APPLYING BIOMIMETIC APPROACH FOR ENERGETICAL RETROFIT OF THE RAI SKYSCRAPER IN TURIN

APPLYING BIOMIMETIC APPROACH FOR ENERGETICAL RETROFIT OF THE RAI SKYSCRAPER IN VIA CERNAIA 33 The goal of this analysis will be to propose new functions for this building, considering its full potential to be transformed in a multifunctional office. The first assumption considers the purpose of the facility, which will remain an office building of the RAI. The edifice will be first analyzed from a broader perspective, considering its impact on the surrounding context and then its characteristics will be studied. The transformations that have occurred in time will be represented as an integrate part of the study through a chronology of all-important events, since the first concept until the date in which it stopped functioning. Before proposing new functions for the building an overall study is made. It concerns the site, the edifice, its design process, the spaces, the structure, the materials the services and the architect who followed the entire construction. The specific focus of design regards the skyscraper envelope to reach a ZEB or NZEB classification. The design intervention takes into consideration a biomimetic approach. The living architecture will embrace the traditional and modern elements of this facility to transform it in a contemporary model office building.