy efficiency and with a strong propensity to integration systems; - Need to explore new forms of thermal energy self-sufficiency towards exceptional events natural disasters where the energy supply should be interrupted; - Evolution of the realization processes towards advanced systems able to give concrete answers to the need to reduce consumption and impacts. - Bearing structures (foundations, elevation, containment); - Horizontal internal closures (floors, completions); - External closures (opaque vertical, fixtures, horizontal floor, roofs)
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