Open AccessThe energy of the green: green facades and vertical farm as dynamic envelope for resilient building
Author(s) -
Antonella Trombadore,
Beatrice Paludi,
Michele D’Ostuni
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1343/1/012172
Subject(s) - retrofitting , architectural engineering , competition (biology) , environmentally friendly , ecological footprint , building envelope , business , engineering , sustainability , ecology , geography , structural engineering , thermal , meteorology , biology
The paper shares the results of a design submitted to a competition launched by the University of Wageningen, focusing on the retrofitting action of one of the existing towers of the former Bijlmerbajes prison complex in Amsterdam. The effort of an interdisciplinary team was oriented to demonstrating that it is possible to imagine the architectonic environment as a living organism, being part of the new food production chain, sponsoring zero kilometer products and increasing buildings’ sustainable comfort while reducing their energy consumptions. Promoting a healthy lifestyle, an awareness of how to environmentally friendly behave and keeping the ecological footprint as low as possible were the main goals we wanted to achieve with our retrofitting and regenerative proposal of the GreenTower.